That VW ad – brand building Jamaica-style!
January 30, 2013 by Marguerite Orane
Filed under Free and Laughing, Work
Social Media is a-twitter (sorry, couldn’t resist the pun) with the Volkswagen Superbowl ad spoken by white, non-Jamaicans in Jamaican. Of course, some Jamaicans are question this caricature of Jamaicans – as one of my Facebook friends posted “The ad appears to be stoking some of the worst stereotypes of Jamaica, easy going read lazy, […]
Hallelujah – Harvard Business Review has finally got it!
January 18, 2012 by Marguerite Orane
Filed under Free and Laughing, Work
As I strolled through the airport yesterday en route to Jamaica, my eyes were drawn repeatedly to the latest issue of Harvard Business Review – the one with the BIG smiley face on it and the headline: “The Value of Happiness: How Employee Well-being Drives Profits” – http://hbr.org/magazine Well well well …. Happy […]
What a way to go! What a way to live!
September 17, 2009 by Marguerite Orane
Filed under Featured Posts, Release
One of Jamaica’s most beloved and talented playwrights, Trevor Rhone, made his transition on Monday. I was lucky enough to have known him, as he was a man of great wit, humility and elegance. There is a story around his passing – he went to Bella’s Gate, his childhood home deep in rural Jamaica on […]
