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If You Believe In The Gods of Cricket

Posted on April 17, 2016April 23, 2025 by Amílcar Sanatan

If you believe in the gods of cricket You honour the old Combermerian Frank Worrell, the first to consolidate the giants together with his popular leadership in ‘58/’59 If you believe in the gods of cricket You can still hear the whispers, Malcolm Marshall continues to overlook Kensington, telling each boy turned fast bowling West […]

What Happens When Violence Kills Learning?

Posted on March 28, 2016April 23, 2025 by Amílcar Sanatan

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 […]

Take a Bow, Jean-Claude

Posted on January 31, 2016April 23, 2025 by Amílcar Sanatan

Yuh 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 […]

Red Pill or Blue Pill? Murders in Laventille

Posted on January 24, 2016April 23, 2025 by Amílcar Sanatan

“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 […]