Posted: under "Jamaica Labrish Korner", "Jamaica ~ Land Of Paradise", "SMILE" Jamaica ~ "Once You Go --- You Know", "Welcome to JAMrock ~ JAMAICA ~ NO PROBLEM".
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World Fastest Man —-Jamaican Usain Bolt
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Jamaican Track and Field Star
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Born Jamaican - By Tony Robinson
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There is nobody like a Jamaican, Nobody! Sometimes it’s difficult to determine where someone comes from. Drop us into the vast mosaic of the peoples of the world and try to figure out who is who.
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“Him is from China, no, is Japanese, but him could be Korean still.” The same goes for people from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, or Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana. We just can’t tell them apart. Not so with Jamaicans though, who stand out and stick out like beacons in the night. Foreigners know us in a flash, and we can identify each other from way across the street. We are so distinct that other people try to walk, talk and act like us.
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I’m so amused when I encounter Americans, Europeans, Japanese, [Madam Cleo, or Ron] trying to act Jamaican. “Hey mon, wha hoppening mon, eberyting irie?” I usually reply in my most proper English. If they are Japanese, I say, “Sukiyaki, Sayonara, Sony, Toyota Mitsubishi.” Just to keep them guessing.
OUT OF MANY ONE PEOPLE!
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“So you speak Japanese?”
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“Ah so, Nissan, Sanyo, Toyota Tercel..”
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But what makes us so different from other people? First it’s the walk, nobody walks like us. People in foreign walk briskly, head straight, arms swinging almost in military fashion, with a stride and purpose like they’re going somewhere. Not us though, who saunter with a rhythm that is almost slow motion. No hurry, no scurry, no flurry, no rushy rushy, just cool, with a bop and rhythm that could be put to music. Years ago we used to call it bop. For some it’s natural while others practiced it.
Bob Marley Commemorative Coin
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If you’re a girl in the middle of Paris, Madrid or Tokyo and hear, “psst, psst,” from across the street,
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Jul 31 2009
Posted: under "SMILE" Jamaica ~ "Once You Go --- You Know", "Welcome to JAMrock ~ JAMAICA ~ NO PROBLEM".
Tags: America, athlete, awards, bliss, brilliance, bronze, champion, climate, competition, conditions, confidence, contribution, determination, effort, event, finalist, finals, game, goal, gold, happiness, intelligence, Jamaica, Jamaican, joy, medal, Penn Relays, performance, pride, record, school, season, silver, sports, success, team, track, university, victory, winner
Ristananna’s brilliant runs secure golden double for Edwin Allen
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Published: Saturday | April 25, 2009
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PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania:
Edwin Allen High School turned in a magnificent display to record double victories while capturing Championship of Americas titles at the Penn Relays at the University of Pennsylvania, Franklin Field, yesterday.
The quartet of Nikita Tracey, Amoy Blake, Shashawna French and Ristananna Tracey clocked 3:41.25 to lead their team to victory in the girls’ 4×400 metres relay.
Holmwood (3:41.72) and Manchester High 3:41.76 finished second and third, respectively, while Vere Technical, the other Jamaican team in the final, was disqualified.
Edwin Allen was aided by a brilliant anchor led from Ristannana Tracey, who found extra gear in the last 60 metres to go by leader Petra Fantry of Holmwood and Natoya Goule of Manchester.
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Second brilliant effort
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She clocked 54.1 seconds on her anchor leg, her second brilliant effort, following that in the 4×800 metres.
Ristananna was duly named the Most Outstanding high school female relay athlete of the meet.
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Apr 25 2009
Posted: under "Jamaica Labrish Korner".
Tags: achievement, ambition, career, caregiver, community, determination, distinction, dream, education, faith, family, goal, God, health, helper, honors, humility, Jamaican, journey, lesson, life, Lord, midwife, nurse, opportunity, parents, perseverance, sacrifice, siblings, success, time
Midwife delivers career switch at 45
Published: Monday | March 16, 2009
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If life begins at 40, as is the mantra of the archetypal career woman, Verona Grant-Brissett strapped up to get in the game just after the opening whistle had blown.
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But time has never been on her side.
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A topsy-turvy life from serving as a pre-teen surrogate mother and cleaning floors to survive meant sacrificing her dreams early on. Later, Grant-Brissett was told she was too old to don her whites and become a nurse. Guess who’s laughing now?
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Mar 16 2009
Posted: under "A TASTE of the TROPICS", "SMILE" Jamaica ~ "Once You Go --- You Know".
Tags: admiration, adventure, America, attitude, aviation, awards, beacon, blessings, bliss, candle, Caribbean, celebration, celebrity, challenge, cheer, class, classic, competition, competitor, country, dedication, determination, dialect, dog, duty, fire, flag, flame, gold, grace, happiness, hero, icon, island, Jamaica, Jamaican, job, joy, judge, labor, land, language, leader, leadership, light, lighthouse, man, musher, music, musician, Newton Marshall, patois, performance, perseverance, pride, smiles, snow, soil, son, spirit, St Ann, star, task, team, torch, trophy, unique, vernacular, winner, words, work
Jamaican musher wins ‘Challenge of the North’ award
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Published on Saturday, March 7, 2009
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WASHINGTON, USA (JIS): Jamaican sled dog musher, Newton Marshall, has been awarded the ‘Challenge of the North’ award for best exemplifying the spirit of the Yukon Quest, during the recent 1,000-mile international race held in the United States. The award, a polished caribou antler trophy, was presented to Marshall at the Yukon Sled Dog Race closing banquet held recently in Fairbanks, Alaska. The 25-year old rookie sled dog driver crossed the finish line on February 26 in 13th place, ahead of 16 other competitors, with an elapsed time of 11 days, 19 hours two minutes.
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Mar 14 2009
Posted: under Inspirational Poetry.
Tags: determination, difference, dream, friends, guidance, heart, hope, inspiration, instinct, intellect, laughter, possibility, power, trust, worth
If there was ever a time to dare,
to make a difference,
to embark on something worth doing,
IT IS NOW.
Not for any grand cause, necessarily…
but for something that tugs at your heart,
something that’s your inspiration,
something that’s your dream.
You owe it to yourself to make your days here count.
HAVE FUN.
DIG DEEP.
STRETCH.
DREAM BIG.
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Jan 31 2009
Posted: under "A Slice Of Life", Inspirationals.
Tags: African-American, age, America, American, anxiety, appreciation, belief, bird, black, blacks, blossom, blossoms, burden, character, charity, child, children, color, colors, contribution, cross, culture, custom, day, depression, determination, diamonds, difference, diversity, donation, dream, dreams, eagle, eagles, earth, economy, embrace, era, experience, fact, facts, faith, flight, flowers, freedom, gem, gift, global, globe, God, growth, heart, heritage, history, honor, humanity, image, inauguration, influence, inspiration, jail, jewelry, judge, land, learning, life, lifestyle, lifetime, load, love, man, Martin Luther King, mind, nation, nature, neighbor, opportunity, others, period, philosopher, power, prayer, president, prison, race, religion, respect, rose, roses, skin, society, status, stress, struggles, thought, time, today, trials, truth, universe, value, victory, war, weight, woman, world, worries, worry
By: Frank Gilliard
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I have a dream that my four little children will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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On the eve of commemorating the contributions of a great American freedom fighter and philosopher let us take a fresh look at one of the tenets of his dream; “That one day humankind would be freed from the prison of its skin.” Growing up black in a society where the first criteria for determining a person’s value was skin color influenced how I established my own self worth. Over the years, I have been able to escape many of the boundaries that were set by our society but unfortunately, this facet of our barbaric nature remain, and continues to prevent us, as a society, from discovering God’s image and likeness in one another. ***
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