Editorial - Honouring Maroon music
IT IS a nice irony of history that the warlike Maroons, whose campaign against the English army in Jamaica ended in a treaty granting them considerable autonomy, are now being honoured internatonally for their musical heritage.
What's in a name?
THE PERSON who believes, like Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, that the fault is not in our stars but in ourselves, has not read the National Enquirer. Every week the Enquirer and its look-alike Globe, parades and presents the follies and foibles...
Racism in Jamaica
AS JAMES Byrd was travelling alone down that old road in a small town in Texas, I am certain that he did not see it coming. Minutes later, while he watched as pieces of his black body ripped off into tiny chunks of red on the asphalt...
Focus on a 20-year national plan
THE POLITICAL history of Jamaica has always greatly influenced our economy. Today is no different. An entire generation has been forced to forfeit its right to political leadership by a lopsided, misshapen political system...
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