We Need Help
ANY country that does NOT look out for the MOST vulnerable among us, is NOT on its way to making it a place to live, work, raise families and do business …
To the political cynics – you cannot have your cake and eat it
The idiom “you can’t have your cake and eat it too” means that a person cannot simultaneously possess an item and consume it. Metaphorically speaking, it means that a person cannot enjoy the …
Years don’t necessarily make for better relationships
Years don’t change bad behaviour. A concerted effort and a resolve to change a behaviour is what usually works. That said, many people stay in bad/sad/toxic/dead-end relationships because they have been …
Breathing while being female is DANGEROUS in Jamaica
“Burnt like a dog” is a mother’s cry, as her innocent 14-year-old girl child goes missing and turns up burnt to death, like an animal. Found in the same area where …
“I Can’t Breathe”
I walked inside my house and wondered at the thick fog that greeted me, and my already struggling lungs registered the smell of something much more than smoke; something so toxic …
Men have feelings too
We tend to, because they don’t talk or cry as much as we do, forget that men are human beings with feelings. Men are often times socialized to be tough; which …
A Woman’s Right to Choose
As at present day; 2018, abortion is still illegal in Jamaica, the Act governing this is the Offences Against the Person Act of 1864; an act based the English Act of …
If you made the time to produce children, then take care of them!
Children don’t stay little forever. There will come a time when they will know, without you telling them about the sperm and egg donors whose total contribution to their existence is …
The “Top Cop”
The position for the “top cop” was apparently deemed only an “acting” position for Novelette Grant, who, like her male counterpart who eventually got the nod, was only months away from …