The Making Of A “Shotter?”
When you live through something, it either leaves you angry at the people and the experience, or it makes you want to delve a little deeper into the whys and ‘hows’ …
‘I and I build the cabin’- 192 years of landlessness and the unfinished emancipation of Jamaica
I and I build the cabin,I and I plant the corn,Didn’t my people before meSlave for this country,Now you look me with a scorn,Then you eat up all my corn. Those …
Jamaican Water Woes
Second to the violence, pollution is, to me, the worst part about living in Jamaica. The air pollution and the physical garbage, or more specifically plastic, is uncomfortable. As someone coming …
The Coronavirus: To Be Forewarned Should Be An Advantage
Science fiction only remains fiction until science proves the facts in an irrefutable way. Over the centuries several religious beliefs; planetary data; the universe; the flat Earth; gravity; and many other …
Public Opinion, The Baptists And The National Movement
A quiet but not too distant presence in the sinews of Public Opinion was the Jamaican Baptist church. It was the Baptists who led the way to emancipation. It was the …
The REAL Ghetto Story?
Having grown up in August Town, in a place called Angola; ‘Gola’ for short, with adjoining areas of the community called “Jungle twelve,” and “Vietnam,” depicting war zones and perpetual fear, …
SOE-Liberty vs Security:Making Victims Of Us All
From a lay person’s point of view, a declaration of a state of public emergency may be a legal provision reserved for given times and circumstances of threatened or actual …
Time To Review The Extended Use Of The SOE
The means cannot become the end without a serious possibility of the condition of a National Security State emerging — with the permanent suspension of rights, often of some more than …
Endangered Species, Or Engendered Leeches?
You lay with him willingly, his seed growing inside you, running around you, the pitter-patter of their little feet trampling an almost sure path to the same place that the man …
Life’s Dilemma
Your life should always be geared towards entering. It should matter not to the actor in the overall grand scheme of things when one enters… for there are constant comings, …
An Opportunity For Radical Paradigm Shifts
Well here we are with the mixed bag update: The CAC letter to Flow seems to have worked partially. Technicians came to remedy the home phone and it is working reasonably …