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In the late 1970s, Courtney Blackman, an unusually outspoken central bank governor from Barbados, unleashed a strong public critique of UWI social scientists, asserting that the academics produced...

The Jamaica Observer’s Entertainment Desk continues with the 37th of its biweekly feature looking at seminal moments that have helped shape Jamaica over the past 60 years. Fools saying in their he...

Whatever happened Yesterday, The UWI will still be there Tomorrow! May 1, 2021 Chronicles Of A Chronic Caribbean Chronicler By Earl Bousquet WHENEVER I sang along when the song ‘Silence is Golden’ played on our radio at home while growing-up in Faux-a-Chaux, the ancient mariner and survivor of two world wars in my father would tell me, ‘Silence is golden in peace time, but not in war!’ I remembered that sort of eerie (and suspenseful) silence when I sat Thursday morning to pen this colu...

Emmanuel Charles Cadet March 8, 2021 Early  Years Charles Cadet was born in Castries, Saint Lucia on December 16, 1924. His father, Gerald Cadet, was an offspring of one of Saint Lucia’s early advocates of political advancement, who served on the Castries Town Board (now the Castries City Council) for several decades in the early part of the twentieth century. Emmanuel D. Cadet was also a member of the Castries Vestry of the Roman Catholic Church. The Cadet Pavilion at Victoria Park (now Min...