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Claiming Our Power, Protecting Women’s Rights
Seventeen dynamic young women from  communities in Kingston and Botany Bay, St. Thomas, participated in a WMW training workshop to strengthen their  potential as Young Leaders.
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WMW Profile: Karen Gentles
WMW sat down with Karen Gentle, Member of WMW’s Board of Directors…

What keeps you busy?

My job, my family! I am the Executive Assistant to the CEO of the Dispute Resolution Foundation— and there is so much that we’re involved in.
My parents are both still alive and I really enjoy them. What else keeps me busy? My friends!

What are you passionate about?

Family, number one. And my my job: at the DRF we do mediation, we teach conflict and dispute resolution techniques, teaching people how to handle conflict positively and creatively rather than aggressively and negatively.
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Proactively Moving, Creatively Grooving
This time, it was mostly men who were ‘proactively moving’ and intensely reasoning.
Lead workshop facilitator, Owen ‘Blakka’ Ellis, posed the key question: “As men, where do we locate ourselves in the multi-layered mosaic of masculinity, misogyny and music ?”
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Woman and Man chat ‘bout - Sexual Harassment
Meet ‘Mr. Clarke’. He’s a constant sexual harasser. He says it’s not his fault if this young ‘ting’ dresses so attractively, so sexily that he’s tempted to touch. After all, a man has his urges –that’s what makes him a man. So, if “temptation” is there he says he “just can’t help” commenting to a young miss “yuh look delicious like lunch—I coulda eat yuh!”
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