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
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An Immoral Ignorance
1. Yesterday’s Ignorance My paternal great-grandmothers were ignorant women – one more so than the other. They did not mean Continue reading
A Lion in a Den of Daniels
Like almost all modern and clever quotes, ‘I feel like a lion in the den of Daniels’ is often Continue reading
Dear Uncle Brendan (and Auntie Kay), can we talk about our island, and how buggered things have become?
1. Because Sometimes We Cannot Hear Each Other The last time I went to a church service was Continue reading
Jamaican Politics: Making Unlikely Mascots out of Dogs and Faggots
Perhaps the most dubious endorsement for Jamaica’s new Prime-Minister Elect, Portia Simpson-Miller, came from a woman who proudly declared, Continue reading
Contradictory Instructions: Elephant Man’s 2001 ‘Log On’
[Day 2 of my week of reggae blogging] Elephant Man’s 2001 hit ‘Log On’ has always seemed to me to Continue reading
Under the Saltire Flag 