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There is a very strong socialist movement in Jamaica. I was in Jamaica years ago. All the talk, all day they talk politics. The literacy rate is very low. Everyone is so interested in politics, more than those who can read in the United States.
You know people exaggerate that all is wild in Jamaica. I think that sometimes people fire a shot to try to make you nervous. They are not trying to hurt you.
Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.
I come from a very big family from every economic background. Some of the streets I talk about, I've actually walked on because I have family from there. Jamaica has so many contradictions.
London, dirty little pool of life
My relationship with everyone in Jamaica is good.
Blissful Islands
destination for Cubans arriving from the island.
South Africa, it's like the little asshole of the whole world - it's, like, the bottom. It's, like, in the dark depths of the hallway.
Haiti kind of gets a hold of you.
When you're on one of the Caribbean islands, sometimes it's hard to picture how they fit in with the rest, but when you see them all joined together like a necklace from space, you see the natural geographic connectedness of them all.
If a guy loves you, he'll buy you fucking Jamaica and walk away. He won't hold that shit over you
To me, Bermuda is a real family spot.
I'm a huge reggae fan. I want to go to Jamaica and make, like, Bob Marley 'One Love' positive songs. That's what the world needs.
My Invented Country; it resembles a heart-shaped paradise.
I like to go to Mauritius on holiday.
For a small island [Great Britain], the place is remarkably diverse.
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.
the Isle of Wight, with occasional visits to
I hate Nassau and the Bahamas. It's one of those places I'd always wanted to visit since reading Ian Fleming but it was full of casinos with Americans in shorts.
The country is an archipelago of lakes,
the lake-country of New England.
Nicaragua is becoming the least expensive Caribbean destination ...
In Jamaica, the music is recorded for the sound system, not the iPod. It's about experiencing music together, with other people.
I listen to a lot of reggae.
Twenty or 30 years from now, I'm going to be on a beach in Jamaica.
The land of embarrassment and breakfast.
Name a country, and I have probably been there.
Port Royal, Jamaica, was built for pirates. The town had a well-protected harbor, corrupt politicians and townsfolk, and a set of ethics that seemed passed down from Sodom and Gomorrah.
Eustatius in the Caribbean. At present, there was powder
Micronesia. "It was near Guam," Steve Blauner says. "A guy that sick to
One of the most magical places on Earth is a small island in the Caribbean called Mustique. With brilliant beaches, warm water, and lush vegetation, this tiny green swath of land is my idea of paradise.
A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids cycling to holy communion through the morning mist.
Canada - they won't like me saying this, but it's really like it's a part of Michigan, that area.
In England, rain was thin and cold, and made you hunch up inside your coat, walking home from the bus stop. In Jamaica, it was wide and thick and invited you to step into it, and see how wet you could get, and be thrilled that it was warmer than the sea and warmer than your skin; it was abandon.
I sometimes detect that a type of regional divide is setting in, and there is a lack of real Caribbean connection among the islands, and I am concerned about this.
I love Caribbean food. It's a great melting pot of so many cultures including the Native Americans.
In Jamaica, you learn as a child how to roll a joint. Everyone here has tried it. I did too
It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States.
Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand.
Every time I go to Haiti after a season of busy work in Europe, I feel like I'm submerging into a certain state of mind, which is very productive.
The U.K. is one of the places that has always been an advocate of my music and I spend a lot of time touring here. I've got family and friends over here, but more than that, there's a large Jamaican community and the Jamaican culture is very widespread in the U.K. which I love.
The Cayman Islands, a British Crown colony in the Caribbean, for instance, is the fifth largest banking center in the world,
When the earthquake hit Haiti in 2010, I was on vacation in the Cayman Islands.
My dream of happiness: a quiet spot by the Jamaican seashore ... hearing the wind sob with the beauty and the tragedy of everything. Sitting under an almond tree, with the leaf spread over me like an umbrella.
Haiti is the best cure against melancholy; it is also the most creative place for me to be. My productivity has increased enormously since I moved to Haiti. That's where I write my stories, develop my ideas and write nonstop, so it's a productive time, not a sleepy time.
If home is where the heart is, then Belize is my home.
England that little gray island in the clouds where governments don't fall overnight and children don't sell themselves in the street and my money is safe.
Basically, as a kid I grew up to a lot of good music, and part of my appreciation for music, from being a small child, was appreciating Jamaican music.
Puerto Rico is the perfect meeting place between Spain, the country I come from, and America, the country where I now belong. The meeting point of two worlds where magic can happen.
Banks' beer. There's nothing like it! To Brazil. And to Barbados justice.
I grew up twelve miles outside of Montego Bay. In my early teens, I went to Kingston. It was like a different planet for me. In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel.
England ... the greatest and the most glorious and beautiful land on earth.
I want to give people a taste of the Caribbean, and show them the fun side of me.
I never did feel any pressure in Jamaica. You just someone, not nobody big.
Where the hell is Australia anyway?
The Dominican Republic is my holy land, my Mecca.
I've got two places I like to be. Portugal is one.
I love Trinidad and I love living there, but it's quite harsh.
We're not big on irony in Jamaica, sarcasm and double-talk. We tend to say things plainly, sometimes to the point of boredom.
I love the Bahamas, and I used to go there all the time with my friend who passed away, Henry. And I love it there, especially that island [Grand Exuma], so I've been there a lot over the twenty years.
Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always. Always.
South Africa gives me a perspective of what's real and what's not real. So I go back to South Africa to both lose myself and gain awareness of myself. Every time I go back, it doesn't take long for me to get caught into a very different thing. A very different sense of myself.
India Lima Yankee
the only Cuba I could ever imagine. That is, until the dead began to rise.
Peru, Peru. My heart's lighthouse.
Hung Island, Georgia,
Pervasive part of the island culture
Ghana, a land full of Gold! Africa, a land full of resources!
When I was a child, my parents took my brothers and me to Port-au-Prince during the summer so we could get to know the country of our ancestors. Because Haiti is an island, the beach is everywhere. Haitians are particular, even snobby, about beaches.
My mother is Bermudan, so I had a lot of memories when I was a kid, used to go down to Bermuda a lot.
In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
The mantra of the National Commercial Bank is 'building a better Jamaica.' If this bank is going to be everlastingly successful, it has to take on the ailments of this society.
My mother's sister married a man from Barbados, and my cousins were raised in Barbados. So we traveled down there, they came up every summer for camp, and I started paying attention to their music. And that was the first place I ever remember hearing reggae and liking it.
I have only ever been to Antigua to hop over to other Caribbean islands. The airport had always seemed perfectly lovely, but I'm a quiet sort of holiday girl, and Antigua always seemed big.
The island is in Kenya, the water is in Uganda ... But the [Luos, a Kenyan ethnic group] are mad, they want to fish here but this is Uganda.
Haiti looks like a bomb hit it.
UK - that was Britain.
I don't want to go to the Bahamas on holiday. I hate islands. I want to go to Brittany, where it's cold and raining, and there's nothing fancy about it.
In Jamaica, we eradicated polio many years ago, but there are a lot of kids suffering in Africa still.
I'm an island boy, so I love my reggae and soca music.
Sure good is good, but good is something that nobody know. Good is a ghost. You can't get pocket money from good. Jamaica better off bad, because that type of bad work.
That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts.
I've been in Africa, America, moving around a lot. It's helped me to open up my mind. I was born in Jamaica; I've lived all my life there and got all I could from Jamaica. But I needed to be somewhere else to grow.
Where there is creativity there is hope and Haiti is the most hopeful place I've experienced
I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
Brazil is bigger than Europe, wilder than Africa, and weirder than Baffin Land.
Whenever I talk about the Bahamas and its beauty, I could never stop talking about my God, who has given us all of this beauty.
If Caribbean writers have one single unifying theme, it is a strong sense of place, and of home. There is also - always, beneath the humour, which is a West Indian characteristic - a sadness: an awareness of a past that can never really be forgotten, or forgiven.
Bahrain is very dear to me.
I was born in St. Lucia on January 23, 1915. My parents, who were both school teachers, had immigrated there from Antigua about a dozen years before.
One of my officers said to me that Trinidad and Tobago is seen like an ATM card ... you come in with the card and you come back out with cash. It cannot happen anymore. It just cannot happen.
Ireland. Great for the spirit - very bad for the body.
I wonder what it's like to be from a state that is spread across a few islands way out in the Pacific Ocean, only added to the United States in 1959. Not only that but to be the birthplace of America's first black president? Pretty cool, I bet.
Turks and Caicos is one of my favorite places to go. I've been to some really cool places and it started out when I was young by wanting to go to different places.
You can read a lot about a country by looking at its beaches: across cultures, the beach is that rare public space in which all absurdities and quirky national behaviors can be found,
I'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either.
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New Zealand is a place where you can get well.
Haiti has changed a lot.
Sometimes I just stand on the beach and look at the water, and Cuba feels so close it's unbelievable.