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By Alexander Scott November 8, 2025

War drums in a zone of peace

The drums of war are beating in the Caribbean, and they are getting louder and louder. The United States has set its sights firmly on Venezuela, using the lie that Venezuela …

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War drums in a zone of peace

November 8, 2025

Rebuilding after Hurricane Melissa

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Major trauma from Melissa

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Oh America: Home of the free, in certain decline

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Liverpudlian Anxiety

November 8, 2025

Personalities in the development of Education in Jamaica

November 8, 2025
By Alexander Scott July 23, 2019

Time to stop shameful victim blaming in cases of rape and sexual abuse

In September last year, the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl in Kingston sparked heated discussion in Jamaica and the diaspora, which has only increased as the carnage meted out …

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By Joan Grant-Cummings May 16, 2019

“Every Where Wi Tun Macca Jook Wi”

 The Year 2020 will mark 25 years since the United Nations’ 4th World Conference on Women in Beijing, China. The Platform for Action detailing Twelve (12) Critical Areas of Concern was …

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By Marvette Camille July 13, 2018

A Woman’s Right to Choose

As at present day; 2018, abortion is still illegal in Jamaica, the Act governing this is the Offences Against the Person Act of 1864; an act based the English Act of …

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By James Moss-Solomon September 1, 2017

A life beyond Thunderdome

“Out of the ruins; out from the wreckage; can’t make the same mistakes this time; We are the children, the last generation; we are the ones they left behind; And I …

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By Judith Wedderburn April 14, 2017

I have the audacity and right to hope that I will not be raped!

 Such might be the musings of an average girl child or an adolescent female in Jamaica who is now aware of the epidemic of sexual assaults, including rape, which girl children …

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