On August 22, 2022, Al Jazeera reported on a letter sent to Labour Minister Karl Samuda describing the less than human conditions and abuses being faced by our Jamaican farm workers affiliated with the rights group Migrant Workers Alliance for Change (MWAC) on Canadian farms. Conditions so horrifyingly inhumane, they…

Reparations are a reverberating issue! Right-mindedly, being wrong — no matter the distance between the then and now — one feels a sense of incompleteness — -deep, raw, open wounds that figuratively will not heal until there is satisfactory accountability on the part of the aggressor. The ever-present cry for…

Democracy is that lofty ideal that is everybody’s battle cry but no one seems to understand its complexities, its dynamics, what it takes to make it work, so when they get it becomes the classic case of having it but not knowing what to do with it — — certainly…

Today, August 6, Jamaica celebrates 60 years of supposed independence from British colonial rule. All the planning and other predictable/unpredictable elaborations that go with these milestones were put in high gear from the start of the year, perhaps before. …

As the Ukraine war moves into its second month this from Ajamu Baraka on Twitter “Zelensky is a fraud that allowed the U.S. to make his people sacrificial lambs for U.S. strategic objectives. He just witnessed how they used & discarded the people of Afghanistan. …

On the day (March 30, 2022)that Jamaica lost one of its creative sons, to the uncontrollable crime that has taken over our country, the man who made a campaign commitment six (6) years ago, guaranteeing that he had a Crime Plan that would allow us to sleep with our windows/doors…

Today August 17, 2021, Jamaica celebrates the 134th birthday of Mwalimu Marcus Mosiah Garvey. The usual traditional meaningless, “putting on a show” floral tribute at his national monument will have to be postponed at least because Tropical Storm Grace is now pelting the island. Yet the self-serving speeches by politicians…

Graeme Pearce, my white, woke, progressive "friend" from Down Under, this one's for you. So completely justified with kicking your racist butt to the curb.

Sometimes it is best not to say anything rather than do the diplomatic thing. It would be interesting to hear how your private self differs from your public self because this man who you venerate is not worthy of any such revere. It is one of those great mysteries that people like Philip and Elizabeth who are of such despicable character are loved by so many simply because of who they are and that their crimes are not as overt as others. The world makes heroes out of the victimizers and demonizes the victims.