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By: Euen Herbert-Small
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A vulnerable, neurodivergent Black academic was subjected to an extraordinary public hounding, and the human cost of that campaign cannot simply be brushed aside.
Professor Jason Arday is dead at just 41. Only days before his death, he said that relentless accusations, speculation and public commentary had taken a “profound toll” on him.
JamRadio extends its deepest condolences to Jason Arday’s family, friends, colleagues, students and all who loved him. Arday was found unresponsive at an address......
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Prime Minister Gaston Browne has triggered an extraordinary constitutional confrontation after threatening an unnamed sitting judge with deportation over sentences he considers too lenient — prompting condemnation from lawyers and senior judges across the Caribbean.
Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne is facing a growing regional backlash after publicly warning a serving judge of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court that he could be forced out of the country if he continued handing down sentences Browne considered inadequate.
The extraordinary warning came as the Prime Minister......
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A white British woman walks into a drill session and starts spitting dancehall lyrics like she has something to prove. Within seconds, the room changes. Now reactions from Vybz Kartel, Kwame McKenzie and 1MelloVibes are turning Tasha into one of the most unexpected viral newcomers in dancehall.
Natasha Richardson, better known as Lovefromtashaxo, or simply Tasha — begins dropping bars in this viral video, and that's when the joke stops. She doesn't cautiously feel her way around the riddim or throw in a few Jamaican phrases for effect. She goes straight at it with rapid delivery, patois, attitude......
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Donald Trump was secretly moved to another aircraft after a reported Iranian missile threat, while journalists and White House staff continued aboard the presidential jet used as a decoy—raising questions about their safety, presidential courage and who carries the human cost of war.
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Donald Trump climbed the steps of the familiar blue-and-white presidential aircraft in full view of television cameras as he prepared to leave Turkey following the NATO summit. But the president did not remain aboard.
According to an investigation by The Washington Post, Trump and......
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The chairman of the CARICOM Reparations Commission says the Caribbean and Africa Union have forged an enduring alliance, as Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama calls for historical truth, justice and economic emancipation.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica — Professor Sir Hilary Beckles has declared that CARICOM and Africa will “forever speak with one voice on reparations”, presenting the growing alliance between the Caribbean and the African continent as a permanent political commitment rather than a temporary diplomatic arrangement.
Sir Hilary made the powerful declaration on......
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“We Will Fight for Reparations — But We Will Not Wait”: Dr Umar Johnson Calls for Global Black Organisation in Brixton
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The Pan-African speaker used his keynote address at Brixton’s Afrikan Reparations Day rally to urge African-descended communities to organise across borders, finance their own institutions and pursue liberation without waiting for governments to deliver justice.
“We will fight for reparations — but we will not wait.”
It was the declaration that defined Dr Umar Johnson’s keynote address in Brixton: reparations must......
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Britain’s first Black woman MP has had the Labour whip restored following a second suspension. Her return closes another turbulent chapter in her relationship with the party, while restoring one of Parliament’s most persistent voices for victims of the Home Office Windrush scandal.
Diane Abbott has been formally readmitted to the Labour Party and has had the Labour whip restored in the House of Commons, ending more than a year in which the veteran Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP sat as an independent.
Labour said the decision followed a disciplinary process conducted under party rules and approved by......
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Andy Burnham has officially become the United Kingdom's new Prime Minister after meeting King Charles III at Buckingham Palace, where the King invited him to form a new government following the resignation of Sir Keir Starmer.
Burnham now becomes the seventh UK Prime Minister in just 10 years, highlighting a decade of political instability that has left many voters questioning whether Westminster can provide the long-term leadership the country needs.
The former Mayor of Greater Manchester enters Downing Street with a reputation for championing regional investment, social justice and greater......
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Two Jamaican nationals deported from the United States to St Kitts and Nevis under controversial third-country national agreement have reportedly decided to remain in the country.
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Jamaica’s Ministry of National Security confirmed that checks were conducted after it learned that two of its citizens had been sent to St Kitts and Nevis by the United States.
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According to a report by Television Jamaica, the ministry was subsequently advised that both individuals had chosen to remain in the......
The UK's first Windrush Commissioner has been given oversight of Windrush Schemes but no power to overturn Home Office decisions
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The Government has quietly changed the rules of the Windrush Compensation Scheme, replacing its former oversight figure, "The Independent Person" with Windrush Commissioner Reverend Clive Foster.
The amendment, published on 10 July, states that Foster will now “assure delivery” of the Scheme and may report to the Home Secretary and ministers across the devolved nations of UK.
However, the change gives him no power to decide on claims, overturn Home Office refusals or increase......
