Showing posts with label Jamaica. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jamaica. Show all posts
Sunday, October 19, 2025

Grenada 19 October, 1983

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1983 Coup D'état - Grenada By Everton Obi Powell Maurice Rupert Bishop (29 May 1944 – 19 October 1983) was a Grenadian revolutionary and...
Monday, September 1, 2014

What we don't know about marijuana

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By DR BASIL SIMMS SINCE Jamaica became an independent nation and a signatory of the International Convention of the United Nati...
Monday, June 2, 2014

Do Jamaicans support abortion in Jamaica?

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Abortion ... let’s get rid of those ancient laws By Dr Dayton Campbell: THE World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that o...
Thursday, April 10, 2014

Jamaica Ranks 25th in Prostitution Revenue Worldwide

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Jamaica ranks 25th in earnings from prostitution -- website KINGSTON, Jamaica – A website Havoscope.com, which provides data and ...
Saturday, February 15, 2014

Jamaica: 100 years of black consciousness advocacy

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By Louis MOYSTON JAMAICA has had a rich history of creative resistance during slavery.  Similarly, during the post-slavery era, ...
Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Colonialism and Neocolonialism in Jamaica and the Caribbean

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For many years colonialism milked Jamaica and other Caribbean countries by imposing a false identity on our people All the post-colonial unr...
Tuesday, August 6, 2013

The independent Jamaican Diaspora

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By Hugh Douse THE word Diaspora gained prominence from its usage with regard to the scattered Jews.  The term relat...
Sunday, May 19, 2013

Kick CARICOM to the kerb (Part 2)

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Jamaica is half the market of CARICOM, without Haiti By Ronald Mason, Jamaica Gleaner Contributor It would be foolhardy at the commencement ...
Sunday, May 5, 2013

Kick CARICOM to the kerb

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We, Jamaica and Jamaicans - need to give the six-month notice and leave CARICOM I would support the repatriation of CARICOM nationals who wo...
Saturday, August 11, 2012

The next 50 years of Jamaica Independence

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The next 50 years of Independence By Michael Burke SO Jamaica's 50th anniversary celebrations are now behind us.  We now...
Friday, August 3, 2012

Jamaica: ... History, shame and emancipendence

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By Michael Burke WHAT has shame or embarrassment to do with communicating history?  And what has this to do with our emancipendence ...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Dons are criminal non-state actors that evolved out of the divisive trade union and partisan battles in Jamaica from the 1940s to 1960s... ...The term 'don' is a recent one, however, one that gained venom in the 1980s... ...before that you had 'rude bwoys', 'top rankings' and 'area leaders'

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Garrisons: Empires Of The Dons By Damion Blake, jamaica-gleaner guest columnist The Jamaican don is a unique figure, created b...
Thursday, February 9, 2012

Jamaica: Michael Manley, Garveyism and Matalon

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Manley, Garveyism and Matalon By MICHAEL BURKE Forty-three years ago today Michael Manley was elected president of the People's Nati...