It was just a few days to go before Christmas and we went over to Adam’s Bagelry, the only real bagel factory in the Caribbean, to buy a few goodies for our friends coming over bringing gifts. Whatever Adam does is high quality and our friends like the currants rolls, chocolate cake and coconut sweet …
When I was in my salad days and very green in judgment, I was often accused of being too “manish”, a term reserved for those of us whose urinary outpourings had not yet been so shaken by life’s vicissitudes and veracities that they had started to form or contain a rising or overflowing mass of …
I read somewhere that the word “politics” is really two words and not one, something like “harass”. The writer explained that the first syllable “poli” or “poly” means “many” and “tics” or “ticks” are “blood-sucking creatures”. This was the idea behind the song by calypsonian, Black Stalin, about “Vampire Passing.” With election-time approaching in several …
It is said that diplomacy is the art of saying “Nice doggy” while reaching for a rock. However, for those like Boris Yeltsin, former Russian President, it is hard to reach for anything when you’re already stoned. Even before he became President in 1991, Yeltsin had already shown signs of being a problem. In 1989, …
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The evil that men do lives after them and so too their laws. This is the case of the British in India. Ironically, I saw the announcement that India is to repeal nearly 300 obscure laws dating back to the British Raj in a BBC article. It seems that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who took …