“If we know, then we must fight for your life as though it were our own. For if they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.” – Angela Davis Jamaica has done what was believed to be sacrosanct some months ago, defaulted on our sovereign debt with the most [...]
It is a truism that the struggle for existence is the struggle for food and space. Nowhere is that struggle more intense than here in Montego Bay. It is a struggle that leads to the untenable situation wherein one third of the population of Greater Montego Bay lives on captured land. It is a struggle [...]
How prepared are we as a community to face the possibility of civil unrest in the coming year in light of the predicted economic fall out? Already the president of the Small Business Association of Jamaica (SBAJ), Edward Chin-Mook is predicting that up to one third of jobs could go in the new year and [...]
Masks are signature pieces designed by renowned artistes Errol Allen and masquerading is a big part of the Jamaican tradition of Johnkunnu. The first outing of the revived the Granville Jonkunnu Band, sponsored by the Jamaica National Foundation was initiated by the Granville Peace, Justice and Resource Development Foundation, a community based non-governmental organization, was [...]