When one considers the current state of Jamaica’s school system - a system that once gave our young migrants a distinct advantage in classrooms overseas, particularly in the areas of reading and comprehension - it boggles the mind to think that our own news media is complicating the problem by broadcasting the news in patois.
While alive this American expat was a miserable old bastard who hated kids. In death he has donated the proceeds from selling his US$80 million beachfront home in Panama City to poor children. Here comes the legal trouble…
A female police officer aims with her pistol in a shooting range during a graduation ceremony in Karbala, Iraq.
Police try and get gangs in war-torn August Town community to sign a peace treaty. But it’s just not fair if that means they can still go to jail…of course!
Not for the first time a Caribbean criminal has filed for asylum in another country claiming that as a homosexual he would be discriminated against if deported (again).
It stinks to read in 2008 that an advisor to the London Mayor should tell black Caribbean to ‘go home’ if they don’t like their policies. It’s even worse that the culprit was an immigrant himself, from Australia a former colony like Jamaica but whose citizens find it so much easier to emigrate there.
Seven men are being sought by police after the body of Edwin Sinclair was stolen from a graveyard in the parish of Manchester over the weekend.
Is this how bad things have got? After picking up today’s paper we really had to sit and think about this for a minute.
British-Jamaican film company Rice N Peas travelled Down Under to produce a documentary about the continued poor treatment of Aborigines. Ahead of the London premiere of This Is Our Country Too later this month, filmmaker Ishmael Blagrove Jr speaks with 2008 Sydney Peace Prize winner Pat Dodson.
This war on drugs isn’t going too well. The maths look bad. While authorities tout more seizures, does that simply mean that more cocaine is being trafficked = better chance of interceptions?
