Interdisciplinary Caribbean Artist, Educator and Activist
I asked for directions to a school I was invited to speak in. After being guided, I was told, “yuh cyah miss it, the wall high like a prison!”. As I entered the school, the security guards wanted to know the purpose of my visit. I explained the reason I was there and the name […]
Continue ReadingYuh eva eat food and talk recession? Pick seasonin in yuh front yard and reason about the economy? Then Jean-Claude tell me dis: “Linked to the idea of youth is that someone is there to look after you. I think the nation is entering a general phase of adulthood where children are asking themselves questions […]
Continue Reading“How many rivers do we have to cross before we can talk to the boss? All that we’ve got, seems we have lost we must have really paid the cost.” – Bob Marley, Burnin and Lootin If yuh think the shooting of Denelson Smith and Mark Richard does not affect you because your particular class […]
Continue ReadingDo not apologise, Chris. Cricket is a sport that reserves commentary to expert journalists and legendary (male) players. But Mel McLaughlin is beautiful. Mel is also a woman. So it is okay for you not to do your job when she is doing hers. It is okay for you to deny her a professional interview […]
Continue ReadingIn 2013 Hugo Chavez died. In 2015, is Chavismo dead too? For the first time in sixteen years, the PSUV has lost control of the National Assembly since the establishment of the nationalistic socialist revolution that excited the popular masses of a crumbling Venezuela. An important lesson that emerged from the election result, in which […]
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