The views of a Jamaican woman. A mother/ teacher/ writer blowing off steam... saying what she really wants to say.
The cutlass has had a long history in Jamaica from the days of the Bucaneers to the days when sugar was king. There are 6 names for cutlass in Jamaica, and in the summer of 1985 in Big 9, I learned everything I needed to know about the cutlass.
It was 1985, The Last Dragon was in movie theatres, Big 9 had new tenants, and my best friend wasn't talking to me.
It was 1985, six months after Miss Monica left, and Mr Floral was looking for new tenants.
745,000 Jamaicans migrated in the 1980s, and in 1985, a few months after the incident with Ava ,it was Miss Monica's turn.
It was a rainy Sunday evening in 1985. The men on the corner decided to play football in the rain, and fate decided to play a game of its own.
Spanish Fly is a liquid which is said to be an aphrodisiac. Some men pour the liquid into an unsuspecting female drink and take advantage ...
It was 1985 my sister Annette had formed a friendship with Ava across the lane. Until something happened. something involving Spanish fly.
Hiatus over! New episodes of Minding My Own Jamaicaan Business return this Friday, November 15!
I learned the truth about Tony Dread January in 1985, and other valuable lessons that I have carried with me since then.
Don't spare the rod and spoil the child is a saying often repeated by Jamaican parents. I wondered if that was why Cutie's uncle hurt her so badly. Sherry-Ann Moxie and I wondered what we could do to stop it.
1985 started with roadblocks and protests because of fuel hikes and The city of Kingston was brought to a standstill. I learned a lot from that uprising.
By Christmas 1984 Fitzroy was back and with him a whole slew of trouble.
Tragedy struck shortly after September morning in 1984 and Big 9 was shrouded in sadness.
It was 1984 and I was starting grade 1, Big 9 was a toxic and turbulent environment, my parents were not on good terms and my sister Annette had swapped one bad boy for the next
After the police raid Big 9 became a potpourri of unhappiness.
In 1984, 354 civilians were killed by the po.ice in Jamaica and Annette's actions could have made me casualty 355.
Annette's love for bad boys is affecting the whole family.
After the their's visit a new tenant comes,: a woman who would prove to be my mother's greatest nemesis.
Why are children taught to listen and obey blindly? Sherry Ann and I find out the hard way to learn to ask questions.
Mr Hopeton a.ways made claims and told stories.
8 family members in one rented room.
She had two kids in a one room space. And we shared a verandah
We moved from one tenement yard to another. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nat065/message
We finally moved from Wellington Road, but did we go from one tenement yard to the next? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nat065/message
The chins laid to rest --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nat065/message
Break --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nat065/message
"Mr. Chin" in the Jamaican ghetto --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nat065/message
Drive by were common 0lace and politics rife. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nat065/message
Our menu in that tenement yard was all throw-away parts, as we strugg.ed with new alliances. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nat065/message
He wanted to leave us and return to The United States by any means necessary. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nat065/message
Straddling two religions hoping for a miracle --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nat065/message
It was 1983 my sister Annette was 16 years old, my father was undocumented in New York and my mother struggled with us in a tenement yard in Kingston. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nat065/message
How do you deal with changes?. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nat065/message
Leroy was never the same after that beating... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nat065/message
I stood behind the fridge with a knife in my hands, my mother was in the hospital I didn't know where my father was and then. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nat065/message
Four policemen armed with M-16 rifles threw my father into the back of the jeep was it the mad man who called them? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nat065/message
In 1981, we lived in a tenement yard on Wellington Road where my cousin was murdered and a man threatened to stab me in the eyes with an icepick. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nat065/message
Season 2 finale --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nat065/message
Friendships over 40 and check out our youtube page , instagram and our daily journal on Amazon. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nat065/message
Objectification from birth to death --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nat065/message
When women go bad.... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nat065/message
An interesting week for consumers in Jamaica --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nat065/message
Death traditions in Jamaica and preparing for death. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nat065/message
brain drain... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nat065/message
how are you treating yourself? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nat065/message
Crossing social lines --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nat065/message
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