Bad Ackee or Wicked People?

January 19th, 2011

As I sit to eat my favourite Saturday breakfast of ackee and salt fish with breadfruit, I lament the much abused fruit, the ackee.  It is well known that ackee, if it is forced open can cause deaths.  That simple truth has seemingly evaded those who continue this dangerous practice which endangers lives.  The news report of [...]

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Be Careful about Buying Tainted Ackee!

June 2nd, 2010

Maybe we need to start climbing our own trees and picking our own ackees?That’s how I felt when I read the article entitled “Beware of Unfit Canned Ackee” in  The Gleaner published May 14, 2010. The articler stated that 40 cases of processed ackee had ‘disappeared’ from a factory in St. Elizabeth, which was under investigation.  The Bureau of [...]

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