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By Audia Barnett June 24, 2022

Eating The Elephant …One Bite At A Time

We are all feeling the pinch! At the gas pumps, the supermarket, in our utility bills …you name it! And the scenario is shaping up to get worse. The psychological relief …

Issue # 136

Eating The Elephant …One Bite At A Time

June 24, 2022

What Has 60 Years Of Independence Done For Us?

June 24, 2022

Cryptocurrency, Another Name For Scamming

June 24, 2022

On The Ledge – A Country In Crisis

June 24, 2022

Unity And the “Intelligence” Factor

June 24, 2022

We Have A Breathing Problem

June 24, 2022

Argument Done!

June 24, 2022

Governor General Allen

June 24, 2022

Stand Up For Your Rights?

June 24, 2022
By The Laird April 28, 2017

Education funding – a new policy

The Government of Jamaica (GOJ), commendably, has just decided to spend J$300 million to assist deregistered final year students at the University of the West Indies (UW), University of Technology, Jamaica …

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By James Moss-Solomon April 28, 2017

Time for action, not for promises

The concept of time seems to escape our notice whenever we speak. Perhaps our Jamaican language does not always follow the traditional tenses as formerly taught in Grammar classes. This in …

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By Alexander Scott April 28, 2017

Wow Venezuela, wow!

I am a leftist. Anyone who speaks politics or talks policies with me will attest to the fact that I am between a tree-hugging hippie at times, to a dyed in …

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By The Strategist April 28, 2017

What is this governance thing about?

  Greg Christie, in the inaugural issue of the Public Opinion, proffered views on Jamaica’s future and the implications of corruption on the country. His political-economic treatise of the matter which …

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By The Terrible Tout April 28, 2017

MILES OF DIAMONDS

I suspect horsemen would be unhappy was I in any position of authority over our local racing industry. My first official act would be to scrap the Diamond Mile.  Even when …

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By Olive Nelson April 14, 2017

Dancehall and carnival — vulgar displays of licentiousness

We are again approaching the end of another soca/dancehall carnival season. Every day now we are being bombarded from our television screens and newspapers with scenes from the carnival blowouts, bang-ins …

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By Judith Wedderburn April 14, 2017

I have the audacity and right to hope that I will not be raped!

 Such might be the musings of an average girl child or an adolescent female in Jamaica who is now aware of the epidemic of sexual assaults, including rape, which girl children …

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By Debbie Kirton April 14, 2017

World Citizenship: Key to sustainable development

What makes for a good citizen? Is it one’s cultural connection or maybe one’s involvement in community work and empowerment?  To whom do we ascribe the coveted title of “good citizen”? …

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By James Moss-Solomon April 14, 2017

The building is on fire, but everyone, including HR, is in a meeting!

 The concept of growth in an advanced heavy industrial production based society in the new millennium has a pronounced leaning towards high-speed automatic machines and robotics. In those societies, even the …

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By Danny Roberts April 14, 2017

(Dis)Respect and the (in)discipline of survival

Dr Peter Phillips’ now famous quote that ‘the man who plays by the rules is the man that gets shafted’, came home to me most forcibly  about two weeks ago after …

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  • We Have A Breathing Problem
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