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“How do these parents sleep at night?”

August 15, 2013

I was simply moved by this letter from a single father, writing from his own experience on the issue of homelessness and sexuality. Too often we (and the media, at home and abroad) view the much-discussed issue of homosexuality – and homelessness – through a very narrow lens. The issues are complex and inter-connected. This … More “How do these parents sleep at night?”

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School’s out, and it’s July 7, 2013

July 7, 2013

The weather’s heating up again, but Kingston is exhaling a little as the school term has ended and the frantic dashing up and down with schoolchildren has died down. It is a beautifully quiet morning, now that our anti-social neighbor has stopped with his noisy grass trimmer thing. (But I suppose that is preferable to … More School’s out, and it’s July 7, 2013

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One Million Homeless Jamaicans is too many. Do Summn.

August 28, 2012

Originally posted on mooretalkja:
almost 1-million people, one-third of our population, live in one of 754 squatter communities across the island that’s far too many people i can’t imagine what it must be like to wake up everyday knowing today might be the day they bulldoz e your house and kick you and your children…

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