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THE EDITOR, Madam: The cut-and-paste copy of the British unwritten constitution for Jamaica to accept is a paradise for the uninformed and a mockingbird for head of state. The Confounding Island: Jamaica and the Postcolonial Predicament by...
Before I travelled to Jamaica last December to become Ambassador of Japan to Jamaica, I asked my predecessor which books I should read to understand Jamaica. He immediately recommended The Confounding Island, by Orlando Patterson in 2019. He was a...
CAPRI’s 2020 study on Jamaica’s violent gangs, Guns Out: The Splintering of Jamaica’s Gangs – https://shorturl.at/ixLX5, repeated the commonly held premise that Jamaica suffers from a “culture of violence”. Ongoing work in the security field has...
“No one sound speaks for all” Jamaicans, the novelist Marlon James says. Here are the books he recommends for readers who want to see the island’s many facets.
In my column 'Stop comparing Jamaica with Singapore', published in the Jamaica Observer on August 2, 2022, I sought to make the simple case that Jamaicans should not be too harsh on th...