Art & Leisure

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Medical career roadmap for a Caribbean student

The fictitious case of Kerlene Rumble and her mother, Linda Bissram. An A-QuEST General-Information Guidance Note Linda Bissram and her daughter, Kerlene Rumble, are entirely fictitious persons. Their circumstances are used solely to illustrate choices that confront many talented Caribbean students and their families.

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Be a ‘mirror’, not a ‘camera’

A mirror and a camera both reflect what comes before them, but there is one important difference: a mirror reflects while a camera records and stores. When an image moves away from a mirror, nothing…
Garvey
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A prophet born in St Ann’s Bay

This week, Jamaica pauses to remember the birth of a man whose voice would eventually echo far beyond the small north-coast town where he took his first breath. August 17 marks the anniversary of the…
Sun, sea, sand the cool shade. Photo taken in Ocho Rios.
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This week’s Shutterbugs

Governor General Patrick Allen laying a wreath at the monument of National Hero Marcus Garvey in National Heroes Park on the occasion of Garvey’s 130th birthday in August 2017.
August 9, 2026

The ground where our heroes rest

Last Thursday, Jamaica marked 64 years of Independence, commemorating August 6, 1962, when the Union Jack came down and the black, green, and gold rose over a nation newly free to chart its own…
August 9, 2026

Poems

Freedom calls, I answer Do you hear that ? That’s the sound of no alarm clock to suit another man’s time Do you smell that ? Most people breathe in bitterness, but I – I am inhaling liberation Do…
Nature in perfect harmony. Photo taken at Calgary Zoo, Calgary, Canada
August 9, 2026

This week’s Shutterbugs

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WISDOM OF THE WEEK - The root of expectations

Almost all of us carry expectations in our daily life. We expect people to understand, appreciate, and support us; for situations to be in our favour; for life to unfold in a way that only brings joy;…
August 2, 2026 by Janice Mak

Schools are rethinking whether every student needs a laptop

When the COVID-19 pandemic forced in-person classroom instruction to go virtual, students suddenly needed to have their own laptops or tablets in order to interact with teachers and complete…
A visitor views an installation by Margüi while standing beside an installation by Guy “Dioz” Bloom during the “Hospital of Emotions” exhibition inside a former hospital building in Los Angeles.
August 2, 2026

Artists transform former hospital in LA to examine human emotions

LOS ANGELES (AP) Just beyond an ambulance and wheelchair ramp wait Dr. Moodswing and Dr. Feelgood, dressed in starched white lab coats and ready to check you in with a neon orange patient wristband.…