The gov’t sanctions’guilty until proven innocent’
Dear Friends,Despite a claim by the Jamaican constitution that citizens are presumed innocent until proven guilty, events in recent weeks have confirmed the experience of many Jamaicans that what obtains in practice is that one is guilty if so accused by the police until proven innocent. The reminder of this ugly fact was none other […]
Making Change happen in Real Jamaican Style…
It’s the eve of parliamentary elections February 8th 1989, just about 8 years since the last major polls in Jamaica, six years after the non-contested 1983 general election. The opposition and People’s National Party leader Michael Manley boycotted those polls in reaction to Prime Minister Edward Seaga’s pre-mature call of elections. Manley and his fellow […]
The Skin Bleaching Phenomenon – Commentary
Pretty Tamara Richards is convinced that white people have all the advantages in the world. She believes that white people get jobs easier, earn the highest salaries and attract handsome and wealthy men. But there’s one little problem: Tamara is just about four shades darker than the typical white woman and just barely graces the […]
Jamaican Salsa Dancer and Actress
Anne Thornley-Brown, President of The Training Oasis, Inc, has over 20 years of experience in a variety of industries including wireless communications, banking, transportation, and film and television. She has an M.B.A. from York University in Toronto, Canada. Anne has facilitated workshops for executives, managers and professionals in Canada, the US, Jamaica, Malaysia, Singapore, and […]
Reggae Photographer Lee Abel
Lee Abel began visiting Jamaica 1979 working on a black and white documentary of rural Jamaica. Her passion for the island, its people, culture and spirit led her into the world of reggae. She shot her first “Sunsplash” of many in 1988. Since then her, photographs have graced the covers of over 50 albums for […]
Jamaicans Attitude to Afro-Americans
I have been here in the USA permanently for four years and while that is a relatively short time I have come in close contacts with a number of African Americans and remain in contact with my fellow Jamaicans. What I have realized from going between both communities is this belief that my fellow Jamaicans […]
Jah-Micah brain drain on tha rebound
It was a predominant black race that took Jamaica from the British Empire in good faith, a Land that wasn’t the British Empire’s own to keep. They fought and took the Land in battle from a retreating Spanish army to whom Jamaica didn’t belong either, as they came to the isle and found the Taino […]
Ready for Winter?
This year, I’m ready to spring into winter… I was flipping through my day planner when I stumbled across something rather shocking. Written in bold letters under the slot for October 25 were the words: Standard Time Begins. The old phrase I learnt since moving from Jamaica to Canada began ringing in my head. “Spring […]
Bumper Jamaican "all-inclusive" Winter Season
Amidst complaints of a deteriorating Jamaican product and much concern about heavy discounting this past summer into fall, Jamaican hoteliers Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart and John Issa have continued to develop and expand their all-inclusive hotel operations around the Caribbean. On August 21st,2001, Stewart announced that Sandals would be adding a new property in Cuba to […]
“Happy KWANZAA” the Afro-centric Holiday
As the holiday season draws near and grease begins to increase the fat, as mass commercialization and spending jolts get ready to rock Christmas, tainting it further in distasteful amusement… We recommend an alternative celebration called… Kwanzaa. Kwanzaa is an end of year celebration that intellectual Afro centric types in the western world have been […]