The state owned national carrier Air Jamaica has been getting a lot of attention as the country grapples with what to do with the perennial Continue reading
Puppets of the IMF
David Comissiong, president of the People’s Empowerment Party (of Barbados) argues that the island and other Caribbean countries are becoming puppets of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and marginalising their vulnerable populations.
The Death Squad
“If we know, then we must fight for your life as though it were our own.  For if they take you in the morning, they Continue reading
About O.Dave Allen
Pat Robertson, God and the Devil
Televangelist Pat Robertson’s demented claim that Haiti’s disastrous earthquake was the result of a pact the Haitian slaves signed with the devil to win their freedom has Continue reading
About Kadene Porter
Jamaica Canada Trade – The Missed Chances
Many writers have excused Jamaica’s poor economic performance by blaming or ascribing it to the global melt down. While I will admit that that occurrence Continue reading
About Mark Lee
Mark Lee has been a long-time journalist writing, editing and producing in print, radio television and new media.
Collaboration Versus Conflict
The sugar plantation was undoubtedly the dominant economic and social phenomena of colonial Jamaica and the Jamaican society that emerged out of slavery was very Continue reading
About Mark Lee
Mark Lee has been a long-time journalist writing, editing and producing in print, radio television and new media.
Gov’t on Collision Course with the People
It was surprising to many how Jamaicans responded to the tax measures announced by the Government in the April supplementary budget. Even the Government had Continue reading
About Mark Lee
Mark Lee has been a long-time journalist writing, editing and producing in print, radio television and new media.
Jamaica – Blood and Fury Part 2
In the days that race towards us we should endeavour to teach ancestral words of wisdom. We shall need teachers to accomplish this task. But Continue reading
Jamaica – Blood and Fury Part 1
There is an island of rolling hills and blue-green mountains, nourished by swirling rivers that empty into a yawning sea. Those burnt-faced, olive-skinned people who Continue reading