[Previous entry: "Jamaica's National Security Strategy"] [Next entry: "Clarke, Watergate Echoes Prompt Rare Bush Reversal"]

03/31/2004:

"Shackled to the past trapped in the present"

THE ENSLAVEMENT of our people for almost four centuries destroyed our ethnic, national and social identities. Many of the problems we face such as underachieving males, interpersonal violence, fragmented social systems, dysfunctional family patterns and a preponderance of single female-headed households are part of the psychosocial legacy of slavery and are experienced by many post-slavery societies.
www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20040331/health/health1.html