Racially, black Jamaicans have a connection to the people of Nigeria, which was one of the places, along with Ghana, in West Africa, from which people were taken to work on plantations here as chattels. Invariably, black Jamaicans are descendants...
The news is that Jonkonnu is not dead, though it might not be seen in its festiveness all over the place at Christmastime. It is certainly alive, on life support. Not only are memories of it permanently etched in people’s minds, it is also...
On December 9, Christine Rhone posted the following on her Facebook page: “No matter how jolly Christmas tries to be, there is always a small part of me that is forever scarred by my likkle-girl Jamaican Jonkanoo nightmare. No hot chocolate and...
Since July, 10 youth groups across the island have been involved in implementing mini projects in their communities under the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Amplifying Youth Voices and Action in Citizen Safety and Security project,...
They were not present at King’s House for the official event on Tuesday, November 30, but 16 new parish ambassadors were inducted into the I Believe Initiative (IBI). They were pinned elsewhere by the custodes of their respective parishes. At the...
Commissioner of Police Major General Antony Anderson’s approach to leadership is a transformative one. Thus, he goes out of office to see for himself what is happening in the administration of the police divisions. And he has seen and heard things...
Recently, students in two Maroons communities, Scotts Hall in St Mary and Charles Town in Portland, received devices to help them overcome their online learning challenges. Twenty tablets went to students at Scotts Hall Primary School, while the...
Last Sunday when Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced the imposition of states of emergency in seven police divisions, many residents of crime-plagued communities rejoiced, saying the measure was long overdue. However, some tourism...
Fine art photographer Gerald A. Gordon will launch his first book, eponymously titled Gerald A. Gordon – Fine Art Photographer, on Friday. Gordon told The Gleaner that the seed of his love for the arts was sown in his early high-school years, when...
The Lord said, “Feed my people”. That is how Andre Stephens started his Facebook post on Monday. And “as a servant of his Kingdom, we have empowered our staff to join with us to feed our frontline workers”. The creative director was referring to...
By its very geographical location, surrounded by the Caribbean Sea, Jamaica lies in the path of tropical storms and hurricanes. And this fair isle has been visited by many of these powerful swirls over the years. These atmospheric phenomena, which...
About 7:30 a.m. on Saturday, August 14, Jamaica was jolted by a magnitude 7.3 earthquake. It turned out that it was a regional shake-up, and that there were severe losses of life and property in Haiti. Shortly after, social media were replete with...
The Maroons and other indigenous peoples have a very long history of using certain bushes and herbs to treat a plethora of maladies. Now, all over the world naturopathy or naturopathic medicine is practised. It is regarded as being natural, non-...
In the 14-second long video, the laughter in the background is rich. The woman laughing is having fun. She is witnessing a tall man in black silhouette, in the low light from a police vehicle, slapping the side of the service unit, and saying...
In the cool climes of Chantilly, Manchester, there lives a woman named Ena Francis. Some people call her Miss Kitsy. Her birth certificate says she will be 79 in December. Born in Royal Flats in the said parish, she moved to Chantilly, where her...
The coronavirus scare and all the precautions that it has engendered have hit the Jamaica tourist industry with a sledgehammer, causing some resorts to close their gates, while others have been forced to scale down their operations, adjusting their...
“Move fram yasso!” Anord Sichinsambwe told his grade-four teacher at Moravia Primary School in Clarendon. And, of course, she was very upset. Sichinsambwe had told her to get out of his sight. But he had done so inadvertently. He was practising...
Everybody in Jamaica seems to be running scared, away from Corona. They are driven by the news, fake and real, and have been caught up in a frenzy of fear. There are many at home, feeding themselves ravenously on the checkered information that...
From the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, country, city, and town had they gone to the Village Green in St Ann’s Bay to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the birth of Raymond George Kirlew of Discovery Bay, St Ann. It was the evening of...
“Barrington was fixated on having a museum established on this property, which was his home and studio for 45 years,” Doreen Watson told a rapt audience. The Orange Park Great House Complex is located in the Yallahs Hills of St Thomas. And it was...
Jamaica is replete with creative people, many of whom have turned their talents into business ventures. Some of these enterprises have evolved into successful entities, and have even taken a share of the export market, while many others have failed...
Great Huts in Portland will, this evening, host a Bob Marley birthday bash, which will precede several days of film screening inside the Great Room of African House to celebrate the life and legacy of Bob Marley. Right Band Entertainment from...
In Matthew Delfosse’s Crystal Box, there are a variety of crystals, of course, to embellish what you already have, and to enhance what you might not have, accessories made of natural and man-made materials. It is a business with a clear purpose. To...
Last Saturday, the Gene Pearson Gallery at the R Hotel in New Kingston, St Andrew, possessed spirits of all sorts. The high spirits of those in attendance, the fine wines, and Alain Hottat’s ‘Nature Spirits’. This is his first solo photo...
The institution of slavery in the British West Indies, of which Jamaica was a part, was one of the most inhumane systems ever created on Earth. It was replete with unspeakable cruelty and the brutal subjugation of people ripped from the bosom of...
