Most Americans oppose reparations for slavery
Few Americans are in favor of giving reparations to descendants of enslaved black people in the United States, a new poll shows, even as the idea has gained momentum among Democratic presidential cont...
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'Weaklings!' Maroon hits back at Loop News columnist
A recent column by Loop News writer Karyl Walker has rankled the nerves of a Maroon. Daneyel Z Bozra took to the social media platform of Facebook last week to hit out against Walker, who he ...
A view from the outside: The Maroons should apologise
With Karyl Walker I freed many slaves but I could free so many more only if they knew they were slaves - Harriet Tubman. The recent imbroglio over bauxite companies mining on the fringes of the ...
Beckles attends reparations hearing on Capitol Hill
Vice Chancellor of The University of the West Indies (UWI) Sir Hilary Beckles on Wednesday, attended a historic hearing on slavery reparations at the US Congress in Washington. Beckles was inv...
Mitch McConnell rejects reparations: 'We've elected a black president'
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday rejected reparations for slavery in part because it would be hard to know whom to pay. The Kentucky Republican spoke to reporters on the eve of a r...
A view from the outside: Christian hypocrisy
With Karyl Walker Science again, science again oobbacabba, oobbacabba, science again – Admiral Bailey One of the major mindsets that has brought self-inflicted hindrance to the advancement of pe...
The history of obeah
A recent announcement by Justice Minister Delory Chuck that the nation’s legislators are mulling over repealing the Obeah Act has drawn mixed reactions from the public. The practice has long...
'Fitting relocation' for slave monument at Sam Sharpe Square in MoBay
Montego Bay Mayor, Homer Davis, says there is a move afoot to have the freedom monument in the historic Sam Sharpe Square area of the Second City to a more prominent place there. "As a municipality...
'Reparation for slavery not a priority item for Britain at this time'
British High Commissioner to Jamaica, Asif Ahmad says the long discussed matter of reparation for slavery is not a priority item for Britain at this time. He says while the issue has been raised over ...
Ghana beckons the Caribbean with Year of Return festivities
August 2019 will mark 400 years since enslaved Africans landed in Jamestown, Virginia, beginning what was widely regarded as the start of the African slave trade to North America. To commemorate th...