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Monthly Archives: September 2009

What’s not to love about being fair?

20-Sep-09

Unidentified female X, in comment on facebook picture of self looking v tan: oh gosh…i need to stay out of the sun! Unidentified female Y, in response: yuh lookin BLACK Unidentified female X: I know. This is terrible…definitely not the shade I want to be!!! I love being fair!! Indeed.

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Annals of appalling reporting, Trinidadians and alcohol edition

18-Sep-09

A friend forwarded me the following Guardian story, which was published on Friday with the sensational headline: Trinis drink more alcohol than water—Hospedales In a word, awful. In two words, bloody awful. Any more words and this post will no longer be fit for children. But as I am of late attempting to be constructive [...]

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“Jamaica may already have passed the point of no return”

17-Sep-09

Just one month after rating agency Standard & Poor’s released a downbeat assessment of the outlook for Jamaica comes an equally – if not more – negative take from Barclays Capital Research. The research note issued today by a New York-based BarCap analyst is unequivocal: we believe that Jamaica is approaching the point of no [...]

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