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By James A. Russell Guest Writer WASHINGTON, DC (IPS) – Russia’s storming of the Ukrainian naval base in Crimea just as Iran and world powers wrapped up another round of negotiations in Vienna, last week, represent seemingly contradictory bookends to ...

Dwain Wellington Rattray Pride Contributing Editor The steady spate of sexual assaults in Toronto have left me wondering what causes a person to visit violence upon another. Myriad speeches are given and voices ring out in rage when we address ...

Editor: Greetings! I would be grateful if you permit me to reply to an article you published describing me as “wrong-headed” recently. Jamaica’s National Movement which is the subject of my upcoming book We Come From Jamaica, was a quarter ...

By Rupert Johnson The Toronto election is seven months away and once again we have already been bombarded with the customary litany of squalid personal allegations and character assassinations. The wild frenzy associated with the mayoral race is not unprecedented, ...

Dwain Wellington Rattray Pride Contributing Editor There are those among us who are not-so-fondly labeled as Grammar Nazis or the Grammar Police. Eyes are rolled and quiet sneers of derision follow, when corrections or comments are made concerning correct language ...

Booker T. Washington once said, “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” More poignant words have never been spoken, as life itself ...

By Rupert Johnson I was certainly taken aback by Ewart Walters’ characterization of Sir William Alexander Bustamante, first Prime Minister of Jamaica, in his book: We Come from Jamaica—The National Movement 1937-1962. In this book, Walters not only portrayed Bustamante ...

By Lincoln Depradine Pride Contributing Writer One can get a sense of who – and what – are important to political leaders and candidates seeking electoral office, by listening to their campaign speeches. We are in the political season in ...

Dwain Wellington Rattray Pride Contributing Editor Make a vision board, carry a compass in your pocket, send yourself daily emails – whatever you do, strive to convert your dreams into reality. If you remember nothing else from this article, remember ...

By Dwain Wellington Rattray Pride Contributing Editor   Roses aren’t always red, Violets aren’t only one shade of blue And monsters lurking in the dark Live in the real world hiding in plain sight. Who can understand the mysteries of ...