Better to have loved…-August 1997
Better to have loved and Lost, than not to have Loved at all – Patois Translation Well, mi dey ya again, talking as usual bout di painful, but essential paat a life, Relationships. Wi all know sey nutten noh permanent ina dis wurl. Soh knowing dat nung and applying ti to every aspec a yu […]
Love mash-up part I – June 1997
Check it out: Wen a man a look a woman, nuff niceness and lyrics and impramise fi giv har de worl. No amounta “mi luv is deepa dan di deepest sea an higha dan di air bus can fly” an im mean every word. In fac, im hav more lyrics dan Frankie Paul imself. Even […]
Love mash-up part II – May 1997
Yes mi chile, mi dey ya again, mi was a tell unu bout di woman dem prablem with di six months. Here is the scenario: Boy meets girl. As we was saying, a nuh di man dem alone hav di six months frame of fayvas fading fast. Mi chile, wen shi fus meet im shi […]
Love mash-up part II – May 1997
Yes mi chile, mi dey ya again, mi was a tell unu bout di woman dem prablem with di six months. Here is the scenario: Boy meets girl. As we was saying, a nuh di man dem alone hav di six months frame of fayvas fading fast. Mi chile, wen shi fus meet im shi […]
de montel syndrome- March 1997
Ere mi is back again, well, dis time mi afi apalogise fi mi remissiveness in riting bout di skettel paartna, mi wha?. Well, mi rite bout di skettel dem an neva rite bout dem paartna, di Montel. Sorry mi boss Montel, but di man dem name Montel. A Dem ave a syndrome. One Montel is […]
de skettel syndrome – Febuary 1997
Mi dear, de skettel syndrome dun ya bad, bad. Dem hav one $10.00 bax juice weh dem caal skettel juice an the boot dem weh hav de big eel, dem caal dem skettel boot. Dem also hav som bag juice weh dem caal maitie juice. Nuff tings a gwaan dun ya. Is olgle one set […]
Chinese in Jamaica
The Chinese started to arrive in Jamaica on July 30th,1854. By the year 1930, four thousand emigrated to Jamaica. In the next 6 years and additional 2,000 arrived. Compared with the African-Jamaican population and even with the number of Indians, the figure was relatively small but the Jamaican Government, facing economic pressures of the depression […]
Work Songs
With the dawn of the 19th Century came the cries of the Napoleonic war to the flames and carnage of the Haitian revolution and in Jamaica to tarrying rumours that slaves brought by fugitive French planters were planning an uprising. More than one thousand were transported. This followed conspiracies in Kingston in 803 and in […]
John Canoe or Jonkonnu Parade
The John Canoe (Jonkonnu), which links music and dance, mime and symbol is an early traditional dance form of African descent that still survives in Jamaica. The mask has a central place in African religions, and it may be that JohnCanoe, a masquerade form, and myal, a possession-healing form of religion, were closely allied in […]
Christmas Market or Grand Market
Christmas Market or Grand Market as it was also called was held on the morning of Christmas Day. These special markets occupied the front doors of legitimate business who were closed for the holiday in the town or village square. No public or private transportation was allowed into the special part of town that the […]