As the Italian educator Maria Montessori once said,  the role of education is to “free the child’s potential” and by so doing “transform him into the world”, writes 23-year-old youth activist Craig Dixon from Jamaica. Slender blades of grass sway at the behest of the wind. If the wind blows from the west, their heads …

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Grenada is full of too many armchair moralists – those who condemn youths without demonstrating an active interest in empowering and educating them, writes Craig Dixon, a 23-year-old Jamaican Commonwealth Correspondent living in Grenada. The rampant decadence of youth is Grenada’s most visible secret. Young people are entangled in a widening web of despair, depravity …

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Grenada is full of too many armchair moralists – those who condemn youths without demonstrating an active interest in empowering and educating them, writes Craig Dixon, a 23-year-old Jamaican Commonwealth Correspondent living in Grenada. The rampant decadence of youth is Grenada’s most visible secret. Young people are entangled in a widening web of despair, depravity …

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A triathlon, consisting of swimming, sprinting and cycling endurance feats, will test the body to the limit, discovers Arianne St Louis, 24, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Trinidad & Tobago, who competed in a major event earlier this month in Grenada. On May 6th I participated in the Grenada Tri de Spice International Triathlon in the …

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A triathlon, consisting of swimming, sprinting and cycling endurance feats, will test the body to the limit, discovers Arianne St Louis, 24, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Trinidad & Tobago, who competed in a major event earlier this month in Grenada. On May 6th I participated in the Grenada Tri de Spice International Triathlon in the …

"One more lap to go and it would all be over, I thought to myself" Read More »