“So yu not telling dem fi tek di white man offa di medal?” That was the spirit, if not the exact words, of the question one of my mischievous friends asked when she heard I’d been awarded a Musgrave medal. Another friend, from a former British.
I contend that every economic and political decision, indeed even personal ones, involves a moral position. Always there is some view of person or community behind individual choice, national and foreign policy. When the unlamented Kissinger said.
When George William Gordon returned to the House of Assembly in 1863, he was more vigilant and outspoken than he was in his first stint which began in 1944. He was also a magistrate (justice of the peace), and he would visit the Morant Bay jail to.
ON OCTOBER 11, 1865, exactly 158 years ago, Paul Bogle and his supporters marched from Stony Gut to the courthouse in Morant Bay in St Thomas to seek justice. What they got instead was a stand-off from the authorities who were meeting in the vestry.
THE EDITOR, Madam: In 1954, the year of my birth, witnessed the desegregation of public schools in the United States of America. It was as a result of the ruling from the highest court in the USA, its Supreme Court, in the case Brown v Board of.