Yesterday I passed the Shell petrol station at Manor Park a few hours after it had been damaged by fire. There was a burnt out truck by the pumps and the area was cordoned off with a yellow tape, marked
Police crime scene Do not cross Police crime scene Do not cross
I imagined some kind of [...]
The following is loosely based on a recent local political drama. I’m not going to give any clues because those who recognize it, don’t need them, and those who don’t should be grateful they didn’t witness it.
“What do I look like?” he asked the TV.
With no reply forthcoming, he groaned, “Lord God!”, his head sinking [...]
Best headline of the year so far:
MAN RUN OVER WITH MOTOR CAR, SHOT, ESCAPES
(source: Jamaica Observer)
It’s a fairly typical report of street crime in Jamaica, relying on unsupported interviews with the nearest person at hand, vague and incomplete police statements and victims that disappear, never to reappear.
I’d been scanning the local press since last Friday [...]
I wrote a letter to the Jamaican Gleaner newspaper about an article in yesterday’s edition by Dr Phillip Phinn, prophet and confidant of Jamaica’s Prime Minister.
Why does the Gleaner (10 January) continue to allow “Prophet” Phinn space in its paper for his absurd and pointless ramblings? First he claims divine Christian inspiration in the number [...]
The first is Martin’s Hill dump, two miles outside Mandeville, in central Jamaica; the reason is the grisly week-long search over Christmas by police searching for the remains of the elderly couple, Richard and Julia Lyn, missing from their Mandeville home since 10 December. Sadly on New Year’s Eve, two corpses were found.
The case has [...]
