Guddeh Oneil “Nazzleman” Scott, weh win di national popular song contest dis 2016 yah, and Big up to all royal Jamaicans. A nuff people call dih Jamaica Cultural Development Commission JCDC, but still dem nevah mek nobaddy miss nutten in a di recent celebration of di country’s Independence and Emancipation. Ah mean to seh dih […]
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Big Up Jamaicans pon 2016 Emancipation Day
Lawd a massy, mih belly a buss. Today is Emancipation Day when wih as a modern day society of Jamaicans celebrate what galang way back in 1934, when our foreparents were freed from slavery. Some Jamaicans diss a find out seh dih day before diss on July 31st, nuff a dih slave dem did run […]
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Christmas in Jamaica for ole time’s sake?
Puss juk, oonu sih yah now — dis Christmas yah gawn in 2013, was one piece a sinting. Mi travel through dih city a try find some goodas celebration in true Jamaican style an nutten. Not even chocklit tea.. Everybody a holler and a bawl bout hard times. Vendors a camp out extra inna bendown […]
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Jamaica culture and ‘b***ymanism?
// Well now, in Jamaica dem hav all kinda ism, nuh mek duppy fool yuh! But a wah catch dem creature deh a dih University a Technology di odder day, yes the pressitgious UTech college tun unviversity. Di ting tun up wen tv shed lite pon wan secuity guard a beat dih living daylite outta […]
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Do you remember ole time Jamaica…rhatid?
Yuh memba Jamaica wayyy fram wayyyy back yonder? Yuh did alive doa? Awrite, jus stay yasso, and pretty soon, wih gweng go chat to some ole time Jamaicans. Hello dem is both young and old an’ mek dem tell dem story. Mih chat to wan Mass Glen dih odder day and oi what a ting […]
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Bringing back Ole Time Jamaica for success of the country
The following is an article that was submitted for my website.. but I find it real valuable insight for my readers here. Karl Vernon is a former employee of the Gleaner with remarkable skills in writing if nothing else. He is very passionate and one of the few persons who remains blunt. A graduate of […]
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At the heart of Jamaica, Jamaican Art!
Well massaS and missuS, mih well hope oonu have had visits to the heart of Jamaica. i memba did day dih Professa Rex Nettleford tell mih seh I muss look at the way a country treat dem artists to noa where day country is going. Mih find out even more so now seh a true […]
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Eh Eh, Jamaica soon turn 50!
Eh Eh, I remember when Roy Rayon won JCDC’s song contest with hit song “22 years to salute”. If oonu bawd, tell mih de year and you just might get a prize. I sit back now thinking of the upcoming silver anniversary of our achieving Independence from England August 6, 1962. What really will we […]
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‘Team Jamaica’ makes us all bigger and better as one
The following excerpt is from a speech made on the final day of the Team Jamaica course which ended June 4, by Anthea: May I recognize the presence of our trainers and organizers, and judges who made us more complete as Jamaicans. The Team Jamaica Programme promotes the reality that “Together everyone achieves more,” and […]
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Jamaican Bush fi dis, bush fi dat!
CAUTION: Written in Jamaican dialect! Well if you nuh noa bout Jamaican bush, even one weh good fi sinting, sitten wrang wid yuh! Big time. All Jamaican grow up a learn bout bush fi dis, if not bush fih dat. Memba di Jamaican peppermint fih gas as in GAStroenteritis and the herb fih a good […]
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