Jamaica’s Spy Rob
Herein follows my report on my assignment: Discover Jamaica Posing as a vacationer, I jumped on one of the cheap fares from New York ($285) and made my way to the tropic isle. Flying that foreign airline, AA I was scheduled for a stop over in Montego Bay before my destination Kingston. This was a […]
Carnival in Jamaica
Jamaica Carnival, a time of excitement and fun in the sun. Many Jamaicans and many other people from around the world look forward to this hot and exciting event that comes around only once a year. Carnival is held at various locations on our precious island, Jamaica. People of various tones, shapes, and sizes come […]
Be Jamaican in a Foreign Land
On many occasions I have met Jamaicans, living abroad, who do not display appropriate Jamaican behavior. This can lead to isolation by Socially Correct Jamaicans and has prompted me to put together some categories and a list of things to do so as to achieve Social Correctness. Music: Most Jamaicans listen to reggae. However not […]
Funny But True: Croaking Lizards and Jamaicans
Want to bring a Jamaican to their knees. Just mention the word croaking lizards. The lizard, which of the gecko family is one of the most feared things in Jamaica and clear a room quicker than a 3-alarm fire. Do you remember all the things you used to hear about croaking lizards in Jamaica? “Ef […]
Bruckins Time – Do You Understand What Emancipation Means?
A number of Jamaicans today do not understand what Emancipation means. Yet a number of books and papers have been written about the abolition of slavery, the greatest watershed event in the history of the Caribbean. Emancipation Day was celebrated on August 1 up to 1962. After Jamaica gained Independence, the 1st Monday in August […]
Miss PeBeep: A Caning to Remember
As children, we think that we can outsmart our parents and get away with it, especially when there is always someone else to blame. I grew up in a small community along the eastern coast of the island with five sisters and one brother, and the occasional cousins or distant relative that my mother would […]
Memba dis – Remember This in Jamaica
Let your mind take you back to those days .. At primary school: an icy mint was 1 cent a fudge was 5 cents free vegetable patties free cows milk, cherry milk free uniform material Walking through the Malls in Constant Spring at Christmas, lighting sparkles.The song “Arlene a musi dream yu deh dream”Far less […]
Jamaican Rumor
“Coffin runnin’ round, asking, asking for Mr. Brown, down in Parade, people runnin’ like a masquerade.”…Bob Marley Jamaica is the sort of place where pandemonium, and mass hysteria can break out at any time. ‘Catch a fever’ as it is morecommonly known, broke out in Kingston, the capital city, in the late sixties in a […]
"Yuh need a Sea Bath"
Lawd Precious, yuh sound bad, a whey yuh have” “Mi ave a touch a de flu 2 week now” “Yuh need a sea bath” For those of you who don’t understand, a sea bath is said to cure any cold or flu. I remember my first sea bath. I was about 7 years old & […]
Scarring My Butt – Miss PeBeep
The other day I was having a private moment in my bathroom. I casually looked over my right shoulder on to my right hip and my eyes were immediately drawn to a two-inch scar that I had on my backside. I immediately began to reminisce. My grandmother had a sofa bed that was made of […]
