Lloyd Constantine

Poet & writer

I was born in Bamboo, St. Ann, on the beautiful Caribbean island of Jamaica. With the warm climate, abundance of places for frolic and fun, five sisters and an unending supply of tropical fruits, game birds and river fish, I completed my early education and, with the help of a scholarship, Engineering College, without even knowing that my family was poor.

After Mechanical Engineering and Life Insurance careers, I moved to Canada, where I spent two decades with a transit compan...