Literature
Paint Jamaica
Originally posted on Ink.Well Labs:
A group of us Jamaicans, decided to come together to make a change in our home. It was decided, we start deep where the eye of Hurricane Ferocity once would brew- Parade Gardens , Downtown, Kingston. Our mission: catalyse the perspective of the community to an incontrovertible panorama. We’ve…
The Paint Jamaica Excursions; Signs and Symbols in the Inner Cities
Today was the first painting session of the Paint Jamaica project. One of many excursions undertaken by the paint Jamaica team, each one revealing a wealth of enlightenment about the ghettos of Jamaica and perhaps by extension of the world. This place revealed itself to be nothing like the common conception of it, and this […]
The Shift And The “Unruly”
Time is a hell of a thing, and coincidentally because the times are changing, the world including this country is running out of time. Running out of time to control what is happening. What is happening is a shift, some may say it is the cosmos which are aligning, it may just be that people have become […]
Lawless Lawmen; Another ludicrous story.
Pain is probably the most destabilizing frequency to that of happiness. The transition is a complete disturbance. It is movement from a completely free state to a completely strained one. Body tenses, breathing becomes labored, eyes become distant. The eyes are a telling tale, this person is not here in this present moment, they are […]
Tax Madness; this is our fault
Sitting on this plastic throne under an open night sky, Prime Time News in the background, my mind drifts. The opposition minister bickering, I laugh to myself, he has some good points. Makes me wonder if he would be as critical were his party in power. The tax axe, that’s what the reporter calls it. I […]
Blog Post #48: Reasons you Cant 9-5 a Creative Mind {Rant}
This is a subject that has been bubbling inside me for a couple months now that I have purposely tried to avoid, but to no avail. There is a place for understanding and there is a place for speaking for your rights. Rights we a talk bout now, from a strictly opinionated perspective. Is my […]
What’s really Real?
I find a slightly mad comfort lately in asking myself “what is real?”, a question posed to me by a friend of mine, Julian “King Biggs” Morrison, in a recent conversation. I suppose that is what is so exciting about the times we are living in. Society’s definitions of real are slowly being broken down […]
Tried and True Review
The biographical work Tried and True, published September 2011, launched November 2011, written by Gavin Hutchinson, more fondly known as Dutty Bookman is a recount of his journeys. After graduating Campion College in Jamaica, Dutty being pressed by his parents went abroad to pursue tertiary education in the field of rocket science. Subsequent shifts in […]
Sheri and Castro; A conversation about Communism and Jamaica {Part 1}
I have always maintained that travelling is one of the most beautiful ways of expanding the human consciousness. It wasn’t up until recently though that I got a glimpse of a more practical insight into the subject while talking to a friend.She was describing to me, a very recent visit she made to our Caribbean […]
Making Spirals out of Squares
When I think to myself lately alot of the things that I thought mattered, truly doesn’t, for example the idea of being a writer. I think in my search to find my purpose or my contribution to humankind, I probably developed an obsession with the title of writer because of the fact that it was […]
Of Revolution, Our Generation and Awakening
Scientists have observed that there is a cyclical pattern to the evolution of human demography. The term coined to distinguish the different demographics over time, generations. The describing or defining characteristics of a generation include things as small as the most common sounds used in the most popular music, or the something as big as […]
Rasta is not your enemy! #OccupyPinnacle
Thursday January 23rd, saw the ACRM community patiently awaiting the discussion to come about the Pinnacle debacle. Donisha Prendergast and other members of Rastafari youth initiative council, were to be present and sharing in the discussion. There was a sense of it being everywhere in he air, the government was going to allow the Rastafari community to be evicted from the ancestral lands of […]
Administrative Negligence at UTech causes staff personnel to lose life?
I read about the incident this morning in this article of the Jamaica Observer. So there it is, in plain bold in our morning newspapers. It is very tragic indeed, but I must also say it was bound to happen. Utech’s inefficient administration was bound to reach the news sometime. Lets face it, this is […]
Jamaica’s Voice.
My first reaction to hearing that Tessanne had audition and made it on the voice was, ok, why? It wasnt that she wasnt good enough for the voice, it was that the voice wasnt good enough for her, no offense. And that was my take off the bat, because when I heard Tessanne, I heard […]
“In life, you m…
“In life, you may start as an Ant, but knowledge will make you into a Giant” –Gladstone Taylor
Consumerism vs Spirituality
The topic was suggested to me by a friend of mine and upon hearing it, thought it to be an immensely interesting topic and decided to write on it. Consumerism is a general term with different contexts and therefore slightly different meanings. In this context however, it refers to the materialistic lifestyle, concerned with the […]
Formless Heroes??
I’d like to take this opportunity to give thanks for the works of our ancestors that have afforded us the freedom which we can now claim. Today is National Heroes Day in Jamaica and it is the day when we celebrate our ancestors for their invaluable and painstaking efforts in the battle for the liberation […]
The I AM Vibration... 
Paint Jamaica; The Crusade Continues
A surreal feeling creeps over me whenever I pull myself away and observe this project from a uninvolved perspective. With that said, I find that even being a part of Paint Jamaica since inception has done little to cushion the mystifying effect that it has on the Jamaican reality so far. It is a first for […]