Lessons from Spencer
The People's National Party (PNP) has been plagued with bad timing for a couple of years, and that was most evident with its calling of the last general elections. The jinx continues. The party sent out invitations for a media party Friday night, but this is certainly one weekend the PNP has nothing to celebrate.
Fidel's Cuba
Cuba intends to transform its prisons into schools on an initiative of Fidel Castro. Many of us associate Fidel's Cuba with repression, imprisonment and the violation of human rights.
Castro: One man against the world
Fidel Castro's decision to step down as president of Cuba's National Assembly marks the end of an era, or "several eras", as Prime Minister Bruce Golding has suggested.
Abortion in Jamaican law
The following excerpt is taken from the Fourth William Dennis Memorial Lecture given by Professor Stephen Vasciannie in 2006 under the title "Abortion in Jamaican and International Law".
Clinton v Obama: a royal rumble
Fast-forward to January 20, 2009 … "I, Barack Hussein Obama, do swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States of America ... ." Perhaps not so fast!
Dance of the elephants
We have not progressed at all. The ideology of world empires based upon the supposed superiority of each nation or race of empire builders was succeeded by the ideologies of communism and fascism which have been succeeded by a new, all-powerful ideology - the god of the marketplace and technology, its acolyte.
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