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The Caribbean Community regional organization represented by more than a dozen nations has established a Reparations Commission and hired a British human rights lawyer to press the issue of compensation from Britain, France and the Netherlands for what is described as "the lingering impact of the Atlantic slave trade,"………. Caribbean nations prepare demand for slavery reparations The Big Bang of Slavery: What did invasion, conquering, subjugating, genocidal murder, slavery and colonization mean for European and their descendants? For Europeans and their descendants , Slavery was to wealth, what the Big Bang was to the Universe. I look at slavery as a Big Bang of wealth creation. An instant explosion of Wealth that ripples through space and time, creating compounded wealth that transcends generations. The benefits of which is still being felt to this very day by Europeans and their descendants. What did invasion, conquering, subjugating, genocidal murder, sl...

I have always been an opinionated, social and political activist  for as long as I can remember,  I am from a family of opinionated, social and political activist … WHO AM I?  InMyOwnWords   is behind  JamaicanTillIdie !  Who I am, is NOT important. What I have to say is more relevant to me. I write almost everything under the Pen-name “ InMyOwnWords ”. I have been writing with this name long before Facebook was ever invented or thought possible, from the early 1990's. I use to write letters to various news organizations, to ministers of Government and various members of Jamaica’s Political class and so I saw no reason not to continue that tradition when I first created a Facebook account to associate with this blog. My inspiration for creating this pen-name came from the TV show Dark Angel , where Michael Weatherly who played the character Logan Cale an underground cyber-journalist with the alias “ Eyes Only ” fighting for truth and justice. OK ...

For some time now we have been planning our High School Reunion. This year we made a decision that we were not getting any younger and seeing that some of the news we have been hearing about our old high school friends have been too good. We made the decision to have this grand get together over the annual High School Girls and Boys Championship week. Currently we have friends booked to fly in from almost every continent. All landing at different dates and times, so the logistics needs to be worked out and this involves lots of time on the phone, texting, "Whatsapping" and "Facebooking". Who is going to pick up whom and where is every one going to stay and then there is the planning of various get together over the time period. The main date for everything is the final day of the Boys and Girls Championship to be followed by the after party, then on Sunday it will be beach day, fish, festival and beer then finally Sunday night will be Kingston Dub Club get t...

Legacies of British Slave-ownership: Search who got what and how much Some Jamaicans are so desperate trying to identify Jamaica’s “ Oh So Special ” moment in history, trying to identify with something big, great and special from our past that they are now claiming that the period of Slavery was Jamaica’s “ Oh So Special ” moment to be proud of. I often wonder why Jamaica’s half breeds and white population are so willing to identify with the whip hand of slavery, with the plantation slave owners. So quick to sing their praises to the black population, like rubbing salt in the wound of our ancestors. My great, great, great grandfather was Lord Racist Overlord and he owned 300 slaves. Any comparison between wealth generation during the period of slavery and wealth generation today is flawed and should never be made by anyone. To treat the period of slavery as a special time in Jamaica’s history is an insult to humanity and a bigger insult to Jamaica’s black population. To make...