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Dennis Jones is a Jamaican-born international economist, who has lived most of the time in the UK and USA, and latterly in Guinea, west Africa. He moved back to the Caribbean in 2007. This blog contains his observations on life on this small eastern Caribbean island, as well as views on life and issues on a broader landscape, especially the Caribbean and Africa.

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Friday, March 26, 2010

Gave Instead Of Lent 31-34

March 22: Gave up my night's sleep to be at the airport for a family pick up. But, it was worth it to sit in my car in the pouring rain.

March 23: Gave acceptable breakfast service to my house guest, who then appreciated the drive through the bucolic Barbadian countryside to Codrington: he enjoyed seeing stands of mahoganies and other trees, which are very rare on his island.

March 24: Gave thanks to the British for the quirky things they do and did and what they have left behind as traces of their time here as colonial rulers. The post box in a wall is one such sign.

March 25: Gave my morning to searching for my child's school folder, which she left somewhere. Poor dear had brought home another child's. When asked if her folder did not have her name on, she replied "Yes, but it was upside down." The prosecution rests.

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