Sylvia Wynter's Dream

Antoneisha Dunn | Blog #3 | October 14, 2023 When I was a tenth grade student, my language teacher shared with me the belief she had regarding creole as a vulgar and substandard language. I had stood there talking with her, and for reasons unknown to me, I code switched. I hadn’t said a sentence,…

Javeir Henry. Growing up in Jamaica, there are a lot of unsettling conspiracy theories that I have heard throughout my childhood. When I was younger, my mother often sent my siblings and I to stay with my grandmother during the holidays. Being at my grandma’s house, I met up with my other cousins and there…

In the spirit of Halloween, I wanted to speak on something a bit more ghoulish and haunting. A belief that many of us heard about while growing up was that of ghosts, spirits (both good and evil) and other kinds of phantom beings. Aside from the season being a reason I wanted to explore this,…

By Brianna Thomas In the small Jamaican village named Lodge nestled in St Mary between lush green hills and the rhythmic waves of the Caribbean Sea, there existed a belief that stirred the winds of folklore and mystique. The tale spoke of the elusive Silver Serpent, a mystical creature said to inhabit the depths of…

Having experienced the outside effects of dementia from interacting with some of my relatives, I have been told and now follow the belief that you should give in to the delusions of the person suffering from dementia. I have learnt from my personal contact with relatives suffering from dementia that it is a difficult disease…