Hall rivalry and violent clashes among university students in Ghana
Halls of residence are standard features of universities globally. That practice is salutary since it effaces one of the main difficulties encountered by many students,…
No confidence in Jamaica’s crime management
The recently conducted Don Anderson RJR/Gleaner poll has revealed that more than 90 per cent of Jamaicans surveyed have expressed no confidence in either the…
Deputy Mayor of Montego Bay needs education on migration
On 24 May 1947, the British flagged steamship, Empire Windrush, sailed from the Kingston Harbour carrying 492 Jamaican passengers (491 men and one woman disguised…
Relevance of the first Pan-African women’s conference in Ghana 1960
Pan-Africanism has brought together continental Africans and Black Diasporans several times. Pan-Africanism represents the relationship between Blacks on the African continent and Blacks in the…
Britain breeching the UN Conventions on the Rights of the Child by strip searching children
According to Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ‘all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” If there…
The Anglican Church centering the most vulnerable
Between July 26 and August 07, Anglican Bishops and their spouses from around the world gathered at the University of Kent, England to engage in…
Jamaica’s per capita income and independence
Norman Washington Manley in his last address to the People’s National Party reportedly stated, “I say that the mission of my generation was to win self-government…
African sensitivities and the transatlantic slave trade
The act of chattel slavery has been visited over and over again by continental Africans and Black Diasporans; the latter comprising mainly African Americans and…
Celebrating the steel pan our national instrument
Trinidad and Tobago has officially declared August 11, World Steelpan Day (WSD) in the City of Port of Spain. According to the Deputy Mayor, the…
Ghanaians’ love-hate relationship with marijuana
The Parliament of Ghana adopted a law that makes it legal to grow cannabis or marijuana which is generally called wee, ganja, ntampi, indian hemp,…