Posted: under "Jamaica ~ Land Of Paradise", "SMILE" Jamaica ~ "Once You Go --- You Know", "Welcome to JAMrock ~ JAMAICA ~ NO PROBLEM".
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PRIDE IN BEING A JAMAICAN
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(Join us at www.Jamaicalives.org)
“As we approach Jamaica’s 50th anniversary I am reminded of what Jamaica means to me — and the people who served with me in the Jamaica Defense Force. I became a…”
- Wayne D Russell
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Jamaica Lives - Wayne D Russell
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click on this link (and others to right)
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Feb 16 2012
Posted: under "DID YOU KNOW".
Tags: actor, actress, African-American, age, album, America, American, artist, awards, beauty, belt, black, blacks, blessings, bliss, bracelet, career, celebration, celebrity, cemetery, ceremony, chic, child, classic, color, colors, companion, concert, couple, dad, dance, dancer, day, designer, diamonds, diva, dress, earrings, earth, era, eyes, family, fan, fans, fashion, father, film, focus, gala, generation, genius, ghost, gift, girl, global, globe, gold, gown, grammy, granny, hair, hairdo, hairstyle, happiness, history, Hollywood, honor, hotel, husband, icon, Idol, inspiration, jewelry, joy, land, leather, legacy, legend, life, lifestyle, lifetime, magazine, Mathematics, memories, model, motel, mother, mother-in-law, movie, music, nation, necklace, New York, New York City, obituary, pants, parents, partner, party, pearls, performance, period, present, pumps, queen, race, red carpet, rhythm, salute, Saturday, show, singer, smiles, soul, sound, spouse, style, success, suit, surprise, talent, time, title, token, universe, voice, Whitney Houston, wife, winner, world
Whitney Houston (1963 - 2012)
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As would be expected from one of the most successful female singers of all time, Whitney Houston earned 26 Grammy nominations and six wins throughout her career. Here is a look back at some of her Grammy appearances over the years…
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Whitney Houston at the 36th Annual GRAMMY Awards on March 1, 1994 in New York City, New York. That year she won Album of the Year and Record of the Year for The Bodyguard Original Soundtrack and “I Will Always Love You.”
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Feb 12 2012
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Whitney Houston arrives to the “The love of R&B Grammy Party” at Tru Hollywood on February 9, 2012 in Hollywood, California.
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Feb 12 2012
Posted: under "Jamaica Labrish Korner", Jamaican Jokes.
Tags: age, attention, beaches, beauty, behavior, Big Boy, blacks, Caribbean, carnival, celebration, children, community, contest, cop, country, culture, custom, dancer, dialect, dreadlocks, elderly, example, fashion, festival, fun, funny, funtime, future, game, hairstyle, hilarious, history, humor, independence, island, Jamaica, Jamaican, jokes, journey, labrish, land, language, laughter, license, life, lifestyle, man, memories, morals, neighborhood, Ocho Rios, officer, patois, patrolman, police, pride, queen, rastafarian, rastaman, respect, road, role model, seniors, sheriff, smiles, sport, St Ann, style, television, time, travel, treats, trip, trooper, value, values, vehicle, vernacular, waterfalls, woman, words, youth
“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.
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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!
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Call me archaic, but I remember when school children never had such a wide range of colourfully creative
chemical concoctions and toxic adventures to choose from such as sweets and snacks. For example, I saw one
recently marked cheese tricks and when you read the fine print carefully, you realized that the ingredients did not include any cheese - so-so tricks!
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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!!
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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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But I am not quite ready for the rocking chair and adult diapers just yet. No papa! Still, I remember when Rasta was a lifestyle. Now dreadlocks is a hairstyle. I remember
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Apr 02 2010
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RADIANT SMILES
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Paige Miles
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Katie Stevens
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Mar 24 2010
Posted: under "A TASTE of the TROPICS", "DID YOU KNOW", "Jamaica Labrish Korner", "Jamaica ~ Land Of Paradise", "SMILE" Jamaica ~ "Once You Go --- You Know", "Welcome to JAMrock ~ JAMAICA ~ NO PROBLEM".
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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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