It’s amazing how the word of God always proves itself true on every account.The Bible says God will’use the simple things to confound the wise’.According to K.D Knight and many other seemingly ‘wise Jamaicans’,Mrs. Portia Simpson-Miller was inadequate to hold the esteemed position of President of the People’s National Party and more so the Prime [...]
Cross roads is being at a point
In your career not knowing what to do
You are just a clerk with talent
And feel you are getting screwed
By a boss whose job you know you could do
“Just give me a chance” you’ll be crying
And it’s not from lack of trying
Studying, reading, [...]
If I were a Theologian, I would say, “the bible says…”, and if I were a philosopher, I would say, “Aristotle contends that…” But as plain as I am and as reserved my thoughts are, I speak with the voice of a woman. I cry, “I need a man!” and I ask, “Where are the men?”
One Saturday night after watching my regular new movie on cable, I saw Chris Rock’s latest stand-up starting, so definitely I sunk myself back in the couch. One of the profound, and surprisingly serious, things he said was that “no man is one thing… for crime he is a conservative but for prostitution he is a liberal”. This along with other recent events in this country of ours got me thinking, what double standards we have in this society!
Double standard and leadership
From the book A Higher Standard of Leadership: Lessons from the Life of Gandhi by Keshavan Nair he states:
“We have been led to believe that there is one standard for private morality and conduct and another for public morality and conduct. We have come to accept that a lower moral standard is necessary to get things done in the real world of politics and business. This is the gospel of expediency-the double standard of conduct. Fueled by the idea of winning at all costs”
When leadership sets this example, the double standard permeates the organization, group, institution or family. As everyone in society is looking out for how the game is played and many will thus forsake their ideals to achieve success. Take my example when I was attending school.
At Cornwall College in second form I had art class; I observed that when given assignments the quality of ones work does not, to a large extent, determine the grade you get. It all came down to whose project the teacher had a close relation with, that is, the students who would go to him from the start of their assignment and keep the teacher involved day to day until the final product. I thought this was unfair and the teacher should stick to his principles and guidelines for grading- which by the way was so eloquently stated by him at the beginning of the year. I thought to myself even though identified I would never employ this tactic.
Let’s fast forward to UTECH; I’m in my final year, just outside the first class honors GPA and had Research Methodology as one of my outstanding courses.
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The aim of the weight game is to feel confident with one’s body and in one’s body. Too often have we heard lyrics purporting a negative connotation toward the physical mortal. The body is physical, visible and vulnerable to attacks of all kind, including crude lyrics, disease and lack of self worth. I have always told my friends that being fat does not make a person ugly. Ugliness comes from within and surfaces inevitably and ultimately on the outside. So, don’t feel discouraged because you are fat. Just act upon the confidence that you have, and it will make you feel bright, not slim nor make you loose weight, but it will give you that inner drive to shape your body in the way you please.
Over the pass two weeks I had to send $100,000- which is all my savings, oh my God- to my brother in Montego Bay. This was because he was in an accident. And no, it’s not for his injuries, it’s for the injuries sustained by his car. His precious car!
I asked “can’t you wait until the insurance company pays you the money”? “No man”, is the reply, “I’ll pay you back $50,000 interest when that payment comes”. Which by the way he probably will never get since it was insured Third Party and there is some doubt as to whether he was right, even though he believes so.
I have never seen a dead man walk,
I have never heard a statue talk.
I have never had a cow answering my desperate plea,
I have never felt a tree consoling me when I’m on my knee.
All these idols are man-made gods,
Their thoughts are empty like pea-less pods.
But I know a God, the only God, and He’s [...]
The abounding, saving grace of God
never leaves the sinful, wasting away man.
Justice was, but grace now abides,
It has come to stay by men’s sides.
Justice spoke against all who did not obey,
But grace, in Christ, made a perfect way.
Justice said, “Die”,
but grace asked, “Why?!
The debt was paid when the sacrifice was made!”
“To the depths of hell [...]
What better way to start Black History month in the Caribbean, than with the historical signing of the Caribbean Single Market (CSM).
The grand signing ceremony was at the Mona Lodge’s ‘Gold Room’ at University of the West Indies, on Monday January 31, 2005.
A step towards unity, development and progress. A move in the path of vision, in the hope of betterment, and any attempt at advancing not only singularly, but as a whole is exemplary and should be greatly commended.