TRIBAL WAR in the Middle East
THE INTRACTABILITY of the Middle East problem stands as a most distressingly poignant and gut-wrenching testimony to the baleful power of religion in human affairs. Reason and compromise are anathema to some religious folk and a region awash in blood...
Bustamante and colonial Jamaica: talking back to the powerful
THE ANNIVERSARY of Jamaica's independence usually causes debate about whether Jamaica was better off under British rule and what progress the country has made since. Sir Alexander Bustamante did not support independence for Jamaica at the...
'When everything's in play'
WELL! ALL of a sudden, it seems, most of the balls on the snooker table, that's the Middle East, are in motion; and this columnist's expressed fear, a fortnight ago, that Madeleine Albright's metaphor for the world's hot spots might yet light up 'like...
Remembering Norman Manley - Pt II
IT WAS on the verandahs of Drumblair in 1937 that the ideas for the publication of the Public Opinion took shape. This weekly newspaper which first appeared in February 1937, consciously set out to express Jamaica's cultural nationalism and the views...
No condoms in prisons: a backward response
I FIND it extraordinary that we live in a country where those of us who know better allow policy makers, who are light years behind in thought and knowledge, to use their own ignorance and narrow-mindedness to overshadow urgently needed...
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