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May Reason: Needs to have parameters updated due to changes in Quest. Requires access to adventure pack Definition: adventure pack A list of all adventure packs : Phiarlan Carnival. Phiarlan Chapterhouse. The stands close to the open gates are now solidly corked and 'later-comers' must walk halfway round the stadium to reach available seats on the far sides. At pee time, we find a men's toilet opened.
The women's, on the other side, is closed. Men and women crowd into the men's. There is no light, which turns out to be a good thing.
I have to coax my wife to use the facility, since 'nobady nuh know har an' dem caan see har in a di dark, anyway'. A generally great show was marred by the blasting blasted vuvuzelas.
JCDC chairman and co-MC, Fae Ellington, wasted her time appealing that the vuvus, which were distributed free by some corporate sponsors and sold inside the stadium, should not be used to disturb the presentations. As I grow older and more pot-bellied - and cynical - I am not prepared to put up such a fight and such endurance for patriotism or just having a 'good' time. But the people were well ahead of the public authorities.
At the bus park, getting into the stadium, and handling its challenges for close to five hours, they were remarkably disciplined and orderly, despite the many provocations for going on bad. The MCs said we started independence with ska and we were celebrating the golden jubilee with dancehall as 'the music'.
It will be far easier to fix the logistics nightmare of staging a major national event than it will be to repair the degeneration of culture which dancehall non music represents. While clean lyrics were obviously selected for Grand Gala, it was the little children and teenagers who were most engaged in doing the dutty wine to the brayings of the DJs played.
Dancehall bareness fashion was out in some force. But, based on audience response, Eric Donaldson's live performance of his Festival-winning anthem of , Land of My Birth , full of melody and harmony and meaningful lyrics and which I first heard live at Grand Gala 34 years ago, was far and away the electrifying high point of the Jamaica 50 Grand Gala. I may be part of a vanishing minority, but I am not prepared to endorse a culture whose defining musical genre is dancehall.
The powerful ecstatic audience response to Land of My Birth may suggest, though, that the people are hungry for better, and have deeper patriotic feelings than may at first be imagined.
And what will the country and its leaders do with the energy, creativity, aspirations, and, yes, the patriotism of the people over the next 50 years? That patriotic attachment extends even to the second and third generation of diaspora Jamaicans. We have a decent road map in place to take us up to Eighteen years of this year plan, crafted by a 'constituent assembly' of patriotic Jamaicans, is left and something can be done with these years to make "Jamaica the place of choice to live, work, raise families and do business".
The first couple of years of the plan period have not been very encouraging. We will need strong, disciplined and visionary leadership for Vision to make it happen. The inter-tribal 'cass-cass' attending planning for Jamaica 50, the logistic foul-ups for Grand Gala, and the state of the culture do not inspire a great deal of confidence.
But change is possible. What does the Vision mean? Photo Video. Previous Pause Next. Minister Olivia 'Babsy' Grange. Dr L'Antoinette Stines. Michael Holgate. Ian Allen. Youngsters performing at this year's Grand Gala.
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