The Jamaica Star :: News :: Two-year-old niece molested...MOB BURNS UNCLE'S HOUSE :: September 29, 2009

I always say that Jamaicans are passionate people. Sometimes people have a difficult time understanding why it is so common for Jamaicans to take the law into their own hands and attack people who commit certain crimes (child molesters/ rapists etc). Take a look at this story that appeared recently in the Jamaica Star. A woman leaves her 2 year old daughter with her uncle to run some errands and comes back to find her baby molested. Bleeding from her vagina.....

The Jamaica Star :: News :: Two-year-old niece molested...MOB BURNS UNCLE'S HOUSE :: September 29, 2009

How do you hear that and not think this man deserves to be beaten so severely and taught a lesson to make sure he would never dare harm another child like that again? It's passion, Jamaicans see something like this happen and they think, what if it was my son/ daughter? They feel the pain for the innocent little child and that makes "innocent until proven guilty" seem insignificant. What becomes significant for them is to act. Act to seek revenge for a helpless child, act to protect all their children from harm, act to make sure that all the child abusers out there know what will happen to them if they choose to act out their evil desires.

There is a saying in Jamaica 'If you mess with children, you better hope the police catches you first'.It is understood that there will be retaliation if they are caught. I wonder if there would be less instances of child molestation in the world if child molesters were more afraid to be caught by people than by the cops........

To date or not to date?

So a friend of mine recently shared this dilemma with me and asked for advice. Just thought I'd put it out there to see what other people think about this situation.

So you meet a guy or a gal and you guys have instant chemistry. You like each other.....You like the persons looks, personality, sense of humor and you have similar goals in life with the person. You think that this person might just be the one for you and you wanna pursue things to maybe have a relationship with this person. However, before things get too serious you find out that your potential perfect match is married. Where do you go from there? Do you take what the person tells you about their marriage into account or it is game over right there?

Would you or would you not get into a relationship with a married person regardless of the circumstances or would you date a married person depending on what their specific situation was?

Uplifting Reggae.....Stronger (Fantan Mojan)

I just love this song. The first time I heard this song, I knew that it would it my song for 2009.......

Basically the whole message of this song is that as long as we keep forging on and pushing ahead in life we will become stronger because we are blessed by god ("Jah"/"Selassie"). Check out Fantan Mojah on myspace. His music exudes with positivity and hope. My two personal favorites from his latest album "Hail The King" are "you can make it" and "Fight to survive". Both songs are on his myspace page. Take a listen and see what Fantan Mojah is all about for yourself........

Life Lessons......Honesty Is not always the best policy....

I've always considered myself to be a very honest person but as I grow older I am starting to realise that honesty is not always the best policy in life. Yea, this kinda sounds weird but I am not talking about what we all know about not cheating or stealing etc....

What I'm talking about here is telling little white lies. I am beginning to find that some situations do call for a little white lie. It seems to me that honesty can and should be sacrificed in the name of niceness. It's a fact...Nice people lie a lot but they are well liked and people always gravitate towards them. No one wants to hear that they look fat, ugly, that their idea is stupid or all that negative stuff that we choose to divulge in the name of honesty.

Next time you are in a spot choose to be nice and lie that the ugly dress is not so bad or that the bad hair cut is OK........

Niceness is sometimes more important than honesty. Our friends and family will definitely appreciate it........

Reggae in Pop Culture Series...........Underneath It all (No Doubt ft. Lady Saw)

This song was pretty popular a few years ago. It was on Billboard top 40, won a Grammy and was nominated for an award at the MTV video music awards. Pretty good pop song with a reggae vibe and featuring the Queen of Dance Hall music, Lady Saw. Lady Saw was not featured in the video for the song. I think that she did not receive much public recognition for her role in making this song a hit for No Doubt and was really surprised when I came across this video of a concert they did together in Europe....


If you are not a fan of No Doubt and just wanna skip to Lady Saw, she comes on around the three minute mark.