Tony Kelly

It pays to talk as my grandmother used to say to me ‘Open yuh mouth and talk ‘. Today I was a main diabetes speaker at a health fair at Tower Hamlet Town Hall in London and the organisers booked me on a homeward bound train for 7.15 pm which is off peak and cheaper […]

Tony’s first article written  in autumn 2012  for Diabetes UK, Diabetes Lifestyle magazine — Meeting The Needs Of Diverse Communities Living With Diabetes.

Tony in his apron/pinafore for the first time learning to cook Caribbean  food in 2009. The best Christmas present he has ever had from his daughter of 15 Caribbean cookery classes.

Tony Kelly bedecked in the colours of the Jamaican flag eating Devon House ice cream on one of his diabetes trips to the island

Click the images to enlarge the images of Tony preparing food in his kitchen. Phots taken by Poppy Brady of the Voice newspaper in 2017.

It was first described in 1955   in Jamaica, then forgotten about for many years…….       Click here to read article  

Memory gems and proverbial sayings from my childhood and as a trained English teacher in Jamaica in the late 1970s. The first eight are memory gems whilst the others are either English or Jamaican proverbial sayings.Some are Biblical  whilst others are from poems.  The heights of great men reached and kept were not attained by […]

Tony Kelly in November 2026 Diabetes Awareness Month Calendar. For copies call:.+44 7816 812347