The Last Word – Ultimate Authority!
“And God said ……and it was so.” (Genesis 1:6-7, 9, 11, 14-15, 24, 29-30, KJV) How many times have you read the first Chapter of the Book of Genesis? I have to admit that I have read it several times and have been for some inexplicable reason, always inwardly awed at the first four words, […]
‘Jamaica, Treasure Island’
We were in the check-in line at Fort Lauderdale airport when a man struck up a conversation with us.“So how long will you be in Jamaica?” he asked.“We live there,” we said. “You. Live. There?” he practically stuttered. “But you guys look okay!” We burst out laughing and assured him that we were quite okay. […]
My First Jamaican Birthday Party by American Retiree in Jamaica
Birthday parties are as unique and exciting as the person who plans the event. Birthday parties come as varied as just two special people having a candlelit dinner together to a gala bash with hundreds of guests in the grand ballroom of a swank hotel. What makes each party memorable is the love of the […]
Define “Diaspora”?
The term ‘diaspora’ is currently in fashionable use, but in the context that we use it – what does it actually mean? By ‘diaspora’ are we referring only to persons of Jamaican birth resident outside of Jamaica or does the _expression include say persons who qualify for a Jamaican passport through maternal/paternal heritage – i.e., […]
Reality Check
As a child in Jamaica, my father always opens the car door for me and I love that about him. He had other flaws I didn’t care for which I suppress in the back of my mind for awhile. I did not watch any form of television adapting other culture lifestyles or ways. But I […]
The Mentally Challenged Street People
Day after day we pass them, disoriented and forgotten. Lost in a world that is so unkind and unfriendly. Their existence to the vast majority is just as insignificant as their sufferings, and they are looked down on in the same sense of casualness as animals that likewise roam the streets. Yet, they are really […]
What Jamaicans over Yard don’t know about dis Jamaican?
Some Jamaicans over yard may feel like Jamaicans in the United State is a sell out, foreigner, betray their country, no longer a yardie, forgot about their country and believe We have a lot of dunzie (money). But what some Jamaicans over yard don’t know about the few Jamaicans like myself is that we have […]
Teamwork Makes the Dream Work
It was a typical traveling day in the tropics. Well bronzed tourists getting ready to board their flights back home, lingering in the airport; in two minds about extending their time in paradise or getting back to the “real world”. New arrivals scurrying through immigration eager to get their vacation started. I too was anxious […]
The Games Must Go On While People Suffer
I find it mind boggling that collectively the caribbean islands will raise $400 million dollars for cricket…. when if they could do that they could create 8000 —$50,000.00 a piece homes for 8000 families and then do it again and again till it was all paid off for everyone to have decent housing…. maybe it […]
Death and Taxes
Last week my father in law passed away. Yes he died he was 80 years old and only missed 81 by a couple of months. His final year was spent in Florida a place he loved. He wanted to be taken care of at home when things got bad. He was taken care of by […]