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Please Let Us Save Nuh Dutty Up Jamaica! A Plea from Jamaica Environment Trust
Last night I attended the première of a short documentary produced by the Jamaica Environment Trust (JET), highlighting three communities that have benefited (and remain involved with) the Nuh Dutty Up...
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“God help me!”
This moving piece is written by my Twitter friend for years – erudite, serious but often funny, too. An Aries like me, and we are on the same “wavelength” – whatever and wherever that is. This is about...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Favourite Place
I nearly missed this Weekly Photo Challenge. However, it’s never too late to tell you about a favourite place, is it? Home in Kingston is always going to be my favourite place. But there are also some...
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Nuh Bodda Drive and Kill Unnuself Over Di Easter Enuh!
It’s Good Friday, and someone posted on Twitter: Nuh bodda drive and kill unuself over d Easter enuh, guidance* This is really the essence of the National Road Safety Council’s holiday press release,...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Rise/Set
This week’s Weekly Photo Challenge is Rise/Set. The sun, that is, our daily companion. Since I am a night owl, I am much more likely to witness the ending of the day than the beginning. Tropical...
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Reshuffling, Rousing Up and Reading Reports: Jamaica on April 2, 2018
It’s April 1, and I got fooled by one or two tweets today! Also, of course for those who celebrate it, it’s Easter Day. Large quantities of bun and cheese are being eaten, as I write. I am trying to...
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Buzzing With Opportunities: Investment in Beekeeping
It’s not just about honey. It’s about the many delicious, healthy and healing products that can derive from bee products. Bees, we know are amazing creatures, and under threat across Europe and the...
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“Or Does It Explode?” On the 50th Anniversary of Martin Luther King’s Death
On the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s death, much has been written and spoken. I am sharing with you the words of my Twitter friend – a young American man. Because I do not share his...
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ROCK Is Rocking…Or Bouncing, With Optimism
“Yours in Optimism…” As you are pondering over the title of this post, this might give you a clue. Yes – ROCK stands for the Royal Optimist Club of Kingston. Established on September 29, 2011, it has...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Smile Jamaica
Smile Jamaica is a song by Bob Marley, which I really like. “Smile” is the topic for this week’s Photo Challenge. The song is rather low-key. It sounds like a conversation between Bob (who is “feeling...
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Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica Wins Two International Muse Creative Awards
I have always enjoyed the Broadcasting Commission’s ads. The Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica is the regulatory body with responsibility for radio, television and cable services in Jamaica. In their...
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Winnie
Winnie Mandela has been on my mind, all week. I campaigned against apartheid in my student days at Oxford. It was my cause, my Number One Cause (although there were others – it was, after all, during...
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Return Endangered Native Parrots from Germany to Dominica! Please Sign the...
There has been a worrying development in bird conservation in the Caribbean recently. On March 17, two Sisserou (Imperial Parrots Amazona imperialis) and ten Jaco (Red-necked Parrots Amazona arausiaca)...
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Letter to the UN Environment Programme Expresses Concern Over Transfer of...
Here’s an update on the petition, which I shared in my last blog post. Eleven conservation organisations have signed an open letter to the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme...
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The JCF and Accountability: A Policeman Speaks Out; and Three Opportunities...
There are so many important issues and concerns wrapped up in this blog post. Let’s see some action, please (and I would like to see our new Police Commissioner on Twitter!) Thank you, Susan, as usual....
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Awakening
Well, we don’t really have a “spring” in the tropics, so the whole concept of renewal is a little bit redundant. Yet, there are signs of change – the main one being that it simply gets hotter. I have...
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Rest
This is a sad post from my dear blogger friend in Ecuador. Her posts are always filled with beautiful photographs of nature and people (remember COPYRIGHT, please). I would recommend you follow it as a...
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Prolific: Producing Plenty
The word “prolific” for me conjures up a great deal of production of stuff – whether flowers, books, paintings etc. Or perhaps, for myself – I am quite a prolific writer these days. I write on two...
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Photo Challenge: Lines, Or In the Case of the Monkey, Between Them
I don’t care for straight lines much, but I do love perspective in photographs. Lines converging. There are a couple of such photographs here (including a few that I took in Sri Lanka last year).
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My apologies, dear readers, for neglecting this space in the last week or two. Events have overtaken me! However, I have been busy writing elsewhere. You can find me on the Gleaner’s blog pages here...
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