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Richard Blackford - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia
Aug 24, 2012
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Richard Blackford’s The Better Angels Of Our Nature takes centre stage in our Digital Concert Series this week. Taking its inspiration from Abraham Lincoln’s inspirational pleas for reconciliation in his 1861 inaugural address, it is performed here by our very own Principal Oboist, Steven Hudson. ⭐️ https://bbc.in/3mPWuIL --- The Better Angels Of Our Nature gan Richard Blackford sy’n serennu yn ein Cyfres o Gyngherddau Digidol yr wythnos hon. Daw’r ysbrydoliaeth o araith arlywyddol gyntaf Abraha
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Richard Blackford’s The Better Angels Of Our Nature takes centre stage in our Digital Concert Series this week. Taking its inspiration from Abraham Lincoln’s inspirational pleas for reconciliation in his 1861 inaugural address, it is performed here by our very own Principal Oboist, Steven Hudson. ⭐️ https://bbc.in/3mPWuIL --- The Better Angels Of Our Nature gan Richard Blackford sy’n serennu yn ein Cyfres o Gyngherddau Digidol yr wythnos hon. Daw’r ysbrydoliaeth o araith arlywyddol gyntaf Abraha
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This week, Jamaica quietly crossed a line that could reshape its future. Not with fanfare. Not with a press conference. But with the arrival of a vessel into Jamaican waters; tasked with conducting exploratory test drilling to determine whether oil residues found offshore exist in commercially mineable quantities. If confirmed, this discovery could alter Jamaica’s economic trajectory, its political balance, and even its relationship with the wider world. | Richard Hugh Blackford
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This week, Jamaica quietly crossed a line that could reshape its future. Not with fanfare. Not with a press conference. But with the arrival of a vessel into Jamaican waters; tasked with conducting exploratory test drilling to determine whether oil residues found offshore exist in commercially mineable quantities. If confirmed, this discovery could alter Jamaica’s economic trajectory, its political balance, and even its relationship with the wider world. | Richard Hugh Blackford
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Marley represents cultural genius while the Jamaican flag and its colors represents the Jamaican state. One does not replace or modify the other without careful thought. And so it forces the question with regards to the deeper governance issue. | Richard Hugh Blackford
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Marley represents cultural genius while the Jamaican flag and its colors represents the Jamaican state. One does not replace or modify the other without careful thought. And so it forces the question with regards to the deeper governance issue. | Richard Hugh Blackford
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Keznamdi's win outside of Jamaica wasn't a shocker. What his win did was to expose The same line that David Rodigan, articulated just a few days ago when he said that a lot of the music coming out of Jamaica can't go anywhere, and can barely get past the airport if it succeeds in getting into the airport property. Jamaica have this obsession with hype and, and not necessarily anything that is great or cultural. | Richard Hugh Blackford
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Keznamdi's win outside of Jamaica wasn't a shocker. What his win did was to expose The same line that David Rodigan, articulated just a few days ago when he said that a lot of the music coming out of Jamaica can't go anywhere, and can barely get past the airport if it succeeds in getting into the airport property. Jamaica have this obsession with hype and, and not necessarily anything that is great or cultural. | Richard Hugh Blackford
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As Jamaica charts its recovery from Hurricane Melissa, we have the rare opportunity to lay new foundations; literally and figuratively. But a nation can’t build resilience on temporary structures. And the people who lost everything deserve more than a metal box and a prayer. | Richard Hugh Blackford
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As Jamaica charts its recovery from Hurricane Melissa, we have the rare opportunity to lay new foundations; literally and figuratively. But a nation can’t build resilience on temporary structures. And the people who lost everything deserve more than a metal box and a prayer. | Richard Hugh Blackford
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At the moment of capture, when your body becomes property of the process, deportation trauma has a recognizable opening scene. There's a knock at the door. Before sunrise or an unexpected stop after a traffic matter. Or being summoned to what you thought was a routine. Immigration appointment. | Richard Hugh Blackford
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At the moment of capture, when your body becomes property of the process, deportation trauma has a recognizable opening scene. There's a knock at the door. Before sunrise or an unexpected stop after a traffic matter. Or being summoned to what you thought was a routine. Immigration appointment. | Richard Hugh Blackford
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Please support the Art for Shelter project. Support by clicking https://www.yaawdmedia.com/yardabraawd-art-gallery | Richard Hugh Blackford
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As Jamaicans everywhere wrestle with the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa, something remarkable is happening. Across social media, images flood in from New York, Miami, London, Toronto, and beyond; photos of shipping depots stacked to the rafters with barrels, boxes, and containers filled by Jamaicans in the Diaspora. These scenes, overflowing with generosity and love, evoke a timeless anthem that continues to define Jamaican identity: “This Is the Land of My Birth.” | Richard Hugh Blackf
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Richard Blackford / Ying Huang / Bo Skovhus / Bournemouth Symphony Chorus / Ballard Lane Preparatory School Choir / Bournemouth Sinfonietta - Mirror Of Perfection
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The Corruption train continues without any sign of slowing down as revealed by the Auditor General of Jamaica. #jamaicacorruption #jamaicamix | Richard Hugh Blackford
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Jamaica must prioritize permanent, hurricane-resilient concrete and steel construction if the country is to rebuild smarter, safer, and stronger. | Richard Hugh Blackford
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The cancellation of races Grand Prix exposes two failures that Jamaica has avoided addressing for far too long. The first of these is that the Jamaican business community continues to borrow prestige without reinvesting in the ecosystem that creates it. Jamaica's athletics brand is used endlessly by numerous Jamaican companies in marketing, tourism, national identity. But when it comes to time to write the checks to protect that brand, the silence becomes deafening. | Richard Hugh Blackford
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So you're packing a Hurricane Relief barrel to send to Jamaica....Nuh badda send no 'ol-bruck. | Richard Hugh Blackford
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The JFF believed that importing a coach with a European résumé automatically meant improvement. But coaching Jamaica isn’t about wearing a blazer on the sidelines. It’s about cultural intuition. It’s about belief. It’s about understanding that Jamaican players perform when they feel respected, inspired, and empowered; not when they feel like they’re auditioning for approval. | Richard Hugh Blackford
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People assume deportation comes with a story; and not a flattering one. They assume you failed. They assume you messed up. They assume you wasted opportunity. What they don’t see is that I spent years building a life that fed more than just me. That I carried people quietly. That I made sacrifices they never saw. Now I would be returning without the one thing that justified my absence: the ability to help. | Richard Hugh Blackford
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This moment forces Jamaicans to confront an uncomfortable reality: Jamaica is valued culturally, but not strategically. The United States enjoys Jamaican culture. Jamaican labor. Jamaican compliance. But when policy costs must be paid, Jamaica is expendable. That is not an insult—it is a lesson. | Richard Hugh Blackford
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Can Jamaica rebuild itself while remaining politically fractured? | Richard Hugh Blackford
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Why does this matter? Because free speech isn’t optional in a democracy — it’s foundational. The Jamaican Constitution (Chapter III) guarantees "freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart ideas and information without interference". When leaders signal they will “push back” on certain kinds of speech, they place themselves above that guarantee. | Richard Hugh Blackford
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Now let’s look beyond the unit… and into the economy. Buying a container is a net FX outflow. Building a one room house, nuff people eat as it creates employment. | Richard Hugh Blackford
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Hospitals exist to save the lives of people, not to serve as a cash machine for insiders. If Jamaica is serious about reform, then words are no longer enough. | Richard Hugh Blackford
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Richard Blackford - Voices Of Exile
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Missa B is saying that sending barrels of goods to relatives in Jamaica does not support the redevelopment of communities. Send cash instead. It get there quicker and it stimulates community economic activities. | Richard Hugh Blackford
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The relevance of Pratt and Morgan today lies not in punishment, but in principle. The Privy Council acknowledged that where the State knows its judicial machinery is slow, delay ceases to be neutral. It becomes consequential, and potentially unjust. Seen through this lens, the growing practice of taking the Integrity Commission to court to halt or suspend investigations raises troubling questions. While judicial review is a constitutional right, repeated recourse to an already overburdened court
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Jamaica's current approach to policing is not a success story. It is my view that it is a warning. Let's just put an additional context here. In the first five days of 2026, the Jamaican police have killed another 15 people. This is in addition to the 311 that they disposed of throughout 2025. And that figure alone exposes the core problem, the 15 with just five days in the year, tells you that the state is no longer prioritizing arrest, investigation, and prosecution. What it is doing is that i
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Why does this matter? Because free speech isn’t optional in a democracy — it’s foundational. The Jamaican Constitution (Chapter III) guarantees "freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart ideas and information without interference". When leaders signal they will “push back” on certain kinds of speech, they place themselves above that guarantee. | Richard Hugh Blackford
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At the recent CARICOM community summit in St. Kitts and Nevis, Prime Minister Holness voiced concern about the worsening humanitarian conditions in Cuba. And the statement was measured, diplomatic, [00:23] regionally aligned. but it landed like a thunderclap in Washington. Now, keep in mind that Marco Rubio, the US Secretary of State, has been present at the summit, and the public backlash, though, didn't come directly from the State Department. It came via social media from US Congressman | Ric
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Nearly three years after the collapse of SSL and the revelation of an estimated Ja$3 billion fraud, the public is being asked to applaud what appears to be prosecutorial motion without prosecutorial direction. This latest chapter feels less like justice finally arriving and more like a carefully staged diversion. | Richard Hugh Blackford
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The Men We Become is a moving story about manhood, vulnerability, and second chances, a proof that transformation can happen at just about any age. Pick up a copy for yourself, your dad, your mom, for your friends and share. It's a really heartwarming story. that is told in the inimitable Jamaican style. | Richard Hugh Blackford
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The die is cast on Jamaicans' right to speak freely. And it didn’t happen quietly. It happened with the full force of a government that seems more interested in silencing criticism than in solving the very crisis that’s overwhelming the country. | Richard Hugh Blackford
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