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Month: July 2008
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Jamaican Creole Not an English Dialect
Since the news of the project to translate the Bible into Jamaican Creole, many have argued about the legitimacy of Jamaican as a language. Some Continue readingThis content is restricted to site members. If you are an existing user, please log in. New users may register below.Existing Users Log InUsername or EmailPasswordProve your humanity10 …
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Hope and the Jamaican Diaspora
It is my opinion that the Diaspora comprises many Jamaicans who have become very nationalistic as a consequence of their “new” socialization, global exposure, international Continue readingThis content is restricted to site members. If you are an existing user, please log in. New users may register below.Existing Users Log InUsername or EmailPasswordProve your humanity2 …
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Jamaican Bible Translation Should be a Grassroots Movement
I write in reference to the recent debate regarding the patois translation of the Bible, which I think would be a significant waste of time, Continue readingThis content is restricted to site members. If you are an existing user, please log in. New users may register below.Existing Users Log InUsername or EmailPasswordProve your humanity1 …
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Ninety Nine Per Cent of Lawyers Give the Others a Bad Name
In January 2006, veteran court reporter Barbara Gayle wrote a story about the state of the Jamaican resident magistracy based on an interview with president Continue readingThis content is restricted to site members. If you are an existing user, please log in. New users may register below.Existing Users Log InUsername or EmailPasswordProve your humanity9 …
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Jamaican Crime and Anarchy
The problem of crime in Jamaica has taken on a shape and form that juxtapose it very closely, if not head-on, to ‘the wall of Continue readingThis content is restricted to site members. If you are an existing user, please log in. New users may register below.Existing Users Log InUsername or EmailPasswordProve your humanity4 …
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Duality and Ambivalence
The most striking and remarkable feature of human existence is its duality, a condition that was created, I suggest, millions of years ago when the Continue readingThis content is restricted to site members. If you are an existing user, please log in. New users may register below.Existing Users Log InUsername or EmailPasswordProve your humanity10 …
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Share My Umber-ella
The price of oil has skyrocketed, leaving jet planes stranded on the ground. The Iraq war drags on, meaning the prices will continue to spiral Continue readingThis content is restricted to site members. If you are an existing user, please log in. New users may register below.Existing Users Log InUsername or EmailPasswordProve your humanity1 …
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Caribbean Community Condemns Trampling of the Democratic and Electoral Processes in Zimbabwe.
Caribbean Community leaders have at last added their voices to the condemnation of the farcical elections held recently in Zimbabwe and the violence against the Continue readingThis content is restricted to site members. If you are an existing user, please log in. New users may register below.Existing Users Log InUsername or EmailPasswordProve your humanity3 …
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The Mystique of Brand Jamaica
Kofi Kingston, immitation yardie to the core? Why are you? I couldn’t let Diane Abbott’s Sunday Observer column, The lure of brand Jamaica pass just Continue readingThis content is restricted to site members. If you are an existing user, please log in. New users may register below.Existing Users Log InUsername or EmailPasswordProve your humanity2 …
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Towards a Just Society, Part II
The teachings of Marx enunciate and promote the romantic notion that subsequent to changes in ownership of the modes of production, a sphere of liberty Continue readingThis content is restricted to site members. If you are an existing user, please log in. New users may register below.Existing Users Log InUsername or EmailPasswordProve your humanity5 …