Making Development Happen: A Kaleidoscope Of My Jamaican Childhood
Two interviews? Really! Did I need this job so badly? I had promised Pippa Fray, then President of the Jamaica Library Association, that I would go, but this was a bit much. However, having given my word to the unusually cute Financial Controller, Jeremy Brown (he did not look like anything I had seen in […]
Reading Maketh the Full Man: A Kaleidoscope Of My Jamaican Childhood
In 1960, I became an employee of one of Jamaica’s most critical public institutions, dedicated to changing the face and lives of Jamaica and Jamaicans through the power of books and reading; the Jamaica Library Service (JLS),established in 1948 in colonial Jamaica, I joined as a Bookmobile Library Assistant for the Schools Library Service (SLS). […]
30 Women Names Jamaicans No Longer Give Their Children
As generations change and modernize, there are some female names that we can safely say have completed their cycle. To our grandmothers, great grandmothers, grandaunts these names were the best among the lot when they were being named or when naming their children. As Jamaican mothers got into the 90s year, they started giving their […]
5 Things We Loved and Hated About Our Neighbors in Jamaica
If you have lived outside of Jamaica, you may have realized the difference in having neighbors there versus back home. There is always a story about a neighbor, some we like, some we don’t. Here are 5 things we loved and hated about our neighbors in Jamaica. 1. Security You do not need a security […]
English Peas: A Kaleidoscope Of My Jamaican Childhood
Sunday was the day they came to Ivy Cottage. In the afternoon. After dinner. They came in their English cars – their Morris Oxfords and their Vauxhalls. Pale, sallow, freckle-faced men with knobbly white knees in khaki shorts; women with overbites; brown hair that was either straight and stringy or curled tight in a perm. […]
7 Reasons Jamaican Are The Most Chill People In The World
Jamaicans may be considered probably the most chill group of persons in the world. If you have ever interacted with them, you know the people from the small Caribbean island are a jovial and easy-going bunch. Here are 7 reasons why Jamaicans are considered the most “chill” people in the world. 1. Jamaicans Choose Their […]
Cutting The Navel String: A Kaleidoscope Of My Jamaican Childhood
When I met my sister Velma, shortly after my 16th birthday , I looked keenly for some resemblance, but saw only the shape of our father’s chiselled lips and his thick springy hair. She was working at the St. Elizabeth Parish Council’s offices in Black River as a secretary. I later learnt that he had […]
Lance: A Kaleidoscope Of My Jamaican Childhood
He was tall. He was dark. He was handsome and seemingly shy. He also came with a reputation. A sports reputation. I had heard the name from my days at Manchester School and our embarrassingly consistent beating in football by Knox College in Spaldings, also in Manchester. Lance Royale was a star on the football […]
9 Ways You Know A Jamaican Like You
Jamaicans are blunt and typically it does not take long to know if they like you or not. Both their body language and choice of words when talking to you will let you know right away. If you want to know if they do like you, here are some signs you can consider: 1. Jamaicans […]
THE BALM YARD: A Kaleidoscope Of My Jamaican Childhood
A woman want to hold down a man And want to do it as fast as she can Balmer say you bring a fowl And some silver in a bowl And I will fix you in the balm yard Chorus: Come along and watch the healing in the balm yard Halleluiah! Healing in the balm […]
