Welcome to the Bonita Jamaica Blog. We are confident that by time you are through reading you will agree that Jamaica is a beautiful place and that Jamaicans are an amazing people. However, until you visit Jamaica, you will not experience the real Jamaican effect. Jamaica is not just a country; we are a revered institution. Add Jamaica to your list of places to visit and tell everyone you know about Bonita Jamaica. See you in Jamaica.
The action continues on Bonita Jamaica's brand new website. This blog is still important and will remain here. But if you would like to see the beauty and greatness of Jamaica, go here:
Pat Brown's weekend getaway to Negril, August 2009. Models featured in this video appear in this order: Phenyx, Courtney, Stacey & Dino, Ms. Duke, Shakara, and Igbego. Make-up by Stacy McNeil.
Let's get straight to the point. These beautiful photographs are from Pat Brown's weekend getaway to Negril, August 2009. Models featured in this photo gallery are Phenyx, Kiki Chanel, Stacy, Dino, Neno, Igbego, Sasha, Ms. Duke, Courtney, Kevian, and Shakara. Make-up by Stacy McNeil.
This is 'Rise Again', Caribbean Artistes for Haiti. This song is available at itunes. All proceeds from the sale of this song go to the Digicel Haiti Relief Fund. Big up Shaggy, Jay Will, et al. Haiti will rise again.
Every country is great, especially Jamaica.
Bonita Jamaica Beautiful Place. Amazing People. See youin Jamaica.
Opening with a call from the Maroon "Abeng" horn, this contemporary version of the Jamaican National Anthem showcases the beauty, people, art, athletics and cultural diversity of our island home, Jamaica.
Produced by Liquid Light Digital and directed by the brother and sister team of Adrian and Amanda Lopez.
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Albert Huie, brilliant and masterful Jamaican Painter, passed on Sunday January 31, 2010, at 89 years old. He passed in Baltimore, Maryland, where he resided. Huie is considered to be the father of Jamaican painting and in 2001 a book on his life and work was published. The title of the book is Albert Huie: Father of Jamaican Painting. It was written by Edward Lucie-Smith. Huie had the distinct pleasure of exhibiting his magical works of art in Jamaica, Canada, and the United States of America. He won many awards and was the recipient of two of Jamaica’s prestigious honors, Order of Distinction (OD) in 1983, and Commander of the Order of Distinction (COD) in 1992.
Another brilliant son of Jamaica has gone to the other side. RIP Albert Huie.
Professor Honourable Ralston ‘Rex’ Nettleford, OM (Order of Merit, Jamaica’s third highest award), passed yesterday, at the George Washington Hospital, in Washington, DC, USA. Professor Nettleford was in Washington, DC, to attend a fundraiser for the University of the West Indies when he collapsed at his hotel. It was reported that he suffered a cardiac arrest which resulted in brain injury. He was taken to the hospital in an unconscious state and never regained consciousness. Professor Nettleford was one of Jamaica’s finest sons. He was an intellectual, a stalwart, and a regional and global icon. He was an author, academic, orator, choreographer, dancer, and cultural advocate. He passed hours before his 77 birthday, which would have been today.
Jamaica and the Caribbean will miss Professor Nettleford. Protecting and preserving our culture as a country and a region was very important to him. We found this video of Judith Laird interviewing Professor Nettleford on Youtube. This is one of his last interviews, if not his last. This interview occurred late November 2009, while Professor Nettleford attended and participated in The Commonwealth People’s Forum, which was held at the Cascadia Hotel, Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago.
Extra This is Professor Rex Nettleford's keynote address to the United Nations observance of the commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade on Monday, March 26, 2007 at UN headquarters, New York.
There are destinations weddings and there are weddings in Jamaica. The two are not the same. Marry the one you love in perfection, in Jamaica. Weddings in Jamaica Photo Gallery
By now everyone in the world knows that Haiti, Jamaica’s friend and one of our closest neighbors, has been hit by a devastating earthquake, with a magnitude of 7. Thousands are feared dead and the situation is grave. Help is on the way from countries as close as the Dominican Republic and as far as China. But Haiti needs all the help it can get. The easiest way to help is to donate money but there are many other ways you can help. Here is a list of ways to help:
If you had no plans to buy Buju Banton's album, Rasta Got Soul, please put it on your agenda and make it a priority. It is a great album and Buju Banton needs our support, as he defends himself in an entrapment case that has been brought against him in Tampa, Florida, USA.
Stand firm Buju Banton. You are in our thoughts and prayers.
Investigations so far into the crash of American Airlines Flight 331, in Kingston, Jamaica, have ruled out mechanical failure and runway inadequacy. Which leaves us with pilot error and/or recklessness. But so far, investigators are not 'pointing any fingers.' Case closed.
Designer Pat Brown (based in NJ, USA) and a few models passed through Hedonism II, Negril, Jamaica, in August 2009. These are a few sunset photographs from the trip.
Featured models: Kay C (covergirl above), Ms. Duke, Phenyx, Shakira, Stacy, and Courtney.
Albert Huie, brilliant and masterful Jamaican Painter, passed on Sunday January 31, 2010, at 89 years old. He passed in Baltimore, Maryland, where he resided. Huie is considered to be the father of Jamaican painting and in 2001 a book on his life and work was published. The title of the book is Albert Huie: Father of Jamaican Painting. It was written by Edward Lucie-Smith. Huie had the distinct pleasure of exhibiting his magical works of art in Jamaica, Canada, and the United States of America. He won many awards and was the recipient of two of Jamaica’s prestigious honors, Order of Distinction (OD) in 1983, and Commander of the Order of Distinction (COD) in 1992.
Professor Honourable Ralston ‘Rex’ Nettleford, OM (Order of Merit, Jamaica’s third highest award), passed yesterday, at the George Washington Hospital, in Washington, DC, USA. Professor Nettleford was in Washington, DC, to attend a fundraiser for the University of the West Indies when he collapsed at his hotel. It was reported that he suffered a cardiac arrest which resulted in brain injury. He was taken to the hospital in an unconscious state and never regained consciousness. Professor Nettleford was one of Jamaica’s finest sons. He was an intellectual, a stalwart, and a regional and global icon. He was an author, academic, orator, choreographer, dancer, and cultural advocate. He passed hours before his 77 birthday, which would have been today. 
