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Current Affairs, Troubles
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Barbados Police competence, brutality, in spotlight as ‘wrongful’ rape charges explode in worldwide news “Signed confession after suffocated and beaten by police” “Rachel Turner, 30, and Diane Davies, 63, are adamant that Derick Crawford, 48, was not the man who attacked them in Barbados. Mr Crawford said he was overseas at the time of ...
My Wildest Dream I must write this down, before I forget. I got up yesterday morning and told my husband, “Dear, I dreamed about giant crabs.” Now, one of my favorite films is called “Dreams” (Yume). Directed by the iconic Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa in 1990, the film has just the right combination of surreal images, discordant messages, and troubled emotions [...]
Literate mobs: UWI’s 2006 Brush with Gay Lynching In which i resurrect my 2006 Herald column written on the occasion of the near lynching of a suspected gay man by a mob of 2000 UWI students...
Sunday Sighs: November 4, 2012 Perhaps it is exhalation, rather than sighs. The island is (mostly) recuperating from Hurricane Sandy, and the general consensus is that things could have been worse. For some, however, life post-Sandy is still fairly grim. Those at the eastern end of the island, where the infrastructure was already in pretty bad shape, are really suffering. [...]
Utech Beating, Jamaica, Homophobia and Backra Massa’s Legacy me not so few words on the matter Filed under: is a yaad ting, is it me?, things that piss me off, vlog, wah yu tink?, yaaaaasssssss, yardstyle
Gay Bashing in Jamaica a national policy? There is no agenda for change in relation to attitudes towards homosexuals in Jamaica, in effect this resulted in the beating of allegedly gay student on the University of Technology campus. 