I am flattered by (Antonn Brown’s) comparison to Kadene, and I wish that I had her multilingual skills, cosmopolitan erudition, and analytical sharpness. Rest assured, however, that I am no sock puppet for Ms. Porter. Now let me address your riposte. Languages are the products of human agency; they do what we allow them to do, [...]
Dear Editor, While the debate on hanging is raging in full gear, the murders continue. This is clear proof that hanging won’t help to reduce violent crimes and murder. The threat of bringing back hanging isn’t scaring the murderers one bit. It’s like when you set the mouse-trap and the mice eat the cheese and [...]
Dear Editor, If the fear of being killed in a shootout with the police has not proven to be a deterrent to crime and violence, why do some people think that the fear of hanging is the solution? Are the proponents of hanging just seeking to provide some kind of temporary emotional satisfaction to the [...]
The Honourable Robert (“Bob”) Nesta Marley, in one of his most insightful songs based on lyrics derived from a speech made by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I before the United Nations General Assembly in 1963 (Wikipedia), thundered the following words in a poignantly prophetic tone: “Until the philosophy that holds one race superior and another [...]
During the run up to the recent U.S. election, several groups peripheral to the McCain campaign, particularly in the days just before the vote, were sponsoring seriously-negative advertisements on both radio and television that were no doubt unfounded, completely ridiculous criticisms of Barack Obama. They were obviously designed to sway a small percentage, hopefully one [...]
Dear Mr. Prime Minister, Christopher Suckra was savagely sodomized and murdered this Wednesday while on his way to school. Now we will never know if he would have been a distinguished Prime Minister of Jamaica. His happy though wrecked life was mercilessly cut short by a murderer. He was stabbed, chopped and his head bashed [...]
I must lend my voice as the cry of many unsuspecting Jamaican motorists. I recently received an email with evidentiary research document published in California from Mr. Trevor Bogle pointing out the dangers of mixing E10 87 gasoline with the regular 87 (MTBE base) gasoline. I want to thank Mr. Bogle for bringing this to [...]
The polls suggest that Jamaicans wish to resume the hanging of convicted murderers notwithstanding the possibility that innocent persons may be subject to the capital punishment. It is acknowledged that frustration may be a natural response to the violent anarchy that is contemporary Jamaica. However, the debate regarding the resumption of capital punishment is based [...]
Dear Friends, Jamaicans at home and abroad: Your homeland needs your voice to prevent the most callous and wanton destruction of our air basin imaginable. I have listened in anguish recently as various executives of the Energy Ministry have assailed the airwaves with misrepresentations to gain acceptance of their misguided introduction of E10 ethanol-blended gasoline. [...]
As Barack Obama leads in opinion polls across the country, suggesting a sure win if the election were called today, many Democrats are fearful of what is termed the Bradley effect stopping him in the tracks and handing the presidency to John McCain. Tom Bradley, an African-American who lost the 1982 California, was way ahead in [...]