High School Sex Tapes : Raw & Uncut

In the last five (5) years there has been a drastic increase in the practice of high school students having sex and recording it via smartphones and other recording devices. Often times these students are clothed in full uniform and even more often they are engaging in unprotected sex. The latest video going viral appears to be of a student of Excelsior High in Kingston; true to form, the young lady is in full uniform, bent over in what appears to be an abandoned building by the road side (by the sound of it) and the young man is wearing no condom.

Jamaica’s 49th Year Of Independence : “We Haven’t Entirely Failed.”

This weekend marks the 49th year of Jamaica’s independence; the country having received it’s political freedom from the United Kingdom in 1962. As usual, the outpouring of national pride is immense and perhaps will be sustained throughout the weekend. Still, I’m not convinced that there is a lot to take pride in; and yes, maybe I’m cynical, and I most certainly will be accused of lacking national pride, (nothing could be further from the truth by the way), I’m just looking at where our country is after 49 years of charting our own path, and I’m disheartened. As one political party put it in the 2007 general elections, we… “not changing no course!”