GPS Navigation System – Jamaican Style Part 2

Devon is about to catch a flight back to NY from Norman Manley airport and approaches a back up miles away from the airport. He is driving a rental equipped with GPS Navigation and decides to use it to get out of his predicament. Devon:    Man it come in like disyah traffic a tun stale […]

GPS Navigation System – Jamaican Style Part 1

Adolphous buys a SUV equipped with a GPS Navigation system. He just arrived from country and is new to Kingston and needs the GPS to direct him.     Adolphous:   What a way dem Kingston Rd congested and canfusing.. Den half a di road sign dem pap dung.. How di hell mi ago reach Hope Rd and […]

A Dread Response – At the hospital

Rastaman is stabbed in a confrontation and takes himself to the hospital. Here are the questions and his Interpretation: Can I help you sir? Lady yuh si mi bleed out baxide a yuh ask if mi wan help? Ooman stap di lali-gagging an call di Dacta fi aparate pan mi now .. Sir yuh have […]

A Dread Response – Interview with a Bank

Imagine a Rastaman going on an interview with a Bank. Here are the questions and his Interpretation: Name:   Bobo Dread Amaka Baka Fari Age –     I man noh count birtdayDate of Birth – Mi sey Rasta noh deal wid dem tings deh manAddress – Uppa di Hills a WesmorlanTel. No. – I man Doan participate ina […]

A Dread’s response – Coming to America

A Rastaman trying to enter Canada via Norman Manley Airport. Here are the questions and his Interpretation: Good Morning, Can I have your name please? King Dahjah AKA Maka-dread! Hail to Selasihi .. rula of Zion and King of all Kings. It is I who shot di Sherif but I neva shoot di Deputy – […]

The Power of his greatness- dedicate to Haiti

It was only mid-day bed unmade sound of moving waves cricket sang the air smell fresh and clean void speak stillness and the soul is please at its calm like yesterday storms never exist there was something something different about today today void open    her eye  of a world that seem unnotice a world she never […]

How We Celebrated Chinese New Year In Jamaica

Chinese New Year is the most important festival in the Chinese calendar. It is a time of family gatherings feasting games dances and merrymaking.  Family members living thousands of miles away from their homes will make the journey to be with family members, relatives, and close friends and there are special rituals and customs that […]

Entrapment – Part 2

We went under cover of night I was too dazed to remember where we went My body shook and my bones rattled in the back of the taxi as we manoeuvred a rutted track, somewhere in St. Mary. A dim light bulb lit the compound, which sat on the lip of a low hill I […]

Entrapment – Part 1

Miriam’s calls grew more insistent with each passing hour. I feared this was the end     Months before, she’d made a peaceful picture in her casket Her face was fresh, as though she was asleep and her hair arranged around her shoulders, but only three of us knew what killed her Now, she was my constant […]

mogadishu…

i find this guyas i’m passing byclutching my office bagwhich i simply refer toas my ‘walking office’though this time aroundit also doubles upas a ‘mission bag’with two supple 750 ml quarts from the nearby liquorama outletitting quietly insidehe’s seated on the car bonnetof this nice, mini pajeroinside this ramshackle showroomrun by some pakistani car dealerhere […]