Art & Leisure

A visitor admires an artwork at Art Basel Miami Beach.
December 9, 2025

Greater Miami and Miami Beach celebrate global art

Visual arts has taken centrestage in Greater Miami and Miami Beach as part of ‘Fall for the Arts’ a three-month cultural celebration presented by The Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau…
December 9, 2025

Life is not a pendulum

We all have seen those old wall clocks with a pendulum swinging tirelessly from left to right. They were fascinating creations – steady, rhythmic, and always in motion. In a way, our lives today…
Harmony Hall Art House, St MaryFile
December 9, 2025

Tribute to Harmony Hall Art House

Ever wandered into a place that feels like it’s got a heartbeat? That’s Harmony Hall Art House in Tower Isle, St. Mary. This 19th-century charmer, with its Jamaican-Georgian gingerbread trimmings, is…
Natalie Corthésy
December 9, 2025

School poetry tour seeks to ‘find your stride’

Finding Your Stride is the theme for this year’s eighth staging of the annual Jamaica Poets Nomadic College and School Tour, from November 3 – 15. The tour will target 50 schools across the island…
December 9, 2025 by Antonio Cerella

How generative AI could change how we think and speak

There’s no doubt that artificial intelligence (AI) will have a profound impact on our economies, work and lifestyle. But could this technology also shape the way we think and speak? AI can be used to…
December 9, 2025

Poems

Love Story Give my love. Give me power. Give me blessings like a shower. Life is fun. Life is real. Life enduring. Working without dreaming. Seeing is believing and so is This feeling of love inside…
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In this file photo portraits of Jamaica’s National Heroes are seen at Sam Sharpe Square in Montego Bay. From left are: Paul Bogle, Sir Alexander Bustamante, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Nanny of the Maroons, George William Gordon, Norman Washington Manley
December 9, 2025

Tribute: In the footsteps of the brave

Each year, as the third Monday in October arrives, Jamaica pauses not merely for a holiday, but for a profound act of remembrance. National Heroes’ Day, officially observed since 1969, honours those…
December 9, 2025

You are just an ‘instrument’

Each of us plays a note in the grand symphony of life. Sometimes our role brings joy, sometimes lessonsm yet each note has meaning in the larger design. We often believe we are the ones composing the…
December 9, 2025

The fear of ‘losing’

One of the greatest fears we carry is the fear of losing – whether it is people, relationships, jobs, comforts, or securities we think will be there forever. We hold them tightly, as if clinging…