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Jamaica Gleaner Arts &Leisure
published: Sunday | August 10, 2008

Discovering Tibet
WITH THE 2008 Olympic Games under way, all eyes have turned to the east.

Book Review: 'Sweet Home' warms the heart

Book: Sweet Home Jamaica, Volumes 1&2Author: Claudette Beckford-Brady Publisher: Vanguard Press Reviewer: Siobhan Morrison

ROBBER

He was the eldest of three.

Easter breadfruit

In the village of Sweet Divine, Easter Sunday morning 1970 should not have been different from any other Sunday morning, but it was.

The chocolate of your desire

What can satisfy the arid depths of your hunger and your sweet chocolate desire?

Stay focused on your objectives - Wade

The following is an edited excerpt of a speech given by author and businessman Tony Wade at the University of Technology in May.

Patriotism

Intolerant of my ebony-like beauty, bigoted words nibble at the nape of my neck while an articulation of the more 'non-standard' English steam from my untamed mouth a lucid rhythm of language.

The song of me

My song floating in the wind Soft and fragile is the voice that sings Notes lifting then falling low Rolling across the tongue Bubbling forth from the throat of the world.

Swim to the light - Jamaica, my beloved

In the beginning (1962) the All High made the heavens and the earth.

She moves, she flows

When she smiles, she glows





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