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By Alexander Scott February 6, 2026

No separation between the economic and political spheres

Can the political and fiscal/economic spheres ever be separated? For the past 70 years, post-World War II, we have seen how the world has moved from the economic sphere being firmly …

Issue # 223

No separation between the economic and political spheres

February 6, 2026

A plea for America

February 6, 2026

Solidarity- workers’ most powerful weapon

February 6, 2026

Jamaica: Time to address the virus of corruption, indiscipline and criminality

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CARICOM’s wake-up call

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By Alexander Scott July 23, 2019 7 years 885 words

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 7 years 1,449 word

“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 8 years 1,107 word

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 8 years 1,117 word

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 9 years 1,901 word

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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