Falling For Jamaica
It is extraordinary to think that an island the size of Jamaica can produce three of the eight fastest men on earth. But so it was at the...
Caribbean Cleo — the Amazing Cleo Laine
Cleo Laine was 26 when she learnt that she had been born to unmarried parents. She’d never had a passport, suddenly needed one for a...
Butch’s Baby: Sandals Resorts
In a way, you could say that Gordon “Butch” Stewart has his head in the sand, a lot of sand. So much, in fact, that one can...
Miss Lou’s Love Letter
Me darlin love, me lickle dove, Me dumplin, me gizada, Me sweetie Sue, I goes fa you Like how flies goes fa sugar. As ah puts me pen to...
Caribbean Snack Time
Island-hopping through the Caribbean is a marvellously diverse pastime, and there comes a time when preparing a full meal just seems like...
Special Assignment: Ian Fleming’s Jamaica
Agent 007 – alias James Bond, the bane of international terrorists, megalomaniac scientists and nefarious drug barons – was...
The Peter Rousseau Factor
Perhaps it was the travels with his father, who was a salesman for Grace, Kennedy & Co. (Jamaica’s largest food processor and...
Redemption Songs
How can you be so ungrateful/After all that God has done for you . . . Unlikely lyrics for a contemporary Jamaican smash hit? Only a year...
