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	<title>Comments for Marvia&#039;s Panama Journal</title>
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	<description>Candid Reflections of A Female Missioner Pastor In Panama</description>
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		<title>Comment on Rastafarian Miss Jamaica 2007- Black Women&#8217;s Hair Reloaded by Chinua Dean</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chinua Dean</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think it is time that the world excepts black people for all that they are, and that would include black people themselves. I am a black man who wears my hair in Locks, and am very proud of it, it is the way my hair grows naturaly. I wash it and condition it just like people with straight hair do. I think that Miss Jamaica is fine as wine in the summer time. Go Girl.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think it is time that the world excepts black people for all that they are, and that would include black people themselves. I am a black man who wears my hair in Locks, and am very proud of it, it is the way my hair grows naturaly. I wash it and condition it just like people with straight hair do. I think that Miss Jamaica is fine as wine in the summer time. Go Girl.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Panama Canal Expansion To Get Jamaican Port Workers by Marvia</title>
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		<dc:creator>Marvia</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hello Edgar,
You are right about the Jamaica-Central America connection especially as a result of labourers migrating for work and merchants for business etc. For more research, you could try the Institute of Jamaica, the National Archives, and of course you could always try Church records as many churches/mission organizations went along with migrant workers such as my denomination the Jamaica Baptist Union did. Best wishes in your research.
Marvia</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello Edgar,<br />
You are right about the Jamaica-Central America connection especially as a result of labourers migrating for work and merchants for business etc. For more research, you could try the Institute of Jamaica, the National Archives, and of course you could always try Church records as many churches/mission organizations went along with migrant workers such as my denomination the Jamaica Baptist Union did. Best wishes in your research.<br />
Marvia</p>
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		<title>Comment on Crime And Violence Escalates In Colon Panama by Marvia</title>
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		<dc:creator>Marvia</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hello Jim,
Thank you for visiting and for leaving a comment. I&#039;m always happy to meet a fellow Jamaican:-) I never thought I&#039;d ever live to see the day when I&#039;d feel unsafe at home. But I know now it&#039;s not &#039;all in the mind&#039; of those who&#039;ve lived overseas and returned home. No mistake about it, like Kingston, Colon has its underbelly and places one should avoid unless looking for trouble. But like I said..I still love it here on the Atlantic side!! 
Blessings to you too. And please visit again.
Marvia</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello Jim,<br />
Thank you for visiting and for leaving a comment. I&#8217;m always happy to meet a fellow Jamaican:-) I never thought I&#8217;d ever live to see the day when I&#8217;d feel unsafe at home. But I know now it&#8217;s not &#8216;all in the mind&#8217; of those who&#8217;ve lived overseas and returned home. No mistake about it, like Kingston, Colon has its underbelly and places one should avoid unless looking for trouble. But like I said..I still love it here on the Atlantic side!!<br />
Blessings to you too. And please visit again.<br />
Marvia</p>
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		<title>Comment on Crime And Violence Escalates In Colon Panama by Jim</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Marvia,
Stumbled upon your interesting site, &amp; was touched by your story. I grew up in inner Kingston way back before crime was a serious problem, &amp; I have also visited Colon, well over 30 yrs. ago. I was struck by the physical &amp; cultural similarity of both places. Actually, I felt safer in Colon than in inner-city Kingston, but I was only there for a few days, maybe not long enough to have an accurate opinion.

God bless.
Jim</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Marvia,<br />
Stumbled upon your interesting site, &amp; was touched by your story. I grew up in inner Kingston way back before crime was a serious problem, &amp; I have also visited Colon, well over 30 yrs. ago. I was struck by the physical &amp; cultural similarity of both places. Actually, I felt safer in Colon than in inner-city Kingston, but I was only there for a few days, maybe not long enough to have an accurate opinion.</p>
<p>God bless.<br />
Jim</p>
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		<title>Comment on Panama Canal Expansion To Get Jamaican Port Workers by edgar hodgson</title>
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		<dc:creator>edgar hodgson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>people should be aware that racism is not going anywhere,is just that people are learning to be tolerant,in nicaragua racism is alive and well also but thanks to the leftist goverment nobody dare make racist remarks in public,up until 1979 the carribean was treated like another country,still nicaragua is the only country that does not have a road that connect to the pacific,which probably helps us strenght our culture before the invasion of the mestizos, so panama is not alone the entere coast of central america from panama to guatemala have blacks of jamaican descent,i would like to know where can we get info in jamaica about our ancesters.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>people should be aware that racism is not going anywhere,is just that people are learning to be tolerant,in nicaragua racism is alive and well also but thanks to the leftist goverment nobody dare make racist remarks in public,up until 1979 the carribean was treated like another country,still nicaragua is the only country that does not have a road that connect to the pacific,which probably helps us strenght our culture before the invasion of the mestizos, so panama is not alone the entere coast of central america from panama to guatemala have blacks of jamaican descent,i would like to know where can we get info in jamaica about our ancesters.</p>
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