Afrocentric people gathered at the Kingston landmark Liberty Hall on King Street last Friday to celebrate Pre-Kwanzaa Fest, marking the black heritage festivities that coincide with the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. Located at 76 King Street,...
The artist Mazola spends his life collecting junk from all over the place, and he is not afraid to be seen rummaging through a garbage heap, removing things that are no longer of use to the people who threw them away. “So, people might think you...
“There is a growing consciousness of the need for healthy lifestyles to combat health-related chronic diseases and promoting self-awareness by paying closer attention to one’s own health and well-being. We see the World Health Organization and our...
Visitors to the recently opened AC Hotel Kingston at 38-42 Lady Musgrave Road in St Andrew cannot miss the eye-catching and engaging pieces of artwork in its lobby and dining space. The pieces are all over the place in their various media, sizes,...
You cannot be a major stakeholder in the local and international tourism and hospitality industries and not know Dave A. Chin Tung. He is the indefatigable and affable operator of Go! Jamaica Travel, a popular tour agency located along Trafalgar...
For the current academic year, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has initiated five Jamaica Labour Party national scholarships. “Each Jamaica Labour Party National Scholarship is awarded to an individual with a strong record of academic achievement,...
The weekend of Friday, November 1, to Sunday, November 3 promises to be a paradisal one as Cinema Paradise Portie Film Festival 2019 projects from screens in the throbbing city of Kingston and the verdant parish of Portland. It will be three...
Queen Mother Mariamne Samad passed away in Jamaica on Thursday, September 5. Born in Harlem, New York, in 1922 in a family of Garveyites, she herself evolved into a quintessential Garveyite who was well known about in Garveyism and black pride...
For years, lower downtown Kingston had been going a through a steady architectural and aesthetic decline. Many buildings had been abandoned, and had become derelict. Several had collapsed, others destroyed by fire and had become shells. The...
Everybody, not just the sweet-toothed loves pastries, even the weight-watcher. These baked sweet things are as irresistible as irresistible gets, making them a gastronomic must-have. Yet they are not so easy to make, and not everybody can make them...
From October 25 to 27, The Temple of Light Centre for Spiritual Living, located at 6 Fairway Avenue, Kingston 10, will be hosting a three-day masterclass at Jewel Dunn’s River Resort and Spa in St Ann. Under the theme, ‘Life is precious, handle...
It was a big, delightful plate of poetic rice and peas that SenYAcum, promoters of Jamaica Poetry Festival, served at its ninth staging at the Louise Bennett Garden Theatre in St Andrew on Sunday, August 11. And then there was the chicken,...
The familiar sounds of Revival singing and drumming wafted on the wings of the sea breeze coming from Kingston Harbour on Monday, June 10, as the African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica/Jamaica Memory Bank (ACIJ/JMB), in collaboration with the...
Artist and sculptor, the late Mallica Reynolds was born in St Catherine on the 10th of February, 1911. When he was 12, he had a religious experience which left him going by the name of Kapo. At age 16, he said he had a vision, and became a preacher...
More and more people are concerned about environmental degradation and preservation. It is widely believed that some of the cutlery and utensils we use are significantly contributing to the destruction of the environment and so there are efforts to...
Former Jamaican prime minister, Edward Phillip George Seaga, a Lebanese Jamaican, born and died in the United States of America, was not only a political policymaker. He was an academic and a participant researcher who documented the evolution of...
Revivalism emerged from the Great Revival of 1860-61, which began from 1858-59 as a great Christian revival, known as The Prayer Meeting Revival. It swept across continental USA, and the British Isles. Tony Cauchi, writing online, says, “The...
It was a book launch with a difference chock-full of Taino cultural and entertainment value when Dr Lesley-Gail Atkinson Swaby took a capacity audience through her journey as a Taino scholar/researcher/archaeologist. The journey, she said, started...
When the Germans realised that the Russians were advancing in east Poland, they fled the concentration camps, leaving the sick and infirmed and hundreds of dead bodies. Teenager Eva Geiringer and a Polish prisoner of war named Olga had to remove...
On Saturday, July 6, and Sunday, July 7, Great Huts Resort and Bayview Eco-Resort, both in Portland, will collaborate to celebrate the healing powers of art during the ninth annual Jamaican Arts Odyssey when the work of Jamaican, British and United...
Towards the end of 1943, activities in the labour barracks were winding down. But people all around were dying of hypothermia, diseases and starvation. There were rumours that the Russians were advancing, tension filled the air (even among the S...
In the centre of a round table draped with a white piece of cloth was a bunch of white roses. Surrounding them were white unlit candles. Set next to that table was a very long, white section. Small, white candles were placed along the edges. On it...
The small gathering of Ghana President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and his entourage, members of the security forces, media personnel and onlookers, belied the significance of the moment. For it was when the president himself lay a wreath at...
Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo said that his two-day visit to Jamaica was aimed not only at strengthening economic, commercial and trade ties between the Caribbean and the West African country, but sought to focus on ancestral links...
When the Europeans came to what is now known as Jamaica (Yamaye), the Tainos had established themselves in several villages all over the island. They had functional social, commercial, religious and political systems. The cacique (also spelt...
