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  […] Jamaica: ?Tis Better to Give – “While we have tremendous problems in the country with thieves, we seem to spend so much of our time beating a system that when something is offered at no cost, we have no idea what to do with it.” Francis Wade has discovered that while the joy is in the giving, Jamaicans make it […]Jamaica: Just Say ?No? – “Lyrical violence has slowly spread throughout the dancehall, resulting in feuds that incite fans and ruin dances.” Jamaican Veiw reports that certain DJs have refused to play songs that promote violence. Jamaica: Castleton Gardens – “I believe that as a citizen of Jamaica I should know as much of the island as I can.” Stunner takes a photographic tour of Jamaica’s Castleton Gardens. Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica: Rex Nettleford & Today?s Thinkers – “It was undoubtedly a pleasure to hear from one of the few great Caribbean minds–with the recent passing of Lloyd Best, their numbers are even fewer now, and needed no less than ever. Yet it occurred to me…that these minds are almost to a person of an older generation.” Attending a lecture by […]Jamaica: Worst Test Cricket Loss in 50 Years – “Sometimes I wonder if we should just drop cricket like we’re dropping the sugar industry. Both are vestiges of colonialism. But I dare not say this aloud…’cause, unlike the sugar industry, cricket swims in our very blood.” Jamaican Leon Robinson is disappointed in the West Indies’ performance against England. […]

  6 June 2007, 0:36 am