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Going against the grain | Burning Babylon Father x Garveyite x Countryman x Traveler
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My cousin died at Princess Margaret Hospital on the weekend. Heart problems. Was admitted and due to a lack of oxygen she died. She was forty two. And no, she wasn't an anti-vax or a hater of the JLP. She just died because there was no oxygen at the hospital when they needed it.
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Slavemasters, plantation owners now called real estate and tourism moguls. Same lands, same approach, same people.
Michele Rollins, a Jamaican developer, renowned for her role in maintaining the historic Rose Hall Great House in Montego Bay, was at the Dumfries House in Scotland having dinner with the monarch the night before he became king.
Read more:
#GLNRToday
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If there is one thing about
@YohanBlake
is that he going give. No loud, ceremonial give $100 but have press and write up give, just simply give what he has to someone who needs. Jah Guide di I! May your bankra basket neva empty!
Olympian
@YohanBlake
has sprinted to the aid of down-on-luck Irene Morgan, a shut-in in Smithville, Clarendon, who had recently pleaded for assistance to repair her dilapidated home.
Read more:
#GLNRToday
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I can deliver fresh vegetables and pork to you anywhere in Kingston. Lettuce, cabbage, tomatoes, pumpkin, escallion. Call or message me 8763307174. Please share with your contacts! Springvale and Rock Springs Farms. We deliver Quality!
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On a train to Birmingham and some New Zealanders are hearing the news of us beating them in netball. Asking "who these Jamaicans? They're good!" Resisted the urge to shout "Probably yuh neva heard a we!"
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Now, I have no clue what is haemaphllius whatever and I am vaccinated against it. Had a discussion yesterday with a Nigerian who was amazed at our vaccination coverage. Like she caught mumps, measles and all a dem. mi neva ketch dem. Thanks Jamaica
According to the 2018 JSLC survey, 6 vaccines are given to children under 5 years old for preventable childhood diseases in Jamaica: Polio (OPV), Tuberculosis (BCG), Mumps, Measles & Rubella (MMR), Diphtheria, Pertussis and Tetanus (DPT), Hepatitis B (Hep B) & Haemophilus B(HiB).
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I agree minister. Such a pity you are unable to do something about it
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Just told a 19yo that I used to play football on this beach. Imagine me talking to an adult who will never know the pleasures of football, volleyball and games on Hellshire? Human induced coastal destruction is really bad.
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Explain to mi like mi slow: a bredda crash inna wan ravine, alone. Ded. Dem find him ded beside di kyar. Autopsy sey him ded from strangulation. How him ded an di police sey dem nuh tink sey a foul play?
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At the
@ncbja
Windward Road location and the security guard just stopped a lady from coming in without a mask. She complained that she had none. He insisted. And she miraculously found one. Enforcement works.
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We were being dramatic right? When we said the Spanish hacienda style bricks were out of touch with our reality, we just hated progress don't?
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Capitalism is wild, but imagine this, an MP finds out that the tax office is looking place to rent, buys a building and it gets rented by TAJ in his constituency? Dat nuh look funny? Not even likkle bit? Even if it legal, it nuh look a way to yuh?
Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) has forked out nearly $400 million of taxpayers’ money over the past three years to rent two buildings it is yet to occupy.
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My friend's sister was nearly killed by incompetence at Spanish Town Hospital. They supposedly did surgery on her, only for her to collapse at home three days after. They hadn't done the surgery they said they did. When will this place be dealt with?
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Now bredda, why unnu feel like sey Elaine fi go back to somewhere that she felt was bad for her mental health? Mek unnu tan so? Mi rather Elaine stop run and be happy a crabwalk than fi a run and hate it.
#ArgumentDone
MVP's Stephen Francis shuts door on possibility of Elaine Thompson-Herah's return: "I would take back any of my former athletes but not her!"
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@julietcuthbert
Minister, I do not think letters, however well-meaning, impacts on rapes and murders. It should impact on parliamentary debates and social decisions though. And demands for accountability and fairness should be a welcome thing for public servants.
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One day I will tell the story how a mob of people tried to kill me and two friends in St Ann that I was a car thief. Miss me with mob justice. I know how it feels when you get accused. Stand up you die, run they kill you.
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Heard this of a family friend: Sickler feeling ill, no bed at UHWI, none at Medical Associates, dies in National Chest car park - no wheel chair.
Our healthcare system is held together by banana thrash and withes.
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North Florida gets a democrat mayor? This is a shocker.
Donna Deegan just flipped the Jacksonville Mayor's seat despite being outspent four to one by the Republican Party's DeSantis-backed opponent.
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Tonight, I am blessed. I got to iron my daughter's clothes for high school! A different type of joy I am feeling. High school tomorrow morning!
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So, our representative was able to deliver a statement in the General Assembly with our position, but needed consultation to discuss how to vote? By our deeds shall we be known. Jamaica did nothing.
Regrettably, consultations were underway w/ Kingston which did not conclude in time for the close of vote. 🇯🇲 welcomes the action taken by the UNGA, and hopes that it contributes to progress. JA chairs the CARICOM caucus at the UN and earlier delivered the statement attached.
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I am fully convinced that people NEED access to open, free nature. Not manicured and kept squares of horticulture, but spaces where nature designs and sways in its own rhythms. It is a NEED.
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Today my students didn't know that Haiti was the largest country in CARICOM. Nor did they know that it wasn't ego or incompetence that keeps them poor. I didn't get angry. I took it as a teaching moment and they left knowing more.
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This. This. This is exactly why we as a country deserve whatever leadership the thieving, corrupt and misogynistic structures we have in Jamaica offer. You ever hear a man's partner choice used as a diss? Unnu love man and hate ooman. Kmt.
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I know I don't deserve even to know of this angel, but in Her wisdom, God chose me as her father. I learn to love you more each day, Maya. Happy birthday!
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Your love struck me down, lightning
Brightened up my nights, shining
Nurtured my days
Every day, you drive me crazy
Guiding light when the way is hazy
Happy birthday, beautiful.
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@IrishandChin
@DebbieBissoon
@duttypaul
Man sey him set trends, not di odda way round!
Sean Paul ah dat type a artiste though, who set a pace jus because. Plus he backs up the chat with touring action.
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Sitting in the cold,
No Red Stripe beer,
A give thanks fi di year,
Some a mi colleagues drop out inna di year,
Nuh have a bag a money,
But if yuh hungry, mi have a £10 wi can share!
Merry Christmas family!
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Tropical architecture. Note the raised floor and the slats over the door for ventilation. Sloped roof also offered run off protection and framed by trees to break hurricane winds.
This house beside the Four Paths train station might be over 100 years old!
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Went out to Rock Springs Farm. Kale ready. Lime ready. Link up when unnu ready fi buy please!!!!
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@joeeast357
@JASLtweets
Actually, this is EXACTLY the account it should be from. Informing and dis abusing people is critical.
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It is so good to hear these young athletes communicate. You can see the difference.
CHAMPION GIRL‼️🔥Brianna Lyston with exceptional performances this season 🎉 🎉🎉
We’re looking forward to see what’s next for this amazing talent ✨
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I am presenting at a conference
@UWImona
! Me, a country from St Mary, now a PhD Candidate at
@OpenUniversity
ah present! Movements! Big up to
@gbgandad
who believes in so many of us. MGM!
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The reason to make the world better. One of my main reasons for everything. If she is good, everything is good.
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See how we're able to quickly mobilise ships and every available resources to scour the North Atlantic depths for a small submersible but allow thousands to die crossing the Mediterranean?
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2001 wi ah struggle fi reach UWI pon bus, 2023 wi ah easy inna Sao Paulo airport after a conference? Bredda
@doubleDD_jam
, wi link as lecturer and a finalising PhD candidate! Who knew academics woulda tek wi dis far? Garvey philosophy
@gbgandad
teach well!
@garveygirl
link up!
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Good morning. Rock Springs Farm reaped too much Romaine lettuce this morning for a customer. We have approximately 50lbs available for sale @ $200/lb. Call or message. Thanks
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My mother cutting her yam. Grew from a little "peeling skin" to providing her with over 7lbs. On her front yard she has grown pepper, gungo, pumpkin, sweet potato and herbs. Give thanks for the joy of gardening in the tropics.
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PM Holness is a master of charades. How is it that he is saying that a 2 day work stoppage will have such a deleterious impact on our growth projections? This is not negotiating in good faith. It is setting up the people against the workers.
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The fact that this message had to go out tells me a whole lot.
Maureen Dwyer, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education and Youth, is pleading for school administrators not to turn away students, who are arriving late for school, due to the islandwide strike action by PPV operators.
Read:
#GLNRToday
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My mother worked in the Library at KC. Mi sister dey Champs an call har "Mommy". Everaldo Creary same time ask har if shi tink ah every body ting! When mi dey road or go ah KC mi ask permission before mi call har so. My mother is a community teacher, mother, auntie and friend.
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@iamjuliemango
No. It is horse dead and cow fat... Di cow get more fi eat cause dere is no more horse fi nyam off di good grass...
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Getting a scholarship to Ukraine mean sey yuh bruk and brite. Emphasis on bruk. From families with limited means. Country. Ghetto. Hard scrabble. Your country identify a threat and sey move but offer you a loan? A hate yuh hate wi pikney dem?
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Today my mother celebrates her birthday. And to me it is reason to say Alleluia! Also reason to listen Peter Tosh, to press on even when there is no way out. I am so thankful for you! Drissy, of the Drysdales, Joy of the Halls, Mommy to many, Miss Hall to her students, Love!
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To the very last breath! Solitude the revolutionary.
A statue of La Mûlatresse Solitude, who in 1802, helpled lead a slave revolt while EIGHT Months pregnant in Guadeloupe.
She became a martyr and symbol for all women and mothers who against all odds defended the ideals of freedom and equality.
A THREAD!
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See the barrier? This is what NEPA or Fisheries should consider putting up near our major wetlands to protect our crabs. And we should also consider establishing harvesting seasons for them too.
Christmas Island crab migration,
When millions of red crabs make a spectacular journey from the island's forests to the coast to breed
📹 wexploretravel
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@nasrunmir
@_galactictony
@darshnasoni
What is complex? They're racist. A set of people who feel it is beneath them to live in the same space with non Caucasian is racist.
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Yuh mean fi tell mi other Caribbean countries can make these statements? And Jamaica cannot, dem haffi mek commissions and silence? Kmt.
𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝, 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞, 𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥, 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐫 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐲𝐥𝐞𝐬 - 𝐌o𝐄
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@RattrayRenee
The teachers who made me feel like I mattered simply remembered my name and asked questions. To this day I remember when they first responded to me as a person. Nothing extraordinary, just "Gavin, I KNOW you can do it." Simple things.
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So, NHT gave our money to a company to build houses, they built them and didn't hand over as they should to NHT. And NHT signs a secret agreement with them and we don't know how our money's spent? Social housing nice don't?
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@Miltonnewsja
Cheap option and the lives the managers endanger aren't theirs. Simple fact is that they did the risk assessment and figured it would be a lot cheaper to use lighter armoured vehicles and put the guards at greater risk.
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Moravia Road, Christiana. Note the hibiscus fence, the pitch of the roof, open veranda and the fretwork!
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Protect our rivers, our mountains and our lands for they who to come. Please
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@AfroDijiac
I see that tweet and raise you being on a bus in a country where you do t expect to see another Jamaican and hear someone chip a bad wud! Music to my ears!
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@Mikkie_J
So, football boots buy? Coffee, conversation, his charm, wit and thoughts all were used, you have to pay!
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@Susu60745354
@ChrysK3
Wha wrong with an anonymous picture?Be calm and be still. All you see are three live persons doing different things. No dead body anywhere in the picture, just implied.
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I hope we welcome them and treat them right as fellow Caribbean citizens.
Over two dozen Haitians, packed in one boat, arrived at the Boston Beach in Portland earlier this afternoon. More details to come.
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Greenwashing at its finest. An active strip mining company is launching a tree nursery to meet its goal of 200,000 trees when any acre of forest that it strips has more than 15,000. It has a lease to mine well over 10,000 acres.
Noranda Jamaica Bauxite, in its effort to reach its target of planting 200,000 trees, on Thursday broke ground to officially launch its Operation Discovery tree-planting nursery in Water Valley, St Ann.
Read more:
#GLNRToday
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Walked from my house, reached the Tesco, picked up my goods, waited to pay. Only to find out I left my card at home? Give thanks to the lady who laughed with me and just paid for my things. Good people doing good things!
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Before Antonette Haughton all the lawyers I heard of were polite and staid. She changed that image to one of an advocate, fierce and strong. Plus she was from St Mary? Immediate boss. She was a passionate believer in people. Flawed, human, passionate. Walk good warrior.
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Watching a blind man tripping over debris on unfinished works in Halfway Tree reminds me of how uncaring we can be of the disabled.
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@garveygirl
A cousin of someone from Trinidad had it and the sap swole his testicles for months. He had to get a vaccine!
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I am a farmer. And I have lost, more times than I care to speak about, animals, crops and equipment. But nothing will ever get me to support mob killings.
Never.
And no, I don't care what you think of me for it.
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One trick pony. Of limited use and just confirms that the PM can only see militarization as a solution to everything.
PM Andrew Holness has announced that the National Reserves will be called out and deployed to assist with security measures across the country, particularly over the festive season.
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What the flying fig? This is what Ferncourt's worst has chosen to contribute to national debate? How embarrassing, for you to enter a whole space where the emptiness of your barrel is so clear and loud.
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Big deal this! Wait till wi have more a wi yute dem a do dis! Tek wi ago tek ova di pool tu!
8th Place at the
@WorldAquatics
World Cup Super Final in Berlin! Great way to finish a challenging season
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The Drax family owned estates in Jamaica. Including lands that later got used for Jamaica College, a school for planter children.
Barbados is planning to make Conservative MP Richard Drax pay repartitions for his family's role in the slave trade.
This politician will become the first person to pay for his ancestor's role in the abhorrent practice which created his family's wealth 👀
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Explain this: the government of Jamaica is taxing cocoa export while allowing imports of cocoa products.
How dat mek sense?
And no, I don't care who did it first. It nuh mek nuh sense! It kyean work!
The Jamaica Cocoa Farmers Association, which represents more than two thousand growers, agro-processors and traders, has written to the agriculture minister demanding a rollback of the cess imposed on cocoa beans bound for export.
Read more:
#GLNRFinance
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No reggae music,
No old barber chair,
But still a give thanks fi di year!
I wish for all mankind
A warm (mental space of happiness, joy, enough and safety) Jamaican Christmas time!
Heart a love!!!
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That moment when your poster is up. Feels nice. And the scan thing works!!!
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@kenyatta_pow
Was she late? Yuh need fi stop gwaan like sey yuh neva move when shi talk ennuh!
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A reminder that Reggae Falls is a man made dam on the Morant River that used to provide Irrigation
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Why should the Chief Justice grant a favour and deny citizens their constitutional rights because the state, with all its resources, failed to do its duties? Police man, move an gwey! This is not a police state. People have rights. Do your job.
“The chief justice has bodyguards ‘round him everywhere him go, but what about the safety of the citizens who he is unleashing these people on?” lamented one police investigator.
Read more:
#GLNRToday
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Now, why would we have another international airport less than an hour from another one, for a population that is less than 500,000? How stupid is this? We don't have an updated master public transportation plan but wi spending money on this? Kmt.
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@wcchen
There are regions in Guyana bigger than Jamaica. Wi not special in size. Wi jus gwaan like wi big.
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I think what
@UDCJamaica
has done with Dump Up Beach is the type of development planning we as a country need: more accessible green spaces and ownership in our future! Looking forward to more like this.
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Just got the news that Robert Buddan, preeminent political theorist, researcher in Caribbean governance and political systems, and lecturer in the
@UWImona
Department of Government died last Thursday. A lasting legacy of scholarship and impact.
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@kingofkgn
My bredrin from India, first language Maharathi, sings Temperature word for word wid all a di patwah phrasings. Wi can cuss Sean Paul bout many tings, but he rep Jamaica language inna him song dem.
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@docpat10
Inna har back pocket boss. Wait til shi look inna yuh eyes and smile. All a yuh pocket money gone!
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@TyquendoTracey
I feel sad that someone hurt her, keep her close and support her choices and be there for her. After all, she is still beautiful and we both learnt since then.
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Today is my mother's day. I have so many memories to share of growing up with her. I am so happy that she cares so much for me and life. Thank God for Cassilda Hall being my mother. I am who I am because she is.
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My Papa smelled of sweat, dirt and banana stain. He was silent and always there. He cried. And he loved his grandchildren. All of us. We were his life. He saw us over the worst and we told him we loved him. I miss him. June is his month. But he lives on.
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This is MY FRIEND, and if there is anyone who knows community work in Jamaica, you know of him. All the best Parri.
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@CaroleBeckford
this is Andre Bailey of Papine High School. My student! Just got a Jamaica retainer contract, playing club league in the UK. Mi proud! This is us in Milton Keynes
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Ganja farming was the only way deep rural hills made real money. Think East Westmoreland, South St Ann, North St Thomas. Now rich people, who neva go prison fi ganja, topanaris dem buy out legal system and my people nah benefit. Babylon!!!!
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I think this is a nice synergy. Imagine over time as we integrate other local folk forms into the carnival product!
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@lijitimate
No. But you stand up on the right side of history, even if your voice is never heard above the din and noise.
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This is why people hate subjects! Because teachers cannot teach! Look how dis good man?
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Know what is hard about this? None of the criticism is even remotely trying to deal with the issue Gavin raised. And worse, the type of personal attacks, if you respond!!!
I spent 20 yrs volunteering to teach literacy so vulnerable ppl could lead more dignified, independent lives. Worked with a major bank to teach ppl to use ATMs. Taught countless adults how to complete forms to apply for jobs and passports. 1/2
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@MsGillyJ
@gunnerbeeks
That should be the developed lungs of the city, left as green and accessible space for all of us, our legacy that we have access to. From Jamaica House to Kings House it should be public gardens
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Lest anyone forget, Fortis Cadere Cedere non Potest. The colour is purple
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