CARICOM Must Decide On Haiti
In recent weeks CARICOM held a summit at which the regional body once again expressed concern over the situation in Haiti. This concern has been longstanding as issues in Haiti invariably …
Land reform must follow Hurricane Melissa
In 1838, slavery was abolished in the British West Indies. It was the end of an over 300-year policy, practice, and business of enslaving Africans to work on the sugar plantations on …
Ukraine Is Different!
“When elephants fight it is the grass that gets trampled.” — African proverb. There has never been a truer word, and lest we are inclined to forget, the recent events in Ukraine …
Public Opinion, The Baptists And The National Movement
A quiet but not too distant presence in the sinews of Public Opinion was the Jamaican Baptist church. It was the Baptists who led the way to emancipation. It was the …
BUNTING, ROPER HAVE ‘DISSED’ THE AMBITION OF AN ENTIRE NATION
It is a sad moment in the history of Jamaica when we finally have to realize that the crass politics and their accompanying utterances leave very little hope for natural evolution. …
Regional integration could mean moving to Guyana and Suriname
CARICOM, as is, is dead. It is going nowhere fast. What with all the animosity, regional tension, economic tension and social tensions, CARICOM as it relates to harmonising and developing relationships …