A new stage of assessment Posted March 3rd. For once, our own concerns have been our sole preoccupation. Nothing else has taken precedence.
Any item reporting the stand-off or commenting on it is the breaking news.
Now, in a culture such as ours, such an ordering of priorities is an extremely rare thing. People regard this Caribbean island civilisation as one that is born handicapped. The most prestigious of the experts and social scientists take it for granted that it is a kind of crime to be small and open. We even harbour the illusion this is the reason we ve been systematically messing up. Invariably the authorised version locates us as object, never subject.