@SOFTNEWSMAG - Unknown
Unknown
November 2012
Barbados Police competence, brutality, in spotlight as ‘wrongful’ rape charges explode in worldwide news “Signed confession after suffocated and beaten by police” “Rachel Turner, 30, and Diane Davies, 63, are adamant that Derick Crawford, 48, was not the man who attacked them in Barbados. Mr Crawford said he was overseas at the time of ...
My Wildest Dream I must write this down, before I forget. I got up yesterday morning and told my husband, “Dear, I dreamed about giant crabs.” Now, one of my favorite films is called “Dreams” (Yume). Directed by the iconic Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa in 1990, the film has just the right combination of surreal images, discordant messages, and troubled emotions [...]
Debut plus size fashion shine at Caribbean Fashion Plus Week 2012 After five days of intense focus on the plus size fashion industry, which concluded in two major fashion runways, one can safely say that the league of pioneering Caribbean designers who took up the challenge of creating plus size collections fulfilled their mission and more. Most designers were presenting their first ever plus size collections at the ...
The Global Spirit of Reggae Music On the Sunday after Hurricane Sandy, with spirits somewhat restored, we spent the day with a new friend from Suriname. The gloom of the storm in the endless mists and forests of the Blue Mountains still weighed a little heavily, and our friend was far from home. So we endeavored to lighten her load (and [...]
Look Yah: Devon House Devon House is one of my favourite places to hang out in Kingston. It has fabulous restaurants and bars as well as its famous I-Scream. However I really just love to look at this beautiful and historic house which Jamaica’s first black millionaire bought for his wife.
Khago Diss Medley - Official Music Video - Cv (LNJ) - Death Threat /Kill Khago - Nov 2012 - RM Films
Literate mobs: UWI’s 2006 Brush with Gay Lynching In which i resurrect my 2006 Herald column written on the occasion of the near lynching of a suspected gay man by a mob of 2000 UWI students...
Sunday Sighs: November 4, 2012 Perhaps it is exhalation, rather than sighs. The island is (mostly) recuperating from Hurricane Sandy, and the general consensus is that things could have been worse. For some, however, life post-Sandy is still fairly grim. Those at the eastern end of the island, where the infrastructure was already in pretty bad shape, are really suffering. [...]