Why Bulla & Pink Milk Is No Longer In Jamaican Schools
Disclaimer: Since the release of this episode (originally aired in 2020 and last updated in 2021), bulla has now been reintroduced in Jamaican public schools as singular packets where most students receive it with water.
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
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