About Me
This blog is about all the interesting stuff I come across, as I do my job which is as a journalist , pursue my interests, talk to my contacts mainly based in Kingston Jamaica. It will mostly feature news articles and stories I come across on people, politics and current affairs as they relate to people living and working in Jamaica but probably of interest to people outside the island. I am now based in London after living and working in Kingston as a journalist. I love dancehall and reggae so you may see info about artists like Movado, Vybz Kartel, Jah Cure and Tanya Stephens.
DISCLAIMER : The views and opinions expressed in this blog are my own personal opinions and in no way reflect the views or opinions of my employer.
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this is a website where i am learning about blogging – teaching myself practical tricks about putting in links and embedding video and adding pix all the little extras that make a blog worth looking at
Ah, but it’s the words that make a blog worth reading……………..
great blog, keep up the good posts!
Hello. Grateful for the blog. Always nice to run into a few online about my Jamaica. Always great to share thoughts and ideas and I always have to start out by commending those who do cuz I still have not managed to do so myself. I would like to follow your blog but I have to first ask the meaning of the title “jamaica salt”. In my Jamaica, when you put the salt as an adjective it does not usually mean you add flavour. I tends to mean “nutten nah gwaan fi yuh” or “pure bad luck a fallow yuh”. Its usually not a positive vibration.
o it disturbs me deeply because my thinking is that a blog should discuss the realities but when i look at your TAGS and the title of your Recent Posts there is no positive vibration, not one. So i am tempted to think I have interpreted you rightly. I might not have read all your posts but why a blog to seemingly highlight all whats going very wrong…we have the newspapers for that. blogs i thought were an avenue to discuss ideas and thoughts to turn things around. Have I misinterpreted your intent?
hi Jeanette – thanks for your comment, the name comes from the meaning Salt as to be broke, empty-handed, low on funds or food, as in “tings salt” or “i’ salt”. It felt right to me as opposed to the opposing image of Jamaica’s sandy beaches, to interpret that as salt rather than paradise – not adding a postive vibration you’re right – but rather that things are not right – there is poverty and hunger.
I guess i’m pretty cynical, i write what i think is important to talk about – that’s not all good I admit, but i’m very open to discussing ideas to turn things around. x
Hey Nina. I respect the reply, the honesty and the meaning. I did forget that alternate meaning and its not as bad as what i was thinking. I know, there is an abundance of stuff to be cynical about, not a soul coulda blame you. Call me an idealist but I happen to believe that we can change things around. I heard a talk today and this guy is an author who was imprisoned and tortured by his govt in Nigeria couple years ago. He said “What I’ve come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion. Every day acts of compassion.”
You might say ahh Jeanette a cynic has no use for such poetry, its fluff. Well that system that imprisoned him is no longer in existence Nina and what did it started with those gestures. I’ve read your stuff girl…come on how can you not think you are not a tool to fight this poverty and this hunger. And i happen to believe as you said that you write what is important to talk about but it cannot remain just talk. How do we move what you are doing here out of the blog and into the fight against that poverty in a very real and meaning full way. Talking about this is easy, how about we take up the challenge on poverty and hunger? Lets talk some more. X
aah jeanette you’re a do-er i agree with u tho
Hi, Nina. You say you are now based in London and lived/worked in Kingston. I guess you grew up in Jamaica, or no? Just curious.
hi nicola – just saw ur comment sorry for delay – i did not grow up in JA i was born in the UK xx
Interesting blog posts. Keep writing.
Is this the reason why Champions in Action was canceled in Toronto? It is rumored that is has a lot to do with gays… but I thinks its politics… I have no idea about TG been a country girl all my life… but it is sad for one person to have all that power over an island, and even more so for America to decide who lives and who dies..
could be nishka