JO - Diaspora and the hometown reality

From my archive of press clippings:

Jamaica Observer

Diaspora and the hometown reality

BARBARA GLOUDON

Friday, June 13, 2008

THE VOICE on the phone from New York at mid-week wanted to know: "Should we come to Jamaica, with all that we hear is going on there? All those people getting killed and so on..."

BARBARA GLOUDON

I gave her the only answer of which I was capable, which is, I can't tell anybody not to come here but I fully understand the anxiety. When you read the daily toll of wasted lives, it is not encouraging, neither for friends afar nor ourselves at home. I could only add, in response to the lady's query, that we're doing the best we can with a very difficult situation.

Read the whole article here.

Snippet(s):

"In a time past, we would have been worried about what to tell tourists, how to reassure them that we are not all savages waiting to spring out of the jungle and dispatch them with our "ma-shetties"."

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