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Want to become a major poet or problogger? Jamaican literary guru Geoffrey Philp shares a few tips on how to do just that.
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Want to become a major poet or problogger? Jamaican literary guru Geoffrey Philp shares a few tips on how to do just that.
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Two Jamaican litbloggers are thrilled that the Calabash Literary Festival is back!
Globewriter comments on a Senate debate about a clause of the Children's Bill “involving a clause that includes buggery”; B.C. Pires adds: “The People’s Partnership of UNC [United National Congress] MPs [Ministers of Parliament] yesterday refused, despite urgings from Independent senators, to decriminalize same gender sexual activity between minors - even while ploughing ahead with decriminalizing the same activity between boys and girls. If ever there were a plain human rights issue, sexual orientation is it.”
Further to this, babalu reports that another elderly lady “suffered a fatal heart attack after her home was violently attacked by a paramilitary mob.”
“Bajans deserve the truth, all the truth and nothing but the truth. It is not enough for the Court of Appeal or the news media to gloss over this story”: Barbados Free Press is curious about a case in which a man who bit a police officer apparently got off scot-free.
Mark Lyndersay blogs about some of the issues facing the local film industry, here.
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Dear Janine,
Thank you for the link and I accept it in the spirit of the offering. Bur instead of being called a guru, I’d prefer to be called a pandit, and I MUST now be referred to as “Geoffrey-ji.” So in the style of early Naipaul or Kevin Baldeosingh, I can now publish a new book which should be a bestseller in the Caribbean, “The One and Only Truth About Life and Literature: The Sayings of Pandit Geoffrey-ji Otherwise known as Guru Geoffrey, Ras Geoffrey and Herbert Spliffington”