... and Keisha met 'di killa'
I MAY be a country girl to Kingstonians but this country girl is no farmer, much less cane cutter. No, that line of work is not my calling.

Raised on cane - Sugar cane and its industry in Jamaica:
The sugar industry is the oldest continually operating commerce in Jamaica.

'If I knew then what I know now'
AS THE famous song goes, 'If I knew then what I know now'­ I would have found a way to chicken out of my editor's 'brilliant' suggestion that we go cane cutting for a day to understand the working conditions ...

'I felt humbled'
THE OTHERS might not have noticed but I was walking with a swagger going into that cane field. I'd been eyeing the endless rows of green bushes...