How to Raise Your Child Like A Jamaican : Jamaican Book Review
ABOUT THE BOOK How to Raise Your Child Like A Jamaican (Life lessons my parents taught me) is a funny island approach to childrearing. Through life lessons such as “I’ve Been Working Since My Eyes Were Down at My Knees” and “Fire De A Mus Mus Tail, Him Tink A Cool Breeze” Dahlia D. Welsh […]
Lokixximo Santo Domingo Tour 2007
Muy pronto el famoso duo New Yorkino “Lokixximo” inicia su gira en su tierra natal de la Republica Dominicana, donde promocionará n sus temas bien pegados “Reggaeton Pesao” y “Chimichurry” en diversas emisoras y pueblos de Quisqueya ; luego de varios años fuera de su tierra regresan a los escenarios a celebrar su exitosa carrera […]
What is holding you back?
If you have ever been to a circus you may have noticed that the elephants are held in check by a chain attached to a small wooden stake driven into the ground. At any time he chooses, this huge powerful beast could effortlessly pull the stake from the ground and be on his merry way. […]
A Sweet Freedom of Love
Have you every heard this statement before, “Women are a pain” or “Men are no good?” I am sure every man or woman comes across someone that holds onto pain, fails to forgive and release the baggage of past hurts. I am sure that devalues their presence and existence as a human being. We all […]
Grandpa Sydney’s Anancy Stories : Jamaican Book Review
BOOK SUMMARYJimmy Harrison loves school and his favorite subject is snack time! But when a new boy, Kevin, joins his class, he begins to bully Jimmy and the rest of the children. What’s worse, he begins to take away Jimmy’s snacks. Using the wisdom from his Grandpa Sydney’s story about “Anancy, Snake, and Tiger,” Jimmy […]
2007 Annual Book Drive Update
In March- May 2007Jamaicans.com partnering with The Allen-Shaw Foundation for our annual book drive. We asked you the users to support our book drive to benefit the Allen-Shaw Reading Room. We had a goal of collecting 80 children’s books by May 31st, 2007. We beat the goal by almost 15 and this books were distributed […]
The Relocators : Jamaican Book Review
Summary of The Book: The name of the book is “The Relocators”. It tells the story of a company which is called “The Phoenix Contracting Company”. This company employs people who have no relatives, or who has no one who really cares for them. They are sent on assignment from which they do not return. […]
Establishing a Race – Out of Many One People, We Are A Race Apart Part 2
My call for establishment of a Jamaican race in last month’s column triggered so many favorable responses that I asked Xavier Murphy, the man behind Jamaicans.com, whom we should see to get a separate race established. Xavier didn’t know. Nobody I asked had a clue. So I went surfing on the web to find out. […]
Jamaica’s Rear-View-Mirror Planning
Jamaica’s well-intentioned oil exploration initiative is likely to be a waste of time and money. And in my opinion, it’s an example of rear-view-mirror planning. I know oil is expensive. Who doesn’t? And I know Jamaica would save a lot of precious foreign exchange if it could produce some of its own fuel. But there […]
Influential Jamaicans in Atlanta: Jewel C. Scott, Clayton County District Attorney
The Honorable Jewel C. Scott made history in 2005 when she simultaneously became the first female and first Caribbean-American District Attorney for Clayton County, one of the counties that comprise the Atlanta Metro area in the state of Georgia. Originally from Mandeville, she spent her formative years in the Parish of Hanover in Jamaica. As […]