Word: jamaican
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...Jamaican calypso...
...last time heads were counted, the figures showed that seven of every ten Jamaicans were born out of wedlock. But who cares? Each May, during Baby & Child Week, every child, legitimate or illegitimate, is welcome to compete in the baby beauty contest; the only distinction is that winners whose parents are married get a bonus. Harking back to African tradition, many women in Jamaica cheerfully prove themselves by producing a healthy child before expecting island males to consider them seriously as wives. Yet even then, Jamaican men tend to vanish magically when marriage is mentioned...
...objections were rolling across the islands. Adams did not budge; concession or not, he said, "the federal government can levy its own income tax after five years and make it retroactive." Such a statement could easily scare off Refinery Builder St. Hilaire, and Jamaica did not take it quietly. Jamaican Chief Minister Norman Manley said that if the federal government even thinks about voiding Jamaican deals, "Jamaica would be forced to reconsider her position in regard to federation itself." Last week Manley's top political opponent, rabble-rousing Sir William Alexander Bustamante, put it even more bluntly...
Novelist Reid is a Jamaican journalist; his only other novel. New Day, reflected the color and sensuousness of his native Caribbean island. What he has tried for in The Leopard is more than a look into a Mau Mau mind. It is no less than an effort to glimpse the African soul suffering between felt injustice and the dim knowledge that the white man's impact has ended once and for all the chance of returning to the Eden of primitive ignorance and tribal pride that existed before he came...
...third, were informed that alternative means of transportation would be secured for them if they so wished and that this would be entirely at the expense of this company. By far the greater percentage of passengers who did avail themselves of this offer were third class, including 60 Jamaican Boy Scouts and 15 Chilean Boy Scouts for whom a special plane was chartered to bring them to London...