The deepest cut

THE livelihood of knife vendor Raymond Dixon - caught on camera by Staff Photographer Norman Grindley - may be threatened by Friday's passage of the "Knife Bill" in Parliament, which prohibits the carrying of daggers and other dangerous knives in public.

The 45-year-old father of seven who, for 27 years, has been selling knives for household use at the corner of Harbour and Pechon streets, downtown Kingston, has no other means of income.

He owes more than $100,000 in mortgage, he told The Sunday Gleaner yesterday, but hopes he'll get a licence to continue his business.

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