The Wild Wild West Killing of Trayvon Martin
A teenager is sheltering in a neighbourhood home from heavy rain as dusk has settled. He wanders out and...
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Jamaica’s Economy Slides in 2011 IMF Reports
Jamaica’s fiscal performance deteriorated in 2011 because of delays in the implementation of an agreed structural reform program, a...
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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Feet to the Fire – Reflection on an Election
The opposition People’s National party was returned to power taking 41 of 63 seats in the House of representatives in Jamaica’s general election Thursday, called by Andrew Holness after just over a month in office to secure his own mandate on inheriting a moribund economy from Bruce Golding. It was a massive defeat after an almost evenly split vote in 2007.
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...