Yesterday morning my household got an unaccustomed 7:00 am telephone call. I answered with some trepidation because past experience told me that such a call in the wee hours of the morning could not be bringing good news. My answering the ring revealed my cousin on the other end his voice filled with an amount of excitement. “Did you read the Gleaner yet this morning?” he asked (the Gleaner, more commonly known as the Daily Gleaner is Jamaica’s oldest and leading daily newsprint publication). “They threw some of those criminals in prison yesterday.” As he said that, I already knew who he talking about and any keen observer of the Jamaican political climate would.
Now it’s not that we were rejoicing in someone else’s misfortune but we both knew that we were observing change – a movement away from the status quo and that’s what was exciting us. A couple of months ago in Jamaica, a low ranking police officer admitted to planting evidence at a crime scene and we rejoiced too because this act signaled that change was in the air - I cannot recollect such a thing happening before. First the change in the air it seemed, manifested itself into the slighest hint of a tropical breeze similar to that found meandering off Jamaica's coastline above the Caribbean Sea; blowing ashore and tipping the hats of John Q. Public on a balmy summer’s day. Then, a politician actually spends a night in prison for alleged wrongdoing to the public sensibilty, dare we believe that this still, calm, breeze could become a wind of change? Only time, prayers, vigilance and the greatest meteorologist of them all can tell.
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