Jamaica: Champs 2011 Coverage Courtesy Sportsmax Livestream!

Wow that was exciting...nearly forgot to breathe sometimes! Think I might check back in for the CARIFTA Games if they stream it! 

Check out SportsMax's Livestream coverage on the Eloquence, Inc. YouTube page!


The Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) Boys & Girls Championships, more commonly known as Champs, is a 150-year track and field tradition in Jamaica and has been the proving ground that produced and continues to produce Jamaica's Olympic-class athletes, including Usain Bolt and Melaine Walker.

Usain Bolt

Melaine Walker

Even Norman Manley, father of former Prime Minister of Jamaica Michael Manley, was reported to have won gold for JC (Jamaica College) in the 100 metre dash in his day...right here at Champs!

Norman Manley...JC gold medal sprinter, National Hero...
and the man whose name graces one of Jamaica's international airports! 

More information on Champs can be found here and on Wikipedia.  Also read the Jamaica Gleaner's Champs coverage.

And of course some YouTube videos like the ones below!






Congratulations to Holmwood Technical for being girls 2011 Champs winners and to Jamaica College for being boys 2011 Champs winners!


Even though I was rooting for Kingston College (KC), the school many of the males on my father's side of family attended!


The KC video from their 2009 win (the voices you hear are real KC athletes):

The Real Jamaica: Experience Jamaica 360 Degrees Through Video!

This is basically a video brochure of Jamaica, a way to see what you could experience if you take a trip to Jamaica whether for a holiday, a vacation, to visit family, to connect with friends old and new. Some are short, some are long, some are by visitors, some are by locals.  All show the many sides, sounds, faces, and places that make up the real Jamaica.  It is not just one area or one lifestyle that makes Jamaica real -- it's ALL of them!   Let me know what you think, and share with friends and family. Also check out What to Do In Jamaica and What to Do In Montego Bay! Trenchtown Red Hills, St. Andrew (big up Cooper's Hill :D) Downtown Montego Bay, St. James (MoBay look pretty eeh man) Easter plans Jamaica 2008! (ROFL at di man weh park up outside di bank a wait pan him pay)

Whitehall, Manchester:

A baby's first trip...

Tivoli Gardens aka TG

A family trip to Jamaica (the resort style)

Grandmarket Night, Mandeville (Manchester)

Rafting down the Martha Brae River

A youth club from England learns about the history of slavery in Jamaica and more:

Blue Lagoon

Funeral in Port Antonio by the Rio Grande (I have never seen a funeral like this, they rafted the casket down the Rio Grande...)

Schools out party in Kingston

Beach party...Bounty Killer and Lady Saw spotted...

ATI Weekend 2007, Twisted Spirits

CHAMPS 

ROFL @ KC having their own song for Champs! (my father's high school)

"Dang y'all police are NUTS!" (from the video comments ROFL)

(please note the man was acting threatening to the policewoman...dem neva juss walk up an box him, but still ROFL at di man get a straight box inna him face)

Sandy Bank Primary School Grade 2 girls, Treasure Beach

St. Hugh's High School class of 2008 (my mother's high school!)

150 years of one of the best prep and high schools in Jamaica: Immaculate Conception

Dancing at Ardenne High School

University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona campus, Kingston

Miss Jamaica Universe contestants (2008)

Atlanta Carnival 2011: We Kinda Ting Bandlaunch This Saturday!

I've been TRYING to avoid the nonstop, mad rush carnival scene after getting back from Trinidad and because I'm getting my other ducks in a row....but I can't lie I would love to see even one  Atlanta bandlaunching, and I missed Prizm Mas's launch...

We Kinda Ting is arguably the most popular mas band in Atlanta, and is, unless I'm mistaken, the largest.  Check out the event page on Facebook and RSVP, you know the West Indian massive going to be front and center checking out this year's offering!

Atlanta Carnival is Memorial Weekend every year, for those who didn't know...the last Saturday in May!

We Kinda Ting from their 2010 gallery:

Trinidad Carnival 2011: Day 8 Trinidad!

Trinidad Carnival 2011: Day 8 Trinidad!

Photojournal of the ride from Port of Spain to and through Chaguanas, Point Fortin, San Fernando and it's Gulf City Mall, the La Brea Pitch Lake and the Caroni Bird Sanctuary (we got severely rained out at the Pitch Lake and barely made it to the bird sanctuary after, so that was it for TNT tourism but I got plenty in for just one day!)

Pics only, videos coming later on the blog's YouTube page!  Didn't forget the remaining days, was just hoping to do them in order but most of my Maracas (Day 7) pictures are on someone else's camera and I am waiting like two weeks now to get them! smh Such a painful lesson on why to double and then triple check the memory card in my own camera...could have avoided this delay although I was PROMISED I would get them in a timely fashion!

Enjoy!  I had put captions but they all got erased except the first one, and as life rushes on after carnival with a lot on my plate and a major national standardized test coming up...the captions are going to have to wait! :)

And yes, the Trinidad Carnival 2011 SUPERPOST! blog has been updated!

TrinidadCarnivalDiary mentions my blog! Yay!

And that fact is worth mentioning cause one: any publicity (that's hopefully positive) is good, and two: that blog post (or her blog itself, TrinidadCarnivalDiary.com) drove a lot of visitors to MY blog recently and that's always great since she's a Trinidad carnival veteran and doesn't have to give any recognition to us newbies!  Thanks Saucy for reading AND posting a positive review about it!

This pic just SAYS carnival to me...can't explain it!

P.S. she had also given me a great review when the blog was even younger, fresher, greener...here!