Jamaicans.com Sons In The Street Fund
The Jamaicans.com Sons in the Street Fund was a great success, thanks to the many of you who supported it!! Background August 30th, 2003 marks the launch of a fundraising effort by Members of Jamaicans.com to raise necessary funds to financially assist a targeted family in Kingston Jamaica. The funds will be raised by solicitation […]
Fondest Jamaica to Canada Migration Memory
This month is Miss Lou Month on Jamaicans.com. Win a 1- year subscription to win a 1-year subscription to Canadian Ambassador Magazine when you send us your fondest memory of moving from Jamaica to Canada. It could be the questions you were asked about Jamaica, about the help you got. Use the form below, send […]
Chichibud: Empowering Jamaica’s Children
Imagine communities in Kingston’s inner city, where playgrounds vibrate with the happy laughter of little children, where community murals display the creative talents of area youths and where classrooms have comfortable reading corners, complete with colourful picture books for children to explore. These are just some of the projects Chichibud Ltd., an educational NGO (Non-Governmental […]
Jamaicans.com Christmas 2003 Toy Drive Pictures
This past Christmas Jamaicans.com along with Partners Chichibud and Jampact presented the toys from our toy drive to the children at the Cresent Road Basic School, Kingston, Jamaica. As with our previous Toy Drive we exceeded the goal set. The Toy Drive would not have been made possible without the help of the contributions made […]
Jamaica Needs Your Help
The May-June 2002 flood rains have devastated Jamaica. With over 9 deaths, 300 homeless and $80 million in losses, Jamaica needs your help. Below are a list of organizations across North America you can contact to donate items and/or money. Please contact us if there is an donation effort in your city and it is […]
My Love Affair with Jamaica
It began in August 1998 and it was love at first sight. I had forgotten how exciting it was to be in the first throes of love. Forgotten how love awakens and stimulates all the senses. At first sight, as the plane touched down at Montego Bay, the blazing sunshine washed over me, instantly lifting […]
Xavier Murphy
Send Email [email protected] Hi. I’m Xavier.(Xavier pronounced like Xanadu, Xoom or Xerox ) For the many people that cannot pronouce my name I’m X-man. Okay now that we’ve gotton that out of the way let me give you the boring bio in one run-on sentence. I was born in Kingston, Jamaica, attended high school at […]
10 Favorite Destinations in MoBay
THE MONTEGO BAY AREA OF JAMAICA The MONTEGO BAY AREA is the “Tourist Gateway” to Jamaica. The vibrancy of this Tourist Mecca can be seen in such diverse places as the Craft Market and on the Cruise Ship Pier. Once called “Bahia de Manteca” or “Lard Bay”, today tourism, not pig butter, feeds the local […]
Liz’s Guide to Negril
I was asked by a couple of folks on the hookah mailing list to compile some hints, tips, whatever for our April trip to Negril with Hookah so here it is. Suggestions, critiques, comments, additional questions, you’re-dead-wrong-liz notes etc, e-mail me. This is NOT comprehensive, I’m sure I missed a lot. Some people will give […]
15 Reasons Why Jamaican "Patois" is a Language!
In the fifteen points below I have summarized the issues on why Jamaican Patois is a language. As a Jamaican educator and linguist I have been working diligently to have our Jamaican language fully and officially recognized by our Jamaican Government. So far I’ve been receiving favorable commentary from the Jamaican Press and the Jamaican […]
