Having won all his 21 professional fights with 18 KO’s to date Ryan Garcia is, without doubt, an exciting young prospect and talent. With his boyish good looks and charm, he is fast becoming a recognizable name both in and out of the ring. Signed by Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy his career path and earning potential seem to be on a similar trajectory to his promoter; in fact, there is also a physical resemblance as well as a shared cultural heritage.

In his last fight against the seasoned, durable and game Luke Campbell Garcia proved he was the…

Let me be clear I am not one of these so-called ‘COVID idiots’ or ‘anti-vaxxers’ who either belittle the threat that COVID-19 poses or espouse conspiracy theories about vaccines developed to treat it. To me, there is no doubt that COVID-19 is an extremely dangerous virus, which we can only take lightly at our peril. My purpose in writing this piece is not to diminish the threat it poses but to examine whether mismanagement of this deadly pathogen has exacerbated its impact.

At the time of writing according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), there have been 101,561, 219 cases…

Remember if you take another’s land

You will long be despised

perpetual conflict will be your predicament

Don’t forget they cherish their children, their identity and their dreams as much…

Life can be wonderful

It can be painful

It can be joyous

It can be brutal

It can be beautiful

It can be difficult

Alas, ultimately it is bittersweet

Death is painful

Death hurts

Nobody wants to die

But death is also inevitable

What is the alternative?

We live forever?

Is that really what you want?

If I bleed and you bleed

If you cry and I cry

If I feel pain and you feel pain

If we both died and our loved ones feel the…

We tried, but we couldn’t make it happen

Alas, don’t forget we have souls and souls reincarnate

If not in this life then perhaps in another

Or maybe we have…

You are far yet seem so near

I have never met you but feel I have known you for long

When you write I can feel your emotions and at…