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Part 1 of 7 part series on the history of the Caribbean narrated by the late Stuart Hall.
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Showing posts with label Jamaica. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jamaica. Show all posts
Sunday, January 25, 2015
Video: Redemption Song Episode 2: Out of Africa
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Part 2 of 7 part series on the history of the Caribbean narrated by the late Stuart Hall.
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Part 2 of 7 part series on the history of the Caribbean narrated by the late Stuart Hall.
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Video: Redemption Song Episode 3: Paradise Lost
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Final part 3 of 7 part series on the history of the Caribbean narrated by the late Stuart Hall.
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Final part 3 of 7 part series on the history of the Caribbean narrated by the late Stuart Hall.
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Video: Redemption Song Episode 4: La Grande Illusion
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Part 4 of the 7 part series narrated by the late Stuart Hall.
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Part 4 of the 7 part series narrated by the late Stuart Hall.
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Video: Redemption Song Episode 5: Worlds Apart
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Part 5 of a 7 part series narrated by the late Stuart Hall.
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Part 5 of a 7 part series narrated by the late Stuart Hall.
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Video: Redemption Song Episode 6: Following Fidel
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Part 6 of a 7 part series on the West Indies narrated by Stuart Hall.
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Part 6 of a 7 part series on the West Indies narrated by Stuart Hall.
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Video: Redemption Song Episode 7: Shades of Freedom
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Final part 7 of 7 part series on the history of the West Indies narrated by Stuart Hall.
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Final part 7 of 7 part series on the history of the West Indies narrated by Stuart Hall.
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Tuesday, April 8, 2014
International relations students win Silver Pen award for 'Let good sense prevail in Dom Rep-Haiti travesty' ltte
University of the West Indies, Mona campus, Marlon Walcott and Wendy Simpson received The Gleaner's Silver Pen for their letter to the editor, 'Let good sense prevail in Dom Rep-Haiti travesty' published last December. Simpson and Walcott revealed that their academic discipline provoked their...
Friday, February 28, 2014
Haiti to participate in Digital Jam 3.0: the Caribbean Edition in Kingston, Jamaica
The Government of Jamaica has collaborated with The World Bank, Microsoft, Government of Canada and several other partners for a new project tailored to empower young people in the Caribbean the ability to gain employment through digital means by launching a new project, Digital Jam 3.0: The Caribbean Edition.
The project features a number of programs, workshops and competitions aimed at providing the tools and measures necessary to help youngsters adjust to the faster and more evolved work world. These initiatives include an Apps competition, which aims to find the best young mobile developers in the region, determining the best concepts and designs for an app suitable for viable business ventures.
Additionally, there will be awareness workshops on micro-work and e-lancing opportunities, tips from motivational speakers, as well as a final event, set for March 1-2 2014 in Kingston. That event will showcase the finalists of the app competition.
According to organizers, the goal of Digital Jam 3.0: The Caribbean Edition is to encourage opportunities within the virtual economy and entrepreneurship by introducing young people to trends, success stories and other means to create jobs in an increasingly changing marketplace.
The project features a number of programs, workshops and competitions aimed at providing the tools and measures necessary to help youngsters adjust to the faster and more evolved work world. These initiatives include an Apps competition, which aims to find the best young mobile developers in the region, determining the best concepts and designs for an app suitable for viable business ventures.
Additionally, there will be awareness workshops on micro-work and e-lancing opportunities, tips from motivational speakers, as well as a final event, set for March 1-2 2014 in Kingston. That event will showcase the finalists of the app competition.
According to organizers, the goal of Digital Jam 3.0: The Caribbean Edition is to encourage opportunities within the virtual economy and entrepreneurship by introducing young people to trends, success stories and other means to create jobs in an increasingly changing marketplace.
Thursday, January 23, 2014
Audio: Konshens Ft J Capri - Pull Up to Mi Bumper (Raw) (DJ Evil(Haiti) Remix)
MUSIC: Konshens Ft J Capri - Pull Up to Mi Bumper (Raw) (DJ Evil (Haiti) Remix)
DJ Evil, a Haitian multi-genre disc jockey, remix of Konshens single titled 'Pull Up to Mi Bumper (Raw)' featuring J Capri.
Audio: Konshens - Show Yourself (DJ Evil (Haiti) Remix)
MUSIC: Konshens - Show Yourself (DJ Evil (Haiti) Remix)
DJ Evil, a Haitian multi-genre disc jockey, remix of Konshens single titled 'Show Yourself'.
Monday, January 20, 2014
Tessanne Chin to perform in aid of Haiti housing program
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica’s songstress Tessanne Chin is throwing her support behind a housing programme in neighbouring Haiti with a benefit concert in Florida early February.
According to charity organisation Food for the Poor, the season 5 winner of NBC’s The Voice is hoping fans will support her efforts to “replace rickety huts with safe, permanent homes for families in the community of Ganthier”.
Tessanne’s commitment to helping families living in despair in Haiti has her joining Food for the Poor’s Building Hope Gala as its headline performer, the organisation said on its website.
According to charity organisation Food for the Poor, the season 5 winner of NBC’s The Voice is hoping fans will support her efforts to “replace rickety huts with safe, permanent homes for families in the community of Ganthier”.
Tessanne’s commitment to helping families living in despair in Haiti has her joining Food for the Poor’s Building Hope Gala as its headline performer, the organisation said on its website.
Monday, December 23, 2013
Red Stripe sells it's 5% stake in Haitian brewery Brasserie Nationale d'Haiti to Heineken
Red Stripe has sold its minority stake in two breweries across the region.
The company said, it sold its 5 percent stake in Haitian brewery Brasserie Nationale d'Haiti and its 10 percent stake in St Lucia based Windward and Leeward brewery.
Both stakes which were sold to Heineken on Thursday, earned Red Stripe more than J$982 million .
Red Stripe made the announcement in a regulatory filing to the Jamaica Stock Exchange on Friday, saying this was the right time to dispose the assets, as its moves towards several ambitious projects.
The company said, it sold its 5 percent stake in Haitian brewery Brasserie Nationale d'Haiti and its 10 percent stake in St Lucia based Windward and Leeward brewery.
Both stakes which were sold to Heineken on Thursday, earned Red Stripe more than J$982 million .
Red Stripe made the announcement in a regulatory filing to the Jamaica Stock Exchange on Friday, saying this was the right time to dispose the assets, as its moves towards several ambitious projects.
Thursday, November 28, 2013
POEM: 'Haiti ... Too Black, Too Strong'
CHAKA-CHAKA SPELLING
A so Mutabaruka seh inna fi im poem bout Haiti pon im 'Melanin Man' album weh come out inna 1994. Mi tek Muta lyrics fi di title a one talk mi gi inna Haiti dis ya month. Mi call it, ''Too Black, Too Strong': Imagining Haiti in Caribbean Popular Culture'.
One big-big meeting did keep up fi di 25th anniversary a di Haitian Studies Association, from November 7-9. More dan 300 scholar from all over di world go a Haiti fi reason bout politics, education, health care, music, literature, language, flim show, economics, history an such di like.
Inna fi mi talk, mi consider Muta poem an one a David Rudder song pon im Haiti album, weh im put out inna 1988. A long time dem two artist a warn wi fi check wiself. Dem a cry out mek wi understand seh di people dem inna Haiti a fi wi fambily an wi no better dan dem. In fact, wi an dem inna di same boat. An if wi no mind sharp, it a go a sink. An di whole a wi a go drown same way.
See how Muta start off fi im poem:
Haiti yu goin an no one seem to care
Haiti yu goin, neighbours, beware!
Di poverty an death that haunts every day
De boat dat leave to de USA.
Same way David Rudder a warn wi inna fi im song:
We are outing fires in faraway places
When our neighbours are just burning.
They say the Middle Passage is gone
So how come overcrowded boats still haunt our lives?
CHAINS DAT KEEP US APART'
Acordin to Muta, di answer to David Rudder question a one long, long story: "Haiti suffers because it made a start." Muta dig up history fi find di root a di problem:
Yu payin for di afrikaness yu still keep
Yu payin, payin; Boukman is not asleep
Nuff a wi inna Jamaica no know bout Boukman. Im did born right ya so. An im a one a fi wi big-time hero. International hero! Im coulda read an write. A it mek dem call im Boukman. An it look like seh di book im dida read a di Qu'ran. Im a Muslim. An im dida try teach who want know fi read. Di owner fi di plantation never like dat. Boukman a mek trouble. So di owner man decide fi sell Boukman to one Frenchman weh tek im go a Haiti.
An a deh so Boukman mek trouble! When im see wa a gwaan, im couldn't tek it. Im tek charge. An im turn voodoo priest. Pon August 14, 1791, im keep one big meeting a Bois Caiman, weh di African dem plan out how dem a go free demself from slavery. Dem draw blood an drink it an tek oath fi fight it out. An a deh so revolution start inna Haiti. Di next week, Boukman people dem burn down 1,800 plantation an dem kill off 1,000 a di owner dem.
Muta seh:
Yu gave us Haiti di strength to fight
Black people in di Caribbean, I say unite
Break di chains dat keep us apart
Haiti suffers because it made a start
Mi love di picture Muta draw when im talk bout di chain dem. A mental slavery dat. Di chain dem inna wi mind a tie wi up, mek wi feel seh wi better dan dem other one. Mi glad fi see Haiti President Michel Martelly come look fi wi. Im did come fi talk bout how Haiti an Jamaica can work together. Anywhere Boukman deh, it sweet im fi true.
Carolyn Cooper is a professor of literary and cultural studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona. Visit her bilingual blog at http://carolynjoycooper.wordpress.com. Email feedback to columns@gleanerjm.com and karokupa@gmail.com.
A so Mutabaruka seh inna fi im poem bout Haiti pon im 'Melanin Man' album weh come out inna 1994. Mi tek Muta lyrics fi di title a one talk mi gi inna Haiti dis ya month. Mi call it, ''Too Black, Too Strong': Imagining Haiti in Caribbean Popular Culture'.
One big-big meeting did keep up fi di 25th anniversary a di Haitian Studies Association, from November 7-9. More dan 300 scholar from all over di world go a Haiti fi reason bout politics, education, health care, music, literature, language, flim show, economics, history an such di like.
Inna fi mi talk, mi consider Muta poem an one a David Rudder song pon im Haiti album, weh im put out inna 1988. A long time dem two artist a warn wi fi check wiself. Dem a cry out mek wi understand seh di people dem inna Haiti a fi wi fambily an wi no better dan dem. In fact, wi an dem inna di same boat. An if wi no mind sharp, it a go a sink. An di whole a wi a go drown same way.
See how Muta start off fi im poem:
Haiti yu goin an no one seem to care
Haiti yu goin, neighbours, beware!
Di poverty an death that haunts every day
De boat dat leave to de USA.
Same way David Rudder a warn wi inna fi im song:
We are outing fires in faraway places
When our neighbours are just burning.
They say the Middle Passage is gone
So how come overcrowded boats still haunt our lives?
CHAINS DAT KEEP US APART'
Acordin to Muta, di answer to David Rudder question a one long, long story: "Haiti suffers because it made a start." Muta dig up history fi find di root a di problem:
Yu payin for di afrikaness yu still keep
Yu payin, payin; Boukman is not asleep
Nuff a wi inna Jamaica no know bout Boukman. Im did born right ya so. An im a one a fi wi big-time hero. International hero! Im coulda read an write. A it mek dem call im Boukman. An it look like seh di book im dida read a di Qu'ran. Im a Muslim. An im dida try teach who want know fi read. Di owner fi di plantation never like dat. Boukman a mek trouble. So di owner man decide fi sell Boukman to one Frenchman weh tek im go a Haiti.
An a deh so Boukman mek trouble! When im see wa a gwaan, im couldn't tek it. Im tek charge. An im turn voodoo priest. Pon August 14, 1791, im keep one big meeting a Bois Caiman, weh di African dem plan out how dem a go free demself from slavery. Dem draw blood an drink it an tek oath fi fight it out. An a deh so revolution start inna Haiti. Di next week, Boukman people dem burn down 1,800 plantation an dem kill off 1,000 a di owner dem.
Muta seh:
Yu gave us Haiti di strength to fight
Black people in di Caribbean, I say unite
Break di chains dat keep us apart
Haiti suffers because it made a start
Mi love di picture Muta draw when im talk bout di chain dem. A mental slavery dat. Di chain dem inna wi mind a tie wi up, mek wi feel seh wi better dan dem other one. Mi glad fi see Haiti President Michel Martelly come look fi wi. Im did come fi talk bout how Haiti an Jamaica can work together. Anywhere Boukman deh, it sweet im fi true.
Carolyn Cooper is a professor of literary and cultural studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona. Visit her bilingual blog at http://carolynjoycooper.wordpress.com. Email feedback to columns@gleanerjm.com and karokupa@gmail.com.
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Jamaicans say goodbye to a Haitian brother
Scores of persons turned out yesterday to pay last respects to honorary consul of the Republic of Haiti, Yvon Thomas Desulme, who was laid to rest following a service at the Sts Peter and Paul Catholic Church in St Andrew.
In her tribute, his widow, Cynthia, remembered his commitment to his family.
"When persons ask me how long I've been married, I say, 'Forever', because we were always together. He was true to our marriage, my children and the people, and so I say, 'Rest in peace, my soldier'."
Former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson spoke of Desulme's service to his people.
"A farewell ceremony is hardly a happy ceremony, but we who are gathered here are delighted to have known him.
It's not how you die, but it's how you live, and Yvon lived an exemplary life, one which he devoted to his family and the people," said Patterson.
In her tribute, his widow, Cynthia, remembered his commitment to his family.
"When persons ask me how long I've been married, I say, 'Forever', because we were always together. He was true to our marriage, my children and the people, and so I say, 'Rest in peace, my soldier'."
Former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson spoke of Desulme's service to his people.
"A farewell ceremony is hardly a happy ceremony, but we who are gathered here are delighted to have known him.
It's not how you die, but it's how you live, and Yvon lived an exemplary life, one which he devoted to his family and the people," said Patterson.
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
VIDEO: El Feco Ft Get Right - I Am Haiti (Tribute to Haiti)
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I-AM-HAITI.ORG's creation was inspired by the catastrophic events that devastated Haiti on January 12, 2010. The website was developed as a way to generate revenue that could be donated directly to the relief efforts in Haiti, through the sale of merchandise i.e. t-shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies, coffee mugs, etc. I-AM-HAITI began as a song written by Endyo Records' recording artist El Feco, from Jamaica, who felt a calling to somehow in his power help the people of Haiti. Through collaborative efforts, El Feco and Endyo Records have been able to turn this powerful song into a movement. Hollie Stain, artist developer and friend to Endyo Records, inspired the idea of the t-shirts as an additional way to help promote the song and raise funds. The shirts and website were designed by Roscoe Murphy, co-owner of Endyo Records. We are committed to raising as much funds possible to directly benefit the people Haiti. Endyo Records would like to thank all of the artists, musicians, engineers, and everyone else involved in bringing I-AM-HAITI to life.
I-AM-HAITI.ORG's creation was inspired by the catastrophic events that devastated Haiti on January 12, 2010. The website was developed as a way to generate revenue that could be donated directly to the relief efforts in Haiti, through the sale of merchandise i.e. t-shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies, coffee mugs, etc. I-AM-HAITI began as a song written by Endyo Records' recording artist El Feco, from Jamaica, who felt a calling to somehow in his power help the people of Haiti. Through collaborative efforts, El Feco and Endyo Records have been able to turn this powerful song into a movement. Hollie Stain, artist developer and friend to Endyo Records, inspired the idea of the t-shirts as an additional way to help promote the song and raise funds. The shirts and website were designed by Roscoe Murphy, co-owner of Endyo Records. We are committed to raising as much funds possible to directly benefit the people Haiti. Endyo Records would like to thank all of the artists, musicians, engineers, and everyone else involved in bringing I-AM-HAITI to life.
Monday, March 15, 2010
JAMAICA:Haitian Teen’s Trial Set For April
Port Anotnio Court House
The teenage Haitian boy held by the police in Portland more than a month ago is to appear in the Port Antonio Resident Magistrate’s Court on April 12.
Sixteen-year-old Jean-Saint Homme of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince is to answer to the charge of illegal entry.