The big talk is about the new breed of teachers who are emerging out of the system and have proven themselves capable of electing a rabble-rouser as president of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association. Doran Dixon, they say, represents a sign of the times, that things are progressively going to get worse in our school rooms.

Gone to the dogs

The dog went missing while recovering from treatment at the vet. As the vet was absent when that took place, other pet owners who were there at the time are saying it must have been the upper St Andrew woman who took it. The sad thing is that she can afford to buy a pet of her own, they say.

Support for Lisa Hanna

The vocal group of women in Half-Way-Tree was heard giving strong support to Youth Minister Lisa Hanna for her stance on abortion. They say as a woman herself she understands the issues and the challenges faced by women. One woman said only a Taliban would want to see women lose the right to decide what happens to their own bodies.

…Speaking of which

This one could soon blow up. The teenage daughter of the businessman and his prominent wife is suddenly no longer pregnant and the word has dropped that she had an abortion. Seems only the well-off are supposed to be able to have abortion on demand and not the poor. Yet it is the poor who needs it more.

Why talk only to the foreign press?

Some athletes were heard to be saying that although they sympathise with Novelene Williams-Mills and admire her courage in facing her breast cancer issues, the athlete should have shared her story with the Jamaican press. Instead, people had to read it in the British Daily Mail!

Question of the week

What will become of the gay men who were squatting in the Millsborough, Barbican house, and will they just be left to move into someone else’s house?

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