On Martyrs and Fathers

Here I go again with my now annual lamentation and enquiry. On Sunday 16th we here get a “package of observances – one strictly local, one more universal.
Yes, I am referring to the Enmore Martyrs Day remembering when five sugar workers were shot dead by colonial police during a robust industrial protest sixty-five years ago.

Then there is Father’s Day ostensibly to pay tribute to the world’s (good) fathers. Probably American- inspired.

My regular readers and few friends would know that I am not too fond of these one (yearly) day(s), when instead, all the worthy sentiments, behaviours and observances to celebrate people and events should be extant and demonstrated every day. But who am I to