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From My Heart to Yours

  • Pride and Celebration

    As if we needed another reason to be extremely proud of our little island paradise, Jamaicans all across the world spent the weekend celebrating and rejoicing with a pride unmatched, perhaps, by any other country. Over the weekend we celebrated two gold, one silver and one bronze medal at the Summer Olympics — all from…


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  • Pause, Playback, Rewind.

    And just like that, it is August already. No one told me when I graduated from high school that the creator was going to press the magic fast-forward button of life to make the next few years zoom by like trees on the side of the highway. You can see them, and if you wind…


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  • Life, As It Begins

    Quite a bit has happened since we last spoke, to say the least. I graduated from University, moved back home and landed my first full-time 40-hours-a-week job — all in a matter of three months. And in an economy like this one, we all know it would be a grave understatement to say that I…


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  • Opposites

    Isn’t it funny how the world keeps spinning no matter how broken you are inside? No matter how much you wish that the sun would stop shining, the clock would stop ticking, the world would stop spinning.. And every one would just pause for just a minute and acknowledge the fact that your heart is…


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  • The Change; Will you be a part of it?

    There are times when I complain about the complacency of the public in a world where the very same public is being exploited openly and carelessly, and then there are times when people, as few as they may be, finally give me a little bit of hope. On October 5, the official declaration of the…


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  • Justice? What's That…

    Twenty-two years ago an undercover Georgia police officer by the name of Mark MacPhail was shot and killed. Two years later,  Troy Davis was convicted of the murder and sentenced to death row. The conviction came with no evidence linking Davis to the crime, no murder weapon, and more reasonable doubt than evidence, yet he…


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  • Casey Anthony: Once and For All

    Admittedly, I am completely ignorant of the explicit details of this case. Being a journalism student, I should probably be ashamed–but shame does not change the fact. I was never one to indulge in the excess of the media and their most often insignificant targets. I always found that the things the news glorified, even…


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  • The End Where I Begin

    My last week in Australia has lent itself to a lot of analysing and reflection, as it should have I suppose. I am not quite sure why it would take until my very last few days for me to realise what a feat I have overcome, but I am glad to acknowledge it nonetheless. Here…


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  • Fins and Things

    If there is any part of this six week trip that has made me feel the experience was worthwhile, it was my past weekend trip to Cairns. I have always been the type to get more excited about natural beauty than architectural. Though I can certainly appreciate the intricacies of buildings a thousand times my…


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  • A Cold and Rainy Combination

    My emotional high this week came from the fact that my story made the front page of the Wentworth Courier–the biggest publication in the Eastern subs. That’s right. I came all the way from America to land a front page spot! Now, I assume these are common happenings for a journalist, but I also assume…


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