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By Aldington "Junior" Murray July 4, 2025

The Russian roulette of travelling out of and into the USA

The term Russian roulette is the practice of loading a bullet into one chamber of a revolver, spinning the cylinder, and then pulling the trigger while pointing the gun at one’s …

Issue # 211

The Russian roulette of travelling out of and into the USA

July 4, 2025

To prevent athletes from switching allegiance

July 4, 2025

Our education system is in serious crisis

July 4, 2025

Eye movements and reading

July 4, 2025
By Alexander Scott July 23, 2020

We won’t get rid of the issue of class until…

What ‘ism’ rules our country, classism or racism? Which needs the most attention and what can be discarded as a relic of history? Should they be tackled separately, and can they? …

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By Garnett Roper February 20, 2020

SOE-Liberty vs Security:Making Victims Of Us All

  From a lay person’s point  of view, a declaration of a state of public emergency may be a legal provision reserved for given times and circumstances of threatened or actual …

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By Alexander Scott December 26, 2019

Do The Government And Opposition Want A Police State?

Horace Chang, Minister of National Security, has, it seems, lost faith in the Jamaican state and its various agencies ability to stem the violence which is now at record heights. That …

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By Alexander Scott December 10, 2019

That Proposed Gun Amnesty, SOEs And Protecting The Golden Goose

Alex Scott Earlier in the year, the PM had floated the idea of introducing a gun amnesty, this so that the nation can finally rid itself of the scourge of illegal …

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By Alexander Scott October 3, 2019

The time for dithering is over

The recent murders of a taximan and a bus driver and the subsequent war-strike in the public transport sector has left the nation shaken. These two warring factions of not more …

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By Alexander Scott December 13, 2018

Pearl-clutchers and enhanced security measures

The nation is in shock to the core at the recent announcement by the Public Defender that hundreds of children have been held in detention (sometimes extended) under the SOE in …

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By Alexander Scott September 20, 2018

Do education reform and stop hitting the dead horse

Jamaican politicians are notorious for pandering to the gallery and flogging dead horses. We see the pandering all the time: works given out to supporters, glib comparisons about whose party is …

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