After I returned from my travels, I saw a headline, a week or two old, about a new Dolphin Cove facility, to be built next to Puerto Seco Beach in Discovery Bay. The beach was recently rehabilitated and turned into a major tourist attraction. I have so many questions and concerns I don’t even know … More Wild Animals Captured for Our Entertainment (and Tourism Dollars)
It was a warm, bright morning. I climbed the two flights of steps crisscrossing the front of the building to the top floor of Liberty Hall (accessibility, anyone?) at 76 Upper King Street in downtown Kingston. Liberty Hall (the Legacy of Marcus Garvey) is a branch of the venerable Institute of Jamaica. As the former … More Are Museums a Thing of the Past?
Cockpit Country is fragile. It remains under threat from bauxite mining, which is pressing around the edges of the declared Cockpit Country Protected Area. Just a month ago, I noted in my news summary: “I fear that, while the “ground-truthing” of Cockpit Country continues (the measuring, step by step, of the boundaries) there will be … More Cockpit Country Worries: Community Members Voice Ongoing Concerns Over Mining on Periphery
Hallowe’en is just around the corner. In Vermont, where we stayed recently, there was much evidence of this. Filmy ghosts dangled from every tree, lining the entire Main Street of the nearest town, St. Johnsbury. There is a plan for the fourth annual Halloween Parade in the town. Many houses had what appeared to be fake … More On Honouring our Dead in Different Ways
As those of you who read my book reviews may have noticed, I have acquired a taste for young adults books. I have reviewed a few Caribbean titles, which I very much enjoyed reading (please click on links to some of my reviews here and here). I will be following up with more reviews, but meanwhile, … More Happening This Week: An Exciting Caribbean Young Adults Book Tour
This is only the second festival of poetry and the spoken word to take place in Hull, UK and we are proud that two Jamaicans, Tanya Shirley and Ishion Hutchinson, will be participating, thanks to the British Council. I really love Far District, Hutchinson’s first collection (he was born in Portland). Ishion teaches at Cornell … More Two Jamaican Poets at BBC Festival “Contains Strong Language”
This has been a wearisome week for city people. The traffic gridlock reached extraordinary heights when (at very short notice) a critical intersection at Three Mile was suddenly closed (for the next eight months, no less) at very short notice. 70,000 drivers were forced to detour through “not nice” neighbourhoods. Tempers frayed and motorists behaved … More Ann-Marie’s Launch, Cee-Jay’s Death, and Britannia’s Resilience: Friday, September 14, 2018
Official Website of the World Shorebirds Day
Trying to make sense of this crazy beautiful world we live in
Learning Cultures by Traveling
The Good Things Black People Do, Give and Receive All Over The World
Travel, locs, green smoothie, food, life!!!
Just another WordPress.com site
Wildlife photography along the urban edge
Bringing Out the Best in Our Kids
a film by mariel brown
Practical travel tips
Social Justice. Cuisine. The Arts. Ideas. Opinions. Facts. Truth.
Trying to live life for the love of it
Reflections on Life through poetry, essays and photos
Inspirational Speaker and Author
at the Monterey Bay Aquarium
Seeds of peace planted within yourself sprout everywhere
