Jamaica facts (Pictures of Jamaica)

The photograph attached with this blog post shows a wasp on a flower. I took this picture a couple years ago in my mothers garden for a photography assignment. Today, while going through old photographs I stumbled upon this beauty. Many times I've been stopped by people who say that I tend to focus too much on the negative aspects of my island. So today I decided that perhaps I will venture into some of its beauty. My country is a very beautiful island and what I actually do love most of all is the happiness of the people. I can find so much peace by just looking at the nature around me but this also makes me question how much do we still love and appreciate the beauty of this beautiful island. We spend so much time selling off its rich resources or spending time polluting it with our disgraceful practices. The beauty of Jamaica is with us now but will it still be with us for our children to enjoy in the future?

Why is it that we claim to love our country so much but we spend so much time destroying it with our greed? On holidays majority of us jump in our vehicles and travel to the beach to have a family day out and while we are there we leave our garbage and jump back in our vehicles and we are gone. We uproot our trees to make space for developments while we don't even think twice to how much richness we are destroying. It marvels me from time to time how excited we can get about future plans for our country but we never seem to see that unless we take care of our island today it won't be around for those future plans of ours to materialize. People travel from all over the world to get a glimpse of the beauty of this island and are often times even more appreciative of it than we as locals. Today, I implore my fellow Jamaicans to be more appreciative of our beautiful island.

Taken in St.Ann

Hope Gardens

TVJ Schools' Challenge Quiz Prizes

The buzzer ignited the excitement in my veins for many years. I grew up watching TVJ Schools' Challenge Quiz and I saw it as a means of once again unifying the nation through friendly rivalry. As the years rolled by things started to change and the blatant favouritism could be seen coming from our television screens. The power of some of the more prominent high schools would allow them to end up in the winning circle. Apart from the fun element turning into some what of a war each year, what has changed drastically is the awarding of the various prizes at the end. Throughout the years we could expect to see students from some of the participating schools coming forward to collect their various prizes at the end of the competition. We looked forward to hearing what the students would be awarded for their hard workout throughout the season. Apparently, this was deemed to be too much of a problem to broadcast so it was eliminated completely. All we see now is the winner collecti

This World

A world where people don't love you if you can't supply them with all the material things they need. A world where people marry just to get citizenship in a country. A world where the most educated aren't the ones given the best of jobs. A world where the television and internet are left to teach our children values. A world where the leaders of the church spend more money on church buildings tha n feeding the poor. A world where children receive guns before they receive a book to read. A world where in one half of the world people fight for an apple to eat while in the other we pick,choose and refuse what to eat. A world where we cry when we have no new clothes or shoes but some have never felt the warmth of a shirt and pants on their cold flesh. A world where politicians get increases in pay while the citizens are placed on wage freeze for years. A world where everybody proclaims they can't trust anybody. A world where girls value are always occupied with their look

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