When teachers go on strike
SOME 20,000 teachers represented by the Jamaica Teachers Association (JTA) have decided to resort to strike action from tomorrow in pressing their demand for higher salaries. The impending strike comes against a background that may have influenced...
Vision of Kingston's redevelopment
ON 2002, December 10, Prime Minister of Jamaica, the Most Honourable P.J. Patterson, instructed that the Kingston Redevelopment Committee be formed "to examine, in conjunction with any other plan, the Study Document - Vision 2020, with...
Government's failing sense of irony
LIKE SO many others, I marvel at my capacity to continue to be dumbfounded by the utterly bizarre events taking place right here in Jamaica. A few years ago I was proud of the Jamaican press for sitting in the Gallery of Parliament and wearing muzzles...
The blackening of blacks
UP TO the first half of the last century, black Jamaicans secretly wished they were born white. Little girls never knew black dolls, playing instead with Shirley Temple dolls and wishing they were Sleeping Princesses and Cinderellas, and little boys...
Marcus Garvey and Black History Month
IT WAS Dr. Carter Woodson, the American, who conceived and concretised the idea of celebrating Black History at a special time each year. But a Jamaican, Marcus Garvey, had long before proposed that it was necessary for people of African...
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