Well the ja women could not complete the sweep of the sprint races at the Olympics as they dropped the baton during the exchange between the 2nd & 3rd leg of the 4×100 relay. Too bas since they probably would have broken the record if they one.
Anyway the men won their relay in world record [...]
When I was growing up I was really proud to look in the Guinness book of world record and see that the fastest man in the world at the time was a Jamaican Donald Quarry running the 100 meters at 9.99
Now a new generation of Jamaican track and field athletes are making me proud again of my [...]
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I just came back from Jamaica where I discovered this incredible biting critque and satire about the church by reggae artist shaggy.
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Dxq25Toh7k[/video]
Church Heathen Lyrics
If yuh tek this too serious, then yuh really need som chuch
Chorus
Dem feel seh tru dem guh a church their sins don’t need forgiving…forgiving Dem really gone from bad to worse wid dem [...]
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More Jamaica pictures
Miss Lou, Louise Bennett the poet laureate of Jamaica, keeper of Jamaican culture, storyteller and cultural ambassador the epitome of all things good about Jamaica has died.
She was a constant part of my life growing up watching her on TV seeing her on the stage and listening to her on the radio. She made [...]
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Well this is the first chance I’ve had to blog from our mission trip to Jamaica. We have 19 people (14 adults and 5 kids from 5-17) staying at hte Immaculate Conception Convent. Hostel. It has been about 86-95 degrees here every day. At least that’s what it feels like and they use celcius so I [...]
Leave for Jamaica Mission trip
taking a group of people from three churches to Jamaica to help with some work at my home church there. The churched burned to the ground back in February,
A line from U2’s 1992 hit One has been voted the UK’s favourite song lyric. The line "One life, with each other, sisters, brothers" came top of a poll of 13,000 people by music channel VH1. The song reached number seven in the UK chart when it was originally released, but a new version featuring [...]
The reggae boyz from "yard" held off the US team in a world cup warm up for the US team.
BEN OLSEN scored the equalizer in the 25th minute off a record-setting assist from Landon Donovan and the United States salvaged a 1-1 draw against Jamaica last night, the final game before U.S. manager Bruce Arena [...]
Jamaica where I was born and grew up entered a new era with the swearing in of its first female prime minister Madam Prime Minister – Portia sworn in as Jamaica’s first female head of Government I’m proud of her and the country and I hope she is successful. Here a clip from the local paper
PORTIA [...]
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