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On Thursday, BBC World Service´s programme “The Beat” had a report on the the noise abatement act and the recent police crackdown on late night sessions in Jamaica. Among others, Peter Dean Rickards, editor in chief of First Magazine, expresses his opinion. Follow the link above to listen to the show. (via FIRST Magazine)
Peter Dean Rickards finally pushed the button: FIRST is back online and it´s better than Ninja Man.
Ross Sheil had a link to these drawing of 3rd to 6th grade students of Jones Town Primary School (Kingston, Jamaica) in the Observations blog a few days ago. Don´t think they need any commentary. More after the jump.
Hm, while our general opinion about Puma´s attempts to connect with Jamaican popular culture (for more information on how their little adventure trip back in 2004 ended up, check The Afflicted Yard, The Guardian and FIRST magazine #4 (spread 2). By the way: does anybody have that Channel 4 documentary called “Trainers, Reggae and the Olympics” by John Deol and Paul Blake? I accidentally deleted my copy…) is not a big secret, everybody can decide on his own what he/she thinks about “Riddim” magazine.
Why I´m writing about this? Well, Puma and Riddim now cooperated and put out a limited edition version of the Clyde sneaker (which it looks like Puma kinda tries to make the next Superstar) that - like every Puma “sneaker” - is perfectly described by the lyrics of German rapreggaefunk-hero Jan Delay: verse 2, line 13. Nuff said.
For the first time in 18 years, it looks like the Jamaican Labour Party (JLP) won the island´s General Elections to take over power from Portia Simpson´s People´s National Party (PNP).
However, as the race has been very close, the official result is not expected to be published before the end of the week.
In what was already called his victory speech, the leader of the JLP, Bruce Golding, told the Jamaican Gleaner his interpretation of the result:
“It may very well be that the people of Jamaica, in their own profound wisdom, are sending a clear message to all of us that the time has come for constructive engagement among the political forces of the country”.
Word, Mr. Golding.
