Do You Remember?
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“SWEET, SWEET JAMAICA”
Waterfall at “The Ruins” in Ocho Rios, Jamaica
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| I GUESS I may be getting just a teeny-weeny bit old, because I can remember when it was considered rude to whistle in front of adults, the biggest bad words pickney used to cuss were ‘blouse and skirt’,'rahtid’ and ‘blow-wow’; and slackness was talking big bwoy stories. .. I am probably not so young anymore, I guess, because I can remember when people used to charter JOS bus to go to outing at Gunboat beach. And the beach dem was clean! And bad boys were the ones riding skate, and playing marbles and racing board horse in the gutter water after rain. .. I remember when children were afraid of Johnkunnu - now even police fraid a pickney, ’cause pickney a shotta! .. Call me archaic, but I remember when school children never had such a wide range of colourfully creative .. But I suppose it must be old age, because I also remember that children used to eat jackfruit, juneplum, naseberry, guinep, hogplum and tinkin toe; we used to relish treats like bustamante-backbone, drops, gizzada, toto, cut-cake and grater-cake. MEN USED TO DANCE WITH WOMEN after asking if they could have this dance!! .. I must be clearly approaching dinosaur status, because I can vividly recall a period when independence time meant street dance on every corner, and we never had to import carnival to have revelling in the streets, and float parades were magnificent. I must have come from them dark ages, but I remember when man used to go party to dance with woman, not to “par wid man”, and women never had to walk naked to get attention.
“Miss Jamaica Festival Queen 2008″.
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Apr 02 2010