Your Favorite Sites for Jamaican News & Views

[Blackstar*]

Besides the Gleaner and Observer where do you look for writings about the Rock?

Here are some of my favorites: <ul type="square">[*]Morris Cargill's columns for the Gleaner 1998-2000
(I wish the same sort of site existed for John Maxwell's writings)[*]Tony Hendricks - Jamaican Paleface[*]xhanubis[*]Sun Herald Jamaica[*]Statistical Institute of Jamaica [*]Jamaica Information Service [*]XNews - Jamaica's Weekly Tabloid [*]Chickenbones
Despite the African-American appearance, quite a number of articles by and about Jamaicans[*]Peter Dean Rickards' provocative photography and essays[*]First Magazine [*]About the Life and Debt documentary:
Official web site
PBS
BBC[*]Jamaica Online Directory[/list]

[Blackstar*]

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Hot Calaloo

Hot Calaloo is dedicated to informing and involving you the reader in Caribbean issues and keeping the Caribbean culture alive and kicking. We intend to focus on the positive in the Caribbean. In this respect, to the many problems that the Caribbean faces, our emphasis will be on solutions and how overseas West Indians can play a greater role in these solutions.
Michael Phillips, Editor

[BND1999]

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((Blackstar)) some of the links did not work... only one that is new to me that i got to open was Hot Calaloo....
thanks for the link up

[Blackstar*]

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Besides the Gleaner and Observer where do you look for writings about the Rock?

Here are some of my favorites: <ul type="square">[*]www.morriscargill.com
Morris Cargill's columns for the Gleaner 1998-2000
(I wish the same sort of site existed for John Maxwell's writings)[*]www.jamaicanpaleface.com
Tony Hendricks - Jamaican Paleface[*]www.xhanubis.com[*]www.sunheraldjamaica.com
Sun Herald Jamaica[*]www.statinja.com
Statistical Institute of Jamaica [*]www.jis.gov.jm
Jamaica Information Service [*]www.xnewsjamaica.com
XNews - Jamaica's Weekly Tabloid [*]www.nathanielturner.com
Chickenbones; despite the African-American appearance, quite a number of articles by and about Jamaicans[*]www.afflictedyard.com
Peter Dean Rickards' provocative photography and essays[*]www.first-jamaica.com
First Magazine [*]About the Life and Debt documentary:
www.lifeanddebt.org - Official web site
www.pbs.org/pov/pov2001/lifeanddebt/thefilm.html - PBS
www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/storyville/life-and-debt.shtml - BBC[*]www.jamaicayp.com
Jamaica Online Directory[/list]Links removed, so you will have to copy and paste the URLs. Thanks for the heads-up, Nina.

[Blackstar*]

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<ul type="square">[*]johnmaxwellshouse.blogspot.com: A collection of columns by John Maxwell. It looks like a work in progress because it doesn't go back very far.[*]www.jamaicansforjustice.org: A Citizens Rights Action Group in Jamaica, defending the civil rights of Jamaican citizens.[/list]

[Andronian]

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Tenki BlackStar!

Mi lyk da wan ya.

http://johnmaxwellshouse.blogspot.com/2005/10/vandalism-and-slavery.html

Excerpt!

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These remarks are provoked by an occurrence this week in Paris, where the United States received its most decisive rebuff ever in the international arena. The UNESCO General Conference voted by more than 150 votes to two to endorse a new Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expression. The only countries to vote against the convention were the United States and Israel. Four countries abstained: Australia, Nicaragua, Honduras and Liberia.

The United States was incensed at its defeat. It had offered 28 amendments and every one was rejected. The US Ambassador to UNESCO Louise Oliver described the convention as "a hastily drafted text which is subject to misinterpretation and abuse in ways that could undermine rather than promote cultural diversity".

UNESCO's Director General Koichiro Matsuura, says: "This Declaration, which sets against inward-looking fundamentalism the prospect of a more open, creative and democratic world, is now one of the founding tenets of the new ethics, promoted by UNESCO in the early twenty-first century. My hope is that one day it may acquire the same force as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights."

The Americans fear that the convention will be used to counter the globalisation of American culture. Right now the US is in a quarrel with South Korea over that country's insistence on limiting American penetration of its cultural space by legislating face time on Korean television for Korean culture.

The United States will probably not be too discommoded by this convention, and may, as in the case of the International Criminal Court, simply blackmail smaller nations into yielding to cultural rape. Most other countries support the UNESCO idea that a convention is needed to promote indigenous and other ethnic traditions and minority (that is non-English) languages, and protect national and local cultures from the negative impacts of globalisation.

In this connection I am happy to relate that the McDonald's Corporation has conceded defeat in its decade -long attempt to infiltrate the Jamaican fast-food market. Beginning last Wednesday, the McDonald's stores are up for auction. Jamaica must be the first country in the world to achieve this distinction.

Jamaica is not a lost cause for transnational fast-food chains however. Although a number of them including Shakey's Pizza, Taco Bell and Kenny Rogers' Chicken have also failed to make a dent here, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Burger King are alive and well. But while a place like Jamaica may defend itself against fast food and perhaps American music, it can offer no real defence against language, the gun culture, or US film, video/TV or book and magazine publishing


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Yu tink a joak.

All initiative will be destroyed in globalised (ie americanised) countries. They will be markets for the products of american firms, wells of freely exploitable natural resources and sources of sweat shop labor (ie extra-national and non-unionised 'free[labour]-zones' and their ilk). Hence we go full circle back to the mercantile system of the European colonial overlords and within a shade of slavery.

Wa fi du bot fi beg maasa gad fi kwik tym kom fi im worl.

'Dy Kingdom kom. Fi yu wil du pon ort az ou i' tan op ina evn'

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[Andronian]

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So poor so Black.

http://johnmaxwellshouse.blogspot.com/2005/09/so-poor-so-black.html

Another good one, very good...read it.

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Blacks in the Americas have always been ambivalent about their prospects on this side of the Atlantic. There were and are those who, like Martin Luther King, figured that their blood and suffering had bought them rights. There were the others, like Marcus Garvey and the 'Black Muslims' who believed that for blacks there was no white man's justice that would ever encompass them.

Being black in America is not quite as dangerous as being openly homosexual in Jamaica, but it is close enough. A black man in the Bronx today has a lower life expectancy than a Bangladeshi of the same age.

Nearly 50 years ago, on my first visit to the United States I was challenged by a black shoemaker in Washington DC, literally within the shadow of the Capitol.

He was puzzled by my accent and wanted to know where I came from.
When I told him he asked me:
"They got anybody like me where you come from?"
I didn't understand him. Yes, they had shoemakers in Jamaica, I said.
No man. "They got any niggers there?"

I was totally flabbergasted. He and I could easily have been blood brothers; our hair was the same, our skin colour was the same. if anything he was a shade or two lighter-skinned than I. We even looked a little bit alike, I thought.

We settled the historical and ethnic questions over a pitcher of beer in a nearby bar. Why, I asked him, didn't he think I was a [censored]? "Because you don't talk like a [censored], man, and you don't walk like a [censored]."


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John Maxwell is sometimes controversial, always entertaining and most times hitting on some underlying truth.

[UKBlackLady]

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Hadn't heard of most of these so Thank you! [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70409-waytogo.gif[/img]

[Blackstar*]

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Hope you're enjoying the sites UKBL.

Here are some more. <ul type="square">[*]Right-wing Jamaican blog: caribpundit.com[*]Carib World Radio: www.caribworldradio.com featuring streaming audio, podcasts, articles[/list]

[evanovitch]

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u know , mi juss find a book eena mi stack...is a W.I. anthology printed back in the 60's.....wow....i had forgot about this book and had not read it for awhile....u can imagine the writers and the works highlighted in that immediate post Independence period in the W I...fantastic book i am tellin u

[Blackstar*]

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So come with the title.

[Blackstar*]

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Blog Roll<ul type="square">[*]Yard Flex[*]Mad Bull's Blog[*]A Shout in the Dark[*]de immigrant[*]Global Voices on Jamaica[*]Kingston Girl[/list]

[Tuff Gong]

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Clip-N-Save!

[remo]

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Clip-N-Save!

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Yes

[Blackstar*]

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Here's a site Tuff Gong refers to on a regular basis: http://www.radiojamaica.com/