There is no grouping of persons that isn't deserving of love. A child with Down's syndrome requires even more love and patience than the average child. And if you ask those who relate to them on a day-to-day basis, they would say that before long, one can't see a difference between a child with Down's syndrome and any other child.

IT'S A LAID-BACK, serene community beside the sea at Calabash Bay, St Elizabeth, but for one weekend in May for over a decade, except for last year, it would be overrun by lovers of literature and the arts. But after the one-year hiatus, Calabash Literary Festival returned to this scenic town with much buzz, from May 25-27, under the theme 'Jubilation', in commemoration of Jamaica's 50th year of Independence.