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 →

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 →

If A Gay Man Screams In The Caribbean, And A White Man Isn’t There To Hear Him, Has He Still Made A Sound?

On the Matter of Trees You know of course the philosophical question I am punning on – the tree that Continue reading →

Mel Cooke Misses The Point Again

Apologies if today’s blog doesn’t address as wide an audience as I might usually address. I am talking mostly to 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 →