Anthony Bourdain next show bout Jamaica

[RevMakky]

And Red Stripe is owned by Guiness while WRay is owned by Campari..

Why do you all get excited by a yanki doing a show about Jamaica ? And then get disappointed when he badly tells you what you already know or should know ??? His audience is not you... if you want to know Jamaica listen / watch Jamaican news not CNN ! you do know that transparency international rate Jamaican press higher than the US press ??????? some things we do very well....


http://jis.gov.jm/minister-falconer-...-press-rating/

Thanks for enlightening me, I did not know that Red Stripe is owned by Guiness and Wray is now owned by Campari, and it's a sad reflection I guess on the lack of real news emanating from Jamaica as far as the foreign media is concerned. I try to keep up with the news in Jamaica online, and occasionally via the RJR video Feeds. However, the facts you relate just bear witness to the fact that it appears that time and time again Jamaica seems to have sold herself out to the highest bidder. I think my disappointment with the show is that in my opinion the show came across as being being depressing, and perhaps there is a reality in that the many, including myself, do not want to face.

[Tropicana]

Yes, yes but come chat bout Braddie and ow im did gawn.....when de rum and ganja did fly inna im 'ead.

[Wahalla]

Forgjen media is for forgieners....so gives a superficial view.

Guiness in turn is Diageo owned.....

[lonewolf]

And Red Stripe is owned by Guiness while WRay is owned by Campari..

Why do you all get excited by a yanki doing a show about Jamaica ? And then get disappointed when he badly tells you what you already know or should know ??? His audience is not you... if you want to know Jamaica listen / watch Jamaican news not CNN ! you do know that transparency international rate Jamaican press higher than the US press ??????? some things we do very well....

It's a sign of the times...Everything is for sale and nothing is sacred...Why would Jamaica be any different?

Most of the realestate in Times Square, NY (the heart of Yankeedom) is owned by the Japanese, and the US economy is owned by the Chinese...and Jamaica soon to be owned and controlled by the Chinese.
I've seen all the Chinese projects going on around MoBay, you let them put their foot in the door...and that's it.

We all just spokes in the big wheel, it turns and we have to turn with it, like it or not.

Real Jamaica? You must mean old Jamaica. New Jamaica is real Jamaica. And, perception is reality. Their perception will soon out number your old reality as old Jamaica get's paved over for new foreign money.

Sad, that's what they call progress.

Just a Yankee's perspective of what I've seen over the past 25 years of visiting and keeping up with Jamaica news.

[evanovitch]

curious how peeps figet the history behind my guy deh money….many seem to figet which family members spent time in Columbian jail wen dem get ketch fi runnings…all NOW wash di money clean….ah say….….

i fi one wasn't surprised by anything Anthony said….the surprise fi some was that he went there, rather than the usual innocuous touristy stuff

n many would do to think that wat is being decided re upscale development would lock them out..dem not going for who will be multiplying dem dollars due to inflation but those who have REAL discretionary funds

[RichD]

curious how peeps figet the history behind my guy deh money….

which of the guy dem?

[Wahalla]

It's a sign of the times...Everything is for sale and nothing is sacred...Why would Jamaica be any different?

Most of the realestate in Times Square, NY (the heart of Yankeedom) is owned by the Japanese, and the US economy is owned by the Chinese...and Jamaica soon to be owned and controlled by the Chinese.
I've seen all the Chinese projects going on around MoBay, you let them put their foot in the door...and that's it.

We all just spokes in the big wheel, it turns and we have to turn with it, like it or not.

Real Jamaica? You must mean old Jamaica. New Jamaica is real Jamaica. And, perception is reality. Their perception will soon out number your old reality as old Jamaica get's paved over for new foreign money.

Sad, that's what they call progress.

Just a Yankee's perspective of what I've seen over the past 25 years of visiting and keeping up with Jamaica news.

I don't have an issue with Dieageo or Campari own D&G or JRay and Nephew as long as they pay tax in Jamaica....Jamaican ownership or forgiven ownership as long as they employ and pay tax.....

[Tropicana]

Chris Blackwell: the original trustafarian

As a boy, he socialised with Ian Fleming and Noël Coward; later he made Bob Marley a star; now he hosts the jet set at his island paradise. What next for Chris Blackwell?

“It says 1625 on the bottle but it’s not because we’ve been brewing since the 16th century,” Blackwell tells me. “My mother’s side have been here since the Spanish Inquisition.” Over the course of the evening, Blackwell, his aides and guests consume a fair quantity of the spirit to the sound of reggae music, and remark at the ease with which it goes down. Their plan, so far as it firmly exists, is to promote the brand in Britain (where it arrives this month) as one would an album or single. There’s talk of some events tied to the Olympics when Jamaica’s astonishing track and field team competes in London in July. Blackwell would love to use Usain Bolt as a brand ambassador, but alcohol and sports don’t mix.Blackwell has traded in aspects of Jamaican life since he was a teenager. He’s the man who had his first hit with Millie’s My Boy Lollipop in 1964 and championed Jamaica’s greatest export, Bob Marley. At 19, he was helping out on Dr No, finding work on set for his musician friends and taking the film-makers to Laughing Waters, where the timeless sequence of Ursula Andress emerging from the sea with her shells was filmed.

Later, he turned GoldenEye, the house that belonged to Ian Fleming, who was once a lover of Blackwell’s mother, Blanche, into the $7,500-a-night, star-studded boutique resort – he calls it a “bling-free environment” in the spirit of Fleming, not his creation James Bond 007 – where we are now sitting.

Blackwell is a classic empire builder – charming, restless, flighty, certainly capricious and clever (he’s known as The Croc in the music business). With an estimated £80 million fortune, in terms of sheer wealth creation or diversification, he doesn’t come close to Richard Branson. But he admires Branson as second only to Steve Jobs and tells me his 100-year-old mother is hoping to take a (one-way) trip in the Virgin rocket. But Branson’s Virgin had less impact than Blackwell’s Island, a label that boasted Traffic, King Crimson, Roxy Music and, later, U2, Black Uhuru, Pulp, Amy Winehouse and Florence and the Machine.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopfeatures/9243693/Chris-Blackwell-the-original-trustafarian.html

[Tropicana]

Blanche Blackwell: The muse who inspired Bond and Noel Coward



THE PARTIES were legendary, with guests including Laurence Olivier, Sean Connery and Elizabeth Taylor.

Their hosts, Noel Coward and James Bond creator Ian Fleming, would entertain at their beautiful Jamaican retreats. There was, however, another stunning host, who was more than a match for them intellectually and socially. Her name: Blanche Blackwell.A neighbour of both Coward and Fleming, she was a society beauty who beguiled the guests who came to her home, Bolt House, in St Mary, Jamaica.
Errol Flynn referred to her laugh as “like the sounds of water tinkling over a waterfall” and was madly in love with her. He even considered proposing to her (even though he was still married). At first she had not wanted to meet him, telling him she was suffering from boils on her bottom.
“He was the most handsome man I had ever seen,” she says swooning still at the thought. “We became great friends.”
She would later become the lover of the married Fleming, who is thought to have based the character of EDIT Galore from Goldfinger on her (although Blanche shakes her head, unaware of this, and laughs at the mention that men found her intoxicatingly beautiful).

Indeed, it was this romance which was to inspire one of Coward’s most controversial and darkest plays, Volcano, which was completed in 1957. The play, never performed in Coward’s lifetime and not published, offers a peek into the simmering passion and tensions of this exclusive community.
But what of Blanche Blackwell?
Born in 1912 in Costa Rica, she was descended from Sephardic Jews who had fled Portugal during the Inquisition. The family set up home in Jamaica in the 1700s and became wealthy merchants. Their business included rum and sugar, and they owned vast tracts of land. (Her brother Roy sold Coward the land for his Jamaican houses).
Blanche married Middleton Joseph Blackwell and they had a son Chris Blackwell (the founder of Island Records who, as a young man, was appointed to work on the set of the film Dr No by Fleming).They divorced when Chris was 12.
Firmly ensconced in society circles it was not long before Blanche would meet the philandering, but very much married, Fleming.

Indeed, she was 44 and he was 48 when they encountered each other.“I remember I sat next to him at dinner and he said: ‘Why haven’t I seen you before?’” she says sitting elegantly in her Knightsbridge apartment, beautifully dressed and wearing a slash of vibrant coral lipstick. “I told him I was just over from England and he said: ‘Oh good God, you’re not a lesbian, are you?’ And I laughed.”
Blanche, Fleming and Coward made a trio everyone wanted to be seen with.
While Blanche and Fleming were close, she was aware of his failings.
“Don’t forget I met him when he was 48,” she says. “In his early life I believe he did not behave terribly well. I knew an Ian Fleming that I don’t think a lot of people had the good fortune to know. I didn’t fawn over him and I think he liked that. I just happened to be happy in both Ian and Noel’s company.”
As Fleming and Blanche became friends so gossip spread that they were having an affair, although Blanche insists that it was only after a year that they became close.
“One morning I got on my horse and rode over to Noel’s house,” she recalls. “I said: ‘Noel, I know what you think and it isn’t true.’”
That episode, says Blanche, is perhaps what inspired Volcano.
The free-spirited Blanche became Fleming’s muse and her presence seriously worried the author’s wife Ann, who was often in the UK. She was aware of her husband’s philandering (Ann, too, was unfaithful) but she realised his relationship with Blanche was different. On one occasion when Ann returned to their Jamaica home Goldeneye she ripped up the garden Blanche had lovingly planted.
“She disliked me but I can’t blame her,” Blanche says. “When I got to know Ian better I found a man in serious depression. I was able to give him a certain amount of happiness. I felt terribly sorry for him.” Their relationship would last until shortly before his death.
Coward, who had been a witness at the Flemings’ wedding in Jamaica, recalled in his diaries Ian and Ann’s constant bickering.
This hotbed of lust, disappointment and infidelity, plus the oppressive nature of expat community life, would all prove rich material for Coward.
The play, Volcano, deals with themes of jealousy, envy, passion. Set on the fictional island of Samola, the threatening rumble of the volcano is always in the background. The plot follows Adela, a widow (thought to be based on Blanche), and Guy who have yet to consummate their love. Guy’s wife Melissa is thought to have been based on Ann, Fleming’s wife. There is also the suggestion of a homosexual relationship in the play.
When Coward wrote the play he was, suggests his biographer Philip Hoare, somewhat critical of chaotic and destructive affairs.
As for Blanche, she knew about the play but never saw a script and Coward and Blanche never discussed her relationship with Ian. Despite its compelling plot, when theatre producer and manager Binkie Beaumont read the play he turned it down, suggesting it would not work.
It is thought the overtly sexual themes and the homosexual undercurrent would not get past the censors. But Coward, himself a homosexual, was convinced it was a fine play and insisted a script be sent to Katharine Hepburn in New York. It was a wasted effort.
Ian died in 1964, aged 56.
“For a long time after his death I could feel that he was around,” Blanche says. “I sensed his presence.”

http://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/theatre/321342/Blanche-Blackwell-The-muse-who-inspired-Bond-and-Noel-Coward

[Wahalla]

I watched the program....

apart from the specifics it showed me nothing new.... Jamaicans cook food in a mash up style taste good..... Red Stripe is a refreshing beer, Chin is a rich man so is blackwell... Fleming and the batty bwoy coward were corrupting influences and to celebrated a self confessed slave trader Errol Flynn is hardly edifiying

As far as i am aware the law is still in place where beaches are owned by the crown ie the government so i am not sure that that was accurate.......

I disagree with the mode of development proposed by Blackwell and his cur dog a once famous actor who bullied on video the fisherman...

I liked the entrapnuers that Jamaicans have, and in their hands i feel confident of our future. This is something i have often repeated when our communists apologists frequented the board... in our initiative i see our future ... not blackwell and chin corportate world....but the fishermen and the cooks man who try a ting ... any one else noted how they sparkled like stars on tape.... Blackwells vision is not one that i share... lines of villas neatly corrupting the enviroment... the coastline managed with bull dozers..But then i am more comfortable in the hills not the coast...

Having worked boats on the seas down south i understand tehm.. the contradictions of sea harvesting verus preservation....

[Tropicana]

Watched show from beginning to end. I caught the segment with Lee-Chin. First of all I was SHOCKED at how he talked. After all the years he has spent in Canada he can't speak bettah dan dat. Anyway who am I to talk. He is the billionaire not me.

I don't have problems with people like Lee-Chin or Chris whose routes go further back in Jamaica than any of us buying hotels in Jamaica. I just hope that they tek care a dem yawdie when it comes to jobs and that they don't give the plumb jobs to foreigners and leave us with the crumbs.

Seems like the island will be overrun by the rich and famous and more and more yawdies will be forced to migrate to racist countries like Canada and the USA in order to put bread on the table. The service economy bit really sucks.

[evanovitch]

which of the guy dem?

U really no know?....dang....mi wud a haffi whisper dat to u....fi real...yeah man,dat known a yaad from wen....

[Tropicana]

What mi wan know is why Lee-Chin chat so bad?

[Tropicana]

I was pleased to see Errol Flynn's grandson




Luke Flynn est un acteur américain né le 21 août 1975 à la Jamaïque.

and Lee-Chin's partner are married to Black women. It's about time we had a crack at some serious cash.

[Tropicana]

Show is coming up again on CNN in less than an hour.

8:00 p.m. EST Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown:

Great ready for paradise! Bourdain travels to Jamaica for jerk chicken, rum, and sun.