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By Rupert Johnson PRIDE Columnist With regard to the perennial wave of crime and violence in Jamaica, it was heartening to read the comments of Robertino Gordon, dean of discipline at Cornwall College in Montego Bay. He stressed the fact ...

By Yvonne Sam PRIDE Columnist Here we go again, with the least intention of ruffling any feathers or appearing like a snake oil saleswoman. Black History month has just gone by, amidst the perpetual disgruntlement of it being the shortest ...

By Margot Wallström IPS Guest Writer STOCKHOLM, Sweden March 7, 2017 (IPS) — Lately, the world has tended to present itself in increasingly darker shades. In many places, democracy is questioned, women’s rights are threatened, and the multilateral system that ...

By Yvonne Sam PRIDE Columnist MONTREAL, Quebec March 8, 2017 — Today is International Women’s Day (IWD), the special day we celebrate how much women have achieved. We celebrate the various ways that women have advanced in various careers and ...

By Akinwumi Adesin IPS Guest Writer Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, March 6, 2017 (IPS) — International Women’s Day (IWD) is an important opportunity to celebrate the achievements of women and to be bold in promoting gender parity. Our world would be ...

By Jomo Kwame Sundaram IPS Guest Writer KUALA LAMPUR, Malaysia March 3, 2017 (IPS) — Unlike Wikileaks and other exposes, the Panama revelations were carefully managed, if not edited, quite selective, and hence targeted, at least initially. Most observers attribute ...

By Yvonne Sam PRIDE Columnist Tuesday, February 28, 2017 — It’s been a long time coming but a change has finally come. The seemingly impossible became possible and right smack bang during Black History Month, almost like a long awaited ...

Editor: I am a retired Peel Board teacher. So, as my response to the Peel Board’s community forums to get feedback on We Rise Together, the Board’s action plan to support black male students, I submitted the following recommendations as ...

By Yvonne Sam PRIDE Columnist “Sheila is crazy” or “Joseph is a little off.” Yes, we have all heard people utter such statements in reference to someone we know, or we have even made them ourselves. The unfortunate fact is ...

By Yvonne Sam PRIDE Columnist As a preliminary step, before delving into this somewhat charged topic, it is useful to define racial profiling, as the Canadian populace, in general, use the term to mean different things. For this editorial, I ...