A Jamaican musician celebrates the statue’s unveiling. A statue of late reggae legend Bob Marley has been unveiled in a small Serbian village during a rock festival as a token of peace in the Balkans. Musicians from Croatia and Serbia were joined by rock fans for the midnight ceremony in Banatski Sokolac. Organisers said Marley, [...]
Bolt celebrates after his historic 100m run. Call it the Bolt initiative or the Bolt effect but as Jamaicans it is in our destiny to be the best so why wi nuh get a clue and put all this violence to rest show wi true colors and put our real abilities to the test our [...]
(Usain mi dawlin, mi just want yuh fi know dat sake a yuh, mi marriage almost mash up di odder day, because a piece of jealousy teck my husband.) Well wah never happen in a year happen in a dayMi kyaan believe mi eyesEver since Usain Bolt win di Olympics 100 metresFi mi husband start [...]
Ebony and Ivory. They say Caribana, the annual Caribbean carnival in Toronto, is North America’s biggest street festival. More than a million visitors are said to converge on the city for the celebration of Caribbean entertainment arts that culminates on the first weekend of August/last weekend of July – depending on how the August Monday [...]
A South Florida capacity crowd of well over 350 listened in rapt attention last Thursday evening as Beverley Anderson Manley, veteran journalist, international speaker and gender specialist regaled the gathering with tantalizing excerpts from her recently launched autobiography, The Manley Memoirs. The novel chronicles the events from her family home into the home of the [...]
About a year ago, I did a review of Tony Martin’s Amy Ashwood Garvey, Pan-Africanist, Feminist and Mrs. Garvey No. 1 or a Tale of Two Amies (Majority Press, 2007) in which I made the bold claim that given the kind of work that the two Garvey wives did, Garveyism had to be seen not [...]
Dearest Cousin Babs: Hope all is well under the circumstances, with the high crime rate and folks criticizing cassava as replacement for rice. We have our own trials here, for my car that only takes unleaded, is costing me $4.52 cents for a gallon of gas! Driving now is only when necessary, and I have [...]
In 2005, Marina Lampkin from the Ministry of Tourism in St. Vincent saw the first run of POSITIVE at the Barn Theatre in Jamaica. She was convinced that the production with its credible, powerful and hard-hitting message about HIV prevention should be performed in St. Vincent. After three years, director fabian thomas and a new [...]
Charles Nesson is definitely onto something. In his letter to the Jamaica Observer editor of Saturday May 31, titled “Some things for the prime minister (sic) to do” he certainly outlines a bold initiative regarding the legalization of marijuana in Jamaica. I’d move it beyond Maroon Country though, to the kind of thinking the Dutch [...]
Preparing for his gold teeth. Ivan Harris was not a very smart man. Anyone who would ask a dentist to remove all his good teeth and replace them with false teeth is indeed a certified idiot. Ivan had the opportunity to go to the USA on the Farm Workers Program. He was so excited that [...]