Beneath the surface; Baksh takes Best back in time and leaves him bleeding inside
Not unlike Shadow’s Bassman, Mystic Prowler in mih head, pleading with people to look beneath the surface.
I have just read Vaneisa Baksh’s ‘Sins of the Father’ column. And not for the first time, I have told myself I’m not going to read her stuff. Not for the first time, this week’s piece took me to a familiar place and left me hankering after a yesterday that Shakespeare told us long ago is simply never coming back…
…except in the nostalgia of now unreliable memories and romantic mindsets.
Noble: Correcting Education’s woes; beyond ‘prestige schools’ and ‘standardised examinations’
“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong,” H L Mencken
Last month, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley reportedly said ‘tough decisions will have to be made to correct the educational imbalances’, as he anticipated ‘an honest and open discussion’ which would lead to ‘certain recommendations… [which] will be far-reaching with respect to implications for who does what’.
Photo: Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley (centre) and then Minister of Community Development, Culture and the Arts Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly at the opening of a community centre in Bagatelle.