Jamaican Till I Die!

The first rule of Jamaica is we do not do Maintenance, it is also the second and third rule.  On Friday | January 29, 2021 | 12:29 AM The Jamaica Gleaner published a story about the state of an old building being used as a post office since 1950 within a community.  "The community of Benbow, situated about one and a half miles from Guy’s Hill, St Catherine, has had a postal agency serving residents of adjoining communities dating back to the early 1950s. The building has fallen into disrepair over the years, and no attempt has been made to improve the facility which serves residents of communities such as Middlesex, Copper, Bonnet and Moreland." The reaction of my country men was mostly predictable. To them the existence of the dilapidated building was an embarrassment, it was an old wooden structure and needed to be replaced with something new, modern, and metropolitan to fit their foreign minded mental state.  The first thing that came to my mind was, a nice, lovely qua...

"He bared his chest and declared…If you are going to shoot, shoot me, but leave these defenceless, hungry people alone." ….Alexander Bustamante I once saw a play in the 80's at the little theater where the above was said by one of the actors and another actor shouted in response…..”A should a now!!” …to the laughter of the audience… His implication was that today's police would have obliged Alexander Bustamante and open fire killing him and everyone dead. I however think that if it was now there would be no one to play the role of Bustamante because that is not how our current so called leaders roll, we would simply be on our own. Market Woman early 1900 For me, the best part of Jamaican history is the period from 1900 to 1962. I call this period the Golden Age of the Nation Building. The fight against hard life and suffering experienced at the hands of British Colonialism. A time when the working class, Educated Class, middle and upper middle class came to...