KILKAYTAY EVERY STONE! An undevout look at mainly Trinidad and Tobago current affairs.

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Monday, 11 August 2008

And in a manger, cold and dark, Mary's little boy was born!

Strange, but, on reading this Trinidad Express story of the baby girl born behind bars with only prisoners in attendance as midwives, I feel no urge to be recriminative towards anyone, rather, to be philosophical, as I think that this baby, despite her most ignominious entry into this world, will emulate the most excellent example of that baby who was born just about two thousand years ago, in, but for the bars, very similar circumstances. And in a manger, cold and dark, Mary's little boy was born!