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Jamaica: Get Up, Stand Up

Categories: Caribbean, Jamaica, Elections, Governance, History, Ideas, Law, Music, Politics, Protest

“Next year…Jamaica will celebrate 50 years of being an independent nation, but unless we take Bob Marley's words to heart and emancipate ourselves from mental slavery, our jubilee will represent nothing more than a fleeting, insignificant figure on time's continuum”: Ruthibelle [1] thinks its time for Jamaica to grow up.