archive for Current Affairs

• TVJ Explains Why They Won’t Air the Controversial “Gay” Ad

  21 August 2011 by Karin in Current Affairs [ no comments ]

  TVJ's Kay Osbourne, explains why J-FLAG's advertisement campaign was rejected but why Jamaica needs to become more tolerant... This makes absolutely no sense.  Mrs. Osbourne calls for more tolerance in Jamaica while rejecting the message of tolerance of the ad campaign...? See ...

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• Unconditional Love for All Jamaicans – the Controversial “Pro Gay” PSA

  17 August 2011 by Karin in Current Affairs [ 6 comments ]

  I just don't get what the big deal about this video is. Personally, I think all Jamaicans could all benefit from hearing its message  - tolerance for all despite our differences. I dont' think this video is pro or con being ...

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• Maroons to Reunite with Long Lost Relatives in Sierra Leone

  28 June 2011 by Karin in Current Affairs [ 5 comments ]

  The Trelawny Maroons are going on a mission to west Africa to reconnect with a side of their family not spoken to for nearly two centuries. Yet this is only the latest chapter in a trans-Atlantic odyssey for a people with a famous name ...

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• Clifton Brown’s Nobody Canna Cross it

  26 June 2011 by Karin in Current Affairs,Dance [ 3 comments ]

  Here's the latest viral sensation coming out of Jamaica, staring Clifton Brown, a resident of Mavis Bank. He has been interviewed on TVJ's Smile Jamaica, there have been several songs and remixes made from this video and even a dance or two. Here's ...

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• Jamaica’s Relationship with Haiti

  28 April 2011 by Karin in Current Affairs [ 6 comments ]

  [caption id="attachment_12146" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="Photographer - Opal Palmer Adisa"][/caption]   YardEdge welcomes a guest post by writer, Opal Palmer Adisa on Jamaica's relationship with Haiti. The distance from Kingston, Jamaica to Carrefour, Haiti is 261 miles and if there were a direct flight, ...

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• “Victims’ Voices” Highlights Extra Judicial Killings in Jamaica

  25 January 2011 by Karin in Current Affairs [ 1 comment ]

  This post was contributed by Madeleine Bair, a UC Berkeley Human Rights Center Multimedia Fellow. Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) launched its first documentary, "Victim's Voices" in December to a crowd of more than 300 to commemorate International Human Rights Day. The documentary chronicles the struggles of ...

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• Jamaica, the 3rd Coolest Nation on the Planet Says CNN

  23 January 2011 by Karin in Current Affairs [ 3 comments ]

  According to CNN, Jamaica is the third coolest nationality in the world, after Brazil which was number one and Singapore, ranked number two. Not sure what they were thinking about Singapore...but read more at CNN and see bottom half of list  here.

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• ‘Lonely Soldier’ Gregory Isaacs Dead at 59

  26 October 2010 by Karin in Current Affairs,Music [ 2 comments ]

  Gregory Isaacs — a legend in his own time, one of the most popular and versatile reggae singers of the late-Seventies, and the smooth-voiced dancehall crooner behind the genre's landmark 1982 LP Night Nurse — passed away yesterday at his ...

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