As a country, we are at a crossroads. Unfortunately it is not the crossroads the President had foreseen in his inaugural speech…The harsh arguments on both sides of the amnesty divide clearly demonstrate that the fragile social trust we had built, has been seriously eroded…
At the turn of 50 years of existence as an Independent nation, there are critical questions we need to ask regarding the citizenship of Jamaican children…
The Earth is home to all men, women and children who inhabit it…We have no right to condemn the 2 billion human beings who will be born over the next 40 years to a life of despair, under a sky clouded by millions of tons of greenhouse gases and a sun that seems to shine less brightly every day…
As professionals with collectively hundreds of years of experience in intelligence, foreign policy, and counterterrorism, we are concerned about the gross misrepresentation of facts being bruited about to persuade you to start another war…
A group of about 30 HEC Montréal students who painted their faces black and paraded around the university pretending to be Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt as part of a freshman event have completed courses in racial sensitivity training. ..
From the Guardian (UK) 18 November 2011
Imagine that an opposition organiser were murdered in broad daylight in Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador or Venezuela by masked gunmen, or kidnapped and murdered by armed guards of a well-known supporter of the government. It would be front page news in the New York Times, and all over the TV news. The US State Department would issue a strong statement of concern over grave human rights abuses. If this were ever to happen…
No sane person, especially someone who has had access to the elementary knowledge acquired in primary school, would agree that our species, especially those who are children, teenagers or youth, should be deprived of the right to live, today, tomorrow and forever. Never have human beings, throughout their eventful history, as persons endowed with intelligence, ever heard of an experience like that…
It is amazing how quickly the post budget excitement has evaporated. The Finance Minister’s presentation on October 10th 2011, was supposed to be a good news Budget…. But why hasn’t there been a sustained sense of hope over the country?…
