MONTEGO BAY, St James — Carlos Martinez is anxiously counting down the days until his first trip to meet and embrace his Jamaican family. The man from the Dominican Republic was belatedly granted…
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CHILD KILLER STILL AT LARGE
Sunday , April 30, 2023 — that’s 18 years to the day when six-year-old Shanika Anderson was abducted, raped and murdered, and still no one has been found criminally responsible for that brutality….
Theresa Rodriguez-Moodie | Deep-sea mining not worth the risk
Over the last few months, the conversation around commercial deep-sea mining (DSM) has intensified, with more scientists, organisations, groups and countries calling for a moratorium. As of March 2023, twelve countries have called…
Gilbert Houngbo | Time to prioritise social justice
May 1 is widely known as Labour Day, a day when we celebrate the contribution of workers worldwide. It is a moment for pride, celebration, and hope. After three years of the COVID-19…
More lawyers blast conditions at Corporate Area police lock-ups
More attorneys-at-law have stepped forward, bemoaning unsanitary conditions of police lock-ups across the Corporate Area. The ongoing discussion follows last Sunday’s exposé on the conditions of lock-ups at Denham Town and Hunt’s Bay…
Mark Wignall | In pain and in peril there is hope
Unity is strength. Strength allows persons to form or infiltrate alliances and bring them under their control. If the sequence follows its natural path, the next step is the possession of power. The…
Gordon Robinson | Jamaica needs to invent a new wheel
As Marc Antony did for Caesar, we must come to bury Jamaica’s English Constitution and, with it, 500 years of mental slavery NOT to praise either. The current Constitutional Reform process is a…
Adekeye Adebajo | From Abuja to Durban – Africa’s 30-year quest for reparations
Last week (April 29) marked the 30th anniversary of the Abuja Proclamation agreed during the First Pan-African Conference on Reparations in Abuja in April 1993. The meeting was organised by the Organisation of…
Imani Tafari-Ama | Consensus on decolonising education
It is not often these days that feminists and economists agree about educational practices and transformational politics. However, having attended the “Decolonising Education” conference in the first week of April at the University…
Promoting peace for 14 years
The 14th annual Easter Peace Championship football competition in the St Andrew Southern constituency was not short on excitement and displays of excellent skill. Thirty-one teams from a number of communities in the…