The Lest We Forget Historical Podcast reflects on past events of the Caribbean and how these events shape the society we live in today. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/support
Content Warning: this episode contains sexual content as well as mentions of sexism, ephebophilia, statutory rape, revenge porn and misogyny. Sidewalk is an upcoming video essay series that explores shifting discourse in Jamaican society through the arts. Lest We Forget is pleased to present the podcast version of their first project - Oral Sex As Told By Dancehall - which looks at the history of oral sex discourse in Jamaican society through dancehall music. Subscribe to Sidewalk Youtube's page:https://www.youtube.com/@thesidewalkpaversVisit Tenement Yaad Media at: https://www.tenementyaadmedia.com/Don't forget to follow Tenement Yaad on our social mediaTwitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lanBlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/tenementyaadmedia.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=enTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tenementyaad_Join our Patreon hereWant to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation
In conservations around Jamaicans distrust in the island's political system, there is the recurring theme of political corruption. So to understand the root of political corruption on the island, it seems to fit to look at the historic court case involving J.Z. Malcolm, who in 1952 became the first politician in Jamaica to be found guilty on fraud charges. For additional reading information on this episode and to view our transcript for this episode, visit our website at: https://www.tenementyaadmedia.com/Don't forget to follow us on our social mediaTwitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lanBlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/tenementyaadmedia.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=enTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tenementyaad_Join our Patreon hereWant to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation
Since scholarship on the topic discussed is limited, a large portion of the details heard on this episode was taken from “The Making of ‘The Comrade': The Political Journey of Ralph Gonsalves" by Ralph GonsalvesToday, Dr. Ralph Gonsalves is the one of the longest serving head of government in Caribbean history. As of this episode recording, he is the current prime minister of St.Vincent and the Grenadines - a post he has held since 2001. Beloved throughout the region, he has affectionately called Uncle Ralph and Comrade Ralph. But back in the 1970's, this affection was non-existent as he was persona non-grata throughout the Eastern Caribbean.For additional reading information on this episode and to view our transcript for this episode, visit our website at: https://www.tenementyaadmedia.com/Don't forget to follow us on our social mediaTwitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lanBlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/tenementyaadmedia.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=enTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tenementyaad_Join our Patreon hereWant to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation
Content Warning: this episode contains profanityIn 2004, Jamaican musician, Damian ‘Jr Gong' Marley released the lead single off his upcoming third studio album, "Welcome to Jamrock”. Propelled by its music video, it would go to be an international hit. But although it was celebrated abroad, back home in Jamaica, sections of society had a different opinion.For additional reading information on this episode and to view our transcript for this episode, visit our website at: https://www.tenementyaadmedia.com/Don't forget to follow us on our social mediaTwitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lanBlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/tenementyaadmedia.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=enTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tenementyaad_Join our Patreon hereWant to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation
In the wake of certain events occurring across the region, thousands of West Indians emigrated or sought refugees status to the United States by the 1970s. Still, it would be the newly arrived Haitians and Haitian refugees that faced the most prejudice. And even though one rap group would emerge in the 1990s to address this anti-immigrant and anti-black discrimination, anti-Haitian rhetoric in the U.S. has never really gone away.Don't forget to follow us on our social mediaTwitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lanBlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/tenementyaadmedia.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=enTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tenementyaad_Join our Patreon hereWant to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation
Content Warning: This episode contains mention of slavery On August 1st, 1838, Jamaica, alongside the rest of the countries in British West Indies, achieved emancipation and thus all enslaves Black people on the island, gained their freedom. Since then, it has been ongoing debate on the necessity of commemorating the end of one of the most brutal acts of mankind. For additional reading information on this episode and to view our transcript for this episode, visit our website at: https://www.tenementyaadmedia.com/ Don't forget to follow us on our social media Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lan BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/tenementyaadmedia.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=en TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tenementyaad_ Join our Patreon here Want to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lestweforget/support
Content Warning: This episode discusses a plane crash as well as injuries and death associated with it. In the mid 1970's, the first and only mid-air bombing of a civilian airliner in the Western Hemisphere took place. As such, the 1976 bombing of Cubana Airline 455 which resulted in the killing of 73 persons, became one of the most devastating terrorist attack in Caribbean history. For additional reading information on this episode and to view our transcript for this episode, visit our website at: https://www.tenementyaadmedia.com/ Don't forget to follow us on our social media Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=en TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tenementyaad_ Join our Patreon here Want to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lestweforget/support
Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of homophobia, homophobic language, murder and police brutality. There are also brief mentions of slavery and rape. By no stretch, is the Jamaica Constabulary Force the most loved civil servant organisation. However, the organisation colonial roots, anti-blackness and the nation's homophobia have lead to an almost century long belief that the organisation is been overrun by queer male police officers. For additional reading information on this episode and to view our transcript for this episode, visit our website at: https://www.tenementyaadmedia.com/ Don't forget to follow us on our social media Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=en TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tenementyaad_ Join our Patreon here Want to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lestweforget/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lestweforget/support
On this episode, we discussed how the colonisation of Barbados by Europeans led to the rise of mosquitoes in the region as well as look at other ecological transformation that have led to other present day problems across the region For additional reading information on this episode and to view our transcript for this episode, visit our website at: https://www.tenementyaadmedia.com/ Don't forget to follow us on our social media Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=en TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tenementyaad_ Join our Patreon here Want to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lestweforget/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lestweforget/support
In 1979, a swine virus outbreak occurred in the Dominican Republic. Still, the situation would have far reaching changes in Haiti as a US-Canada-Mexico partnership saw 1.3 million of their Kreyol pigs been slaughtered. For additional reading information on this episode and to view our transcript for this episode, visit our website at: https://www.tenementyaadmedia.com/ Don't forget to follow us on our social media Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=en TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tenementyaad_ Join our Patreon here Want to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lestweforget/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lestweforget/support
In 1975, Cuba sent troops to Angola to help them fight against an invasion by apartheid South Africa. Henry Kissinger, the US Secretary of State was angry at this, so he set out to get countries to denounce Cuba's actions. Jamaica was one of these countries. So, in December 1975, Kissinger met with prime minister Michael Manley on the issue. On this episode, we hear from Manley, himself, how this conversation went and the events that occured in its aftermath - events, that forever changed Jamaica. -Michael Manley's account is taken from, Jamaica: A Struggle In The Periphery by Michael Manley. pg 111 to 117 For additional reading information on this episode and to view our transcript for this episode, visit our website at: https://www.tenementyaadmedia.com/ Don't forget to follow us on our social media Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=en TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tenementyaad_ Join our Patreon here Want to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lestweforget/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lestweforget/support
In Jamaica, there is the famous Devon House. A historical landmark, it is popular for its patties, the Devon House ice-cream and on any given weekend when the weather is suitable, it also serves as a public park for families. However, there's a popular story that involves Devon House that most Jamaicans grow up hearing. Basically, the story goes that Lady Musgrave, the the then governor of Jamaica's wife, was so angry at seeing Devon House, this grand mansion owned by a black man, that she authorise the building of another road, to avoid driving passed it. And it's for this reason why the road is known today as Lady Musgrave's Road. However, as much as the story is popular and accepted by Jamaicans, it's not true. Entirely debunked by historical facts, on this episode, we outline why the story of Lady Musgrave and George Stiebel, Devon House's owner, is just a myth. And While we are, the story of Annie Palmer, the White Witch of Rose Hall, was all based on a novel. That story, too isn't true. For additional reading information on this episode and to view our transcript for this episode, visit our website at: https://www.tenementyaadmedia.com/ Don't forget to follow us on our social media Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=en Join our Patreon here Want to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lestweforget/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lestweforget/support
Upon the arrival of large numbers of Indians to the Caribbean, through the Indentureship system, they also brought their religion and other aspect of their culture. Their aversion to not assimilating to whiteness, was seen as a problem by the colonial governments. And no other event in the 1800's would portray this than the 1884 Hosay Massacre in Trinidad which say agents of the colonial state - the police- turn their guns on Indians taking part in the annual Hosay festival. For additional reading information on this episode and to view our transcript for this episode, visit our website at: https://www.tenementyaadmedia.com/ Don't forget to follow us on our social media Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=en Join our Patreon here Want to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/support
On August 1st, 1838, Jamaica, alongside the rest of the countries in British West Indies, achieved emancipation and thus all enslaves black people on the island, gained their freedom. Immediately after, the topic of land became a major issue. For even though freedom day come for all black persons, land throughout the British colonies were not accessible for former enslaves. Then white planter landowners bined the former enslaved population with long labour contrasts and labour rent tenants contracts. This drove thousands of freed Blacks right back to the plantation, they were once freed from. By the 1840's, the colony government of the British West Indies took it a step further by implementing numerous legislation and taxation, that made it extremely difficult for black peasants to make a living, own and have access to land. Soon after, protest and riots took place across the region as the peasantry class realise that the promises of freedom, black people in the British West Indies were not privy to. By February 1859, residents of Westmoreland, a western parish in Jamaica, had enough. Inspired by the Rebecca Riots of Wales, some persons dressed in women clothing, joined others to demonstrate their grievances with the state. For additional reading information on this episode and to view our transcript for this episode, visit our website at: https://www.tenementyaadmedia.com/ Don't forget to follow us on our social media Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=en Join our Patreon here Want to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/support
Content Warning: this episode contains mentions of violence, slavery and wider harm. Most scholarship on Caribbean chattel slavery of enslaved Africans largely covers the the sugar and tobacco plantation systems throughout the region. However, there was another massive industry that was built upon the enslavement of Africans - that was the cultivation of salt. Saltpans, the name given to the areas of salt production, were spread across the region: Turks & Caicos, Haiti, Jamaica, Barbuda, Sint Maarten, Bonaire and other areas. Throughout the 18th and 19th century, the region was one the main supplier of salt to Europe and the United States; and as events unfold, the documentation of the life of one enslaved black woman who worked on a Caribbean saltpan played a major role in the fight for emancipation in the British West Indies. Still, it is the history of salt production in the region that shaped the West Indian diet we know today. For additional reading information on this episode and to view our transcript for this episode, visit our website at: https://www.tenementyaadmedia.com/ Don't forget to follow us on our social media Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=en Join our Patreon here Want to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/support
On March 10, 1979, according to all persons who were personally involved in the documentation of the revolution, the New Jewel Movement leadership got word through their informats at senior levels of the police force, that orders were left for the arrest and assassination of the leading members of the political party i.e - Maurice Bishop, Bernard Coard, Unison Whiteman and Hudson Austin. Thus, all leadership members would go into hiding immediately except for Vincent Noel who did not receive the information in time and was arrested and detained. Then on March 12, when Gairy departed the island on government business to attend a function in New York, he allegedly left orders for the capture and murder of the NJM leadership. Through a pattern of behaviour, NJM leadership knew that if they wanted to live to see another day, they would have to act urgently - they had to move soon and not just soon, they had to move tonight. In one night, Tuesday, March 13, 1979, a group of young persons would attempt an event that has never happen in Caribbean history: a successful revolution in the English - speaking Caribbean. For additional reading information on this episode and to view our transcript for this episode, visit our website at: https://www.tenementyaadmedia.com/ Don't forget to follow us on our social media Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=en Join our Patreon here Want to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/support
Content Warning: This episode contains mentions of police brutality As Sir Eric Gairy's tenure as head of government continued throughout the 1970's, the country was on the brink of economic and social collapse. After Bloody Sunday and Bloody Monday occurred, two of the most brutal cases of police brutality in Caribbean history, Eric Gairy was beginning to face opposition from all sides. However of all the oppositions that formed, one stood out: an organised group of young professionals who called themselves the New Jewel Movement. The New Joint Endeavor for Welfare, Education, and Liberation was founded in 1973 and born out of two organisations: MAPS, Movement for Assembly of the People, founded by UK trained attorneys, Maurice Bishop and Kenrick Radix; and JEWEL, Joint Endeavor for Welfare, Education, and Liberation founded by US educated economist Unison Whiteman and Sebastian Thomas. By the mid 1970's, the Marxist Leninist political party was now headed by a group of leftist young professionals: Maurice Bishop, Bernard Coard, Unison Whiteman, Kenrick Radix, Vincent Noel, Hudson Austin, George Lousion, Selwyn Strachan and Jacqueline Creft. With a national grassroots approach to political organising, NJM would attract the support of the poor, youth, women and members of the Rastafari community in Grenada; and by 1977, would position themselves as the main opposition party on the island. For additional reading information on this episode and to view our transcript for this episode, visit our website at: https://www.tenementyaadmedia.com/ Don't forget to follow us on our social media Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=en Join our Patreon here Want to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/support
At the beginning of the 1970's decade, Grenada's representative Jennifer Hosten, won the Miss World pageant and almost four years later, the country achieved one of its greatest fete: independence from the United Kingdom. Still, in the midst of this independence, the country was experiencing islandwide strikes and protests due to its economic deterioration and domestic repression in the hands of its premier now first prime minister, Eric Gairy. These were highlighted by the many cases of Gairy's alleged bribes and corruption, real estates scams, extortion deals, sex scandals, international partnership for his own self interest, and his now growing obsession with religion and flying saucers. But even most alarming, they would have to wake up everyday and come face to face with the reality of one of the most famous institutions of Gairyism: the Mongoose Gang, Gairy's allegedly secret police which came down on anyone and anything that stood in his way of power. For additional reading information on this episode and to view our transcript for this episode, visit our website at: https://www.tenementyaadmedia.com/ Don't forget to follow us on our social media Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=en Join our Patreon here Want to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/support
After years of societal tension in Grenada, everything would come to a head in 1951 at an event now known as the 1951 Revolution. The person who propelled this event was a former primary school teacher name Eric Matthew Gairy. Due to the success of this 1951 event, Gairy would become Grenada's leading trade unionist through his organisation, Grenada Manual and Mental Workers Union (GMMWU). Gairy capitalise on this new fame among the locals and register a political party, Grenada People's Party (GPP) which would ultimately become the Grenada's United Labour Party (GULP). Soon after, at the age of 29, Gairy would Grenada's most powerful political leader. Over the next decade and through the 1960's, Grenada became the setting for Gairyism. Gairyism is defined as the “pride and rebellion Gairy inspired; the self-seeking excesses of the man himself”. Popularism, reports of vast government corruption and lack of policies geared towards the working class, could not deter Grenadians from voting for Gairy. As such by the time Grenada achieved self governance in 1967, Gairy would be ushered in as Premier and Grenadians, unknowlingly, would have to brace themselves for the full force of Gairyism. For additional reading information on this episode and to view our transcript for this episode, visit our website at: https://www.tenementyaadmedia.com/ Don't forget to follow us on our social media Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=en Join our Patreon here Want to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/support
1950 would be one of the most significant years to understand the Grenadian Revolution, however, the events of this year were years in the making. It was years of build up tension arising from the neglect of the country's majority black and poor population, coupled with the organising influence of Uriah Butler in nearby Trinidad and Tobago and the national black power empowerment movement enhance by of T.A. Marryshow. Grenada, unlike other countries in the anglophone Caribbean region, did not have large scale union backed labour protest in the 1930's and this would add to this palpable tension. This episode also contains a brief history of the Banda Massacre which exposes the dark history of nutmeg cultivation and European colonisation The audio that opened this episode is a recording of McGodden Kerensky "Cacademo" Grant, one of the persons who started the Working Men and Women's Association with T. Albert Marryshow. Later, he would become National Chairman of the New JEWEL Movement (NJM) Council of Delegate. At the time of the People's Revolutionary Government (PRG), he worked with the militia until his death in 1982. For additional reading information on this episode and to view our transcript for this episode, visit our website at: https://www.tenementyaadmedia.com/ Don't forget to follow us on our social media Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=en Join our Patreon here Want to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/support
A introduction of what to come for the season 4 of the Lest We Forget Historical Podcast. This season will be a seven part series entirely dedicated to Grenadian Revolution as we examine the events, people, causes & consequences that led to the March 1979 overthrow of the Sir Eric Gairy government by the New Jewel Movement. The audio compilation features the voices of Maurice Bishop, Claudette Pitt, Sir Eric Gairy, a rare recording of Cacademo Grant & the first radio broadcast to hit Grenada's airwave on the morning of March 13, 1979 To see previous seasons of this podcast, visit our website at: https://www.tenementyaadmedia.com/ Don't forget to follow us on our social media Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=en Join our Patreon here Want to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/support
In March of 1795, a French free coloured, Julien Fédon, would lead a revolt against the white British elites on the island of Grenada. Inspired by the Haitian Revolution, the French Revolution and activities happening in Guadeloupe; for the next 16 months Fédon would range a battle against the English colonisers. At the end of the uprising, at least 7000 of the Grenadians enslaves were killed along with over 1000 Europeans and free coloured; and wide destruction of property. Even though the Fedon Rebellion was not successful in its mission to overthrow British colonisation in Grenada, the rebellion would be one of the most important events that led to emancipation of enslaves in the anglophone Caribbean in 1838; and also start a revolutionary tradition in Grenada. For additional reading information on this episode, visit our website at: https://www.tenementyaadmedia.com/ Don't forget to follow us on our social media Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=en Join our Patreon here Want to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/support
Content Warning: this episode contains mentioned of physical and emotional abuse. If this is something that you know is a trigger for you, please skip forward to 8 minutes in this episode or if you rather just not, please checkout other episodes of the Lest We Forget Podcast. Alexander Bedward, emerged during 1889 as a minister in the Jamaica Native Baptist Free Church. Throughout the 1890's and beyond, he would emerged as one of the leading christian preachers in Jamaica. Tales of his healing power in the Hope River, his power of prophecy and his proclamation of been a reincarnation of Christ and would ring out throughout the island, the rest of Caribbean region and even as far as Costa Rica. Thousands travel to August Town to be baptised and witness the great preacher in action. Still, Bedward emerge as one of the earliest black nationalists in Jamaica. Bedward called on the black majority to organise and take action against the institution of racial discrimination, socio-economic deprivation, injustice, the tyranny of minority colonial rule that exist on the island. Even though he was respected by the oppressed masses on the island, attracting thousands of followers, he was feared by the upper classes and colonial authorities, who saw him as a threat to political stability that was given even more priority after the 1865 Morant Bay Rebellion, which was led by men who were Native Baptist. This image of Bedward by the colonial powers would lead to over 20 years of him been labeled as an enemy of the state where eventually, he was arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced to the lunatic asylum, where he later died. For additional reading information on this episode, visit our website at: https://www.tenementyaadmedia.com/ Don't forget to follow us on our social media Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=en Join our Patreon here Want to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/support
Since scholarship on the Ten Type Beauty Contest is limited, details on the pageant was taken from research conducted by Dr. Rochelle Rowe in her book, “Imagining Caribbean Womanhood: Race, Nation & Beauty Competitions, 1929-1970” and her more specified academic paper, “Glorifying the Jamaican Girl”: The “Ten Types – One People” Beauty Contest, Racialized Femininities, and Jamaican Nationalism”. In 1954, then Minister of Finance in the Jamaica Labour Party, Donald Sangster had this grand idea: Jamaica will celebrate "three hundredth anniversary of British rule in Jamaica" and the celebrations would mark 300 years of "progress and development as a junior partner with Britain in her vast Colonial enterprise". However, JLP lost the 1955 election and the already approved celebrations were rebranded under the Norman Manley led - PNP government as "a celebration of Jamaica's three hundred years as a national entity with a distinctive history, culture, and people". The highlight of this celebration to commentate 300 years of national pride was the beauty pageant to be held in May. This beauty pageant was the “Ten Type Beauty Contest” which was designed to showcase the diversity of Jamaica. The Star launched “Ten Types” in May 1955 as an inclusive beauty contest, the first of its kind, under the theme: “Every lassie has an equal chance”. The beauty contest thus ended with ten separate beauty queens: Miss Ebony (A Jamaican girl of black complexion), Miss Mahogany (A Jamaican Girl of Cocoa-brown Complexion), Miss Satinwood (A Jamaican Girl of Coffee-and-Milk Complexion), Miss Golden Apple (A Jamaican Girl of Peaches-and-Cream Complexion), Miss Apple Blossom (A Jamaican Girl of European Parentage), Miss Pomegranate (A Jamaican girl of White-Mediterranean Parentage), Miss Sandalwood (A Jamaican Girl of Pure Indian Parentage), Miss Lotus (A Jamaican Girl of Pure Chinese Parentage), Miss Jasmine (A Jamaican Girl of Part Chinese Parentage) and Miss Allspice (A Jamaican Girl of Part Indian Parentage). The local reception was positive and the international fanfare projected the idea of Jamaica been a racial paradise, where racism does not exist; and the country having the ability to convert racists. So positive was the reception of Ten Type to the Jamaica brand, that the beauty competition would go on to be one of the biggest influence in shaping the nation's new national motto: "Out of Many, One People" For additional reading information on this episode, visit our website at: https://www.tenementyaadmedia.com/ Don't forget to follow us on our social media Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=en Join our Patreon here Want to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/support
Pearnel Charles, retired politician, former vice president of the Bustamante Industrial and Trade Union cohosted this episode to speak on his days advocating for bauxite workers in the 1960's. The Jamaican bauxite strikes of 1960's were a staple of the development of the bauxite -alumina industry in the country as local workers spoke up about low wages and poor working conditions by the transnational corporation controlling the industry As far back as 1869, the red dirt in Jamaica has always fascinated persons living on the island. It was not until the early 1940's however, that commercial value was put on this red dirt and thus started the beginning of the Jamaica - Bauxite industry. From the 1950's onward, the bauxite-alumina industry has shape Jamaica's economics, development and society. On this episode, we chronicle the early days of the bauxite-alumina industry, the rise of bauxite-alumina transnational corporations on the island and the famous bauxite strikes which took place in the 1960's. Song: Protection - Protoje ft Mortimer For additional reading information on this episode, visit our website at: https://www.tenementyaadmedia.com/ Don't forget to follow us on our social media Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=en Join our Patreon here Want to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/support
Coming off the heels of the banning of Guyanese historian Dr. Walter Rodney, been banned by the Jamaican government in 1968, almost ten months later, the Hugh Shearer led - Jamaican government would announce the banning one of the most renowned Caribbean economist, Dr. Clive. Y. Thomas. At the time, Dr. CY Thomas, was an economist professor at the University of the West Indies campus in Mona, Jamaica. The banning of the Guyanese professor would result in outcry across the region for the Jamaican government to announce the reason for the ban, as none was given; and for Caribbean governments to stop the act of undermining professors at the regional institutions in the wake of two professors been banned by the Jamaican government in less than a year. Song: Justice - Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers For additional reading information on this episode, visit our website at: https://www.tenementyaadmedia.com/ Don't forget to follow us on our social media Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=en Join our Patreon here Want to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/support
“Among the tiny minority of politically motivated criminals in the 1970s none won as much notoriety and anxious concern from the authorities as did Dennis “Copper” Barth. Born in Kingston in 1951, Barth's turn to crime came at an early age after he dropped out of the Rennock Lodge Elementary School at age twelve. By the time he was eighteen years old Barth had been convicted of several major offences, including murdering a policeman, for which he was sentenced to life imprisonment.19 By the mid- 1970s, Barth, who operated out of the Rennock Lodge area in East Kingston, had been declared “public enemy number one”. By age twenty-six, Barth was the youngest of the “most wanted” men in the country since the violent reign of “Rhygin” – Vincent “Ivanhoe” Martin – a feared gunman who was killed in 1948” - Obika Gray Song: Guard Up - Insedius For additional reading information on this episode, visit our website at: https://www.tenementyaadmedia.com/ Don't forget to follow us on our social media Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=en Subscribe to our Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9HHvNiUNWqCBaUy-tXi_-A Join our Patreon here Want to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/support
In August of 1791, in the thick woods of St. Domingue (pre-revolutionary Haiti), enslaved persons gathered at Morne Rouge, at a specific place which will now become known as Bois Caïman. The meeting consists of about two hundred enslaves, sent from various plantations in the region. Presiding over the meeting was the Jamaican enslaved, Dutty Boukman. As Boukman, presided over the meeting and call upon the enslaved to take their freedom from the French oppressors, a woman would appeared suddenly in the meeting: Cecile Fatiman. Cecile would go on to perform what is now widely consider to be a voodoo ritual and prophesied the fall of the French colonisers in Haiti. As such, Bois Caïman, would go down in history as the event that kicked off the Haitian Revolution; the only successful black slave revolt in history. Song: Bois Caïman - King Kessy For information on the sources used in this episode, visit our website at: https://www.tenementyaadmedia.com/ Don't forget to follow us on our social media Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=en Want to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/support
In 1979, 1985 and 1999, Jamaica experienced three protests which would become known as the "Gas Riots" which were triggered by a hike in fuel prices by the respective governments of the time. In 1979, the Micheal Manley led PNP government announced that as of January 10, the price of premium gas will be increased by 20 cents a gallon; from $3.00 to $3.20 and the price of regular gas will move from the present $2.85 to $3.10 an increase of 25 cents. In 1985, the Edward Seaga led JLP government announced that as of 14 January that the price of a gallon of premium gasoline was to increase from J$8.99 to J$10.90 as well other similarly sharp increases in the prices of diesel, kerosene and cooking gas. In 1999, the PJ Patterson led PNP government would announced a $100 million in new taxes, most by a 30% levy in gas that raised prices from $1.55 to $2.00. All three protests, would see Jamaica be brought to its heel but not all three were successful in making the government roll back these new taxes. Song: Declaration of Rights - The Abyssinians For information on the sources used in this episode, visit our website at: https://www.tenementyaadmedia.com/ Don't forget to follow us on our social media Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=en Want to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/support
"In most scholarship, the Rastafari movement is thought to have formed from a rethinking of biblical prophecies enabled by Black consciousness. Rastafari scholars have not sufficiently probed the tentative connections between the movement and Hinduism. Most map the movement in a dialectic between White oppressive Christianity and oppressed Afro-Jamaicans, which has produced a Rastafari that reappropriates, repurposes, and reproduces the Black and African ethos while actively disentangling the Afro-Indian intimacies that are found across the archives. Moreover, this view diminishes the agency of the members of the Jamaican lower class (the Indo and Afro-Jamaicans) to organize among themselves. This [audio] article... aims to excavate the historical silences of the Hindu contributions to the genesis and development of the movement's metaphysics" Song at the beginning of episode: Super Cat - Ghetto Red Hot Song at the end of episode: Beverly Pancham Ramparsard - Chitawaniya Me Naina For information on the sources used in this episode, visit our website at: https://www.tenementyaadmedia.com/ Don't forget to follow us on our social media Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=en Want to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/support
On January 5 1978, the Green Bay Massacre took place. The event came about as a result of secret operation by a special unit of the Jamaica Defense Force, called the Military Intelligence Unit, under a People's National Party governments. The secret operation resulted in five men of the Jamaica Labour Party were shot dead by the JDF, after they had been ambushed at Green Bay. Song: Green Bay Killing - Papa Kojak For information on the sources used in this episode, visit our website at: https://www.tenementyaadmedia.com/ Don't forget to follow us on our social media Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=en Want to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/support
The Christmas Rebellion, also known as the Baptist Rebellion, was an eleven-day rebellion that mobilised as many as sixty thousand of Jamaica's three hundred thousand slaves in 1831–1832. The planning and organisation of the revolt came from enslaved literate leader Samuel “Daddy” Sharpe, who had been given limited freedom to move around the island. Sharpe used this freedom, especially his literacy and ability to travel, to discuss and plan for the actual revolt. Even though, it was to be a peaceful strike, on December 27, 1831, a fire, started by a woman, broke out on the Kensington Estate in St. James, would lead to the event that would be considered the largest slave rebellion in the British Caribbean. Song: Babylon System - Bob Marley and the Wailers For information on the sources used in this episode, visit our website at: https://www.tenementyaadmedia.com/ Don't forget to follow us on our social media Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=en Want to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/support
On our first ever episode of Researcher's Cut, we spoke to author of Troubling Freedom: Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation, Dr. Natasha Lightfoot. Dr. Lightfoot is an associate professor at Columbia University specialising in slavery and emancipation studies, and black identities, politics, and cultures in the fields of Caribbean, Atlantic World, and African Diaspora History. Her book, mentioned above, goes into the events which contributed to the Antigua Riots of 1858. Song: Handsworth Revolution - Steel Pulse Visit our website at: https://www.tenementyaadmedia.com/ Don't forget to follow us on our social media Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=en Want to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/support
In 1858, an Antiguan man had a dispute with a Barbudan man. The events which unfold will involve rioting and an attack on Barbudan business on the island of Antigua. Still, the most remembered thing from the riot was how a group of oppressed black women in Antigua organised & took up arms to expressed their hatred for the society, proceeding Emancipation, that they were force to live in. Song: Queen Ifrica.- Lioness On The Rise For information on the sources used in this episode, visit our website at: https://www.tenementyaadmedia.com/ Don't forget to follow us on our social media Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=en Want to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/support
In 1976, a young Cindy Breakspeare was selected to represent Jamaica at the Miss World pageant by Mickey Haughton-James. However, an issue was at hand as, the Prime Minister of Jamaica, Michael Manley withdrew the country from the Miss World pageant in the same year , thus Jamaican did not have a pageant nor was the country allowed to send a representative to the beauty contest. Manley's reason for the banned was because of his government's decision to stand in solidarity with black South Africans who oppose the Apartheid system in the African country. However, as history would have it, Cindy Breakspeare became the second Jamaican to win the title and Michael Manley would become a decorated global anti-apartheid leader. Song: Miss Jamaica: Zac Jone$ ft Agent Sasco For information on the sources used in this episode, visit our website at: https://www.tenementyaadmedia.com/ Don't forget to follow us on our social media Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=en Want to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/support
On October 15th of 1968, the University of the West Indies lecture, Dr. Walter Rodney, was banned from entering the country; that left his pregnant wife and son in Jamaica without him. When students at UWI learned that their professor was barred from re-entry in the country and stranded on an airplane, a protest organised by the UWI Guild of Students at the university would take place. The protest, the largest student organised protest in Caribbean history, would erupt into unrest which would become known as the Walter Rodney Riots of 1968. What would transpire is levels of anti-blackness, violations of human rights, police brutality, government propaganda and nationalism, that ripple throughout the Jamaican society and the Caribbean in the days to follow after the largest Song: Riot - Damion Marley and Sean Paul For information on the sources used in this episode, visit our website at: https://www.tenementyaadmedia.com/ Don't forget to follow us on our social media Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=en Want to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/support
In the 1970s, the first PNP led administration underwent measures to upgrade and developed the Lilford, Sandy and Mcgregor Gully in the Kingston and St. Andrew area. These three projects would give rise to unseen levels of corruption thus resulting in millions of dollars been stolen, a government worker been killed and Michael Manley, prime minister and party president, calling the police on his own political party. Song: Gully Side - Mavado For information on the sources used in this episode, visit our website at: https://www.tenementyaadmedia.com/ Don't forget to follow us on our social media Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=en Want to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/support
Under the leadership of Jamaica's first woman to be a Minister of Education Dr. Mavis Gilmour, the famous Nutribun school feeding program of the Phillippines was introduced in Jamaica back in the 1980s. Under that program, buns, bulla cakes, milk, fruit juices, and later cheese bread introduced in Jamaica schools and were proposed to be a good alternative to the cooked food feeding program that was in place. However, a number of societal problems allowed the Nutribun to not be as effective as it could be. Song: Ting - A - Ling, Shabba Ranks For information on the sources used in this episode, visit our website at: https://www.tenementyaadmedia.com/ Don't forget to follow us on our social media Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=en Want to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/support
The Jamaat al Muslimeen coup attempt was an attempt to overthrow the government of Trinidad and Tobago, instigated on Friday, 27 July 1990. Over the course of six days, Jamaat al Muslimeen, held hostages at the Red House (Parliament building) and at the headquarters of the state-owned national television broadcaster, Trinidad and Tobago Television (TTT). In the end, the prime minister was shot, persons died and numerous others would never be the same again. Song: Babylon Fallin - Kabaka Pyramid For information on the sources used in this episode, visit our website at: https://www.tenementyaadmedia.com/ Don't forget to follow us on our social media Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=en Want to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/support
From the community of Somerset in England, rose the shoe brand of Clarks. It was the Desert Boot, "inspired" by North African soldiers that allow the company to become a global phenomenon. In the 1960's it took off in Jamaica but not in the way anyone expected; wearing a Clarks in that decade could result in you been beaten by the police and in some cases thrown in jail. A banned in 1973 by the Jamaica prime minister at the time, Michael Manley, resulted in an increase in its popularity; so much that it became the shoe of choice for musicians and socialites. For the next couple of years, the Desert Clarks, Wallabees and Desert Trek became a national phenomenon. In the 2000s, it started to lose its popularity to Nike and Adidas that is until Vybz Kartel, a popular dancehall deejay was asked a question by his mentee, Popcaan. Song at the beginning: Clarks - Vybz Kartel, Popcaan & Gaza Slim Song at the end: Clarks Again - Vybz Kartel For information on the sources used in this episode, visit our website at: https://www.tenementyaadmedia.com/ Don't forget to follow us on our social media Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=en Want to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/support
In 1918, the first of 3 Anti-Chinese riots took place in Jamaica. It began in Ewarton, St. Catherine between a Chinese grocer who found his black employee in bed with a police officer. The Chinese grocer brutally beat the black man but a rumour spread that the Chinese and his friends had killed the black man and pickled his corpse which then instigated the riots. 20 years later, in 1938, the Labour Riots gave birth to the uprising of looting and arson attacks on the Chinese grocery establishment. Then the trifecta occurred in 1965 when three Chinese brothers brutally attacked their black Joyce Copeland over the purchasing of a radio. There is also another version of the latter event where it is rumoured that the Chinese man was having an affair with said black employee. Still, a riot broke out. Song at the beginning: Bubblin' Over - Zap Pow Song at the end: Bubblin' - Protoje For information on the sources used in this episode, visit our website at: https://www.tenementyaadmedia.com/ Don't forget to follow us on our social media Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=en Want to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/support
In 1976, on the 3rd of December, at his residence of 56 Hope Road, Bob Marley survived an assassination attempt mostly by his manager, Don Taylor, been a barrier between him and assassins. Almost 3 years later in a Gabonese hotel room, Bob Marley would spend over 3 hours kicking and beating Don Taylor. The incident would go on to influence one of Marley's most famous track, Bad Card Song: Bad Card - Bob Marley & The Wailers For information on the sources used in this episode, visit our website at: https://www.tenementyaadmedia.com/ Don't forget to follow us on our social media Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=en Want to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/support
It was back in the 1950's that the government of Jamaica made plans to redevelopment the crime ruined and inhumane living conditions that was Back - O - Wall. A community given that name for it was populated by persons who were cast aside by society i.e Rastafarians, criminals, and the poor. Post Independence and under the leadership of the Minister of Development and Welfare, Edward Seaga, Back-O-Wall was developed into the widely praised model community of Tivoli Gardens. From petty gang violence of the 1960s to bloody political violence in the 1970's, Tivoli Gardens' reputation was far from good by the 1980s which saw the rise of Lester "Jim Brown" Coke, the successor to the don of the area in the 1970s, Claudie Massop. When Jim Brown died in 1992, his son, Christopher "Dudus" Coke, took over and that started the slippery slope that would become the community we know of today. Enduring three different incursions in the past 25 years, that led to the deaths of innocent civilians, the story of the model is still been written today, and it is not a happy read. Song: Uptown Downtown - Dre Island For information on the sources used in this episode, visit our website at: https://www.tenementyaadmedia.com/ Don't forget to follow us on our social media Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=en Want to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/support
On this podcast, we break down the Olympic career of one of the world's greatest sprinters of all time, The Most Honorable Merlene Ottey. Competing professionally for Jamaica for over 20 years, Ms. Ottey has never won an Olympic gold medal even though she has earned, 6 bronze and 3 silver medals making her one of the Games' most decorative track and field Olympian. However, 2 years after the 2000 Games in Sydney, Ms. Ottey switched allegiance to Slovenia. This came off the yields of the Ottey - Peta Gaye Dowdie controversy at the Sydney Games. Song: Mavado- On the Go For information on the sources used in this episode, visit our website at: https://www.tenementyaadmedia.com/ Don't forget to follow us on our social media Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=en Want to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/support
The Coral Gardens Story surrounds a series of events which saw from April 11-13, after a violent altercation at a gas station in Montego Bay, Jamaican police and military forces detained Rastafarians throughout Jamaica, killing and torturing many after been given orders from then Prime Minister and National Hero the Right Excellent Alexander Bustamante. With this episode being released on its anniversary dub "Bad Friday" each year, it is only fitting that we detail what led to this horrific incident. We tell the story of how the Rastafarians community was created in Jamaica and detailed the continuous system to oppressed its members since the 1940s. Song: Blessed Is The Man - Kabaka Pyramid ft Chronixx For information on the sources used in this episode, visit our website at: https://www.tenementyaadmedia.com/ Don't forget to follow us on our social media Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=en Want to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/support
Most discussion around discourse among Jamaica's national heroes whose life and work was throughout the 20th century usually entails Alexander Bustamante and Norman Washington Manley as their roles as president of Jamaica's two main political parties in the 1940's and beyond. However, in this episode we looked at discourse that took place between Norman Manley and another national hero - Marcus Mosiah Garvey. Marcus Garvey, then a councillor in the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation and Norman Manley, at the time a barrister who was developing a reputation as one of the best in the region, would go head to head in 1932 at a KSAC meeting over a gas station dispute. Even before that, both men would meet in a legal issue where Garvey was alleged to have been married to two women at the same time, a fact unknown to both “wives”, one of the wives, Amy Ashwood, brought a legal case against him. For additional reading information on this episode and to view our transcript for this episode, visit our website at: https://www.tenementyaadmedia.com/ Don't forget to follow us on our social media Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=en Join our Patreon here Want to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/support
Every year, around May to August, usually, there's a repetitive argument that exist in Jamaica society. Whether on traditional or social media, this debate takes place where person inquire why do Jamaica's authorities continue to mandate the wearing of jacket and tie for men in formal spaces - especially in a tropical climate. The thing is however, there was once a time in this country's modern history, when the government of Jamaica went on a campaign to change societal norms - that is: change what male formal attire means in the Jamaica. Through this campaign, the safari styled dress suit known as the Kariba became arguably, the most popular formal dress suit in 1970's Jamaica. For additional reading information on this episode and to view our transcript for this episode, visit our website at: https://www.tenementyaadmedia.com/ Don't forget to follow us on our social media Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenementyaad_?lan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenementyaad_/?hl=en Join our Patreon here Want to support The Yaad monetary? Click here to make a donation --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lestweforget/support
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