THE CONCEPT of gender had long been underpinned by the physiognomy and genitalia people were born with. Those born with male physical features, including penis and testes, were said to belong to the masculine gender, while those with female...
BLAISE, A Frenchman living and working in Germany, has heard so much about Jamaica that he thinks he now knows the entire country. Hearsay knowledge was not enough for him, however, so the plein-air artiste recently came to the country as a tourist...
“WE HAVE revived an industry that provides new opportunities for business for other entrepreneurs … and this is a prelude, this is just the start of the explosion of the textile cottage industry with Jadire in Jamaica. It is not only about the...
Dr Maureen Tamuno arrived in Jamaica at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in June 2021 as the Federal Republic of Nigeria’s high commissioner to Jamaica, Haiti, Belize, and the Dominican Republic. On Monday, November 13, she returned to Nigeria...
HALF-WAY TREE Square has always been a confluence of people from all over Jamaica. It is a storied place where people gather for a multiplicity of reasons. It is said to have got its name from a big tree under which people would rest on their...
TikTok. Snapchat. WhatsApp. Facebook. Instagram. YouTube. They are electronic platforms that are grouped together as social media that people use to share documents, photographs, videos, and audio files. They fall outside of the ambit of...
FROM MONDAY, November 6 to Friday, November 10, the English Language Section of the Department of Language, Linguistic and Philosophy in the Faculty of Humanities and Education at The University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona campus is hosting its...
MINUTES AFTER the 5.6-magnitude earthquake that shook Jamaica on Monday, people beset by panic and asthmatic attacks fled to Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) located in downtown Kingston. According to media reports, the situation was overwhelming for...
TOP-FLIGHT ATHLETE, Rhodes scholar, world war veteran, legal luminary, labour leader, premier, chief minister, founding father, national hero, Norman Washington Manley was one of Jamaica’s most gifted and illustrious sons. Born at Roxborough,...
ON FEBRUARY 24, 1884, William Alexander Clarke was born to Robert Constantine Clarke and his wife Mary (nee Wilson), a Jamaican of mixed races, in Blenheim, Hanover. He was their second of five children together. His siblings were Louise, Iris,...
ON OCTOBER 11, 1865, exactly 158 years ago, Paul Bogle and his supporters marched from Stony Gut to the courthouse in Morant Bay in St Thomas to seek justice. What they got instead was a stand-off from the authorities who were meeting in the vestry...
NOT MUCH is known about Nanny of the Maroon’s early years on Earth. But the story is that she was from West Africa, from where many people were taken to the West Indies to work on various plantations under subhuman conditions. But there are also...
WITH ALL his efforts after he came to Jamaica from leading the UNIA in the USA, financial setbacks, some by way of lawsuits, caused Garvey to lose his printing press, Edelweiss Park, and his family home. He was also frustrated by the aggression and...
FROM THE moment some people in Jamaica and the United States became aware of Garvey’s existence, and understood what he intended to do, they began to oppose him and attempted to wear down his resolve. The campaign against Garvey came from the wider...
IN 1918, nine years after the failure of his first newspaper, The Watchman, Marcus Garvey and the UNIA established The Negro World. Published on his birthday, August 17, The Negro World quickly grew from being a New York weekly into a worldwide...
IN UNFLATTERING circumstances, Malcus Mosiah Garvey was born in St Ann’s Bay, St Ann, on August 17, 1887. Somewhere along the journey, Malcus was changed to Marcus. He became a printer’s apprentice before moving in 1906 to Kingston, where he got...
THE BUILT environments of London and other cities in the United Kingdom (UK) were significantly destroyed during World War II which lasted from September 1, 1939 to September 2, 1945. Many Caribbean people, regarded as British citizens living in...
SINCE THE Windrush Compensation Scheme’s launch in 2019, £65.78 million has been paid to 1,757 claims and a further £11.98 million has been offered, according to the UK government. Now, for the past several months there are reports in the media...
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR of the Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC), Valerie Veira, wants a vibrant and sustainable Jadire batik textile cottage industry. She expressed that desire at the recent opening of Alao Luqman Omotayo’s solo...
‘No long talk’ is a phrase used in Jamaica to reflect our impatience and, sometimes, arrogance. But, in another place and time, ‘No long talk’ simply means ‘let’s chill, let’s eat, let’s dance’. The place is Miss Lily’s in Manhattan, New York, and...
ON MONDAY, August 28, at 5 p.m., ‘From Adirè to Jadirè – A Transition of Textile Culture from Southwest Nigeria to Jamaica’ unfolds at The University of the West Indies Regional Headquarters along Mona Road in St Andrew, as a variety of Jadire (...
The 13th staging of the Jamaica Poetry Festival inside the Louise Bennett Garden Theatre on August 13 was a Sunday dessert of spoken words, songs and movements. And the piece de resistance for the evening was Professor Edward Baugh’s poetic verve...
Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett is Jamaica’s biggest tourism cheerleader. Every opportunity he gets he is singing and dancing about Jamaica’s tourism healthy status, products and the people and stakeholders who buttress the industry. And since...
Attorney-at-law M. Georgia Gibson Henlin has a long string of letters behind her name, a glorious testament to her academic and professional achievements. She got called to the Jamaican Bar in 1993, the New York Bar in 2018, the Bar of Ontario in...
