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So Obama go a youth forum an im greet di massive inna fi wi language. An im big up UWI. An im aks, "Wa a gwaan, Jamaica?" An it sweet nuff a wi. Yeah, man! Obama talk up di ting. But unu see seh im never talk dat deh talk wen im...

As a graduate of the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, I was moved to write a letter to The Gleaner in response to your front-page article 'Top of the Class' dated April 15, 2015, especially in...

When the news came that neither Jaheel Hyde nor Michael O'Hara would be able to compete as high-school athletes at the Penn Relays, it really didn't surprise me. I knew that there was the possibility, at least, that the Pennsylvania Inter-scholastic...

It really doesn't matter to me if the great Marcus Garvey's criminal record in the United States (US) or in Jamaica, for that matter, ever gets expunged. I'll explain why later. However, for those who are moved to push for it to happen, I say more...

My best friends are old people. Not people older than me necessarily. Just old people. I love nothing more than to sit with veterans and hear them tell a story about some glorious aspect of this country's past, recounting details, name-dropping...

Barack Obama might not have come bearing gifts, but he did leave Jamaica something of significant value: a platform from which to accelerate and expand a push for foreign investment. But the opportunity has to be grasped in a hurry, before the wake...

Last week, President Barack Obama visited Jamaica to much excitement.He's a modern hero to people of African heritage everywhere. It was uplifting that, with minor exceptions, Jamaica's endemic political tribalism was discarded in favour of an...

We find it hard to mount a credible argument against the cynics. The weight of history and hard evidence are on their side.So, with Barack Obama having left Jamaica, the crab vendors are back at the roadside across from National Heroes Park, and...