Problems With Easy Solutions — All That’s Needed Is The Will
Happy 2020 to all, and let us resolve to be a part of the changes that are required by confronting them every day. If we can be relentless and show numbers, …
Oh, just because they can! – The idea of “Might is Right”
There was a time when corporal punishment was part and parcel of our Jamaican school system. It was, perhaps, a holdover from the old British colonial era. It was often abused …
Trapped! Oh Yeah!
When Jimmy Cliff wrote and recorded the song Trapped in 1972, it was about a relationship with a woman, and the influence or spell she had on him that, despite his …
2020 Requires More Than Beating Around The Bush
What a year 2019 has been; what a month December has been; and what a possibility 2020 can be. It requires retrospection, current actions, and future urgent change in order to …
Do The Government And Opposition Want A Police State?
Horace Chang, Minister of National Security, has, it seems, lost faith in the Jamaican state and its various agencies ability to stem the violence which is now at record heights. That …
Promote And Model Peace For Our Children
I work with six to 15 ten-year-olds on a daily basis and older youth, 16 to 21 occasionally. Coming from another country, and having worked with children for almost 15 years, …
Trying Not To Feel Hopeless About Our Health Care System, But It HARRRDD
If I could wave a magic wand, or come into some riches from somewhere; the first thing I would do, is end world hunger and then eradicate the UTTER failure that …
It Sticky Out Deh, Iyah!
As I have said elsewhere I ALSO say here; there is ZERO excuse for an adult to threaten a child; ZERO!!!!!!!!!! Albeit, I am not an educator, I work with schools …
Reviewing Our Markers For The 2030 Goals
I extend my deepest sympathy to the family of the late Rt. Rev. Dr. Alfred Reid a former Lord Bishop of Jamaica and a friend for over 30 years. He was …
That Proposed Gun Amnesty, SOEs And Protecting The Golden Goose
Alex Scott Earlier in the year, the PM had floated the idea of introducing a gun amnesty, this so that the nation can finally rid itself of the scourge of illegal …
Patois – Figet it!
As a product of the ghetto, I grew up in the midst of poverty and violence and among people who were either illiterate or semi-literate but spoke fluent Patois. I took …