Chiff-Club – Country Gal A Foreign
Yuh see when me use to go a school a Guinep Hill, me use to love join Chiff-Club, yuh know. A when me big-big me find out say is Thrift Club it name, dat is, it teaching you to be thrifty as in save up yuh money an no go spend it every minute a […]
Play di game nuh, man – Country Gal A Foreign
When me use to go a Primary school a country, yuh know, we use to have dis girl name Gwendolyn. Dat girl coulda romp so till. Massi, ma, as recess bell ring so she an Joyce dis fly outa class fore teacher coulda say “chilvren”. An when lunch bell ring fi wi say “for health […]
Rain a fall – Country Gal A Foreign
Yuh see when me use to live a country, me use to love when rain fall yuh know, man. Me use to love look outa di window an watch how it just wet up di place so and sing ‘rain a fall breeze a blow’. (Me coulda nevah make mama hear me sing dat deh […]
Power Cut – Country Gal A Foreign
Yuh did deh eena di power cut di odda day, missis? What a sinting eena Foreign, sah? You coulda believe dat we coulda have blackout eena Foreign? Massi, ma. Me did tink seh a ongly fi me lickle corner a di world dem dere sinting coulda happen. No sah, me a cook mi pot when […]
Forty-leg, gallawasp an ting – Country Gal A Foreign
Yuh memba when you did lickle a country how sometime you see forty-leg and scorpion an gallawasp and yuh run like when dem put turpentine back a horse? Me tell you man, me did fraid a dem sinting deh. One time scorpion did bite my bredda Frankie, yuh know. Di bway fret, him fret so […]
Vegetable matter – Country Gal A Foreign
You see when me did lickle a country, mama always use to have at least one pepper tree plant a di pipe-side, you know. When you see it bear, it loaded so till, di limb dem out fi pop off. Mama just a give way pepper so, even Missa Chin did get di freeness to […]
Back to school again – Country Gal A Foreign
Yes, chile, is back to school again. By di droves all kinda pickney a go back fi go get di lickle learnings. Big pickney, lickle bit a pickney, young and old granny a get dem education. Ain’t it a grand ting? If dere is one ting me can say bout dis Foreign, it provide opportunity […]
Wedding Day – A Jamaican Short Story
Did you ever want to strangle your best friend on your wedding day? Well I did…for a minute anyway. Let me start from the beginning. Olivia and I met in infant school in rural Jamaica where we were born. We instantly took to each other and became little sisterfriends. I guess from us always chattering […]
Join the Jamaicans.com team! – 2004 Reggae Marathon Negril
Jamaicans.com is excited to announce the formation of the 2004 Reggae Marathon Boardite team and we hope you will join us Saturday December 4th 2004 for the 4th annual Reggae Marathon and half marathon in Negril. Our goal is to field a team of walkers and runners, have a lot of fun, and raise money […]
Making History
We often view history as being alivein books about the pastwhich we retrieve from dusty shelvesto learn of great events that didn’t lastof things about others, and truths about ourselvesof people who held our forebears in servitude and chainsand forebears who put us on the blockfor less than thirty pieces, their souls forever stainedBut on […]