A feature on Jamaica’s cannabis industry by Vice News.

I posted about this yesterday on Twitter because it is upsetting. A father allegedly raped his 13-year-old daughter for who knows how many years. The police came to investigate and the man allegedly took his son hostage. The media continues to refer to rape and incest with terms such as “sexual affair”, and simply “sex with”. This is horrifyingly inaccurate and harmful. It is rape and/or incest. I’m not sure why the journalists continue to do this as they have had some education sessions. The majority of people also know that minors- under 16 years here- cannot consent to sex, let alone a girl with her own father. Perhaps it’s a case of a reporter who missed the session and it slipped by the editor, but it seems to happen more than that explanation would suffice. I guess it is cultural and perhaps a lack of style guide in the newsroom. In any case, it must stop, as it perpetuates some very corrosive lines of thinking.

Watch this. It is good.

This man was wearing a mask while watching carnival.

New restaurant on the waterfront.

The Kingston waterfront is home to a couple of new restaurants, which is great, but the area still needs a lot of work. Trash is everywhere and it still seems run down. It is a beautiful area with a lot of potential.

We visited Emancipation Park on the weekend and took in the Redemption Song statue.

This is my latest for Thomson Reuters Foundation. It is about property rights and Rastafari and marijuana. It is a complex topic and I filed it about double this length, but unfortunately there are word limits as well as shorter attention spans.