Jamaica Pushcart Derby Returns
July 21, 2008
After a 30 year absence the popular Jamaica Pushcart Derby will return this year at the St Ann Jamaica Bauxite Partners company grounds on August 17th 2008. The Jamaica Push Cart Derby 2008 is being supported in full by the private sector and government organizations and the event is intended to be a local spectacle and tourist attraction.
Father of Jamaica Bobsleigh Team
The pushcart derby in Jamaica is credited as the inspiration for the Jamaica national bobsled team which first entered competition in 1988. The 1988 team was the inspiration for a major motion picture and cult classic by Walt Disney entitled Cool Runnings. The team returned to the Olympics in the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France. The Jamaicans stunned many of their critics by finishing in 14th place, ahead of the United States, Russia, France and Italy. The Jamaican Bobsled team now have their sights on qualifying for and having a bobsled team for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Jamaica Bobsled Team in the mid 1990′s training at the National Stadium
Participants in the 2008 Jamaica Pushcart Derby will be competing for cash prizes of $150,000 for first, $80,000 for second, $50,000 for third as well as other prizes such as weekends at SuperClubs all inclusive resorts and trophies.
Jamaica Push Cart Derby 2008 – visitjamaica.com
Jamaica Bobsled Team
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I’m saddened to hear that there was a lapse, and hope that all the Prize money didn’t effect the integrity of the original events and it’s history. THAT’s what I would want to experience on my visit to Jamacia. Cool Runnings. THAT’s what we come to see. The true people with an inner yearning to achieve a dream. I get sentimental when I watch Cool Runnings. My eyes fill with tears of joy . . . It’s on TBS this morning, and when it showed that the ‘annual’ race was in November, I got this Crazy idea for an excuse to go to Jamaica in November, but now that the race has already happened this year, I’ll have to make my plans for another time.
I wanted to go to the Derby *this year in 2009*!
Anyone hear about it?
Ya mon, when is the pushcart derby in 2010? One Love, Robert