Literary arts - Hitching a ride on the daggerin' bus!
It's the end of sports day at the popular Kingston school for girls. The young ladies are going home, and a minivan travels slowly up Marescaux Road. Rampin' Shop blares from it, over and over again. The girls, who were on the way from a day of romping on the field, dance and sway to the tune.

Book review - The story of St Kitts
Brian Dyde, a former hydrographic surveyor in the Royal Navy has had an association with the Caribbean island of St Kitts and the other Leeward Islands since 1973. This book, Dyde's third in the Macmillan Caribbean Guides series, is a comprehensive guide to St Kitts (or Saint Christopher) a beautiful Caribbean island with a most intriguing history.

Literary arts - Naughty text messages
My cellphone rang with that familiar tone I had set for when a text message came through. I smiled because instinctively I knew who it was coming from. I looked forward to his texts. Reading them excited me. Every single fibre of my body came alive when I read his messages and my needs become ragingly urgent. He was liquid fire.

Book review - Compact overview of flooding, landslides in Caribbean
The book, Enduring Geohazards in the Caribbean: Moving from the Reactive to the Proactive, is a scholarly work useful for both undergraduate and postgraduate students who are interested in geohazards and geohazards management, geographical information science, remote sensing, engineering, geography, geology, hydrology, environmental science and management.

The anthem
The following is an excerpt from Yvonne Coke's book, Perspectives from the Jamaican MAP (Motto, Anthem, Pledge) 'A Way of Life for Jamaica, in which she looks at the national motto, anthem and pledge and uses them to develop a framework for the direction i which she thinks the country should be going.