Following a closely contested campaign, Dilma Rousseff was reelected in the second round of presidential elections on Sunday, October 27, garnering 51.54% of the votes, with 98.82% of the total counted.  Voters favored Rousseff’s proposal to further expand social programs, undertake political reform, and reinforce the fight against corruption. The election was marked by the ...

Our Government and opposition in trying to cover up the real state of affairs are following the United States media sensationalism of Ebola’s threat to humanity. Within the last week of our country there were over ten murders of which five were on a single day. Unemployment, crime and violence, corruption and the toxic policies of the International Monetary Fund is the real threat to our ...

Jamaica is faced with a outbreak of chickunguya that caught the health minister off guard after reported lack of response and medicines to deal with the concern of the mostly impoverish patients.  This fluish like virus comes from the aedes aegypti and the aedes albo pictus mosquitoes. The symptoms range from fever, joint pain, rash and headache. The Minister, a Howard University trained ...

By William C. Lewis The U.S. war establishment is using the ISIS propaganda scare to police the world and continuously subject resistant nations to their global NATO imperial plans through massive aerial bombardment violence that is already murdering people not taking part in hostilities. It’s not just the ISIS group that is an instrument to launch further wars for empire, either. There are ...

President Chan: Allow me firstly, to thank the Secretary-General, Dr. Nabarro, Dr. Chan and Mr. Niamah for the information they have imparted, I can assure you that it is extremely useful and necessary to us. President Chan: The seriousness of the situation created by the Ebola epidemic plaguing some West and Central African countries creates the need to confront it with energy and with the ...

Just ideas - or disaster - will triumph If today it is possible to prolong life, health and the productive time of persons, if it is perfectly possible to plan the development of the population in accordance with growing productivity, culture and development of human values, what are they waiting for to do so? Global society has known no peace in recent years, particularly since the European ...

It is with great concern that this letter is penned to get your attention to the gravity of the monstrous impact of your government decision to agree with the dictates of the IMF/PSOJ structural adjustment program. The attainment of the highest post in government was widely received by our people and the world, a black woman becoming prime minister of a small but proud country with world class ...

The People National Party should go back to its original mandate of self reliance and the empowerment of the majority black poor Jamaicans. It is a crime to subject our people to this monstrous financial arrangement designed by the IMF to preserve an imperial gambling house to guarantee super profit to the rich and powerful. Since the liberalization of our Economy we saw the massive transfer of ...

Jamaica, s 52nd Independence Celebration…….a reflection…. What a beautiful experience when the struggles of all our heroes known and unknown came into fruition when Our Flag replace the Colonial one. This whole episode has at that time of transferring of power the honorable Norman Manley playing his historical role in assisting in this historic event, this we celebrate with happiness. What ...

ARTICLE BY FIDEL    I again request that Granma not use the front page for these relatively brief lines about the genocide of Palestinians being committed. I am writing them rapidly, to state only that which requires deep reflection. I think that a new, repugnant form of fascism is emerging with notable strength, at this time in human history when more that seven billion inhabitants ...

Eduardo Galeano * TO justify itself, state terrorism fabricates terrorists, sows hates and presents alibis. Indications are that the butchery in Gaza, which according to its perpetuators, is about eliminating terrorists, will create more. In more than three weeks of incessant bombing, Israel has killed more than 1,800 Palestinians, in large part civilians. Photo: AP. Since 1948, Palestinians ...

In respect to one of our great thinkers and humanist we the Jamaica Partriotic Movement is sharing this analysis by Commandante Fidel Castro ... I have asked the editors of Granma to relieve me of the honor of publishing what I write on the front page of the official organ of our Party, since I am thinking of expressing personal points of view on issues which, for obvious reasons of health and ...

On behalf of the peace loving people of Jamaica and in memory of our National Hero the Rt Honorable Marcus Garvey, the Jamaica Patriotic Movement condemn the killing of innocent civilian by the Military machine of the State of Israel. The occupation of Palestine must end. The United States must end its bias approach and demand Israel conform to the two state solution agreed to by the ...

Bruce Golding, the ex-Prime minister, is right about the United States not having the Moral standard to dictate to other country about human rights. Mr. Golding seems to be posturing for possible re- entry into the political arena after a disgraceful exit. Did Mr. Golding just realize that fact about the United States? Is Mr. Golding cognizant of these other facts that the United States refuse to ...

The Jamaica Patriot, the only online newspaper to predict the deterioration of our economy with the adoption of the prescribe medicine by the IMF. Where are the Jobs being created? Why is the crime rate going up? The private sector was so adamant on having this agreement only so that they could be paid, they knew that employing our people would only limit their astronomical profit margin. The ...

Jamaica’s debt just got larger with the 800million United States loan promised by the international lenders to the Government of Jamaica, a sterling achievement of the Finance Minister. Peter Phillips bonus came after the visit of the head of the International Monetary Fund, Miss Laggard. Mr. Phillip was praised by the IMF chief for his determined effort to meet the fund strict austerity ...

  Albor Ruiz No one can predict the resolution - if there is one – of the humanitarian crisis created by the wave of young children, who despite all odds, cross the border into the United States, coming from Mexico and Central America. Brownsville, Texas. Foto: Eric Gay/AP. What is clear, however, is that if the government decides to resolve the situation with strict enforcement of ...

By Felix SalmonTaken from the Financial Times 06/06/14 The lender faces allegations over business with Iran and Sudan, writes Felix Salmon You cannot send money to Cuba – not from New York, not from London and not from Madrid, Manila or Managua. We all know why: it is because the US has a beef with Cuba. If the US takes an aversion to you, it can cut you off from the international financial ...

Maya Angelou just passed on With her love of us full of imperfections And her love of words and her love Of our strength and goodness And love of our struggle to be Who we were called and created to be Folks to love one another and act with kindness Like most any poet she lived simply, humbly Though on one bitterly cold January day in 1993 She defined America and the American people for us all. ...

  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 ...