Jorge V. Jaime The African National Congress (ANC) is celebrating 20 years of multiracial, democratic government in South Africa, with another definitive electoral victory, and a second term for President Jacob Zuma. With votes from 20,500 poling stations (of 22,260 in total) counted, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) confirmed the ANC victory in eight of nine provinces in the ...

Would South Africa have been less of an Apartheid state if blacks and whites could swim at the same beaches - but laws like the 1913 Land Act, Group Areas Act, Mixed Marriages Law, pass laws, and Bantu education still existed? Absurd as that argument is, that is exactly what Israel`s apologists are asking us to believe. When Israel is called an Apartheid state, its defenders - including some ...

The former Finance Minister knowing in advance that the mainstream media journalist would not be investigating his previous statements on the IMF issue continues to confused and mislead the Jamaican Public in his quest to gain power. He recently lost to Andrew Holness in his thirst to head the Westminster inspired Jamaica Labor Party. Let me be clear, The People National Party have adopted this ...

Madam Prime Minister gave her budget presentation exhorting Jamaicans to stay the course to ensure better days ahead. These are hard times for the majority of Jamaicans who are being sacrifice at the altar of the IMF/PSOJ austerity program design to reduce the outstanding debt and to satisfy the bondholders. Mrs. Portia Simpson Having taken the drivers seat from the short lived Holness ...

France pulls out of Rwandan genocide commemoration after complicity accusations Published time: April 06, 2014 11:36 Edited time: April 06, 2014 12:38 Get short URL People follow the proceedings during the arrival of the Rwandan genocide flame, known as the "Kwibuka" (Remembering) 20-Years, at the Kicukiro Grounds as the country prepares to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 1994 ...

Colonialism, apartheid and ethnic cleansing': UN rapporteur on Palestine blasts Israel Published time: March 22, 2014 11:27    A Palestinian man reacts as he sits atop rubble after his home was demolished in Jabel Mukaber, a village in the suburbs of East Jerusalem (Reuters / Ammar Awad)      The UN Special Rapporteur on occupied Palestine accused Israeli ...

tags: international, U.S. foreign policy, conflict resolution, history, geography It's been interesting to observe the large numbers of people who suddenly think they're experts on the ongoing crisis in Ukraine-both those on the left who blame it on Obama for intervening too much and those on the right who blame it on Obama for not intervening enough. As someone who has spent his entire academic ...

  The Jamaican government should have an emergency meeting within parliament to have both parties discuss and passed a “JOB ACT” as one of the tools in fighting crime. It is utter nonsense to pretend and hide from the reality of the devastating effect of joblessness especially on the youths. Most of the laws are passed in parliament only to satisfy the rich and the powerful. The ...

The organization of American states strongly approved of the elected government of Venezuela handling of the disturbances. The democratically elected government of Venezuela is constantly faced with demonstrations by forces hostile to constitutional order. The late president Hugo Chavez was remove by an organize coup but was freed and reinstall as president by the majority. There is still that ...

    The World Peace Council (WPC) expresses its deep concern about the situation in the Ukraine after the installation of the new government in Kiev by the imperialists of the European Union, NATO and the U.S., hand in hand with reactionary neo – Nazi groups who were active throughout the last time in the country. On the backs of the Ukrainian people the last few months a dangerous ...

Jamaica’s rising soulful reggae singer perform at the residence of the Black imperial representative, Michelle and Barack Obama. Washington DC home of the redskins and the seat of world finance and military prowess. Interestingly it recorded its twenty-eight murders, majority of which are blacks. The honorable Marcus Garvey Statue Still lies at the Organization of American States just couple ...

The rat is out of the bag! It’s fair to say the U.S. and Russia have had their, well, differences in view of what makes responsible foreign policy. And on Tuesday, Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin revealed what he really thinks about how the U.S. deals with other nations. Frankly, he’s not impressed: “They sit there across the Pond, and sometimes I think they feel like they’re in a lab ...

February, celebrated around the world as black history month usually reflect on the contribution of our great black heroes. In Jamaica the wiser head that influence the dominant thought process have added reggae as part of the celebration. Since our independence the same thought process that predominates have yet to solve the issues of the majority of our black citizens. Nothing have drastically ...

  By Rosa Tania Valdés 8 hours ago HAVANA (Reuters) - Colombia's FARC rebels asked for the United States to join its peace talks with the Colombian government, saying on Friday it would speed up the process because Washington was making all the important decisions anyway. The Colombian government and the U.S. State Department did not immediately respond to the request, which was ...

by: Norman Markowitz     Thomas F. Jackson. From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin  Luther King, Jr. and the Struggle for Economic Justice.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press: 2007. 459pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8122-3969-5.   Reviewed for H-1960s by Norman Markowitz, Department of History, Rutgers University/New Brunswick ...

By Julian “Jingles” Reynolds It was sometime in 1968 that I met Tony Laing. He had recently returned from a stint in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba where he worked as a fireman. Our mutual friend, Orville “Villus” Tyson who also worked on “the base” at Guantanamo Bay was called, described Tony as the driver of the fire engine truck, who at times dispatched the other fire men before arriving to ...

During his tenure as finance minister, Mr. Audley Shaw recommendation was to take the loan from the IMF to pay our Local Bondholders!! In his program of so call “stabilization for growth” he also suggested that money should be sourced from both external and domestic entities but it is clear then Jamaica must borrow from the IMf(the big robber) to pay the Private Sector(the small robber),the ...

The purpose & agreement of the Goat Islands was to eliminate all invasive predatory species off of the islands and to use the islands as a sanctuary for the critically endangered Jamaican Iguana(IUCN Red list). This has been the plans of the Jamaican Iguana Recovery Program as there are 2 major dry limestone forests within the PBPA, (Hellshire Hills & Goat Islands). The dry limestone ...

Since our independence in 1962 we have yet to shed the political architecture that still prevails with us. This colonial framework craftily prepared by England after experimentation with the maroons inhabitants and handed over to the current leadership has reaped havoc on our moral, social and political institution. One of the strategy that worked so perfectly is the divide and rule mechanism. ...

The workers at the sprawling hotel compound in lucea won the right to return back to work after demonstrating against their removal. The management was intent on bringing in foreign workers to replace them. This is an important victory for the workers and the hotel workers in general and against the liberal policies espouse by both the government and the opposition. The IMF mandated policies ...