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		<title>The International Freedom of Expression Forum Censorship and Freedom in Traditional and New Media: The Revolution of Media as a tool of Freedom of Expression (Berlin, February 28th &#8211; March 2nd, 2012)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hume Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from Cultural Diplomacy News: The Cultural Diplomacy News team and the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy are pleased to introduce you to the annual “International Freedom of Expression Forum”.   We are sorry for the inconvenient, but for logistic reasons we have decided to hole the conference in Berlin instead of Rome, as initially planned. The Forum [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=humejohnson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3064348&amp;post=330&amp;subd=humejohnson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can Cultural Diplomacy Lift Jamaica&#8217;s Brand Quality?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hume Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Hume N. Johnson, PhD In her swearing in speech on January 6, 2011, Jamaica’s Prime Minister, Portia Simpson Miller acknowledged, inter alia, that included in her mandate is the imperative to ‘protect the good name of Jamaica at home and in the international community’. Jamaica, she stressed, must remain for all, a quality brand’. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=humejohnson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3064348&amp;post=317&amp;subd=humejohnson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PM should set the tone for peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is my latest assessment of the Jamaican political scene. I was asked what I expected the new Jamaican Prime Minister will discuss at his first Party Conference as Leader of the Jamaica Labour Party and in his first broadcast to the nation as Prime Minister. The substantive article was published in the Jamaica [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=humejohnson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3064348&amp;post=197&amp;subd=humejohnson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Personality Politics in Jamaican Elections</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 01:36:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the emergence of P.J. Patterson, personality related slogan seems to have taken over vis a vis the Manley (Better Must Come) and Seaga (&#8220;Deliverance is Near&#8221;). What does this signify about Jamaican contemporary politics? The above was the question posed by a political reporter at the Jamaica Gleaner. I do not particularly support the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=humejohnson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3064348&amp;post=188&amp;subd=humejohnson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Daunting Task for Jamaica&#8217;s New PM</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 01:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Which will be tougher for Andrew Holness over the short to medium term &#8211; the task of leading the JLP or his role as Prime Minister? This  was the question posed of me by the Jamaica Gleaner recently. This is my response: &#160; _________ Both tasks are tough. Yet an election must first be prepared [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=humejohnson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3064348&amp;post=185&amp;subd=humejohnson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye my mentor and friend, Prof Barry Chevannes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 01:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hume Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[He insisted that I called him ‘Barry’. I couldn’t. I didn’t. My respect for this extraordinary man was too deep, my awe of him too great, my admiration for him too boundless to allow such familiarity. I was a mere 19 year old undergraduate student in 1994 at the UWI, Mona when I met Professor [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=humejohnson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3064348&amp;post=175&amp;subd=humejohnson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When Issues Become Crises: Reggae&#8217;s Delayed Response</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hume Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following my presentation at the recent Reggae Conference on &#8216;Reggae&#8217;s Crisis of Image : What Role for Public Relations and Crisis Management&#8217; and its reproduction in the The Sunday Observer of February 21, 2010, I was invited to discuss the issue on TVJ&#8217;s Morning Time programme. It was an invitation I accepted since it is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=humejohnson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3064348&amp;post=172&amp;subd=humejohnson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reneto Adams: From ‘Bad Man Police’ to Police Commissioner?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You have to be firm. You have to use some force where it is necessary and you have to know how to use it. Civil society has lost control in Jamaica, so you have to have a firm strong personality [referring to the job of Police Commissioner] who knows strategy and tactic and who knows [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=humejohnson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3064348&amp;post=165&amp;subd=humejohnson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Caribbean Nationals Energise North Queensland (Australia)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;That dude with the Rasta head band is Trini&#8221;, the operator of Jamaica Joes restuarant and pub in the North Queensland city of Townsville Australia, American Christopher Haddad, shouted to me in a packed pub of Australians out in numbers to watch the Townsville Air show put on by the Australian Defence Force (Townsville hosts [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=humejohnson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3064348&amp;post=161&amp;subd=humejohnson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dismantling Donmanship in Jamaica: Is it possible and what shall it take?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been reading with great interest the raft of discussions surrounding the potential extradition of Jamaica&#8217;s premier don, &#8216;Dudus&#8217; (aka The President) to the United States to face drug trafficking and weapons smuggling charges. What concerns me is the pervasive thinking, especially by the intellectual class that this somehow would unravel the &#8216;peace&#8217; in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=humejohnson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3064348&amp;post=152&amp;subd=humejohnson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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