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Stony Gut, Coral Gardens, Tivoli – Repression of the Counter Culture
The European launch of a documentary on the 1963 government attack on Rastafari in Jamaica, and a Canadian report that murders in Toronto have fallen 25 per cent since the arrest of Jamaican community don, Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, serve to highlight that the island’s power structure and culture remain at odds, 50 years after independence from Britain.
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Jamaica’s PNP—Back in the Saddle Again The Portia Simpson-Miller led People’s National Party (PNP) is back in office in Jamaica, having won the December 29 parliamentary election by the impressive margin of 41 seats to 22. Early reports are that nearly one-half of the eligible electors did not vote; and that the PNP secured 53 percent of the popular vote. If [...]
Progress in St Kitts Talk with Creditors – IMF The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has spoken positively about steps being taken by the St Kitts and Nevis government to address a debt problem that led to the country defaulting on a domestic bond that became due on November 25. An IMF mission to the twin island federation November 28 – December 12, to undertake the [...]
Culture Clash Visible as Canada Bans Veils at Citizenship Swearing The Canadian Government has decided that people taking the citizenship oath must not have their face covered. The decision is aimed at Muslim women who wear a niqab or a burqa to the ceremony. The announcement Monday by Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, at a news conference in Montreal, comes at a time when the culture clash [...]
Crime Insulation for Vulnerable Rural Areas I have been listening to the discourse in the media, among intellectuals and the little man on the street daily and the truth is that the band aid incursion into Tivoli Gardens (TG) will not rid the country of criminality.What is happening for sure is the scattering of TG seeds all over Jamaica which had [...]