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Port Antonio Harbor and Navy Island, Jamaica
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RECIPE
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4 cups of love 5 spoons of hope
2 cups of loyalty 2 spoons of tenderness
3 cups of forgiveness 4 quarts of faith
1 cup of friendship 1 barrel of laughter
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Take love and loyalty. Mix it thoroughly with faith.
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Jamaican Jokes
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Mary had a likkle lamb
Her father shot it dead.
Now it goes down quite a treat,
with rice and hard dough bread .
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Simple Simon met a Pieman, going to de fair.
Said Simple Simon to de Pieman,
What have you got there?
Said de Pieman unto Simon,
Pies, you fool whappin, you a hidiot!!
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Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
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Lessons From Granny
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1. Ant follow fat, fat drown ant (Shows the negative effect of greed)
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2. Bad ting nuh hab owner (No one ever owns up to a bad deed)
.3. You nebber see empty bag tan up (If you are hungry you cannot work)
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4. Nuh put youself in a barrel when match-box can hol’ you (Do not pretend to be more important than you are)
.5. De Lard gib beard a them nuh hab chin fe wear eh (Some people have advantages that they cannot make use of)
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6. Wha sweet a mout sometime hot a belly (First impressions are often wrong)
.7. Big blanket mek man sleep late (Luxury encourages idleness)
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… Yuh wing soon clip
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… Yuh mus be tink seh mi born behind cow
…. Puss an dawg nuh have de same luck
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… Learn fi dance a yard before yuh go abroad
…. Dawg know who fi bite and duppy know who fi frighten
…. Chicken merry! Hawk deh near
…. Yuh head faver someting whey johncrow draw brakes ina
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Jamaican-born scientist making strides in nerve research
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Who would have thought that a little girl from Darliston in Westmoreland would turn out to be a First World scientist who may have discovered a new way to repair damaged nerves?
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Now living in Canada, Jamaican-born Dr Patrice Smith and her colleagues at Harvard have discovered a way to repair damaged nerves by allowing the adult brain to respond to repair signals that are induced after injury.
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Dr Smith explained to Flair in an interview, that as we get older, we
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Hello world, it is with profound sadness that I share the fact that our esteemed friend, Professor Rex Nettleford passed away on February 2nd…..
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PROFESSOR Rex Nettleford, one of Jamaica’s brightest sons and a cultural icon, died in the George Washington University Intensive Care Unit last night, six days after he collapsed in his hotel room in Washington and four hours before his 77th birthday.
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Nettleford, who suffered a massive heart attack, was admitted to the hospital’s intensive care unit and placed on life support. He never regained consciousness and finally passed at 8:00 pm.
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Nettleford… was an international icon and quintessential Caribbean man.
He was in the US capital to participate in a fund-raising gala for the University of the West Indies (UWI), where he was vice-chancellor emeritus.
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Last night, a medical report signed by Dr Christopher Junker of George Washington University said that the life support was terminated in keeping with Professor Nettleford’s wishes.
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“Mr Nettleford has been under our care at the George Washington University Intensive Care Unit for catastrophic brain injury following a cardiac arrest,” Dr Junker said. “After
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Mar 21 2010