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Marvia's Panama Journal

Marvia's Panama Journal

http://www.marviaspanamajournal.com

Candid reflections on global contemporary socio-religious issues, Christian mission adventure stories, and news from Panama.

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  • Celebrating Jamaica’s 2008 Olympics Gold Team

    Posted on Friday August 22nd, 2008 at 14:41 in

    The amazing performance of Jamaica’s 2008 Olympic athletics team in Beijing has dragged me out of hiberantion to make some noise here. I disappeared for my long-anticipated vacation, and vowed to lay low for a couple of weeks. I desperately ...

  • British Baptists Apologize In Jamaica For Transatlantic Slave Trade

    Posted on Saturday August 2nd, 2008 at 23:01 in

    'Slave Chains' Photo from Visit and Learn British Baptists publicly apologized in Jamaica in May of this year for the role of their ancestors in enslaving Africans. Since yesterday was Jamaica’s Emancipation Day it caused me to reflect ...

  • August Mawnin Come: Happy Emancipation Day Jamaica

    Posted on Thursday July 31st, 2008 at 11:40 in

    Augus mawnin come again Augus mawnin jubilee Freedom come at last, freedom come at last freedom come at last and wat a jubilee!! I had to pause for a while and share some of the memories that made me smile even though I feel like I want to do the opp...

  • Inundated By Death In Panama

    Posted on Tuesday July 22nd, 2008 at 00:57 in

    Inundated By Death In Panama After 7 funerals in exactly 2 months, I feel like I’ve overdosed on death. In Jamaica, we have a popular folk saying that death comes in threes. I’ve watched 3 turn to 6 and then last Thursday I had my 7th. Th...

  • Welcoming My Blog Friends To Panama

    Posted on Monday July 14th, 2008 at 22:02 in

    First Isthmian always gets excited when we have visitors. They were ready to adopt Cia and are already planning to lure her over to Colon. Cia tells about her visit to FIBC and shows pictures (even of me!!) over at her new Blog Afro-Panamanian....

Comments & Reviews

This blog is currently rated a 9.00 out of a possible 10 based on 6 comments.

chemrat

James Bashkin

Excellent coverage of important but little-known news about the US invasion of Panama (the latest one, in 1989).

The other recent stories look to be great also, and i look forward to reading them.

Posted: Saturday January 12th, 2008 at 00:40 | More Reviews From chemrat | Report This Comment

rootzpoet

duane francis

I love the range of topics and the friendly writing style. The layout is clean and easy on the eyes. Seems great blogger to me.

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kopidunia

Kopi Dunia

Nice. Personal.

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1earth

Jaco

Nothing like a bit of man-bashing late at night. Maybe I'm just sensitive - at least I can laugh at myself... and others :o)

Posted: Wednesday October 31st, 2007 at 11:28 | More Reviews From 1earth | Report This Comment

jasonk1234

jason

Nice site, Yannick Lyn Fatt does nice work with the design

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gabotron

Gabriel

Wow! A very clean and well laid out blog. Enlightening entries as well.

Posted: Sunday June 17th, 2007 at 22:25 | More Reviews From gabotron | Report This Comment

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