Jamaica Birthright

21/10/2022

🤷🏽‍♀️ What will you do?

🇯🇲 wishes you were here.

20/10/2022

🤷🏽‍♀️Do you grow your own food?

🌱 There are all kinds of creative ways to do it.

🌾 Some people use patios, balconies or even sidewalks.

🇯🇲 In , we use our backyards.

🥬 During the Covid19 pandemic, many more started farming for food security and stress relief.




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In Jamaica during the pandemic, many responded to movement restrictions and reduced income streams by turning to backyard farming for food security and stress relief. There is hope that this new trend of farming for personal consumption will help to displace the country's high food import bill.

19/10/2022

🇯🇲 The 1865 Morant Bay Uprising changed the course of Jamaican history.

🪧 Preacher Paul Bogle led a protest in St. Thomas to challenge the continued mistreatment and the denial of the full spectrum of rights of Black Jamaicans after the end of slavery in 1834.

🔥 Fighting broke out between the protesters and a voluntary militia, defenders of the oppressive white Planter class.

🤯 This group comprised of Maroons, British soldiers, and other freedmen. They shot and killed seven protesters and in retaliation, the activists burned the courthouse and nearby buildings.

🩸Between October and November Governor Edward Eyre issued orders for the ex*****on, beating and unlawful imprisonment of over one thousand free men and women.

⚰️ At least 400 Black Jamaicans were killed and more than 1000 houses burned to the ground.

🙅🏾‍♀️The horrific actions of the government dramatically transformed Jamaica’s political system and reformed the island’s land regulations.

🇬🇧 The English Governor Edward John Eyre, was dismissed and the political constitution was transformed, and its two-hundred-year-old assembly was abolished.

⛓ Bogle was captured and hanged by the British authorities on 24 October 1865 in the Morant Bay Court.



🎨 Painting by Barrington Watson

18/10/2022

🇯🇲 is the ideal destination for both shorter getaways and long holidays.

🤫 There's something for everybody!

💭 Even those who want to forget...

18/10/2022

🎖 It's Marcus Garvy every time with Nanny a close second!

🇯🇲 Who are yours?

🤦🏽‍♀️Wait you don't know who they are?

🏅Marcus Garvey
🏅George William Gordon
🏅Norman Manley
🏅Nanny of the Maroons
🏅 Sam Sharpe
🏅Paul Bogle
🏅Sir Alexander Bustamante

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14/10/2022

🍌 lush banana groves

🌊 crystal clear waters

⛰ mountains

💦 waterfalls

🏖 the sea

📸 This is simply picture-perfect.

🇯🇲 Come to

It might be your but make it your

13/10/2022

🤫 The countries, organisations, and individuals that benefited from the trans-Atlantic Slave Trade often downplay historical links to the murderous trade.

🎓 But NOT The . It says it received "significant benefits" from slavery.

🧐 The study was carried out by the Legacies of Enslavement Advisory Group, appointed in 2019 by the university's vice-chancellor, Stephen Toope.

⛓ It found the university and its colleges benefited from companies and individuals participating in the trade.

💰 Reparations proponents estimate 's planters and the British Crown received more than $10 billion from the importation and enslavement of .

🇯🇲 commends this effort.

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Cambridge responds to legacies of enslavement inquiry Published 22nd September 2022 Today, the University of Cambridge shared a digest of peer-reviewed research into its historical connections to enslavement, together with a response from the Vice-Chancellor. The University will now begin to impleme...

12/10/2022

🇯🇲 Lashana Rasheda Lynch is a British actress born to Jamaican parents.

👑 She recently starred as Izogie in the Hollywood Blockbuster, The Woman King.

🎬 Lynch is best known for playing the role of Rosaline Capulet in the ABC period drama series Still Star-Crossed (2017), Maria Rambeau in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films Captain Marvel (2019) and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) and MI6 agent Nomi in the James Bond film No Time to Die (2021).

11/10/2022

🇯🇲 It's never too early to start!

🏖 Are you planning your ?

👍🏾 Do yourself a favor and consider

07/10/2022

💭 What are you dreaming of?

🏔 Mountains

🏝 Reef-lined beaches

🌳 Rainforests

💁🏾‍♀️All within the same place?

🇯🇲 Well, is the place to visit!

06/10/2022

A teacher’s job is not an easy task.

But some of us have had great ones!

Who was yours?

05/10/2022

🇯🇲 Want a passport?

🏝 You are entitled to if your mother or father was born on the island.

🛂 Passport workshops are being hosted in communities across the U.K.

💪🏾 Exercise your