Ria Bacon: editor & writer

Linguist with wanderlust,
From the hills of New Guinea to the halls of the Sorbonne,
From the beaches of Bassam to the fields of Friesland,
From the catacombs of Rome to the Blue Mountains of Jamaica.
From the heather of the Veluwe to the dust of Dakar ...

Currently resident in the Land of Sea with a small tribe of kids and Mr B.

FYI

Stet means "Let it stand" and is used by editors to indicate that the original text should be left untouched.

...in Arcadia ego is a pun on a painting by Poussin.

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View from the hills

If you are patient enough for the panorama to load (1.42MB; need free Quicktime player?), you’ll see a view from the northern foothills looking south towards Kingston harbour. You can move the panorama using the controls indicated in the bar at the bottom, or just click and drag the image around. You may also notice in

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Between a rock and a hard place

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  • trevor "semfer fi "

    It’s my hope more will be done to help the homeless and mentally ill in Jamaica.

    I will never complain about sleeping on an uncomfortable bed again.

    Could not help noticing the pack of “Craven A” and lighter.

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Jamaica rundown

The opening match of the Cricket World Cup (CWC) 2007 takes place on Tuesday 13 March, at Sabina Park, here in Kingston. Throughout the last year, the complaints and criticisms of the organization of the event have dominated all discussions about the World Cup — lack of Internet access for pre-booking tickets, closure of public roads

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  • Hi,

    Sorry for posting this in your comments section but I couldn’t find a contact link.

    My name is James. My team and I just finished building a website for social search (classified ads and social networking) aimed at smaller markets and Jamaica is our first country to launch! Basically, we’ve built an amazing site with plenty of features that looks great and we’ve done it for people that normally end up being ignored by top web developers. Most top web developers target the US or Europe and the smaller markets are left with poorly designed sites. Not anymore! Hopefully you like the site and tell your friends about it so my experiment in web developing doesn’t go wrong :-) Sorry I hope this email doesn’t seem like spam. I just thought getting in touch with local Jamaican bloggers would be a great way to start our campaign.

    So please come visit the site. redeparede.com.jm

    … and don’t forget that it’s brand new so we are still working out the bugs.

    Regards,

    James

  • Ria

    I guess you belong to redeparede.com from Brasil, launched 18 months ago. So not so new or innovative.

  • [...] North Street marks the top of the grid layout of downtown Kingston, running west from South Camp Road, where I took another photo recently. [...]

  • You are right, the site redeparede.com launched in Brasil in December 2005. However our new family of sites launching across Latin America and the Caribbean is a totally new site, code and idea designed from the ground up to offer people a more secure and sensible alternative to free anonymous classifieds online. The only thing we kept the same is the name. Did you see the site? redeparede.com.jm We have a redirection bug currently so don’t put a www on the front otherwise you will be redirected to the old site (which you are right is not very innovative or new being a craigslist knockoff) I hope you give us a chance to impress you over the coming months and year.

    James

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One step forward, two steps back

The first item on the 8 o’clock news on CVM TV this evening was the parliamentary committee debate on the Offences Against the Person Act, in particular, marital rape. This might seem like old news in other parts of the world, but here in Jamaica, there remain laws left over from Victorian times that are only

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  • [...] A parliamentary committee debate on the Act that governs martial rape in Jamaica proves blogger Ria Bacon’s point that “ratifying and adopting are easy; actually implementing change is more of a challenge.” Bacon recounts how a remark by a senior member of a leading women’s NGO restores reason to the debate, while setting the stage for the Attorney General to employ some shockingly unscientific terminology. Georgia Popplewell [...]

  • [...] A parliamentary committee debate on the Act that governs martial rape in Jamaica proves blogger Ria Bacon’s point that “ratifying and adopting are easy; actually implementing change is more of a challenge.” Bacon recounts how a remark by a senior member of a leading women’s NGO restores reason to the debate, while setting the stage for the Attorney General to employ some shockingly unscientific terminology. [...]

  • I will definitely agree with you on this one!

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Relookage

With odds of 7 to 1, you might be surprised by a minor relookage, as the French say, in the form of a new header image. The odds come from a random image rotator, scripted by PhotoMatt, drawing on seven different header images.

Only thing is … the images seem reluctant to change with each reload.

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