I AM NOT SURPRISED that Barbadians are idolising Eric Jerome Dickey. How can we condemn our local calypsonians for promoting smut yet embrace this foreign author with open arms?
I want to implore the Ministers of Education and of Youth and Family, the Attorney General and Reverends Charles Morris and Errington Massiah to read Waking With Enemies by E. Jerome Dickey and to make their comments.
Waking With Enemies is nothing but a sex novel. Parents beware! I am particularly concerned that bookstores are indiscriminately placing books containing descriptions of lewd sexual activity within reach of children.
Such books should be confined to an area for “adults only”.
Currently any schoolchild can stroll into some stores and browse through books containing adult material. This must not be allowed to continue.
I am calling for books by Eric Jerome Dickey to be monitored and to be placed out of the reach of children or banned altogether.
E. JEROME DAVIS
