Regardless of who becomes president of the United States in the November elections, one thing remains clear: the solution to the Cuba-US conflict. It will only be possible when the empire recognizes that our Island is a free, sovereign and independent nation. Author: Jorge Casals Llano | internet@granma.cu October 8, 2020 00:10:44   After 1959, the US policy against Cuba intensified its ...

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  Our government with a majority in Parliament must move to remove the Queen as head of our constitutional authority. It is more than timing, it is a fact that it represents the naked exploitation and raping of a race. Our people were forced to work without compensation to accommodate the building of the British Empire. To add insult to injury they compensated the slaveholders. Unlike the ...

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The pandemic in Jamaica will uncover the stark reality of poverty with no help or solution coming from the Government. The IMF/ Private sector economic apartheid is a failed economic experiment in other countries and will definitely fail here. Our country cannot withstand this model, it crushes the human spirit to enable a few to become rotten rich. The IMF called for the withdrawal of the ...

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Author: MINREX | internet@granma.cu october 1, 2020 11:10:21   The Cuban people and the international community are aware of the dishonest campaign the United States government has conducted since 2019 to discredit Cuba’s international medical cooperation; exert pressure on the governments that have requested it and deprive peoples of these health services. The Ministry of Foreign ...

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Mr. Holness is begging the western world to create a marshall plan to help countries like ours to deal with the fall out of the pandemic of Covid19. America, the richest country on the planet under the leadership of the white supremacist, Donald Trump caused indirectly the death of 200,000 Americans mostly black Americans, the western world doesn't care about the black Majority in the ...

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The threat of some of our people not having enough to eat, to pay for medical care, and to pay rent and mortgages is manifesting itself daily as the fallout from the Covid19 is being felt across the island. Some businesses are using the pandemic as a cover to further maximize profit by laying off workers and having a few doing the work thus adding more stress in the delivery of services and ...

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The continuing privatization of our food will only exacerbate the problems. Successive government has pay lip service to our agriculture sector. The pandemic sweeping our island is already witnessing hunger and unemployment coupled with the tax payment to be paid out, over 200billion, to the private sector on the back of our people. Our people are already feeling the negative effect of COVID 19 ...

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The time has come to fully leave our colonial past behind. This is the ultimate statement of confidence in who we are and what we are capable of achieving. By; Mia Motley, Prime Minister of Barbados.

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  At the beginning of the 20th century, Edward L. Bernays, publicist, journalist, and inventor of the theory of public relations, considered the father of modern propaganda and the engineering of consensus in the United States, stated in one of his texts, “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in a democratic ...

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 Holness continues to pay back discreetly to the benefit derived from the alignment of the JLP to the policies of the racist and nazi sympathizer Donald Trump, Jamaica helped in reversing a history of electing a Latin American to the International Development Bank presidency voting along with trump to elect a ( US citizen) hardliner and trump lap-dog to the president of the bank. It is very ...

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Toots represented the main sinew of our musical fiber taken from the rhythmical movement of our daily life.  It is a shame that it is in death that our people are bombarded with the many songs attributed to our musical icon. It is the lack of promotion and acceptance by the powers that be of our homegrown culture why our youths are steeped in western decadence. The adage that fish rot from ...

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The coup d'état reminds us that wherever socialism has shown the best possibilities of making life viable for our peoples, capitalism has fought it with suffocation and death. Author: Karima Oliva Bello | internet@granma.cu September 11, 2020 9:09:30 PM   Salvador Allende and the Commander in Chief, in Punta Arenas, Tierra del Fuego, in 1971. Photo: Michael SerraillierThe coup d'etat in ...

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The result and conduct of our election prove the corruption and decay of a system that benefits the powerful elites that still dominate. Over 60% of our people refused to be part of this charade an increase from the 56% that prevailed.  It is not a surprise to those who understand the dynamics of our tribal politics, both parties decline in acceptance by our people. The PNP died over forty ...

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 Mr. Andrew Holness was returned as Prime Minister of Jamaica after garnering 20% of a total of 37%  voters participation. Mr. Holness with cash in hand and after placing key loyal personnel in important positions decimated the once-powerful machinery of the Peoples National Party. Mr. Holness had the covert blessing of the United States with Donald Trump and the powerful Private Sector ...

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It was very interesting to watch both Nigel and Mark trying to explain how they will finance the promises made to gain power in the anti-people parliament, a relic of our colonial past. Mark was more honest and forthcoming in his answers, he is sympathetic to the cause of the poor, while Nigel was repeating his textbook knowledge of Macro-Economics. Both stayed clear of not mentioning the impact ...

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Author: Fernando Buen Abad | internet@granma.cu August 18, 2020 11:08:30 PM Habits, customs, and traditions (so apparently untouchable in times of "normality") were "derailed" by the enormous force of the health crisis, until today, the largest in history, caused by capitalism. Weddings, birthdays, baptisms, funerals ... rites, processions, or inheritances to which else, ...

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The fight for power is on, both sides putting their machinery in motion. It is well known that Andrew Holness is well oiled financially, the power-brokers are solidly behind him, they profit handsomely from the stock market last year. Both parties are signatory to the apartheid economic formula imposed on our country, the IMF, a system that has no record of success in the world. To begin the ...

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 Our people are faced with two option, the continuation of a Prime Minister that mimick the behavior of Donald Trump or an opposition that promised stability, a desire to follow the rule of law, to stamp out corruption and to realign our foreign policy to reflect the sentiment of the United Nations. Mr. Holness promised our people a lot and have yet to fulfill any of them. Our dollar ...

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We are celebrating our 58th political independence celebration with our present governance mired in corruption, a spiraling murder rate, a dysfunctional health care system, and an educational system that still looks down on students from the poor and working-class while the elite school has the black students subjected to racist overtures and insults, an educated beggar class, a sizable homeless ...

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It is interesting to read the commentaries by the gleaner Journalist on the misdeeds of our politicians, all describing their deeds but never the punishment, it is what our people are looking for. It is no accident that our national hero, the Rt. Honorable Marcus Garvey recommendation on public official betraying the public trust, they must be shot. Our governance is so corrupt that they are now ...

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