Books: The Jamerican Connection
Buy Jamerican Connection Now!!! About the Book: In a quaint, English-looking rural town on Jamaica’s Southern coast Rose Thorn struggles with her conniving, controlling, abusive husband, Donovan, to claim her right to realize the deferred educational dreams and stunted career ambitions she was forced to put on hold, when Rose had gotten pregnant and had […]
Commentary: Jamaica the Beautiful
“69 persons have been killed in only 29 days.” I remember growing up in the 50s, while living in the hill of ST James, hearing about someone being killed by another person was a once in a while accordance. To have 4 times per year would leave the Island’s inhabitance talking and looking over their […]
Commentary: Women making history in Jamaica
The year 2002 is already shaping up to be a watershed year in Jamaica. In the first instance, for the first time in the country’s political history, four political parties will be contesting the upcoming general elections, with not just one but two of these political parties headed by women! For anyone who knows Jamaica’s […]
Book Review: The Jamaican Women
About the Book: The book provides historic accounts as well as current resource information of Jamaica’s women over 100 years, mapping their involvement in the areas of high academia, politics, business and management, science, law enforcement, visual and performing arts, sports, fashion and beauty. The Honourable Louise Bennett-Coverley, O.J., (Hon. LLD)– “Lawd, mi chile! Just […]
Commentary: Is the Gov’t Really Creating Jobs In Jamaica
The term “Job” as described by the American Heritage Dictionary is “a task or regular activity performed for payment. Society has now conditioned us to believe that a good education, helps one to get a good job, which in turn provides money by which to acquire things to add to the comforts of life. In […]
Jamaican Books: Greenwichtown
Buy Greenwichtown Now!!!Editorial Reviews From Publishers WeeklyFay Myrtle’s life begins with her mother and siblings near a Jamaican plantation in Joyce Palmer’s Greenwichtown. She goes to live in the city of the book’s title with Flo an older sister she has never met who turns out to be a source of constant trouble. Fay grows […]
We Needed The Reggae Boyz in World Cup 2002
The 2002 World Cup is here and there will be no “Reggae Boyz” to represent Jamaica. Fans all over the world loved the team and I am sure they will be missed. When the team qualified in the last world cup they did more than just make Caribbean History. It was more than being the […]
Ancestors
Book DescriptionThis dynamic and inspiring novel is the result of Paul Crooks’ thirteen-year quest to find his African forebears. His amazing journey took him from suburban north London to the Caribbean, and from there to the Gold Coast of Africa where his story originally began. In the late 18th century, at the age of ten, […]
Parenting in the twenty-first century
Buy Parenting in the twenty-first century Now!!! Book DescriptionRaising children today is both exciting and challenging. With his first book, “Parenting In The Twenty-first Century”, Percy Ricketts offers simple solutions for some of the main challenges and concerns parents face today. Some of the concerns discussed include : safety spending more time with your children abuse […]
Come Inna Dis YAH National Groundation
It’s now Independence day year 2000, I just got through reading the story of a 24-year-old black male from an inner city community in Kingston, Jamaica; entitled “Diary of a Ghetto Youth”. My eyes are a little misty as now I am also 24 years of age; It so happens that I have not lived […]