13 May 1935: Jamaica banana loaders strike

On this day, 13 May 1935, workers loading bananas in Oracabessa, Jamaica, went on strike and rioted. They blocked roads to prevent strikebreakers from being bro

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Which ship will take Harry home – an illustration from Island Spider

The local spiders manage to get Harry back to the port but which ship will take him home? They will have to ask.

Island Spider is the story of Harry, a very hairy tropical spider that gets caught up in a bunch of bananas and is transported to a far away land. After surviving various adventures he needs to try and get home. Luckily for him there are some locals to help him do it but will he be able to escape capture and find his way home?

The story is available as an ebook or as a printed A4 sized book globally on Amazon. Illustrations within the text are repeated at the back of the printed book so that they can be coloured in by younger children. This is the Amazon.co.uk link, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Island-Spider-Paul-No%C3%ABl/dp/B084Z42CDC/ and this is .com, https://www.amazon.com/Island-Spider-Paul-No%C3%ABl-ebook/dp/B084RJDF3B/.

Our links

See more of Gerry Newton’s wonderful art, https://www.geraldnewtonart.com/.

Our Teemill shop site for our organic cotton clothes and bags, https://scientistandphilosopher.com/.

My author page where you can discover more about my books, https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B07D3ZTQ1L.

Our Etsy shop, https://junagarhmedia.etsy.com, has blank greeting, birthday, invitation cards of the artwork from some of my other stories.

4 different birthday cards

This is our website for all our photography and my books, https://www.junagarhmedia.co.uk/.

We are also on Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/21104365@N06/.

Also on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/junagarh_media/.

On Pinterest, https://www.pinterest.co.uk/paulpaddington2017/

 

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Bananas are going to die out some day. On that day, I will be very sad.

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#TunesOnTuesday shares a new version of my surprise hit "The Last Banana." 🍌 It was a thrill to share it with the Cast Party audience in NYC! ohljazz.com/2026/05/12/t... #JazzSky #songwriter #songwriting #bananas

Tunes on Tuesday: The Last Ban...
Tunes on Tuesday: The Last Banana

Why this tune? I wrote “The Last Banana” a couple of years ago, and have been performing it at live shows and open mics for about a year. I have shared it with appreciativeaudiences in …

Oren Levine, jazz pianist and songwriter
One-A-Day Banana Packs

Did you know Korea sells “one-a-day” banana packs?Instead of every banana ripening at once, each one is at a different stage.One is ready today.The next one is ready tomorrow.The last one is still spiritually in college, “experimenting.”Simple. Genius. Solves the entire… pic.twitter.com/f3r5lXhm5J— Sovey (@SoveyX) May 4, 2026 Leaving aside sorting bananas by radioactivity as a backup power generation source, you can sometimes eat bananas for food. X user @SoveyX says ...

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How radioactive are bananas?

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