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| GEOF BROWN |
"Breathes there the man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself has said
This is my own, my native land!"
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Keeping Argument alive... |
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Friday, May 09, 2008
THERE ARE SOME LOCATIONS where you can always find an Argument. Taxi stands are guaranteed to facilitate political discourse. Rum bars have long pedigrees as centres of chat. Beauty salons and barber shops will always provide a good suss. The market is a given. Topics of the day are open to one and all. The more controversial the better.
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Nothing new under the sun |
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Thursday, May 08, 2008
This year marks 50 years since an Avianca airliner crashed in the sea near Montego Bay. When all the passengers were assumed dead from the passenger records of the Colombian aircraft, it turned out that one man was alive but someone else was travelling on his passport and that person died. The point here is that it is not yesterday that things like this have happened. That incident was 50 years ago. But some people speak as if such things started only today.
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The challenge of child destitution in Nigeria |
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Thursday, May 08, 2008
Nigeria ranks near the top of international indices of infant and maternal mortality. Every year hundreds of thousands of mothers and children die in the process of childbirth. Other hundreds of thousands die before the age of one, five or 10 years old. And many who survive envy the dead. Over the years their life expectancy has been shrinking, and now the average Nigerian can look forward to less than 45 years of a very unhappy existence.
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We need caregivers not caretakers |
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008
There are few newspaper headlines that have frightened me as much as the one that appeared on Page 3 of the Monday, April 14, 2008 edition of the Daily Observer. It read: "McKenzie takes control of Kingston Central constituency".
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Don't try to shame them, help them |
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Monday, May 05, 2008
It is well and good to be in cloistered positions and places of privilege where we can deliver positive or negative judgements at will. How rationally and fairly we use the positions we occupy to foster positive changes is quite another matter. In this context, people such as those who write editorials and other columns or who are involved in public commentary ought to weigh and reflect constantly on the impact of their pronouncements and otherwise balanced analysis of the topics that they write or speak on. In this particular regard, I invite reflection on judgements being delivered on some of our high schools by privileged people.
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The Children of Moloch |
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Sunday, May 04, 2008
The essentially criminal consequences of the international capitalist financial system have never been so brutally exposed as by the latest crisis in food and the American mortgage debacle which immediately preceded it.
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CHANGING FACE OF VITAL CARICOM ARM |
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Sunday, May 04, 2008
...After Bernal, who next?
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Positive move towards press freedom |
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Sunday, May 04, 2008
GEORGETOWN, Guyana - The apparent end to a long-standing rift between the Bharrat Jagdeo administration and Guyana's leading newspaper along with the tabling of proposals to reform libel laws in Jamaica set a positive framework for the Caribbean observance of World Press Freedom Day (WPFD) here.
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Dr Davies, support the Finsac probe |
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Saturday, May 03, 2008
The government has decided to proceed with a commission of inquiry into the collapse of the financial sector in the 1990s. This is a position for which this writer has argued for over four years now.
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You've got to know where you are to change your position |
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Saturday, May 03, 2008
On April 11 most of CNN's programming had extended conversations about US presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama's use of the word "bitter" in response to a speech he made in which he stated that people across America were bitter because of their current economic situation and their lack of faith in their government. The senator was accused of "bashing" and "attacking" the hard-working citizens of small-town America, and the network continuously repeated his opponents' declarations of Obama being an elitist.
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Politics, plots and possibilities |
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Friday, May 02, 2008
WITH TIME RUNNING OUT and Hillary pressing hard to gain the coveted prize of the Democrats' choice as presidential nominee, the events of past days couldn't have come at a worse time for Barack Obama who still articulates his belief that he can bring a wind of change to America.
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From garden and woodland |
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Thursday, May 01, 2008
The mudslide in Ocho Rios two weeks ago is reason to take heed that something has gone wrong with the way in which we treat our environment. As we crucify the earth for profit, one recalls the pain of the Blessed Virgin Mary as her son was crucified. In this month of May, Roman Catholic churches across the world will as usual observe the month in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary. As we read in the Scriptures "from this day forward, all generations shall call me blessed," (Luke 1:48).
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