youth Archives | Amílcar Sanatan

What Happens When Violence Kills Learning?

Posted on March 28, 2016March 1, 2020 by amilcarsanatan

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, 2016March 1, 2020 by amilcarsanatan

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, 2016March 1, 2020 by amilcarsanatan

“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 […]