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Jamaica's most eligible bachelors
published: Monday | September 4, 2006


You saw them, you loved them and now it's your turn to rank them.

Choose your top 10 most eligible from among our list of 30 published in last week's Flair and we'll tell you more about them.

Send your top 10 choices of Jamaica's most eligible bachelors to: Lifestyle@ gleanerjm.com

All week long, we have received, from as far away as Canada and the United Kingdom, letters, telephone calls and emails in response to last week's exciting list of 30 of Jamaica's most eligible bachelors.

Those for whom the hearts yearned included: Mark Shields, Bobby Chen, Robert Lalah, Tariq Nembhard, Chris Blackwell, Ramon Arscott, Basil Smith and Fred Smith. Alas, ladies, we cannot give you their numbers. And there was a very lively discussion with the Breakfast Club members about eligible bachelors on Wednesday.

Keep reading Flair for Jamaica's most eligible women.

Here is one such letter:

The Editor, Sir:

First, let me start off by saying I am an avid reader of The Gleaner, and look forward to Mondays just to see what the Flair has to offer. That said, I found the Flair publication on Monday showing a list of 30 men (most being rather young) with photographs and their profiles stating there requirements, and what there ideal date should be or look like rather tacky.

Some requirements seem very realistic while others were very disrespectful to the average women in Jamaica which left a rather bitter taste in my mouth. One, I must say strikes me very odd that this young man would prefer his ideal woman to have 'hazel eyes'. Now, I am a dark-to-medium-toned black woman with light brown eyes, and I take it I would have no chance in dating this particular young man. So, I am left thinking that he, like most of them, expect their ideal woman or date to look a particular way and have a certain level of education or just hang with the correct crowd (Most of us don't play tennis or have friends with luxury boats to take us to Lime Cay.) I guess us regular ladies who may or may not fit most if not some of these qualifications, need not apply.

Sir, I would like to ask you, and the staff of the Flair to at least give the rest of us (regular working-class women who may or may not meet certain requirements of these so-called 'eligible bachelors' who live in the New Kingston, Kingston 6-10 area, of a certain social status), a chance to meet men who are somewhat more approachable and meet or exceed what most of us are looking for in a good man. We are not all looking for a rich man, just someone to love and respect us, and accept us for who we are.

Thank you, and keep up the good work.

- Single in Portmore

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