The residents of the peaceful village of Sherwood Content in the parish of Trelawny on Jamaica’s north coast are far from content. Their long-standing disquiet and frustration over their sporadic water supply was highlighted over the holiday season when their most famous son was forced to bolt four miles away to the Windsor River just [...]
The Jamaica Gleaner began its publications for 2009 in fine fettle. As has become the tradition over the past few years, the newspaper starts out the new year on a good foot by publishing an exhaustive list of “prophetic” utterances pronounced as the “Word of the Lord”. To keep its readers in suspense (and I [...]
Many of us approach a new year believing that changing the calendar will bring new promise and a clean slate on which we can write our personal history. After 2008, the planet’s annus horribilis, many are hopeful that somehow after midnight on the last day of the year, a fresh wind will bring renewal to their [...]
Cities across Greece have been burning in widespread rioting for the past four days with no end in sight. It all began in Athens where a fifteen year old boy is shot dead by the police in what is seen as murder, and the city is set ablaze, the fires of discontent moving swiftly across [...]
Dr. Carolyn Gomes was recently announced as a recipient of the prestigious United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights for 2008. Gomes is among seven awardees to be honored at the plenary session of the General Assembly at United Nations Headquarters in New York on Human Rights Day, December 10. In announcing the winners, [...]
Community organizing is about to go national. The once-derided claim of Barack Obama’s experience used by his detractors to question his competency for the presidency during the recent campaign, is to be the focus to strengthen and give more direction to the movement. In an unprecedented move to harness the goodwill and the fervour of the enormous contact base of [...]
“Heaven has no rage like love to hatred, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned” (The Mourning Bride, 1697, William Congreve) One of the discussions after our recent Thanksgiving repast turned to women in politics, notably those involved in recent political leadership campaigns. We wondered what is it with our kind, what is it [...]
It’s the taboo subject you’re not supposed to talk about – Barack Obama’s safety in light of the rise of white supremacists in America. ANP investigates in Memphis, Tennessee, where our cameras infiltrate the Stormfront.org Euro Conference. We probe the minds of the Anti-Defamation League, the Racist Skinhead Project and David Duke to assess legitimate [...]
Beverley East is even busier these days than before. With cases of forgery in Jamaica at unprecedented levels, the handwriting analyst has had to set up house in Kingston, the nation’s capital to deal with the flood of requests for her expertise from the banking sector and the judiciary.To get a sense of your soul, [...]
I don’t know about you but I am still in a surreal state. Waking up every morning and giving God much thanks for allowing me to experience this victory. In the early days of November leading up to the election I was so anxious. The last time I was this anxious about anything was the day Nelson [...]