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FiwiVoice.com congratulates one of its own, Andrew for his recent achievement on being the Gleaner’s Silver Pen Awardee for August 2005.

Vox Pop Conducted at the University of the West Indies, Mona- Jamaica.

Tracy Graham
Media and Communications
“Yeah- it depends. [On] whether or not I can find a job here or I go away to do post graduate studies. I plan to migrate for a while cause I plan to do my masters overseas, but I’m not [...]

Ryan Mark Reynolds, The Chosen Prodigy, is undoubtedly one of the most popular Djs, in Gospel Reggae today. His self titled album was recently launched and he has consistently been in the eye of the Media. Who though is Ryan Mark Reynolds, and as a 20 year old ‘Minister’, how does he see himself and Gospel Reggae, impacting, and changing our society?

Courtney…
In 1991, at age four she used a small exercise book to gather funds for a boy she barely knew who suffered from cancer of the eyes, but couldn’t afford an operation. In 1994 she founded the Kids for Charity organization and that same year, held a fashion show at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, from which she paid for the installation of electrical facilities worth over Thirty-Five Thousand Dollars for the Curlin Johnson Basic School in East Kingston. Today at 18 years old, Courtney Foster is even more active and her organization Kid’s for Charity, has donated over Two Million Dollars ($2,000,000) to the less fortunate.

I went trampling near my sleep
And saw the most beautiful butterfly ever formed.
It parted its radiant wings and clasped
The ebony blossom of the sunrise plant.
It slanted its slender, silky-supple state, and swung around the plate.
He swerved and swayed
And fell in the shade.
The stunning butterfly my heart adored,
Fell among nature’s stagnant horde.
Oh! Well what next?
I must [...]

Have we not noticed a consistent thread that is undeniably linked to our fiscal and social regression, in our failure to implement new and inventive products and services that may have created opportunities for our youth apart from traditional employment fields?

There are weird theories being circulated that amongst the myriad of problems Jamaica faces is the absence of innovative, critical and objective thought, a grave decline in the youth voice and youth activism as their had been in the 70s and 80s and a plain lack of interest and optimism of young educated Jamaicans in the affairs of the country. There’s a void they say, that we as youth are constantly seeking to fill and as we chase after fleeting materialistic drivel, we grow thoroughly oblivious to the reality around us. Truth?