Dr. Indiana Robinson was born in Kingston, Jamaica in the 1950s to David Harrison (Brand Flu/Comvalius) son of a Surinamese immigrant and Indiana Emily Harrison. Her mother, Louise is the daughter of Ellen Lipscombe Perry and James Blake Perry. Dr. R, as she is known to her students, is married to International reggae artiste, Jackie Robinson, lead singer of the Pioneers Reggae Group. She credits her husband, her sisters Fernandie and Sharon, and her two brothers Edgar and Arthur as the pillars on which she stands in pursuing her dreams and aspirations. With no children of her own, she values her stepchildren, Bobby, Marc, and Kelly; her nieces and nephews, Major C. J. Reid, 2nd Lieutenant Tara Price, and Errol Jnr Price; Krisan and Captain Caniggia Harrison; Marsha, Sean Rohan, and Dean Hibbert as well as her grandnephew Caleb and her Godchildren: Dean Beckford, Jahari 'JaJa' Yates, Tyree Hunter, and Little Joan Ennis-Thomas. Dr. Herma Meade Thompson is from a large family. Her mother Viola (nee Baker) and father Reginald were both from the parish of Manchester on the island of Jamaica. Viola was the second wife of Reginald who had ten children from his previous marriage to Florence (nee Stewart). Herma is the eleventh child for Reginald and the only one for Viola. Viola embraced her ten stepchildren (whose mother had died) and continued their upbringing as if she had been the one who had given birth to them; a feat for which she will be forever held in high esteem in their hearts. Herma now has four stepdaughters as a result of her marriage to Lascell - Crystal, April, Laseiqua, and Akelia. Is she in some uncanny coincidence retracing the steps of her mother?
