Postlapsarian PNP: After the fall from grace

Friday, September 28th, 2007

The recent general election in Jamaica was a close run between the People’s National Party, in power for 18 years, and the Jamaica Labour Party. While at least one of the sixty seats remains to be decided by the courts, the JLP still managed to squeeze past the incumbents with a four-seat majority.
Politically motivated violence […]

Relookage

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

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 […]

Sandblaster Beauty Salon

Sunday, March 4th, 2007

“OK, Mrs Musgrave. I think we’ve done as much as we can down here. Perhaps you’d like to step upstairs for our new innovation in skin rejuvenation …”

Statutory rape ha-ha

Monday, November 27th, 2006

17-year-old sentenced to 3 years probation
for carnal abuse
Judge tells him to skip Biology lessons for a while
Paul Henry
Justice Lloyd Hibbert made the comment after Attorney-at-Law Jean Barnes informed him that her client - a former Calabar High School student - was furthering his studies.
As Barnes mentioned the subjects her client was pursuing at his new […]

Jamaican grass

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

At the swimming lesson, a group of kids were jumping up and down, waving their hands in the air and shouting,
“Uncle Mark! Uncle Mark! Can I drown next, pleeease?”
They were practising life-saving.
After that moment of excitement, my attention was drawn to the sound of the lawnmower … and the sight of Doctor “Cutty” McQueen […]