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Jamaica’s exquisite beauty that encompasses verdant hillsides, rolling plains, pristine coastal areas dotted with white sand beaches incessantly caressed by the wind and bathed by turquoise waters of the Caribbean Sea, plus the ‘irie vibes’ of Jamaicans collectively conspire to make the Island a unique place on planet Earth. Political Independence from Britain in 1962 ignited hope of a better future for all Jamaicans. Indeed, Jamaica made significant early progress, was regarded as the ‘Pearl of the Caribbean,’ and a positive example for newly-Independent countries. But now, there...

This book curates and chronicles numerous challenges facing Jamaican children. They live in a society teeming with a plethora of negative influences that jeopardize their safety and healthy development. These negative influences have resulted in the loss of too many innocent young lives and continue to put survivors at risk. The loss of Jamaica’s children to violent and heinous crimes threatens the stability and development prospects of the nation. It is written by a concerned Jamaican academic to educate, shock, and stir his country’s leaders and fellow Jamaicans into committing to do ...

THE GOLDEN BOY is a story about the clash of good versus evil, and the indomitable capacity of the human spirit to overcome adversity. As the young Chief of the Village of Banana Walk, located on the exquisite tropical Island paradise of RockJam, The Golden Boy was on a roll. He was at the pinnacle of his professional life. But, little did he know his life was about to change. Dra-ma-ti-cally! Never in his wildest dreams could The Golden Boy have imagined coming face-to-face with the epitome of evil, Lucifer, in the person of the new hubristic Head of a Council appointed to oversee the ...

Jamaican society has many ‘broken windows’ in the form of social abnormalities that have been normalized. Regrettably, under self-government since 1962 Jamaica has evolved into an undisciplined society, and, reflecting the abject failure of the authorities to maintain law and order, chaos and disorder have overtaken public spaces in major towns and on the roads. Because there is a link between pervasive lawlessness and national prosperity, fixing the problem must be prioritized. Under the ‘social contract’ that Thomas Hobbes articulated in ‘Leviathan’ in the mid-1600s, the ...

This book tells the story of a first-time father embracing and performing the duty of father to his daughter from before she was born. The author’s motivation for writing it is to share his experiences as a father with the world, and in particular would-be fathers, about how rewarding and beneficial it is to perform this important duty to their offspring. The author also hopes this book will make good fathers better and positively influence “dead-beat” ones to change their ways. The author describes how an “open education” philosophy guided the parenting of his daughter, and, ...

Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jamaica’s first national hero, is the father of the first international ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement in history! As a multi-faceted philosopher and empowerment leader, Garvey developed the most comprehensive blueprint for psychological liberation and economic empowerment of Black people! This book takes a contemporary look at the life and legacy of Marcus Garvey and asks the question: is Garveyism - Marcus Garvey’s philosophy – still relevant for Black People to achieve true freedom, empowerment, and prosperity?

Many persons think Jamaica’s greatest achievements globally have been in sports and culture, particularly music. Jamaica’s massive reservoir of cultural capital makes it a ‘cultural superpower’ that has projected its cultural influence and impact globally - this is encapsulated in the expression ‘Wi likkle but wi tallawah’! Jamaica is the biggest little country on Earth. Jamaica should be paid to exist! This book is about Jamaica’s ‘Tallawahness.’

Jamaica’s exquisite beauty that encompasses verdant hillsides, rolling plains, pristine coastal areas dotted with white-sand beaches incessantly caressed by the wind and bathed by turquoise waters of the Caribbean Sea, plus the ‘Irie vibes’ of Jamaicans collectively conspire to make the Island a unique place on planet Earth. Political independence from Britain in 1962 ignited hope of a better future for all Jamaicans. Indeed, Jamaica made significant early progress, was regarded as the ‘Pearl of the Caribbean’ and a positive example for newly-independent countries. But now, alas, ...

Jamaica’s exquisite beauty that encompasses verdant hillsides, rolling plains, pristine coastal areas dotted with white-sand beaches incessantly caressed by the wind and bathed by turquoise waters of the Caribbean Sea, plus the ‘Irie vibes’ of Jamaicans collectively conspire to make the Island a unique place on planet Earth. Political independence from Britain in 1962 ignited hope of a better future for all Jamaicans. Indeed, Jamaica made significant early progress and was regarded as the ‘Pearl of the Caribbean’ and a positive example for newly-independent countries. Alas, there ...

In May 1904 the residents of Halcyon - a small utopian community on California's central coast - invited their neighbors to attend the grand opening of the Halcyon Hotel and Sanatorium. As part of the entertainment, guests were encouraged to have their hands X-rayed. For the founders and members of Halcyon, the X-ray was a demonstration of mysterious spiritual forces made practical to human beings.

The author is in the midst of a life-altering personal crisis when he inexplicably develops an intense desire for the companionship of a dog. He becomes smitten by his neighbour’s dog, which becomes his best friend, and ‘saves him.’ Then, in the middle of their friendship the dog mysteriously vanishes! Because of rampant cruelty to dogs, foul play is suspected … the void created by the dog’s disappearance is unbearable and has to be filled … so the author is driven to get a new dog. It’s now official - the author has become ‘dog-hearted’ and his life has gone completely to...

Here is what makes this Autobiography a compelling and addictive must-read! A quiet little boy is born in a small, rural Jamaican community on a rainy afternoon in the month of May. Starting school, he is labelled a 'dunce' by his teacher and shunted to the back of his class. He goes to primary school without shoes at times. He sits his high school entrance examination and fails it, not once, but twice! Now, fast-forward several decades later and the same little dunce, barefooted, and exam-failing boy is now a mature, confident, and professional man holding five degrees (including a Doctor ...

The need for Jamaicans to become active and engaged citizens is impatient of debate, especially at this time when the country is experiencing significant social and economic problems that are retarding its development and robbing many persons of the opportunity to realize their potential and become the best version of themselves. Noting that the time is ‘rescue-Jamaica o’clock,’ the Author makes a passionate appeal to his fellow Jamaicans to set and keep their ‘civic antenna’ at the “on” position, enabling them to be able to perceive, process, comment, and act on matters of ...

Written as a patriotic act by a Jamaican academic, griot-scholar, engaged citizen, and public affairs commentator, this book shines a klieg light on the roles and functions of Local Government Authorities – the Municipal Corporations - and assesses their effectiveness in performing their mandate. The author curates prescriptions for transforming the Municipal Corporations and ends with a call to his fellow Jamaicans to perform their duty as citizens in holding their representatives in the Municipal Corporations accountable.

The country’s exquisite beauty comprising verdant hillsides, rolling plains, pristine coastal areas dotted with white-sand beaches that are incessantly caressed by the wind and bathed by turquoise waters, plus the exuberant vibes of its people and its status as a cultural superpower all conspire to make it a veritable paradise. But, alas, corruption has hobbled its development and is one of the variables that explain a significant portion of its failures and underperformance since the paradisical country profiled in this book gained political independence from its former colonial master, ...