Teaching your Child about your Culture
You are Jamaican but your children either left Jamaica at an early age or were born in a country outside of Jamaica. You yearn for them to learn about Jamaica and your culture but don’t know how. Here are a few things you can do to teach your children about Jamaica and your Jamaican heritage. […]
Junction Ride
I remember as a girl going to school in Kingston and having to take a bus from the country everyday for two hours both ways. I would have to pass the “Junction” that leads to St. Mary/Portland. I use to be so scared that I would fall asleep as soon as I reached Castleton. Just […]
Watch de Ride
Exterminator, Snow White, Eliminator …’quarter-millions’ that were not to be taken by the faint of heart!!! Schoolboys jumping through windows, girls stampeding doors…ahhhh …what a site it was to behold. Yet what was it about these buses that drove youngsters into such a frenzied state?!! Was it: The flashy paintwork The possibility of hearing every […]
Anancy & Common Sense
Wance apan a time Breda Anancy mek up im mind seh im gwine callect all a de camman sense inna de wurl. Im was tinking dat he would be de smartest smaddy in de wurl ef im do dis. So Anancy traveled all ova de wurl collecting camman sense. Im go to big countries an […]
Clowning On The Merri-Go-Round – Poem
To solve this simple equation !” said the teacher, “If X equals Y, then Y demands an answerOf INEVITABLE MADNESS AT THE CIRCUS!” “Is cloning a sort of scientific clowning?” asked the parson of the clown;“Oh no!” the clown replied,“T think it’s rather obvious!”“You may be right!” the acrobat said,“I must t try it on […]
The Runaway Bus – Miss PeBeep
With only a few buses plying the routes of some of the roads in the rural communities, many of the drivers often times do as they please all in the name of earning a few extra dollars. One popular misdemeanor was trespassing into other bus routes close by or even at great distances from which […]
Reminiscing About Jamaica
I was reminiscing the other day about how much life has changed. The children of today have so many liberties that sometimes they don’t know what to do with themselves. I remember going to Prep School in Jamaica and you would never dare talk back to your teachers. Teachers were held in high esteem and […]
The Typical Jamaican Family
Jamaican families have very special bonds, and the entire extended family – grandparents, aunts, uncles – are involved in a child’s upbringing. Even neighbors have a real role in supervising the children as well. While parents are stern, they are also fun-loving and very involved in all aspects of their children’s lives, encouraging them to […]
The Love of Goat
“Manish wata good fe de datwa”“Everything criss & curry”“Ram goat liver mek good manish wata” Goat meat is a delicacy. It is such a delecay that we eat everything and we use it in every day talk. The head & the tripe is used to make Jamaican Viagra…Manish water. It is rumored that communities will […]
Very old big bus
I was born in Davyton, Manchester and have many experiences riding on the big bus. We had to travel to Mandeville to do our grocery and clothes shopping or to see the town. We had to be at the corner (Bus stop) at a special time and if we missed the bus that’s it. That […]
