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.

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

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Direction: Downtown

After last week’s panoramic introduction to downtown Kingston, let’s continue the journey down the major thoroughfare leading south … King Street.

Watch out for the bucket!

This part of the drive always gets me down — I expected all of the downtown neighbourhoods to be bustling hives of criminal activity, but the reality is sadder perhaps, because of

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Cable & Wireless Jamaica

The hiatus since my last post was not (only) due to my lack of time or inspiration, but because Cable & Wireless, owners of the DSL line that I use, cut me off for five days. I had forgotten to pay my phone bill, and ten days later, the line was suspended. I immediately paid the

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  • SAccheen Morgan

    Cable and wireless is really the worst company ever i applied for a telephone line about a year ago and until now i haven’t received it every time i call they tell u something different.

  • Gio

    They’re not that bad, they’ll get it right soon enuff

  • Ria

    They’ve been here over fifty years. How soon is now?

  • Gio

    bleh, that was under some different management
    thats all i can say about that

  • Pam Lawson

    Before hurricane Dean I lost phone service & ADSL. It took four months of non-stop calling (from work) I heard countless different stories as to what was wrong with the line in my area called the OUR (another waste of time) and still had to pay a monthly phone bill or would be disconnected according to CWJ. Nearly $10,000.00 of pretend phone bills I got back the service and the first call was from CWJ to tell me that my next phone bill was due, Now thats what I call service.
    P.S. a month later it went down again and I am still waiting, nor have I received my refund…they are looking in to it. Gotta love them as they do it with style!

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Cross Roads

While other place spellings may vary in Jamaica (Savannah-La-Mar, Savanna-La-Mar or Savanna la mar; Acadia or Arcadia), Cross Roads in Kingston is defiantly two separate words. A few years ago, it was considered to mark the frontier between uptown and downtown Kingston, although these days, one could argue the urban decay is still creeping northwards.

Uptown refers

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Fact of life

Not every ugly duckling grows up to be a swan.

And that’s

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Business as usual

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

Unlike the road to the cricket ground, used by visitors to the cricket world cup, North Road has literally been bypassed. The only sign of improvement is the bright yellow line

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