While thinking of examples of what our world is going through, I can vividly remember a day when my gramma went to pick me from my elementary school. It was quite unusual. In fact, unusual is an obvious understatement for that particular year. In the first instance, apart from my first day in school, when…
Photo credit: Bradford Today Ontario is planning a massive expansion of jails over the next few decades. Toronto Tofay reports that the province’s jails are bursting and have been significantly over capacity for years, with the situation worsening. Ontario plans to add nearly 6,000 beds by 2050, according to documents obtained by University of Ottawa researchers through…
Photo credit: Reuters Three Mexican boat captains pleaded guilty to federal charges Tuesday in connection with two separate incidents last year in which small vessels carrying undocumented migrants capsized off the coast of San Diego County, leaving a total of nine people dead, including a 14-year-old Indian boy and his 10-year-old sister. The incident involving the siblings occurred…
Photo credit: BBC About 250 Rohingya and Bangladeshis, including children, are missing after their boat capsized last week in the Andaman Sea, according to the United Nations’ refugee and migration agencies. The BBC reports that the trawler, which had departed from Bangladesh and was bound for Malaysia, “reportedly sank due to heavy winds, rough seas and overcrowding”, the…
Once upon a time, at church bazaars, big men with legitimate sources of income would go to buy items on auction for a great sum. One Guinea! By the way, a guinea was equal to £1, 1s, or better one pound one. One pound one was equal to twenty one shillings. It was the equivalent…
Suffering disappointment?Want an appointmetwith Eledumare‘cos you’ll be late! We all know you foughtwith long thoughtsyou might not be the winnerdon’t put your finger! In another cinder‘cos ’twill lingermight end in canceryou’re trying to buffer! When you finish your puff,are things less rough?As you finished feg,check your health! Of what use is your lossof those looniesand…
I always remember an infamous speech attributed to a classic example of autocratic irony, the equally infamous dictator Idi Amin Dada. “There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech.” I remember it in the sense that he did not deny the existence of freedom of speech; however, there is a subtle…
