Peter is working as a Social Enterprise Advisor on a USAID funded project to help create an enabling environment for the Social Enterprise sector in Jamaica.
It is August 1st, Emancipation Day across much of the formerly British Caribbean. It commemorates the Slavery Abolition Act (1833), which legislated the end of slavery in the British Empire in August, 1834. Here in Jamaica it is part of a week of parades and parties leading up to Independence…
I’ve been to the mountaintop. — Martin Luther King
The romance of mountain climbing has never held me in its thrall. Because it’s there is a rationale that applies to chocolate and bacon, not to putting oneself deliberately in harm’s…
When Harry Belafonte released his recording of Jamaica Farewell I was only a year old, but as a little Black boy in Barbados I could tell that there was something in it that spoke of home. More than half a century later it is still stuck in memory like the smell of my grandmother’s…