Wild and Loose in Jamaica
Abandoned animals are found throughout Jamaica. These dogs and cats roam from place to place looking for whatever food they can find. It isn’t unusual to hear dogs fighting over choice morsels throughout the day while cats seem to confine their confrontations to the evening and overnight periods. In doing research for this article, I […]
Dr. Hopelyn Mullings-Brown — A Jamaican’s Journey of Hope
Humble beginnings……Hopelyn Brown was born in Bull Bay, St Andrew. I was born at home, she added, I am a home baby. I came into this world, thanks to a midwife-Nurse Rose’. She reminisced about the time she went home in November 2007 ‘the little board house was still there, old, but still standing; It was […]
The Color of Ice- A Canadian Serenade: Jamaican Book Review
About this Book After his father’s death, Eric Taylor is left to fend for himself on a small farm in the mountains of Jamaica. He decides to seek his fortune abroad, and chooses Toronto as his new home. It is a decision he immediately regrets. Alone and half-frozen, he longs for the sunshine and sensuality […]
Know When To Tek Weh Yuh Self
Gentlemen let’s reason for a while and ladies pass this article on to your brother, son, cousin and yes, your man. If you are a married/attached man who is in a extramarital affair and you desire to get out but you can’t seem to get out, it is as if you are trapped, then chances […]
What Has Happened to the Jamaica I Remember?
From my home on a quiet street across from Lake Gibson in Lakeland, Florida, I read with disbelief about the latest horrors taking place in my homeland of Jamaica. As I watch the squirrels and birds frolicking among the oak trees and the butterflies fluttering among the blooms in my garden, I recall a Jamaica […]
So Close, Yet So Far Away – Jamaican living in Central America
As a Jamaican living in Central America I have heard many perceptions from Jamaicans about the Isthmus. The truth is that many Jamaicans look down on these countries as backward and Civil War stricken nations. This is so far from the present day reality as those periods of war are long gone and most of […]
Acres of Diamonds
Russell Conwell helped to transform a night school in a church basement in Philadelphia into Temple University. He did it by retelling a story that was told to him while in a camel caravan in Mesopotamia. It was a story about Al Hafed, a very wealthy farmer in ancient Persia. Al Hafed was living his […]
Jamaicans need to carpool to ease gas burden
Relatively speaking, the time has now come for better dialogue in regards to modes of transportation and travel patterns, in Jamaica. The formidable task to encourage transportation behavioral patterns is emerging. We need to educate our people on the various behavioral patterns of different group of road users, and pedestrians. We need to remind our […]
Interview With Marc Panton The Operator of Butterfly Dreams Farm
Marc and Coleen Panton own an operate operate the Butterfly Dreams Farm in Black River, St. Elizabeth, Jamaica. This month we interview Marc Panton and discuss butterflies in Jamaica. Q. How did you get into the business of butterflies? My wife and I fell in love with butterflies on our honeymoon in St. […]
Marijuana – What is its role in Jamaica’s future?
HealthDay Reporter, Steven Reinberg recently wrote an article entitled “Marijuana May Shrink Parts of the Brain”. According to him, researchers have found that long term use of the drug can cause significant brain injury, affect memory and result in early psychotic symptoms. I believe that the utilization of nature’s gift of marijuana is a great […]