Author: Anthea

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JUST-A-THOT: Obama and Jamaica

Anthea

The Honourable Barack Obama, President of the United States was in Jamaica April 8-9, 2015. Just wondering how is it there is an agreement for natural gas, the Minister says we cant benefit from till 2017. This is among the priorities of the visit, yet we as an island lay idle in exploring our own independence through natural energies by developing our own solar energy system. If we going to enter into deals, I just cant see how comes we cant brainstorm better deals and put offering countries in perspective…

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Miss Jamaica Kaci Fennell for Miss Universe 2015? I beg to disagree

Anthea

BEAUTY PAGEANT TRUTH: I am not outraged that the beautiful Miss Jamaica Kaci Fennell DID NOT WIN. It does not minimise my pride for her however. I am proud because she is Jamaican – whether black, yellow, pink, black or orange. Recently, as a result of the uproar over the placement of Miss Jamaica Kaci Fennell in the Miss Universe 2015 pageant, four intelligent women sat on Television Jamaica to discuss this whole game of browning and whitening over blackening that ‘the we’ need to change. I dont agree that…

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The torture chamber – forgive and forget

Anthea

They made me cry, they slandered me, they built up a torture chamber all around me; I found a way to release my soul, but then they came and corked that hole, They made me cry, they injured me, then that wasnt enough so they slandered me; Quite craftily they created a scene, they made me a star, although no rehearsals , no script to read.. They made me cry, then they slandered me. Now many years later, they rewrote the script so they now well rehearsed look like superstars,…

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