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Memorial Jamaica - The Memories Of Many
The Memories Of Many Jamaicans
Jamaica has been a unique country which leaves an outstanding mark in the mind of many and a gerat impression in the hearts of those who have experience it's cultural beauty, environment, many cuisines and it's people. The island is furnished with tropical sceneries, lushed forestries, many rivers to cross with peculiar waterfalls, mountainous ranges and extended mile of beaches of all colours from white sand to black basalt beaches. Jamaica is a place, once you encounter it, there is an immediate photographic memory imprented in you heart like no other.
Amongst the beauty of nature which the island's surrounding provides, the tasty multicultural cuisines, the explosively friendly social environment can only be found here. This is the people's richly religious beliefs expressed through their warm social relation to everyone they encounter; to the ones at home and as well as the ones from abroad - family and foreigner alike.
Another rich engraved mark is the history of the Island, from the colonalisation of it's indeginous native the Awaraks Indian by the Spaniards who came with Christopher Colombus in 1494, to the independence of it's multicultural residences in 1962. The Awaraks Indian were join by Spaniards, then the Brittish captured the colony from the spaniards in 1655. They too along with the Spaniards brought Africans to the island through the "Trans-Alantic Trade Movement" - the slave trade movement. Joining them in this movement were the French, Dutch and German expanding the multicultral environment. After the abolishion of slavery of the 19th century, indentured labourers were brought in from China and India. Joining the island polulace later on were also the Middle Easterners from Lebanon, Syria and Jews from Palistine.
All have contributed to the island culture in their own way, bringing to the world Jamaica's motto "Out of Many One People". It is these people who have left their mark not only on the island and in the heart their families, but the polulace and the world on a whole. The names of many can be found in this site,www.memorialja.com.It's about the reflection of the wonderful memories left behind by many, to their love ones and those who they encountered within their life time. Engraved here are some of Jamaica's greatest human landmarks and icons of it social environments. You too can leave your relative's mark for all to remember - the great things they've done.
is an archival site www.memorialja.com to commemorate the memory of the many loved ones who have passed on but have contrubutes to the lives of those who are left behind to reflect upon their wonderful marks and impressions forever imprinted in their memories. Jamaican at home and abroad can leave a memorial of those love one for generation to come and to reflect upon those who have molded the path with which they now are trodding on. Therefore, Memorial Jamaica is not just for Jamaican at home but internationally so that their descendants will have for ages to come, a peice of their heritage to look back upon.
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The Right Excellency The Honourable Marcus 'Mosia' Garvey
The Prophet
August 17 1887 - June 10 1940
Jamaica First National Hero
Founder of the fisrt and largest progressive African Organization
The United Negro Improvement Association
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Dr. Vernon Carrington
Nov 1 1936 - March 22 2005
The Prophet Gad
The Once Scattered & Regathering Israel's Prophet
Founder of the Twelve Tribes Of Israel Organization Worldwide
The gratest organizer from Jamaica of the 20th century
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Below are some of Jamaica's greats, listed in the MemorialJa website
The Hon. Dr. Louise Simone Bennett - Coverly
September 7, 1919– July 26, 2006
Jamaica's #1 Folklore Mastermind and Historian
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July 4,1893 - September 2, 1969.
Norman Washington Manley was born at Roxborough, Manchester, on July 4, 1893. He was a brilliant scholar and athlete, Lawyer and soldier (First World War). He founded the People’s National Party and was elected its President annually until his retirement 31 years later.
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Neville Newton Montrose Willoughby, O.D.
May5 1937 - Dec. 20 2006
Son of T. Newton Willoughby, attorney-at-law (deceased) and Zena Willoughby, legal secretary.
Educated: Suthermere Preparatory School; Jamaica College; Toronto University.
Awards: Recipient of The Prime Minister's Medal 1983, Musgrave Medal (Bronze) 1987, Officer of the Order of Distinction 1989.
Career: Announcer, RJR 1960-63, Interviewer, BBC Caribbean Service, London 1962-64; JBC Radio and Television announcer 1964-69. Freelance announcer with RJR since 1969. Host of RJR's 'Evening People Show' from 1985-2001 and host of the Colgate Cavity Fighters Club since 1974.
Willoughby, who was 69 years old, succumbed to injuries he sustained in an auto accident along Molynes Road, St. Andrew, Tuesday December 19th 2006.
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January 12th 1931 - 20th November 1998
Roland Alphonso was born in Havana Cuba and came to Jamaica 1933 at the age of two with his Jamaican mother. He started to learn saxophone at the Stony Hill Industrial School. By 1963, after few months spent in Nassau, Bahamas, he took part in the creation of The Studio One Orchestra, the first session band of the freshly opened recording studio of Coxsone. This band soon adopted the name of The Skatalites.
When the Skatalites disbanded by August 1965, Alphonso formed the Soul Brothers (with Johnny 'Dizzy' Moore, Jackie Mittoo) to become The Soul Vendors in 1967. He released the first album under his name in 1973 on the Studio One record label.
During the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, he kept on playing on numerous records coming out from Jamaican studios, especially for Bunny Lee, and he toured with many bands. He was awarded Officer of the Order of Distinction by the Jamaican government in 1980, and started to tour more often in the U.S. He took part in the reformation of the Skatalites in 1983, with whom he toured and recorded constantly until his death in 1998.
Carlton Barrett
December17th 1950 - April 17th 1987
Real Name: | Carlton Barrett |
Profile: | Born 17th December 1950 Died 17th April 1987 With his brother, Aston "Family Man" Barrett made up the rhythm section and played a major part in developing the sound of Bob Marley & The Wailers. Noted for his "One Drop" style of drumming, he continued to tour with various versions of Wailers, The until shot dead in 1987 by gunmen hired by his wife. |
In Groups: | Aggrovators, The, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Hippy Boys, The, Upsetters, The, Wailers, The |
| Name Variations: | All | Carlton Barrett | C. Barett | C. Barrett | Carleton Barrett | Carlton "Carlie" Barrett | Carlton "Carly" Barrett | Carlton 'Carly' Barrett | Carlton (Carlie) Barrett | Carlton Barret ********************************************************
Franklin Delano Alexander Braithwaite, better known as Junior Braithwaite (April 4, 1949 – June 2, 1999) was one of the founders of, and the first lead singer of The Wailers. Junior Braithwaite was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in the same neighborhood where Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer (aka. Bunny Livingston) and Peter Tosh later lived. Higgs and Wilson, one of the top harmonizing groups in Jamaica at that time, used to rehearse in his backyard. The friends Braithwaite, Wailer, Marley, Tosh and Beverley Kelso, inspired by Wilson and Higgs, started singing together under various names, and in 1963 they became known as "The Wailers". ******************************************************************************* |
