Claude Mills LOUD MUSIC. Dance. Dramatic interpretations. All of this battened onto a religious superstructure means Sunday service has never been this loud, this dramatic — this hip. While anguished shouts of praise the Lord, tambourine, organ and piano music have always filled Jamaican Sunday mornings, church leaders today are enticing the young with more […]
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Oswald Spence lost 17 years of life without being charged with a crime
Claude Mills, THE COLD, rotten floor-boards are his bed each night, and his pillow, a rolled up suit of dirty clothes. In his tiny room, which is bare of furniture, there is only a truck engine that has been converted into a coal stove, an axe, two lumps of wood, a pair of old sneakers […]
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Who knew that Mother Goose was such a violent old bat? As my daughter gets older, I have been dusting off my childhood favourites to read to her, so you can imagine my consternation when I discovered through the unfiltered light of adulthood that Old Mother Goose nursery rhymes are actually ghastly tales of random […]
Read MorePETER KING LAWYER STABBED, BEATEN TO DEATH
PETER KING LAWYER STABBED, BEATEN TO DEATH Blackmail, extortion of ‘closetted men’ in the cards Sean Wordsworth Freelance Writer Attorney-at-law Berry Bryan, who represented the accused Sheldon Pusey in the murder case of former trade ambassador Peter King, was killed on Monday of this week at his Stony Hill residence in upper St. Andrew. The […]
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