Next Patient, Same Treatment: Bounty also booed at Chug It
It seems Bounty Killer was having too much fun with the night Tommy Lee got booed twice in one night for calling his name on stage at Chug It and Rum Punch. Bounty Killer performed at the following staging of Chug It, oozing with confidence. However, his celebratory dance was to be cut short by […]
When institutions fail us
Well here we are only weeks into a new year and football finds itself embroiled in yet another issue of racism. Kevin Prince-Boateng’s decision to walk-off during AC Milan’s match against Pro Patria taking his team mates and their opponents with him appears to be a watershed moment; Boateng’s actions seemingly uniting footballers, footballer managers […]
Guyana’s rice doing well in international markets
Help for US Rum Distillers, but Caribbean Pays The Caribbean rum industry has for quite some time now been objecting to the extensive tax breaks that the US offers to rum producers that set up distilleries in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. These tax breaks are funded by an excise tax of US$13.50 […]
Guns and Roses: Farewell Imani
Every child has value but when a child from London dies it jangles our English heartstrings. The news of Jamaican rose Imani Green, 8, hit in the head by a bullet while playing in a shop on holiday with family was no exception. The angelic face of this “happy, playful child” evoked in me the […]
Lara backs T20 cricket
At a time when many former cricketers have expressed their fear that Twenty20 cricket, the shortest format of the game, will kill Test cricket, West Indian great Brian Lara expressed a different view. According to the left-handed batsman, the growing popularity of Twenty20 internationals will not harm Test cricket as he believed the two formats […]
Goal Setting
Eph 5:15-7 (AMP), 1 Corin 9:23-26, 1 Corin 14:8, James 1 :8, Matt 6:33 As we draw near to the end of the month of January, how many of us can say “so far I’m still on track with the goals I set for 2013?” If you’ve already failed don’t be hard on yourself, you […]
Missing dads and neglectful mothers
Final story on poor parenting and social dysfunction: two evils creating a new social underclass in the Virgin Islands. There is a social malaise in the Virgin Islands that can be termed THE PARENTING DEFICIT. It is one overt and highly visible feature of adult irresponsibility. And it appears to be the progeny of a […]
Music Maestro: Episode 10 – Featuring – INNER VISIONS
“COME AND GET INNERGIZED” “Not one decade, not two decades but over THREE decades of innergizing audiences across the globe. Yes it’s Inner Visions from the small but pristine and tranquil island of St. John, USVI. Inner Visions is one of the most formidable reggae bands to grace the stage since the 70’s. Their impassioned […]
Champions of Charity
It truly melts my heart when I see people who are disadvantaged or disabled in one way or another fight for something they believe in. One event in particular, which really caught my undivided attention, was the BBC One Show’s Rickshaw Challenge in support of the Children in Need Charity. Six young people who are […]
My 2 cents on Long-Distance Relationship – Carla’s Story Part 1
‘His eyes were the most beautiful I’ve ever seen’ my friend, Carla said dreamily ‘As blue as the Caribbean Sea…I could just lose myself in those eyes’ So obviously my friend, Carla was smitten with this guy. We talked about him for a couple hours and laughed about some of the things he said. Some […]