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Jeffrey B. Miller ’05 was in a group of 10 students who attended a vacation in Negril, Jamaica during spring break. The group booked the trip in Cambridge last December with STA Travel...
Most tourists stand pat behind these walls of division. The resort town of Negril easily seduces the stressed-out Yankee into doing nothing but sitting at a hotel's beachside bar and staring out at the turquoise sea as it laps against the sandy shore, drinking a Red Stripe and perhaps casting the odd glance at a "European" sunbather or two. Although the goal of a hard-earned Caribbean vacation may be relaxation, this sort of sendentary behavior would run counter to Jamaica's motto: "Out of many, one people." With a bit of "lively-in' up yourself...
...Along the beach, each salesman has a name appropriate to his task. Chef grills the jerk chicken; Jelly-Man sells jellied coconuts off his cart. The beachfront entrepreneur with the most pedestrian name is John, a re-located Chicagoan who runs one of the chillest open-air bars in Negril. Why did he give up life in a first-world country to become a self-proclaimed "beach bum"? "Mid-life crisis," he says. His friend, Hills-Man, comes to the beach to visit when the takes a break from working his farm in the beautiful inland hills. There, according...
Speaking of ganga, the night atmosphere in Negril has quite a different feel. The beach at Negril fills with beach bums, hustlers, and prostitutes who, mixed with the tourists, listen to reggae and puff joints, a scene more than one suburban teenager has imagined while listening to Marley or Jimmy Cliff. The most ubiquitous dealer on the beach goes by the name of Doctor Fabulous. "Da Doctor" is a self-assured smooth talker, a "Rastafarian who smoke da ganga anywhere, anytime." Along with his potentsmelling crop, Fabulous deals out lines like "Da doctor needs his patient...
...Thursday, we asked our writers, "Hey, kids: who wants to jet off to Negril, Jamaica this weekend?" The invitation to this all-expense-paid-trip came last-minute from Peter Martin Associates, Inc. Of course, all of us Editors had already overbooked our engagement calendars, so we sent veteran writer Marshal Lewy in our stead...