Reflections On Two Different Worlds (Part III)
By Joy Harris-Bailey In 2020, the masses of my adopted country, America, voted out a wannabe totalitarian leader and ushered in someone of the leading opposing party. He vowed to change …
Jamaica Election Day 2025 in Retrospect
Jamaica’s general election for 2025 has come and it has gone. When I look back to the elections of the 1970s, of the 1980s and of the 1990s, I have to …
Of Exits And New Beginnings
Part II The Vicissitudes of Tropical Life Joy Bailey-Harris I love being in cool Irish Town, several miles above the heat and flurry of bustling Kingston. The cool air, the unspeakably …
Of Exits And New Beginnings (Part I) My Journey Home
The feeling started as I watched the cop kneel into his neck. It wasn’t the kneeling. It wasn’t the public lynching. It was the hand in pocket. It was the nine …