Today is a holiday in paradise, in observation of the National Heroes' Day. The name of the holiday uses the male gender form "hero" although chronologically, the first in the list of the national heroes of Jamaica is a woman: Nanny of the Maroons, who is inscribed on the 500JMD bill. She was a leader of the Maroons - a community of runaway slaves - in the 18th century (photo courtesy to the Jamaica Information Service; for a list of Jamaican national heroes, click here http://www.jis.gov.jm/special_sections/Heroes/Heroes.htm), and she is known to have effectively fought against the British to keep the freedom and independence of the Maroon community.If you would like to know more about Nanny of the Maroons, see, for example, the following sites:
- http://www.moeyc.gov.jm/heroes/nanny.htm of the Ministry of Education of Jamaica;
- http://www.yale.edu/glc/nanny.htm of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale Univeristy, USA;
- http://www.jamaicans.com/articles/primearticles/queennanny.shtml of Jamaicans.com
As school was off today, the children nextdoor were playing in the swimming pool. I often see the boy bothering his sister, and today also, my camera caught him making attempts to bother her, while she kept getting away from him to remain in her own world.
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