The things I have withheld…

(originally presented on BBC Radio 3 – The Essay/Something I Have Never Talked About Before) I am thinking about Arundhati Continue reading →

Black Panther & Black Pedantry

I got into a bit of an online kerfuffle some weeks ago after a friend posted this simple meme, soliciting Continue reading →

The Parable Of Macaroni: A Weh Andrew Holness A Guh?

Though it had happened some months ago, it was only this week that Macaroni’s Ill-fated drive across a storm-drenched road Continue reading →

9 Minutes in the West Indies: The Story of a Lynching

  In the short-attention span that supposedly defines our contemporary lives, a news story will flash its bright light, capture Continue reading →

Blood On The Door (A Hurricane Story)

The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are; and when I see the blood Continue reading →

Forgiving Etana

So a week has gone, and maybe – just maybe – tempers have calmed. There are more important things to Continue reading →

Mama D & The PNP

The Funeral Whether Mama D and Mama P ever met, I do not know. I could not say for sure. They belonged Continue reading →

Rules is Rules is Rules! Hopefield Preparatory and the Problem of Hair

Several of us have been keenly following the story of little Zavier Assam, banned from attending Hopefield Preparatory in Jamaica Continue reading →