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That Public Sector Wage Bill, Bamboo is Cool, and Why So Many Murders This Year? Saturday, January 3, 2015

January 3, 2015

It’s almost the end of the long Christmas/New Year holiday. Many employees of private organizations and NGOs that closed on December 24 will reopen on Monday, January 5. New Year celebrations in our area were somewhat muted but the dog was terrified by the scattering of firecrackers and rockets. A bloody start to 2015: A startlingly … More That Public Sector Wage Bill, Bamboo is Cool, and Why So Many Murders This Year? Saturday, January 3, 2015

Birds and Blood

January 23, 2011

The Petchary is a bird.  It is a visitor to the island of Jamaica, but one from the south, unlike the bright little creatures from the north that populate our garden in the winter months.  And it arrives in the summer.  For the rest of the year, its close relative, the Loggerhead Kingbird, dances noisily … More Birds and Blood

Oil

June 3, 2010

Now, here’s a small word that means so much – too much – to our planet.  And the exploiters and users of it – that’s all of us – owe our planet too much, now.  Far too much. Oil is…slippery, viscous, unctuous, greasy…Unctuous?  It smoothes, it lubricates, it gives off that soft oil lamp glow.  A … More Oil