Citizens Mobilize
Public outcry has grown in recent months about unplanned, unregulated building developments across the Kingston Metropolitan Area. The face of the city’s suburbs is changing rapidly as single-family houses are being …
The warning written in water – Part 1
Melissa is not some ‘Mali Gripe an’ Fluxxy Complaint,’ In Jamaican folk speech, few expressions separate the trifling from the tragic as clearly as the phrase “Mali gripe an’ fluxxy complaint.” …
Local and Global, Us and Them
Together, we are groping our way through a time of unprecedented anxiety, distress, and uncertainty. Anxiety in the face of a potentially deadly disease that so far has no antidote. Distress …
Reclaiming Kingston, reclaiming self
How is Kingston to be renewed and revitalized? Most times, responses to this perennial question focus on block and steel renovations and highlight the role the State and large corporations must …
Walking Kingston
In “Walk-Foot People Matter,” I called attention to the systematic mistreatment of citizen-pedestrians. Focusing on citizenship allowed me to emphasize that this is about the core democratic principle of fair treatment. …
Walk-Foot People Matter (Part 2)
In Part 1 of Walk-Foot People Matter, I highlighted the hazardous conditions under which pedestrians are forced to operate, conditions created by the indifference as well as deliberate actions of governments: …
Walk-foot people matter (Part 1)
One might say that nowadays most Jamaicans take the following propositions as axiomatic truths: Not all motorists are “people of quality” (you know that oft-quoted line from the late Rex Nettleford …
Kingston vibes
With Kingston now enjoying a certain celebrity, having been named a Creative City of Music by UNESCO in 2015, it’s useful to reflect on how those of us who live in …