Word: jamaicas
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Although the world may think Jamaica is a Caribbean paradise, it is actually a developing nation struggling with serious social problems, Professor Rex Nettleford of the University of the West Indies said yesterday in a lecture sponsored by the Harvard/Radcliffe Caribbean Club...
Nettleford said British colonial domination of Jamaica led to cultural domination as well. Jamaicans had to adopt European ways in order to gain acceptance in their own country...
...stops to talk, especially when favored (West Indian) customers come in. He came to the United States ten years ago working at a ski lodge as a cook ("I used to go to work in true snow storm, man, at 35 below for $1.50 an hour and me from Jamaica? I was ready to go home, man!"). He intended to save enough to start his own business in Jamaica, but he's invested in his restaurant and doesn't now know whether he'll go back home. The Silver Slipper is as much a second start for Leonard Matthews...
...Since I was 11 years old I worked in restaurants and hotels," he says, "first in Jamaica and then here. I start in an American restaurant as a boilerman, and I watch and I learn until I make it to assistant chef, I don't know anything else...
Marley combines his advocacy of violence with a warning that the eleventh hour approaches for his people, that each year fewer blacks object to their oppression. Politically, Marley's album will probably have a considerable effect in Jamaica. Though many in the U.S. view him as merely a talented composer, Marley is considered a leader by most Jamaicans and a prophet by many...