Are Jamaican women too aggressive?
published: Monday | November 3, 3003 By Trudy Simpson, Staff Reporter Diana Jackson, chairman of the Human and Spiritual Committee of the Kiwanis Club of Constant Spring (right), states her opinion about the strength of Jamaican women during last Thursday’s ‘Keeping Abreast’ luncheon at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in New Kingston. Beside her is Lodi Hind, director of the same committee. Ms. Jackson was responding to questions on what Jamaican women think about negative perceptions of them in some Caribbean countries. – Ricardo Makyn/ Freelance Photographer THE CONSEQUENCES of Jamaica’s tarnished reputation overseas is reaching into a new arena – that of romance. Romance, never an easy road for many Jamaican women, appears to be getting a new handicap – that of the perception of the Jamaican woman in some other countries. On a recent visit to Trinidad to attend a workshop on using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in reporting, some reporters from other Caribbean territories related
