Child Month in JA #WeMatterToo
May is Child Month in Jamaica, which I wrote a bit aboutthe other day. In honour of Child Month,…
Child Month Banquet in MountainView
In Mountain View, this is one of the main businesses, concrete block making.
The children were so patient
YMCA of Kingston
Every day, anywhere from 70 to 120 boys from the ages of 12-16 put on blue shirts emblazoned with the YMCA logo and gather at the headquarters at one of Kingston’s busiest…
Larry Chang Symposium
This Friday, I will be presenting at the Larry Chang Human Rights Symposium on Homelessness and Forced Migration in the Jamaican LGBT Community. I was asked to do so after recently posting a piece about the media’s treatment of this community.
As soon as…
JA’s new mantra? “Prevent reproduction I cannot afford”
If one Jamaican social worker has her way, this will be the country’s new mantra. By Monica Dystant’s thinking, only rich people should be having babies. Ok, maybe this is overstating her case, but her commentary yesterday in the Gleaneris just shy of…
Ontario’s Early Childhood Educators meet Jamaica’s ECEs
Last week, I had the pleasure of meeting up with a group of Early Childhood Educators from Seneca College and Humber College in Ontario. The reason I met with them is a wonderful coincidence: my sister is in her final year of an ECE program at Algonquin…
New Partnership- @MKutney
I am pleased to announce I have launched into an exciting new partnership with a development-focused web site www.MitchellKutney.com (Twitter @MKutney). See what I did there? That hyperbolic, overly excited PR-speak that I picked up over the years having…
Jamaica and Canada enjoy full freedom of the press
Only 14.5 per cent of the world’s residents live in country with a free press. So says Freedom House, which monitors the state of the press on a global basis. Forty-five per cent of residents experience a “partly free” press, while 40.5 per cent live in…
End of History? Not so much…
I am currently reading Francis Fukayama’s The Origins of Political Order, From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution. It is a vast, sweeping look at human societies and how they come to be organized politically. Fukayama begins with prehistoric…
