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 ...

The Rastafarian community is gaining renewed vigor after such a long drought with the fight for its birthright that was wronged by these emerging investments entity responding to the Government call for investing in Jamaica, “We are ripe for business”. What this means practically is the widespread dislocation of black indigenous Jamaican’s force to give up their land due to harsh economic ...

Jamaica has been undergoing tremendous Economic pressure especially with the introduction of the International Monetary Fund structural adjustment program. The IMF program when instituted is really a no –growth policy thus when the Government call for growing the economy it is deceiving the general public. This program of economic destruction calls for foreign and local investors to drive the ...

The main street media in Jamaica, thirsty for any news that can ignore the disastrous effect of the IMF medicine on the majority of our people, welcome achievements of our artistes and athletes as if they had just appear on the Scene. One wonders if they are planning to have a Shaggy and friend concerts to fund all our government neglected responsibilities. No doubt the rich were out regally to ...

The honorable Michael Manley in his book “Struggle in the Periphery” describes lucidly the contentious issues he had with the International monetary fund at the time of his stewardship. The then prime minister,  fervent opponent at the time of the apartheid regime, a anti-imperialist and sympathizer of the poor in the Jamaica emphasize three important aspect of  a well defined ...

The international monetary fund was created in 1944 along with the World Bank as a means to promote monetary co-operation between countries. The chief of the IMF is usually headed by a European while the head of the World Bank is headed by an American, an agreement between the European and the American. The international monetary fund serves the interest of the powerful financial interest in the ...

PRETORIA, South Africa.— For the Cuban delegation, December 12 was filled with incomparable emotions. The first came early in the morning when President Raúl Castro arrived at the Union Building, the government headquarters in Pretoria, to honor Nelson Mandela....

In 1991, Nelson Mandela traveled to Cuba to thank Fidel Castro and the Cuban people for supporting the fight against apartheid and colonialism in southern Africa. "The decisive defeat of the aggressive apartheid forces [in Angola] destroyed the myth of the invincibility of the white oppressor," Mandela said. "The defeat of the apartheid army served as an inspiration to the struggling people of ...

The world mourns the physical removal from our natural environment the Honorable Nelson Mandela. His principle and his determine struggle against one of the worst social experiment conducted on a majority race by a racist minority. The word democracy became the standard bearer for Mandela with these famous words “one man, one vote”. Never have democracy exposed its true meaning when the ...

 On behalf of the people of Jamaica we want to extend our condolences and regret of the passing of our great leader for democracy,human dignity, world peace and equality.The Jamaica Patriotic Movement Salute you Honorable Mandela for Showing the world that one should not abandon one,s principle in the fight for  for a better world..We salute you!!

By:Claudia Fonseca Sosa ON November 11, 1975, President Antonio Agostinho Neto proclaimed before Africa and the world the birth of the People's Republic of Angola (now the Republic of Angola). After 14 years of armed struggle, the last Portuguese colony was finally achieving its independence. However, the Angolan people were initially unable to enjoy the fruits of freedom. After learning of the ...

It would be interesting to see our statistician do a research on the amount of people killed, robbed, raped, maimed, became homeless/hungry and became mentally disturbed during the campaign for the leadership of the Jamaica Labor Party. Our country just pass another round of IMF distressing test, testing to see how much more profit can be squeezed from our people. The mainstream media since ...

The news just kept pouring in , from England over eight hundred thousand people lonely, from Canada the mayor admitted to smoking crack, within the United States, the frequent gun violence and shooting at schools and public places, in Israel the constant language of war, In Greece and Jamaica the disastrous impact of IMF policies on the poor, in Libya, the return to ethnic violence, in congress, ...