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A Book-Filled Week Begins! The Kingston Book Festival, March 1 – 7, 2015
Today is March 1, the beginning of a full week of books, writers, readings and discussions. Yes, Kingston Book Festival begins today. Jamaican writer Roland Watson-Grant at a book session last summer....
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International Women’s Day: There Is Much On Our Minds
International Women’s Day is an important date on the calendar. Perhaps never more important than this year, when the increased danger for our most vulnerable women and girls is on our minds right now....
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It’s Beijing Plus Twenty, and Caribbean Women Feel Betrayed
Beijing, China, September 1995. At the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, the theme was: “Action for Equality, Development and Peace.” Twenty years later, is the Caribbean any nearer to...
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Has CARICOM gone backwards? The Rights of our Children Are Not Being Protected
This powerful letter is written by Joan Grant Cummings, a member of Caribbean Dawn and the 51% Coalition in Jamaica. Among the most recent cases, we must also remember the murder of Santoya Campbell...
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Celebrating Women…At Home, Abroad and in Twitterland
So, Sunday was International Women’s Day 2015. The solar-powered plane took off on its first round-the-world flight, and I followed its adventures via social media. A pedigree dog at Crufts Dog Show in...
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The Destruction of Paradise is Ongoing
On September 1, 2014 I wrote a blog post entitled: “The Systematic Dismantling of Paradise: A Preliminary Checklist.” Well, here is an update. Six months later, the dismantling continues, unabated. If...
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JET Concerned About Health Impacts of Yet Another Fire at Riverton
Once again, the Riverton City dump is on fire. It started yesterday and most of the city of Kingston is affected. Our health is at great risk. I am staying home with windows and doors closed. Several...
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Prime Minister Gives Directives for Coordination of Efforts to Extinguish...
Overnight last night, the smoke from the fire at Riverton City worsened. Even with all windows and doors closed and quite some distance from the dump (no, it is not a landfill) we were choking. For...
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Murdered Children, The Recurring Riverton Nightmare, and the Elite Picnic in...
The past couple of weeks have been intense. My apologies for the unanticipated hiatus. We had a fairly major break-in at our yard, which was unnerving, and the repercussions have been painful. We are,...
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Digicel Foundation and NBA Legend Rick Fox Open First Special Olympics...
Digicel Foundation, as I have noted from time to time, is engaged in an extremely worthwhile project to strengthen institutions large and small that focus on Jamaicans with special needs. Last...
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Bookish Things: The Lignum Vitae Writing Awards Are Up and Running
I am trying to catch up on all the happenings of the past few weeks. Most importantly, as I backtrack furiously, was the launch last month of the Lignum Vitae Writing Awards. In the comfortable...
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Joint Statement of Civil Society Groups Concerning the Repeated Fires at the...
Yesterday afternoon (March 17), a group of concerned individuals representing a wide range of civil society, non-governmental and private sector organizations gave a press briefing at the office of the...
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A Contract Ended, An Embarrassing Interview and A Presidential Visit:...
As I opened the door just now, the aroma of chemical-laden smoke wafted in. I quickly shut it again, and am now sealed in the house. Yes, as of this afternoon (and a week after it started) the fire at...
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Documentary Film “Miss Representation” Examines Media Images of Women
The way women are portrayed in traditional media (and now, I dare say, in social media) has been the subject of complex and often heated debate around the world for decades. In Jamaica and across the...
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The Coral Reefs of the Portland Bight Protected Area are in “Reasonable...
When my father first went snorkeling in Jamaica many years ago, he compared the experience to peeping into a “wonderland” of glowing color. He was thrilled to bits. What of the coral reefs in the...
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Daryl in a Dust Mask, Darth Vader at the Dump and Hurry up, Easter: Sunday,...
I think Jamaicans will be glad to reach the Easter holiday; some will enjoy the Carnival festivities, others the traditional Easter bun and cheese. But we Kingstonians need a break. We have had enough...
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Professor Verene Shepherd at the UN: Let’s Learn From History on Racial...
I almost missed this, but for those who did – March 21 was the UN International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, to be followed by a week of awareness. As UN Secretary General Ban...
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The Lawyers Are Busy, The Fire Smolders and a Speech is Interrupted:...
Well, what a week it’s been. Blustery weather (figuratively and literally) and our dry stretch continues. And the smoke, you may ask? Smoke? Well, since you asked… The more things change…A hilltop view...
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“One Law, One Justice for All”: The NIA’s Trevor Munroe At Spanish Town...
Last Sunday, March 22, 2015, Founder and Executive Director of National Integrity Action Professor Trevor Munroe spoke to a huge crowd of church members – men, women and children – who rally once a...
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Coral Reefs, Fish and People: More Thoughts on the Portland Bight Protected Area
I wrote recently about the 2014 assessment of the coral reefs in the Portland Bight Protected Area (PBPA) (including several sites around Goat Islands, which are threatened by a transshipment port...
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