Do You Remember?
Posted: under "Jamaica Labrish Korner", Jamaican Jokes.
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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″.
MUSIK ALONE SHALL LIVE…..BIG UP J.A.!!!!….JAMROCK!!!!!Posted: under "Jazzy REGGAE ~ Irie Riddim", "SMILE" Jamaica ~ "Once You Go --- You Know", "Welcome to JAMrock ~ JAMAICA ~ NO PROBLEM".
. BOB MARLEY ****
. . (son of Bob Marley) Alpha Boys Home-Jamaica (As seen on PBS)
Festival to unearth culinary skillsPosted: under "Jamaica Labrish Korner". Published: Monday | February 2, 2009WESTERN BUREAU:… “After a one-year hiatus, the Trelawny Yam Festival is back with a bang and for good,” Hugh Dixon, executive director of the Southern Trelawny Environmental Agency, has announced.The festival, slated for Saturday, April 11 and Monday, April 13, will be held under the theme ‘One Parish, One Family, One Festival’.
Rasta MP…Posted: under "DID YOU KNOW". Rasta MP in New Zealand
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CARIBREEZE “SMILEY” TREATSPosted: under "A TASTE of the TROPICS". Mention Jamaica to any non-Jamaican and immediately he or she will respond Bob Marley! Reggae music! No problem man! Or Jerk cooking. Is Jerk the name of a dance? Maybe! Jerk seasoning is made up of various herbs and spices. Jerking is using this seasoning on various meats and cooking slowly on medium heat. The term herb is also used to describe “Jamaica Ganja” a potent illegal weed, or illegal substance or drug. Jerk was a method used by the maroons to prepare wild pigs in their fight in the hills of Jamaica against the British.
Jamaican Reggae Star Alton Ellis dies at age 70Posted: under "Jazzy REGGAE ~ Irie Riddim", "SMILE" Jamaica ~ "Once You Go --- You Know". Jamaican reggae star Alton Ellis, known as the “Godfather of Rocksteady”, died overnight of cancer in London, a hospital spokeswoman said Saturday. He was 70 years old. Ellis passed away peacefully at Hammersmith Hospital, the spokeswoman said. The singer-songwriter was diagnosed with multiple myeloma last year. He underwent chemotherapy and returned to the stage before he collapsed during his final performance in central London in August.
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Apr 02 2010
