THINGS ARE NOT THE SAME FOR...Freedom of Speech... A National Question
Bird’s Eye View Years ago a promised march had set the island a blaze and many feared for the lives of the proposed marchers so much so that it was cancelled. PJ Patterson’s government was in power at the time and took a few name calling and labels as a result of the idea of a LGBTQ march. Buju Banton and Shabba Rankin careers seem to have suffered because of a statement of hate by the later. Bruce Golding’s not in my cabinet became a rhetoric and found its way into many social gatherings and in some way reaffirmed the idea that the nation was deeply homophobic as was already being propagated due to the lyrics of local deejays. Then a campaign emerged that saw the closing of shows as well as the cancelling of visas or popular reggae artistes who had homophobic lyrics. Even the incarceration of Buju Banton was being associated with LGBTQ lobbyist and organizations around the world. Tolerance Stand in on Hope Road And by the year 2013 many few shifts have occurred. Port...