By Sade Gardner Kohntext blogger “National hero? Who? Yuh tan deh. Hugh Shearer ban Walter Rodney. None a dem tings nuh teach inna di schools, dem tek man fi fool, you know da plan deh,” Protoje, Flames (2018) I have been listening to Flames since Protoje released his last album, A Matter of Time, this…

By Sade Gardner Kohntext blogger In recent months, media have described disbarred attorney Jennifer Messado as “embattled”; I on the other hand would prefer to apply the Jamaican adjective, “salt”. Messado, who is in her late 60s, has been reporting to court after being slapped with fraud-related charges, quite the plot twist from her glory…

By Sade Gardner Kohntext blogger “I am unable to comment on that right now; as you know we’re now in VP season and I am preparing for that,” Member of Parliament for East Kingston Phillip Paulwell told me when I phoned him last month with regards to the flare-up in violence in the Rockfort community….

By Sade Gardner Kohntext blogger “Hard ears pickney nyam rockstone” and “What you reap is what you sow” are two sayings which may be used to describe embattled Calabar students who have been discontinued from progressing to the eleventh grade. Parents and the education ministry have been scrambling to come to a middle ground with…

By Sade Gardner Kohntext blogger “Water woes worsen” must have been the most abused and overused headline this summer as a result of issues plaguing the National Water Commission (NWC) and by extension the country. Water restrictions have tightened across the island due to drought conditions; the Hermitage dam and Mona Reservoir which service the…