Mass Weddings – Mary Morris Knibb
In the 1940s and 1950s mass weddings constituted a campaign to reduce high rates of illegitimacy and were spectacular public rites of accessing citizenship. These weddings were attended by prominent public …
“Out of many,one people” – actual or aspirational in respect to Asian Jamaicans?
There were moments in my youth and in my early adult life when I heard it said that the problem in Jamaica was never about racism but one that was, more …
The Burning Deck
By the time you read this, general election results would be known and I have no way of knowing the results as I am writing on the day after the final …
Yield… Be Responsible!
“If you cyah hear you must feel” ….”Who cyah hear will feel”…. “If you don’t listen you will not learn”. These Jamaican colloquial statements are understood by many children and grandchildren …