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Jamaicans are famous for their cultural mix, unique music and food. However did you know that quite early in our history Jamaica have been producing great dreamers and continue to do so even today? This week... more
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"We could have our individualities: we could have our race pride, certainly, and the religion of our race etc," Mr. Josephs said, "but it is no good fencing up ourselves with barbed wire entanglements so that we do not come into... more
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"The problem of identifying Black participants in public life has, I believe, led to a continuing underestimation of the role of the Black middle-class intellectuals in Jamaica in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, since comparatively few of... more
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If the upright and noble are forgotten, it is because we chose to forget them. J. Robert Love, 1894 By putting a voice to Dr. Joy Lumsdens effort to restore the lost community of Jamaicas first teachers,Backyardlabrish is fulfilling its... more
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‘…I will tell something of the lives of those significant men and women who toiled to bring education to ordinary Jamaicans; some accounts will be in their own words or the words of contemporaries Dr. Joy Lumsden. This... more
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Who was:Robert Lindsay? (1840-1904) ‘…men of the Robert Lindsay type, men whose service has sweetened and enriched life and made the world better.’Daily Gleaner, August 1936 In my on-going research into... more
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Robert Campbell was born in Kingston, Jamaica, on May 7, 1829. His mother was the child of Stephen Wood, an Englishman holding the position of Deputy Marshall in the city, and a woman of pure African ancestry, whose parents were... more
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“The vast majority of French-speaking settlers arrived in the Island in the late 18th century as refugees fleeing revolution in what was then the French Colony of St. Domingue, the defeat of the French there by black and coloured... more
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The four days of Easter are celebrated by all Jamaicans, whether it is part of their religion or not. However, the majority of the population is Christian, Baptist being the most predominant religion. “The significance of this church in... more
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Easter is one of the principal holidays of the year, Jamaicans enjoy a long weekend of four days. “Under Missionary influence, Good Friday came to be set in many communities as a day on which no work should be done,... more
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This week the Backyard is thrilled to celebrate the life of another Jamaican trailblazer. “The Very Rev. Father Raphael, Priest Apostolic of the Greek Orthodox Catholic Church, has returned to the island after years of travelling all... more
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