EDITORIAL - An unforgiving situation
The Bishop Herro Blair-led effort to secure a state pardon for former Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) Detective Constable Carey Lyn-Sue is a situation fraught with possibilities both positive and negative.
My mother's menu
We did not have electricity in the village of my youth, So food and drink were kept chilled in a box lined with sheets of tin and large enough for a 50-pound block of ice.The ice was covered with sawdust to keep it from melting too fast. (Neita)
Issue: Actions have consequences
The Gleaner of Tuesday, May 6, reported that there were mixed views to the six- month prison sentence handed down to Detective Constable Carey Lyn-Sue for confessing and pleading guilty to fabricating evidence against an accused.
'Nyamming bickle'
The Editor, Sir: Karis Chin-Quee's thesis in her Letter of the Day about patois in last Sunday's Gleaner is right - that many of our Jamaica words are of African origin. Last year, I wrote a paper partly on that fact. Here is an abstract of the paper on the word 'nyam'.
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