BROOKLYN, New York, December 21, 2022 - The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, convened the first session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent in Geneva, Switzerland from December 5-8, 2022.
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GEORGETOWN, December 19, 2022 - During the Middle of last week, the fiasco with street vendors at New Market Street and the subsequent dramatic arrest of Georgetown Mayor, Pt. Ubraj...
GEORGETOWN, December 17, 2022 - There appears to be a palpable fear of a focused national discussion on issues related to ethnic and religious competition and of distributive equity. These...
KINGSTON, Jamaica, December 11, 2022 - Resulting from observations that I made in a recent article in this publication as well as the Sunday Gleaner concerning the silence surrounding the...
The following is a letter from Chairman of the International Decade for People of African Descent Assembly- Guyana (IDPADA-G Inc.),Vincent Alexander, articulating about, a need to understand the lived experience...
NEW JERSEY, November 23, 2022 - I read recently that Jamaica's prime minister, Andrew Holness is planning another “cabinet reshuffle.” Or my personal take: “the musical chair game continues”! Personally,...
KINGSTON, November 20, 2022 - The founding fathers of the Independence Constitution could never have envisaged a situation arising in politically independent Jamaica - no one could - in which...
GEORGETOWN, October 23, 2022 - The unauthorised release of the election petition decision of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) by Mr. Mohabir Anil Nandall, Minister of Legal Affairs and...
In late July/early August 2022, there was an international gathering in Barbados of a significant number of eminent resource persons drawn from civil society and academia and equipped with deep...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, October 16, 2022 - Now that our Caribbean governments have launched a serious effort to secure the payment of Reparations for the tremendous damage inflicted on the people...
Much good can be said about the utility of Commissions Of Inquiry. In fact, Commissions of Inquiry have long been part of the machinery of governments, all over the world,...
KINGSTON, Jamaica, October 8, 2022 - A constructive query to be included in the ongoing conversation on the constitutional reform process, at home and in the diaspora, is whether there...
KINGSTON, Jamaica, October 4, 2022 - Former Jamaican Ambassador Audley Rodriques, says Jamaica is the only country where its nationals need a visa to enter or transit the country which...
