So if you haven't been watching the news, or listening to the radio, or living or breathing lately perhaps you're not aware that Jamaica is in some deep shit  I mean a whole lotta crap ... a bit of a pickle, financially. Now with all the jargon being thrown around on the news about the International Monetary Fund "deal", the National Debt Exchange (NDX...almost sounds like the next pop sensation Diddy will discover and then destroy doesn't it?), another national tax reform and Portia consciously letting us know that we (not the collective "we" which will include parliament, the "you the people" kind of "we") have to tighten our belts AGAIN...

How many buildings in Jamaica are wheel chair accessible? How many intersections allow for the passage of blind pedestrians? Are the sidewalks kept in good condition to facilitate wheel chairs, blind and other disabled persons?

Marry Christmas and Happy New Year !!! (I said Happy New Year to someone yesterday and they informed me that the year is now too old to continue using that greeting... but HAPPY NEW YEAR anyway ) I hope everyone's holiday season was wonderful :) ... Now sometime ago I promised that I would review the 50 shades of Grey trilogy, and although it took me quite some time to read the three books in between work, school and a genuine disinterest, I was done in enough time to have published the post long before the end of last year, I guess a bit of laziness and not knowing where to start took over... But anyway here goes...

I was idly "googling" myself and realized that an article I had written for the UN Chronicle magazine two years ago, for a competition, was actually published although I did not win the contest. CLICK HERE    to see the article in all its glory... I am so happy I could burst lol, I have also copied and pasted the contents here ... Happy reading...

 When you hear the phrase "a ticket to your dreams" you automatically think of the lottery... I'm sure that has been etched in our minds since we were pretty young; watching TV with your parents and in between the news or after the newscast came the evening's lotto draw. Remember the days when there was only ONE lotto draw per day; now with so many gambling options we're up to at least four times a day with those games being offered by Supreme Ventures, but I digress. The word ticket  means: Noun: A piece of paper or small card that gives the holder a certain right, esp. to enter a place, travel by public transport, or participate... Verb: Issue (someone) with an official notice of a traffic or other offense.  (courtesy of Dictionary.com)

Jamaica is 50 this year, boy if you missed that you must have been in a coma for more than a year, because the buzz surrounding our half -a- century anniversary has been nothing less than CONSTANT.

Now, we all know that Jamaica has the most churches per square mile [ funny enough I was looking for the source of this "fact" and all the websites stated the Guinness Book of World Records as the source but there was no trace of it on their website...] and people are very sensitive about religion, generally... So I know this blog post may cause some amount of controversy, but these things need to be said. For the purposes of this post "religion" and "church lessons" will refer to Christianity and its teachings as declared by some denominations.