Download Flyer: Queens College Alumni Toronto – Casino Rama Bus Trip 2018
-
Blog Stats
- 5,846,748 hits
-
Search Blog Entries
-
Pages
-
Top Posts
- Ministry of Public Infrastructure boasts 27 major achievements in two years – Minister Patterson
- USA: A Fate Worse Than Slavery, Unearthed in Sugar Land - By Brent Staples - New York Times
- American Airlines begins service to Guyana
- The Arrival of East Indians in the Caribbean - By Dr. Dhanpaul Narine
- GUYANA: Fly Jamaica Plane crash at CJIA - By Cyril Bryan, Editor. Guyanese Online - passenger ...UPDATED
- RECIPES From Guyana and the Caribbean - From Guyana Outpost archive
- GUYANA and CARIBBEAN RECIPES - New Listings now available
- GUYANA: Miss World Guyana heads to China
- Guyana: Jonestown tragedy remains a cautionary tale 40 years later - By Mohamed Hamaludin
- 40 YEARS SINCE JONESTOWN - By Dmitri Allicock
-
Recent Posts
- 40 YEARS SINCE JONESTOWN – By Dmitri Allicock
- Guyana SPEAKS: Our Chinese Heritage – London UK. – Sunday 25th November (2-5pm)
- “Revolutionary Suicide”: Remembering the Jonestown Massacre – By Rosaliene Bacchus
- Guyana: Losing hope in the Local Government Elections – By Leonard Gildarie
- American Airlines begins service to Guyana
- Fashion: High Heels—To Wear or To Fear?- By Yvonne Sam
- Guyana: Local Government Elections and 2020 – By Verian Mentis-Barker – Xpress Blog
- Medical Article: Viagra- The Happiest of All Happy Accidents?
- The RAMBLERS -NEW YEAR’S EVE DANCE – TORONTO – DECEMBER 31st. 2018
- USA: A Fate Worse Than Slavery, Unearthed in Sugar Land – By Brent Staples – New York Times
- The Arrival of East Indians in the Caribbean – By Dr. Dhanpaul Narine
- Headlines: News Americas – November 16. 2018
- My Bitter/Sweet visit to the Mazaruni Prison – by Francis Quamina Farrier
- A Blue Wave or a Close Shave? – By Yvonne Sam
- UG – University of Guyana – New Programmes 2019
- World Wars: Indians in the trenches: voices of forgotten army are finally to be heard
- Cultural Genocide: Canada’s Indigenous “Boarding Schools” – commentary
- Guyana: Jonestown tragedy remains a cautionary tale 40 years later – By Mohamed Hamaludin
- Child Abuse v Discipline—The Inference and The Difference – By Yvonne Sam
- Faith leaders in Queens hold Vigil for Pittsburgh – By Dr. Dhanpaul Narine
-
Recent Comments
- Rosaliene Bacchus on Guyana SPEAKS: Our Chinese Heritage – London UK. – Sunday 25th November (2-5pm)
- guyaneseonline on GUYANA: Fly Jamaica Plane crash at CJIA – By Cyril Bryan, Editor. Guyanese Online – passenger …UPDATED
- guyaneseonline on GUYANA: Fly Jamaica plane crash-lands at Cheddi Jagan International Airport – UPDATED
- dhanpaul narine on The Arrival of East Indians in the Caribbean – By Dr. Dhanpaul Narine
- guyaneseonline on Guyana: Jonestown tragedy remains a cautionary tale 40 years later – By Mohamed Hamaludin
- Rosaliene Bacchus on USA: A Fate Worse Than Slavery, Unearthed in Sugar Land – By Brent Staples – New York Times
- Clyde Duncan on GUYANA: Miss World Guyana heads to China
- walter on USA: A Fate Worse Than Slavery, Unearthed in Sugar Land – By Brent Staples – New York Times
- Clyde Duncan on USA: A Fate Worse Than Slavery, Unearthed in Sugar Land – By Brent Staples – New York Times
- Clyde Duncan on Guyana: Jonestown tragedy remains a cautionary tale 40 years later – By Mohamed Hamaludin
- michael hawkins on USA: A Fate Worse Than Slavery, Unearthed in Sugar Land – By Brent Staples – New York Times
- michael hawkins on The Arrival of East Indians in the Caribbean – By Dr. Dhanpaul Narine
- Trevor on The Arrival of East Indians in the Caribbean – By Dr. Dhanpaul Narine
- Trevor on Child Abuse v Discipline—The Inference and The Difference – By Yvonne Sam
- Trevor on Child Abuse v Discipline—The Inference and The Difference – By Yvonne Sam
-
Categories
-
Monthly Blog Posts
- November 2018 (57)
- October 2018 (98)
- September 2018 (115)
- August 2018 (107)
- July 2018 (100)
- June 2018 (122)
- May 2018 (133)
- April 2018 (133)
- March 2018 (156)
- February 2018 (113)
- January 2018 (138)
- December 2017 (121)
- November 2017 (130)
- October 2017 (125)
- September 2017 (130)
- August 2017 (124)
- July 2017 (138)
- June 2017 (149)
- May 2017 (146)
- April 2017 (135)
- March 2017 (126)
- February 2017 (143)
- January 2017 (145)
- December 2016 (136)
- November 2016 (167)
- October 2016 (172)
- September 2016 (159)
- August 2016 (151)
- July 2016 (196)
- June 2016 (191)
- May 2016 (193)
- April 2016 (179)
- March 2016 (180)
- February 2016 (155)
- January 2016 (155)
- December 2015 (167)
- November 2015 (146)
- October 2015 (154)
- September 2015 (146)
- August 2015 (141)
- July 2015 (130)
- June 2015 (123)
- May 2015 (158)
- April 2015 (126)
- March 2015 (120)
- February 2015 (114)
- January 2015 (86)
- December 2014 (101)
- November 2014 (130)
- October 2014 (102)
- September 2014 (90)
- August 2014 (100)
- July 2014 (91)
- June 2014 (78)
- May 2014 (97)
- April 2014 (93)
- March 2014 (101)
- February 2014 (104)
- January 2014 (100)
- December 2013 (105)
- November 2013 (108)
- October 2013 (97)
- September 2013 (113)
- August 2013 (92)
- July 2013 (97)
- June 2013 (108)
- May 2013 (76)
- April 2013 (106)
- March 2013 (100)
- February 2013 (116)
- January 2013 (94)
- December 2012 (89)
- November 2012 (100)
- October 2012 (130)
- September 2012 (84)
- August 2012 (115)
- July 2012 (125)
- June 2012 (128)
- May 2012 (114)
- April 2012 (98)
- March 2012 (94)
- February 2012 (83)
- January 2012 (73)
- December 2011 (105)
- November 2011 (123)
- October 2011 (90)
- September 2011 (74)
- August 2011 (60)
- July 2011 (42)
- June 2011 (52)
- May 2011 (51)
- April 2011 (32)
- March 2011 (41)
- February 2011 (39)
- January 2011 (39)
- December 2010 (22)
- November 2010 (12)
- October 2010 (12)
- September 2010 (21)
- August 2010 (28)
- July 2010 (21)
- June 2010 (15)
- May 2010 (37)
- April 2010 (38)
- March 2010 (13)
- February 2010 (16)
-
Affiliated Partner Links
-
Caribbean News Links
-
Cricket Websites
-
Guyana - History
-
Guyana - Other Links
-
Guyana Government
-
Guyana News Links
-
Other News Links
-
Guyanese Online
“Clan” – Poem by Jamaica-born Colin Channer – Rosaliene Bacchus Blog
Front Cover: Providential: Poems by Colin Channer
Photo Credit: Akashic Books
My Poetry Corner October 2018 features the poem “Clan” from the poetry collection, Providential, by Colin Channer, a novelist and poet born in Kingston, Jamaica. At eighteen, upon completion of high school, he migrated to New York to pursue a career in journalism. He earned a B.A. in Media Communications from Hunter College of the City University of New York. Father of two, he currently lives in New England.
When Channer was six years old, his father, a policeman, left the family, forcing his mother to work two jobs. After her daytime job as a pharmacist at a local hospital, she worked nights in a drugstore. Channer’s collection explores the violence of policing that ruined his father, their fractured relationship, and the challenges of being a better father to his own teenage son.
Channer’s teenage years contrasts with…
View original post 387 more words
Share this:
Like this: