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Jamaican Literacy Activist Puts More Books Into the Hands of Children Isolated By COVID-19 Restrictions
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Jamaican literacy activist puts more books into the hands of children isolated by COVID-19 restrictions
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The gift of reading
Debbie Jacob -
THERE IS not a shadow of a doubt in my mind that covid19 is offering us the opportunity to turn education around and create academic success and a sense of fulfilment in our children like never before. This is the opportunity for everyone in this country to rally behind our nation’s children and learn what I discovered 11 years ago when 3canal’s Wendell Manwarren found out I was teaching CXC English language at YTC (now rebranded as the Youth Training and Rehabilitation Centre (YTRC) and asked, “What can I do to help you?”
Florenz Webbe Maxwell’s
Girlcott won 2nd Prize for the 2016 Burt Award for Caribbean Literature, and the Children and Young Adult Fiction prize in the 2018 Bermuda Literary Awards. It
was published by Blue Banyan Books in 2017.
Blue Banyan Books: “In this startling debut, Florenz Webbe Maxwell takes a little-known fact about Caribbean history and weaves an engaging tale that speaks eloquently to the contemporary experience. Girlcott takes you beyond the image of Bermuda as a piece of paradise and charts a narrative of resistance, hope and the importance of fighting for change.”
Description: A week ago, Desma Johnson had only two things on her mind – in exactly eight days, she would be sixteen years old and to top it off she was in line for a top scholarship, bringing her one step closer to her dreams. Life was perfect and nothing would get in the way of her birthday plans. But it’s 1959 and the secret Progressive League has just announced a boycott of all cinemas in Be
Petchary (
Off Track (Blue Banyan Books, 2020). Here are excerpts:
This novel for young adults, set in Trinidad, opens with a homely scene – immediately interrupted by a jarring, somehow banal incident of domestic violence. This takes place while seventeen-year-old Kayla is doing the washing up before her mother comes home, while keeping an eye on her two younger sisters. Life for a young woman growing up in a low-income community in the Caribbean can be unpredictable – and somehow also too predictable.
As the title suggests, the narrative is propelled by the fortunes of young amateur track and field athletes trying out for the Olympics. They are under the umbrella of a Government training programme, being groomed for higher things under the paternalistic gaze of the Prime Minister and the Sports Minister and their gruff but kind coach. “We were talented guinea pigs,” says young Joel, who grows closer to Kayla (a fellow sprinter) on a “maxi taxi” ride, where they e
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