Tour Jamaica: Your Comprehensive (Jamaican) Travel Guide and Dictionary
About this ebook
fastest man on the planet, Usain
Bolt or the great musician Bob Marley? No one I dare say but
what do you know about their homeland, Jamaica?
Tour Jamaica gives visitors, interested persons and
potential visitors to the beautiful island of Jamaica a comprehensive picture of what to
expect and do in order to have a wonderful vacation and to make sure you understand
everything around you, your own private dictionary which interprets Jamaican words and phrases, is provided at the back of the book.
Apart from introducing readers to
its world famous attractions such as picturesque and challenging Dunns
River falls, the mysterious Blue and John Crow Mountain range and the Cockpit Country which is full of biodiversity, we also
tell you about the numerous white sands beaches, numerous beautiful waterfalls, the wildlife, food, drinks, crime, arts and craft, music festivals,
sports, the parishes etc.
In addition, the book also includes a dictionary explaining popular Jamaican words and phrases.
In fact, after reading Tour Jamaica, all you need to do is to book your ticket, come to
Jamaica and have a wonderful time.
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About the author
I am a Jamaican who was educated in Canada, USA and Jamaica and hold a BSc in Economics. My initial training was as a computer programmer but I decided very early that I preferred to work with humans and not machines. I then got involved in Public Relations and politics in Jamaica, then moved on to become a workshop/seminar planner throughout the English Speaking Caribbean.
It was my passion for writing that drove me to establish Yard Publications in 1991 launching the "Back A Yard " series which was an annual satirical review of Jamaican politics and I actually published six annuals before deciding to take life less seriously!
In 1993, because of my late son's interest in Dancehall music and being intrigued by the new language I heard emerging, I started research into the youthful lingo and shortly after, published the 1st Original Dancehall Dictionary, with cartoons and all, thus making it both educational and very comical. It became extremely popular and the 6th edition of that Dictionary was published in 2012 and it is this same 6th edition that is now an ebook.
In 1995 because of my love of the great outdoors and overwhelmed by Jamaica's unique beauty, I wrote the first "Tour Jamaica." Th 4th ebook is the 4th edition.
For the kids too I published; The Original Jamaican Colouring Book; Count and Colour; Draw and Colour: Colour and Learn; all highlighting Jamaican scenes.
I have also operated several businesses from a very successful Public Relations Company to a chain of Children's nurseries and finally a Real Estate brokerage but I always come back to my first love, Journalism and at one time or the other, have been a columnist in Jamaica for the Gleaner, Star, Jamaica Observer, Money Index, Daily News as well as the Miami based Caribbean Today and Amnesty International magazine. Because of my biting written commentaries, I was invited to do radio, first by the now defunct Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation (JBC) where I did a political commentary in the afternoons, then for over a decade, I was the alternative host of the number one talk show, "Perkins on Line."
Although semi-retired, I am currently the Friday host of Justice, a call-in programme on Power 106 in Jamaica which is transmitted worldwide, an active grandmother, an eager world traveler, an avid cyclist and an accomplished artist.
I can be followed at; http;//joan-myviews.blogspot.com
