It is well known within the rasta community that they partake only in the reverence of marijuana, never in the use or association of cocaine. Mutu in his poetic oratory of the past mentions cocaine as one of the staples of people in the upper class(snorting). The moral decay in our society due to the austere economic policies of the IMF pushed a lot of poor people into mental illness, crime, and ...

Despite all the problems and crises that the United Nations and its member states have faced over these years, it is hard to disagree that it is largely thanks to the international legal and political mechanisms established by the UN Charter that we managed to avoid plunging into an all-out third world war and deal with many critical issues when shaping the post-war world order. Unfortunately, ...

The American culture industry plays a substantial role in the symbolic reproduction of capitalism and, therefore, in its maintenance as a system, guaranteeing the triumph of stereotypes as superior forms of ideology. The great factory of "entertainment" is the matrix of the assumed slave, which swarms in the overcrowded and increasingly violent cities of capitalism.  The American culture ...

Our people are reeling from the mismanagement of our economy, lack of school supplies, layoff, flooding, mental illnesses, migration of our professionals, and chaos in our daily lives. What is flourishing is the continued dominance and profiteering of corporate Jamaica. Our country is still committed to servicing this massive debt built up over the years by both political parties, this debt must ...

Presidential candidates in the US must have enough stamina to endure an all-fair competition: the cheap and cunning blow, personal, racial, gender attacks, lies, baseness, deception, cheating. Private donations are essential to elevate a candidate to power and to maintain the system.  Private donations are essential to elevate a candidate to power and to maintain the ...

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. 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 ...

The Holness Government must respond to the cries of our people on the high cost of services offered by companies during this pandemic!! It should be a crime for companies to be making super profits on our people, two of every household are out of a job, it must be tabled in parliament immediately. Flow is an example, they have increased the stress on our people by switching to a whats app model ...

In august of this year, United Oil and gas announced that it had received approval from the Jamaican Government to take 100 percent control of the Walton Morant License. Prior to that, it had a 20% stake in the project, while Tullow held 80%. (Jamaica Gleaner, 10/09/2020. United Oil and Gas to double oil search in Jamaica). United Oil and Gas bought out all shares from its partner, Tullow Oil, of ...

Author: Ernesto Estévez Rams | internet@granma.cu October 13, 2020 9:10:04  Darwin's theory of evolution is not a hypothesis, it is a theory in the scientific sense. It has passed all the observational checks that have been made. Explain correctly the way in which fossil remains appear, until the evolution, in much shorter times, of bacteria and viruses, observable in a ...

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 ...

  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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

  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 ...

 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 ...

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 ...