Jamaica Stories

Irie : by Jon ClaytonMy memoir is about a two-week solo vacation I had in Jamaica where I spent one week at an upscale all-inclusive resort and the other detained at a 3rd-world condition psychiatric ward against my will. During the two weeks, I lived in...

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26 Sep 2014

Mario Dean’s Death causing a revolution

You have to know about the coditions in Jamaica to understand this poem and what is really about

I could not believe when I heard it on the news That you were locked up for a spliff, A misdemeanor Before your mother could bail you Emergency She found you beaten, unblemished left in a coma. The message that is been sent by the authorities Not that I c...