archive for Jamaican History

• Jamaican Architect, Christopher Whyms-Stone Talking About Trench Town and the Culture Yard

  10 May 2012 by Karin in Jamaican History [ no comments ]

  Check out this link to an interview on RTE Lyric FM (Ireland) with Jamaican architect, Christopher Whyms-Stone talking about the story of Trenchtown and an historical Irishman without whom Bob Marley’s No Woman, No Cry couldn’t have been written. (Part 1 of ...

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• The Last of the Jamaican Germans

  3 November 2011 by Karin in Jamaican History [ 1 comment ]

  This is a fascinating story of the last of the Jamaican Germans and their community in Seaford Town, Westmoreland. This documentary tells the story of German indentured servants that came to Jamaica many years ago and still have descendents living in a ...

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