We Needed The Reggae Boyz in World Cup 2002
The 2002 World Cup is here and there will be no “Reggae Boyz” to represent Jamaica. Fans all over the world loved the team and I am sure they will be missed. When the team qualified in the last world cup they did more than just make Caribbean History. It was more than being the […]
Ancestors
Book DescriptionThis dynamic and inspiring novel is the result of Paul Crooks’ thirteen-year quest to find his African forebears. His amazing journey took him from suburban north London to the Caribbean, and from there to the Gold Coast of Africa where his story originally began. In the late 18th century, at the age of ten, […]
Parenting in the twenty-first century
Buy Parenting in the twenty-first century Now!!! Book DescriptionRaising children today is both exciting and challenging. With his first book, “Parenting In The Twenty-first Century”, Percy Ricketts offers simple solutions for some of the main challenges and concerns parents face today. Some of the concerns discussed include : safety spending more time with your children abuse […]
Come Inna Dis YAH National Groundation
It’s now Independence day year 2000, I just got through reading the story of a 24-year-old black male from an inner city community in Kingston, Jamaica; entitled “Diary of a Ghetto Youth”. My eyes are a little misty as now I am also 24 years of age; It so happens that I have not lived […]
The gov’t sanctions’guilty until proven innocent’
Dear Friends,Despite a claim by the Jamaican constitution that citizens are presumed innocent until proven guilty, events in recent weeks have confirmed the experience of many Jamaicans that what obtains in practice is that one is guilty if so accused by the police until proven innocent. The reminder of this ugly fact was none other […]
Making Change happen in Real Jamaican Style…
It’s the eve of parliamentary elections February 8th 1989, just about 8 years since the last major polls in Jamaica, six years after the non-contested 1983 general election. The opposition and People’s National Party leader Michael Manley boycotted those polls in reaction to Prime Minister Edward Seaga’s pre-mature call of elections. Manley and his fellow […]
The Skin Bleaching Phenomenon – Commentary
Pretty Tamara Richards is convinced that white people have all the advantages in the world. She believes that white people get jobs easier, earn the highest salaries and attract handsome and wealthy men. But there’s one little problem: Tamara is just about four shades darker than the typical white woman and just barely graces the […]
Jamaican Salsa Dancer and Actress
Anne Thornley-Brown, President of The Training Oasis, Inc, has over 20 years of experience in a variety of industries including wireless communications, banking, transportation, and film and television. She has an M.B.A. from York University in Toronto, Canada. Anne has facilitated workshops for executives, managers and professionals in Canada, the US, Jamaica, Malaysia, Singapore, and […]
Reggae Photographer Lee Abel
Lee Abel began visiting Jamaica 1979 working on a black and white documentary of rural Jamaica. Her passion for the island, its people, culture and spirit led her into the world of reggae. She shot her first “Sunsplash” of many in 1988. Since then her, photographs have graced the covers of over 50 albums for […]
Jamaicans Attitude to Afro-Americans
I have been here in the USA permanently for four years and while that is a relatively short time I have come in close contacts with a number of African Americans and remain in contact with my fellow Jamaicans. What I have realized from going between both communities is this belief that my fellow Jamaicans […]
