In hindsight, maybe this is why Disney passed on the Peter Tosh Coffee Emporium idea…

We were a small, mainly agricultural colony and we said all the time, without unhappiness, that we were a dot on the map of the world. It was a liberating thing to be, and we were really very small. There were just over half a million of us. We were racially much divided.

First just got back from the United States. Took some photos and no problems, not once…

When Digicel arrived to break-up the lousy Cable & Wireless monopoly we all cheered. And now, “I can badly hear what your saying…my credit just ran out!”

A long, long time before butu tourism. So old they were actually encouraging them to come to Kingston.

Schooled in Kingston, Harry Belafonte went on to break billboard records in the US while introducing Caribbean music; became a Hollywood star and perhaps above all, his role in the Civil Rights Struggle. A speech he gave here the other week merely reminded us of the stature of the man.

Before Castro took over, the Americans preferred the Mafia to run the place. They controlled tourism - an industry which Cuba has only returned to in recent years - and made fortunes promoting the island as a place to lose your inhibitions.

French-born illustrator Tomi Ungerer made children’s books with names like ‘The Three Robbers’ - that and other work about weird erotica.

While much of the Caribbean remains dirt poor, so the nicer parts remain a playground for the rich and famous.

Johnny Cash used to have a home in Jamaica, by the Rose Hall Estate in St James, where he wrote the song about the far, far badder Annie Palmer.