Jamaican Cookery

This is the chimmy that people in Jamaica, who live in rural areas with outside toilets use to defecate and urine in at nights. Read more →

Hello, everyone, I am back! Yayyyy. Don't mind me and my antics. I am feeling so lucky to be alive and well. Having gone through a rather nerve-rocking experience a month ago I am giving the almighty thanks. I had lost quite a few co-workers over the years due to robbery, so, I always on my Ps and Qs or so I though. Read more →

Rick's Cafe located at West End Road, Negril-Jamaica is Negril's top sunset bar, and is also a popular restaurant. Rick's Cafe is famous for the view of the sunset and cliff diving. Rick's Cafe started in 1974. On the menu, you can get Jamaican traditional food and beverage. Read more →

Cackroach noh business inna fowl fight English: A cockroach has no business in a fowl fight Meaning: Keep out of other people's business Read more →

Beg wata cyaan bwile cow kin English: Begged water cannot boil the skin of a cow Meaning: You should not depend on the tools of others to do your own work Read more →

One common aspiration among almost every Jamaican is perhaps the burning desire to become home owners. While many opt to purchase, a large number of Jamaicans make the choice to build their homes. One source, in fact contends that it is quite possible to build a home at a cost of about one-third cheaper than that to buy a similar one. Read more →

am not sure if this Easter ritual of setting the white of an egg in a glass of water at dawn is still widely practise in Jamaica. I personally have never seen it done, or know of anyone who has done it. However, I heard stories of people who have done it and whoever saw a casket died soon after. My friend asked his seventy-five years old grandmother to do it, and she refuses, fearing she might see a casket. You probably wondering what I am rambling about, come closer let me tell you. Read more →

There are over one 133 types of butterflies; thirty-one of which are endemic to Jamaica. Read more →