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Maxwell's House: Shame and Scandal ::: John Maxwell ::: Jamaican Journalist & Columnist
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In those days the Mirror was Britain's largest circulation daily with about three or four million sales every day. It was rough, relevant, irreverent and accurate. No one can hope to bribe or twist,. The British journalist;. For, seeing what the man will do,. There's no occasion to.". A Mirror photograph of Air Jamaica aircraft is titled, simply, eloquently "Jet Mule: Air Jamaica has nine services a week to the UK". Now, that's what I call responsible, unbiased, investigative journalism! A further giveaw...
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Maxwell's House: May 2002 ::: John Maxwell ::: Jamaican Journalist & Columnist
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In those days the Mirror was Britain's largest circulation daily with about three or four million sales every day. It was rough, relevant, irreverent and accurate. No one can hope to bribe or twist,. The British journalist;. For, seeing what the man will do,. There's no occasion to.". A Mirror photograph of Air Jamaica aircraft is titled, simply, eloquently "Jet Mule: Air Jamaica has nine services a week to the UK". Now, that's what I call responsible, unbiased, investigative journalism! A further giveaw...
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Maxwell's House: The Battle of Hope Gardens ::: John Maxwell ::: Jamaican Journalist & Columnist
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The Battle of Hope Gardens. Hope Gardens is a very desirable address. Perhaps, after King’s House, Jamaica House and Vale Royal, it must be the most desirable address in all Jamaica. It has been so desirable that for many years, government departments have muscled their way into the gardens, simply by redefining Hope Gardens to their own purposes. They have redefined the gardens to a small sliver of land of about 30 acres - half the size it was in the seventies and a fraction of its true extent. Fast for...
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Maxwell's House: September 2005 ::: John Maxwell ::: Jamaican Journalist & Columnist
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Many, many years ago, when I was a teenager at high school, the local cinema mogul would once or twice a term lend the school a projector and a feature film which had been shown everywhere else. This time the projector worked but the sound didn't. The film was "Whispering Smith", a western epic, starring Alan ladd, then at the height of his stardom, a tough, no-nonsense cowboy. I began to laugh and my fellows, to whom Alan Ladd was a genuine hero, looked at me quizzically. The Cubans do it better. In the...
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Maxwell's House: January 2005 ::: John Maxwell ::: Jamaican Journalist & Columnist
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Can Freedom Wear Jackboots? Elie Weisel, a survivor of the Nazi Holocaust against the Jews, said eloquently: "In those times, those who were in the death camps felt not only tortured and murdered by the enemy, but also tortured and murdered by what they considered to be the world's silence and indifference.". The world is remembering Auschwitz and the Holocaust. It is not paying any notice to the 200-year Holocaust still under way in Haiti. At the UN Holocaust commemoration, Archbishop Cilistino Migliore...
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Maxwell's House: February 2006 ::: John Maxwell ::: Jamaican Journalist & Columnist
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The Battle of Hope Gardens. Hope Gardens is a very desirable address. Perhaps, after King’s House, Jamaica House and Vale Royal, it must be the most desirable address in all Jamaica. It has been so desirable that for many years, government departments have muscled their way into the gardens, simply by redefining Hope Gardens to their own purposes. They have redefined the gardens to a small sliver of land of about 30 acres - half the size it was in the seventies and a fraction of its true extent. Fast for...
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Maxwell's House: July 2006 ::: John Maxwell ::: Jamaican Journalist & Columnist
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Even the notoriously noncommittal Kofi Annan must have been surprised when a journalist questioned his credentials for refereeing the current Mideast free-for-all. At a press conference in Rome after the failed Middle East peacekeeping talks, an English-speaking journalist drove hard at Mr Annan. Didn't the UN secretary-general think that his condemnation of Israel for deliberately bombing the UN position undermined his qualifications to be an honest broker in the conflict? Israel's frustration is showing.
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Maxwell's House: March 2004 ::: John Maxwell ::: Jamaican Journalist & Columnist
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Our Debt is Long Past Due. The Caribbean has now proven that it is even more hopeless at diplomacy than it is at cricket. And, as in cricket, those who are considered guilty are not those at the top but the foot-soldiers. Our gutless leaders - unable to look a principle in the face - are, as I write on Friday, busy selling the Haitian people down the river. . .again. Condoleezza Rice has apparently threatened Jamaica directly, telling Patterson to get rid of Aristide or face unspecified consequences.
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Maxwell's House: December 2004 ::: John Maxwell ::: Jamaican Journalist & Columnist
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At least one of my readers is under the misapprehension that last week I was praising the Government's human rights record. I was doing no such thing. When I reported Mr Nicholson's claims it was because I thought that most of us would have been vividly aware of the truth: when it comes to human rights, this Government is nowhere to be found. While Mr Nicholson boldly spoke about the Government's adherence to the Protocol on Fundamental Rights and Freedoms (part of the Universal Declaration of Human Righ...