My Mother Was A Guidance Counsellor

Norman Allen, the chipmunk-cheeked President-Elect of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association has come out in defense of the islands’ guidance counsellors. Continue reading →

Mel Cooke and the Problem of Point of View

There is a saying in Jamaica – mi throw mi corn, mi nuh call nuh fowl. (I threw my corn, Continue reading →

Dear Uptown Jamaica

This blog will not be accusing you of anything…not really. In fact, I’m writing this as one of you. Yes Continue reading →

Plagiarism in Poetry; Looting in Laventille; Carelessness in the Caribbean

Cases of poetry plagiarism have been rocking the British poetry scene since 2013. The main detective of these crimes – Continue reading →

Crotches, Crotchetiness, and other ‘C’ words: a Concise Compendium for Father Richard Ho-lung

Crotches (n) – or ‘cratches’,  derived from ‘crotch’ the part of the human body between the legs where they join Continue reading →

What Miss Jamaica Missed

And so it happened, the extraordinarily beautiful and humble Kaci Fennell, Jamaica’s contestant in Donald Trump’s intergalactic pageant, was not, Continue reading →

The Brown/White Jamaican and the Right to take Offence

But some of my best friends are Brown It is always hard for Caribbean people to talk about that most Continue reading →

The Sexist Old Boys of Jamaica

Despite the cliché of our strong black women, despite our majority female headed households, despite reggae song after reggae song Continue reading →