Why Bulla & Pink Milk Is No Longer In Jamaican Schools

As anyone over the age of 30 who went to a Jamaican primary school would tell you, the bulla and pink milk was an experience that made their childhood. Even though bulla and pink milk is no longer in schools, the famous government-supplied meal for children from low-income schools has defined many Jamaicans’ scholastic experience. 

Additional Knowledge

BOOKS

• A Short History of Education in Jamaica by Millicent Whyte

• Development Administration in the Caribbean by Judith-Ann Walker

• Education in Jamaica: Transformation and Reformation by Errol Miller and Grace Camille Munroe

• Postcolonialism, A Very Short Introduction by Robert C. J. Young

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

• Education in the Caribbean, 1930–90 by Carl Campbell

• Food Consumption and Poverty in Rural Jamaica by Macloed Omawale

• Food Consumption in Jamaica: A Household and Social Behavior by Shiyuan Chen

• Protein-Energy Malnutrition in Jamaica by JC Waterlow

• Nutritional Status and Problems School Child and Adolescent by LJ edwards

• Tackling Child Malnutrition in Jamaica, 1962–2020 by Henrice Altink

• Whither Are We Drifting? Primary Education Policy in Jamaica by Winsome M. Chunnu

REPORTS

• A Review of School Feeding Programmes in the Caribbean Community: A Driver for Food and Nutrition Security

ARTICLES

• Dr Mavis Gilmour Makes It 92 Not Out published in The Jamaica Observer on April 15, 2018

• A History of the Nutribun, the Well-Intentioned Bread From The '70s by Jenny B. Orillos published in the Esquire on Sep. 21, 2018