Loading ... Loading ... Loading ... Loading ...
In this my third and final article in a series about Rick Wayne’s Lapses & Infelicities, I will refer to the author as Rick and the former prime minister Dr Kenny D. Anthony by his first name, based on my historical association with and proximity to both gentlemen. In that regard, I offer apologies—to no [...]
Rape, love, abortion, domestic violence and top it off all with the consequences of being trapped in a black skin—it’s the black woman’s burden. Ever since Eve took the first bite of the apple, black women have been maligned and blamed for everything that is wrong with the world by—who else—the men they love.
Last weekend, [...]
Written By Canice Pierre
Picture this scene: A teenager wakes up at 2am. because he can’t sleep because of the hunger pangs in his stomach. He goes into the kitchen, tosses a bag of popcorn into the microwave, waits five minutes, takes it into the living room, turns on the TV, scans through 100 channels, doesn’t [...]
During the week of 8th August 2010, the Labour Party called for the resignation of Guy Mayers, Minister of National Security. That is not unusual because the UWP’s tenure has been beleaguered by incessant calls for government ministers to resign (Ausbert d’ Auvergne, Nicholas Frederick, Richard Frederick, Keith Mondesir, Guy Mayers and Allen Chastanet). In [...]
My 81-year-old grand-mother and I were sitting in the enclosed backyard of her house one cool evening, smoking some marijuana recently and I asked her what she would do if the police, SSU in fact, comes calling to sniff out her healthy pots of pot. With steady near wrinkle-free hands, she looked me square in [...]
I fist met Rick Wayne decades ago when I was still in my teens and he was already world famous. The encounter took place at Vigie Beach, near what used to be the Malabar Beach Hotel. In those days, boys from the surrounding areas, from as far as La Pansee, New Village and Morne du [...]
And this too shall pass. These are powerful words which remind us of the finality of life and of all things alike. What do you know? These words this week represent the final in the series of a closeted homosexual.
I am quite sure that there are those who will perhaps shout “halleluiah” and bring out [...]
Governments suffer from a general malaise.
The Reagan era was defined by a kind of contemptuous trickle down economic theory that gave to the rich in the hopes that the poor might get some. The Clinton era was characterized by increasingly reckless prosperity and the Bush era by war.
Governments, like people, are prone to different illnesses [...]
Avast! If your dear Uncle Mark from a land once flowing with milk and honey should offer a fully paid scholarship at an overseas university to the first Saint Lucian to correctly answer just two questions, how would you fare?
Smart cookie that you are, you quickly say: depends on the questions. Okay. So consider the [...]
The so-called scholarships issue offered several lessons, not least of all that we cannot demand that our governments obey the rules while at the same time expecting, no, insisting, that the same rules be modified at our convenience. Pointless arguing whether Saint Lucians, the young in particular, should be afforded every opportunity to prepare for [...]
RSS