· February, 2007

Stories about Jamaica from February, 2007

Jamaica: “Satan is Real”

Unreconstructed racists the Louvin Brothers, composers of the country classic “Satan is Real”, “would have been horrified to know that just near the equator hundreds of negroes were loving their...

23 February 2007

Jamaica: Homophobia and violence

Leon Robinson prefaces a post about a series of brutal attacks on gay men in Jamaica by saying: “Homosexuality is frowned upon in Jamaica. Not because were “homophobic” (surely we...

23 February 2007

Jamaica: Henry Fowler

Kia pays tribute to the recently deceased Henry Fowler, founder of Jamaica's exclusive Priory School, “an old-school Jamaican of colonial days, the sort of person that it is now fashionable...

22 February 2007

Jamaica: Moving back

Francis Wade posts an email from a reader who wishes to return to Jamaica but is concerned about crime, along with his response.

15 February 2007

Jamaica, USA: On privacy

“The irony is that the American achievement of new community and the Jamaican devolution into isolation is fueled by the same source: the Internet,” writes Jamaican novelist Marlon James. “Through...

14 February 2007

Jamaica: We Media Miami

Miami-based Jamaican writer Geoffrey Philp regrets he didn't have the chance to spend more time at the We Media Miami conference, but is pleased that he still had the opportunity...

11 February 2007