HISTORICALLY, JAMAICANS have a sweet tooth. In bygone days, sugar and water was a standard part of the daily diet of the poor. Those who had limes or Seville oranges would add a welcome fruit flavour.
The cartoon by Las May on the editorial page of last Monday's Gleaner, showing a woman and child as 'Endangered Species' beside the skeleton of a dinosaur depicted as 'Extinct Species' in a museum, was a sad reflection on what our society has become.
