Author: Guest Writer
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Better Approach to Patois Issue
Can I express my disappointment with members of the Jamaican Language lobby group? I appreciate the scholarship and passion of people like Kadene Porter and Continue reading
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Psych Patients Remember Esmin Green
On Friday evening, more than 100 people, most of them self-described “psychiatric survivors,” gathered outside Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, to memorialize Jamaican Continue reading
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A Case for Scientific Research Into the Nature of Mangoes
Mangoes in various shapes and sizes from Mexico and Costa Rica on the Canadian market. (Matt Lee photo) Recently, a man gave orders to cut Continue reading
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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 reading
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Dysfunctional Nuclear Families and the Jamaican Murder Rate
Dear Editor: I write in reference to the recent debate regarding the cause of the high murder and violent crime rate in Jamaica. The causes Continue reading
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Trevor Rhone’s POSITIVE a hit in St. Vincent
In 2005, Marina Lampkin from the Ministry of Tourism in St. Vincent saw the first run of POSITIVE at the Barn Theatre in Jamaica. She Continue reading
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Sexism and the justice system
A news report in Florida’s Sun Sentinel’s June 7 edition captioned “Police: Teacher, minor had sex” was a startling reminder of the gross sexism buried Continue reading
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Abortion and the rights of the individual
The Editor: I write in reference to the recent call by Jamaica’s Abortion Policy Review Advisory Group to repeal current laws prohibiting abortion in order Continue reading
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Rhone’s POSITIVE tours St. Vincent and the Grenadines
The cast, (l-r) Althea Hewitt, Craig Binns, Marsha Campbell, Lee Patience, Brian Johnson, Susie Braham and fabian thomas. Director and Lyricist fabian thomas and a Continue reading
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Welcome to Jamrock Mr Mac
Colonel Trevor Macmillan our new Minister of National Security is immediately faced with some of the most rapid murders of hapless citizens including a most Continue reading