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Here's to Jamaica's 50th
On August 6, 2012 the island of Jamaica will officially mark 50 years since it gained independence from Britain. My wish is that Jamaica will continue to grow in wisdom, strength, understanding and love.
Onward you go Jamaica. My love for you is unconditional. You have taught me well. Here’s to you from my counter of expressions. Cheers!
I see sand rocks the ocean the river
Jamaica ah waan mello place (Jamaica is a beautiful island)
Cone shaped mountains
Round mountains valleys gullies
Jamaica hab nuff up ah dung (Jamaica experiences success and failure)
Bauxite waste seeping to its red river
Markets the farmers meeting place
Jamaica mix up lacka mash callalloo (Jamaicans are assertive)
Shacks mansions faith houses
Ah suh Jamaica ress (Jamaica loves to show and tell)
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London Olympics TV
London Olympic Stadium
The 2012 Summer Olympics aka the Games of the XXX Olympiad are planned to take place between July 27, 2012 and August 12, 2012.
London has hosted the Olympic Games on two past occasions, in 1908 and 1948. The planned 2012 Summer Olympics will make London the first city to have hosted the modern Games of three Olympiads.
London is the only city in the United Kingdom to have ever hosted the Olympics
Olympic coverage will air on cable networks MSNBC, CNBC and Bravo this summer.
All three networks are owned by NBCUniversal, which will use NBC and NBC Sports Network as the central platforms for the London Games.
News channel MSNBC will broadcast events in up to 20 different sports 9 a.m.-6 p.m. EDT on most weekdays, with longer windows over the weekend. Basketball and soccer will be part of the 155½ hours of programming over 19 days starting July 25, two days before the opening ceremony.
Lifestyle network Bravo will show 56 hours of tennis from July 28-Aug. 3. Live matches will air from early morning until mid-afternoon in the Eastern time zone on most days.
Business channel CNBC will televise 73 hours of boxing from July 28-Aug. 12, including the debut of women's boxing. Taped bouts will be broadcast from 5-8 p.m. EDT each weekday, with six hours of live coverage on Saturdays and Sundays.
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Jamaica Flowers and Culture Featured at Washington, DC's National Cathedral Flower Festival
Photo by Derrick Scott
From left: Carol Kellelier, Honorable Marigold Harding; Vickie Longsz, former Jamaican Ambassador to the United States, Her Excellency Audrey Marks; Peggy Steuart and Jane Battle on November 4, 2011, all place Jamaican flags into a potted plant signifying Jamaica’s selection as the featured country for the 2012 Flower Mart being held May 4 – 5, 2012 at the historic Washington National Cathedral in Washington DC.
This year the country of Jamaica was honored at The National Cathedral Flower Mart. Jamaica and its ambassador, Her Excellency Audrey P. Marks, showcased the very best of the country's tropical plants and flowers as well as its history, cuisine, artists and performers.
The National Cathedral Flower Mart is Washington, DC's annual outdoor festival for garden enthusiasts and families that features annuals, perennials, landscape exhibits, Olmsted Woods and Garden Tours, musical entertainment, gourmet food, a book sale, and children's activities such as a rock wall, moon bounce, mini-Ferris wheel and a century-old restored carousel.
Held on the grounds of the Washington National Cathedral since 1939, the Flower Mart is sponsored by the volunteer organization, All Hallows Guild. The festival encircles Washington National Cathedral with its tents and includes more than 50 booths offering gardening items, handbags, jewelry, and more. Embassies and international floral designers produce an extraordinary display of floral arrangements.
Each year one embassy is selected as the honorary chair. Jamaica was the first Caribbean nation to be so selected.
During the festival, the Kingston College Chapel Choir performed at the National Cathedral, accompanied by Ann McNamee, head of the keyboard section at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts' School of Music in Kingston, Jamaica.
The Kingston College Chapel Choir was also featured at the Gala Preview black-tie affair on 03 May and at the opening ceremony of Flower Mart, on 04 May, accompanied by St. Alban's Choir of the National Cathedral. The Choir also performed concerts at the Cathedral.
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Jamaica 50th – Atlanta Planning Committee
| May 26th |
Reggalypso -Atlanta Caribbean Carnival. Jamaica Road Marchers of Atlanta |
| May 27th |
Jamaica Jubilee Jamboree |
| June 24th |
Play: Where is my Father? at Clayton Performing Arts Center 6:00 pm
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August 4 |
Jamaica Day family Fun Day |
August 5 |
Ecumenical and Thanksgiving Service |
August 6 |
Flag Raising Ceremony |
August 18 |
Independence Ball
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September 2 |
Atlanta Caribbean Jerk Festival |
October 27 |
Heroes Day |
For more info visit: www.jamaicajubileeatlanta.org
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Basil Waine Kong
Ladies and Gentlemen: I awoke this morning with a dream for the development of rural Jamaica. My idea will engage the Diaspora like never before, increase rural employment and go a long way to develop rural communities across Jamaica.
I start with the premise that every community in Jamaica has had phenomenally successful people who got their broughtupsy in small communities. For example, in Woodlands District in St. Elizabeth where I grew up, I can count several doctors, lawyers, accountants, teachers, engineers and business men and women who remember the village that raised them but who owe much of their success to the values learned at their Granny’s knees. They all share, as I do, a love for the people of our district and want to stay connected. I love going back and worshiping with my people, hugging on them and helping in any way I can.
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Ferncourt High is Latest Alumni Association in Atlanta
FHSAAA (Ferncourt High School Alumni Association of Atlanta) is now a formal Association.
Listed here are the objectives of the Association:
(A) To promote the interest of Ferncourt High School in Claremont, Jamaica, West Indies and those who attended the institution.
(B) To uphold and perpetuate the teachings of those instructors who devoted so much to Ferncourt High School.
(C) To promote a better understanding and appreciation for the cultural heritage of Jamaica, W.I..
(D) To formulate economic and social ideas for the betterment of the human family, and former Ferncourt High School students in particular.
(E) To engage in fundraising activities to obtain the means to assist needy students and special projects at Ferncourt High School in Jamaica, West Indies, and deserving local charities in the U.S.A.
The Association plans to meet monthly in Decatur, GA.
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Children's Rights
Gordon Harry
The first human right of all mankind, and especially of all children,
is
the Right of Unconditional Love and Respect.
Because kids are born knowing nothing and so have to be taught everything,
this Right of Rights
also rightly first belongs to all parents,
who are the first teachers of children,
so that parents know they have this ROR to pass on to their children.
This Unconditional ROR
means that
parents love themselves
as parents and as children,
as teachers and as students,
as male and as female,
as all words and their opposites
and so prevents
any mother or father from ever hating herself or himself as any words,
and so prevents
any parent from ever thinking of saying, much less saying things like the following to each other:
I am not your child.
I am not your son.
I am not your daughter.
You are not my mother.
You are not my father.
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