Three pre-eminent Jamaican poets are lauding fellow poet Ishion Hutchinson for being shortlisted for Canada’s prestigious International Griffin Poetry Prize. One of the world’s most generous poetry awards, the prize, this year, is worth CDN$130,000...
Very few ‘out of this world’ dwellings have achieved the exalted status of being judged ‘the most beautiful house in the world!’. The imposing Dracula Palace, which actually exists in Transylvania, Romania, reputed as the one-time home of the...
Climate change dominates news headlines globally – we see endless weather-related catastrophes, geo-political upheavals, and increasing environmental injustices. The Caribbean is not immune to the deadly impacts of climate change and is facing...
Safiya Sinclair’s How To Say Babylon and Sean Godfrey’s Sasha Knight are emotional roller-coaster journeys that linger long after their reading. While both are mainly grounded in the Jamaican experience, with a bit of life in the United States (US...
The Mountain River Cave, located in Cudjoe Hill, St Catherine, is a treasure mine of Jamaican history. This fairly simple cave, located about 21 kilometres north west of Spanish Town, has far-reaching importance beyond its shallow depth. Stepping...
CAPRI’s reports Zero Murders: Searching for Lessons from Two Decades of Anti-Violence Interventions in August Town, and Testing, Testing: Challenges to Measuring Social Programmes for At-Risk Youth, introduced a critical perspective to the citizen...
Some behaviours are now amplified by social media thus causing a great deal of misinformation and drivel to spread unchecked. An example is the stupid error on the part of the junior minister of foreign affairs which has triggered a discussion on...
“I am now 41. When I was 14 to 15, I used to kiss up some girls in school. I don’t have an ounce of lesbian in me. But, when I was in my early teens, I could barely control my sex urges. Our teachers made us believe that boys were pure trouble and...
Tropical Battery Company Limited will turn to the stock market to raise more equity later this year amid plans to continue growing the company. Tropical Battery, which went public in 2020 and is listed on the junior market of the Jamaica Stock...
“The grass is greener on the other side,” a familiar adage used for what we do not possess. From childhood, we absorb this lesson, understanding that our desires often seem more enticing when they are yet unfulfilled. This age-old saying sheds...
When Anna Branch, 37, had her hours at work reduced at the start of the pandemic in 2020, she suddenly noticed ads for an app called EarnIn. “You know how they get you — the algorithms — like they’re reading your mind,” Branch said. “The ad said I...
SEXUAL IMMORALITY is another thing that attracts strong generational curses. God made it clear that he hates it and will not fail to curse anybody that involves in it. He allows sexual relationship only between a husband and his wife. Anything...
MEMBERS OF the public have met the ‘Confession and apology by the United Reformed Church (URC) concerning Transatlantic Slavery (General Assembly, Swanwick, July 2022)’ with some amount of doubt and cynicism. However, we do well to listen and...
London-based model Alexsandrah has a twin, but not in the way you would expect: Her counterpart is made of pixels instead of flesh and blood. The virtual twin was generated by artificial intelligence and has already appeared as a stand-in for the...
The police have significantly dented the incidence of motor vehicle thefts at shopping centres in Spanish Town, St. Catherine, with the aid of the JamaicaEye closed circuit television (CCTV) surveillance system. Sub-Officer in charge of the...
The Jamaica Music Society (JAMMS) is encouraging young local music producers to consider making radio edits of their productions to ensure airplay and wide distribution that will maximise revenue. JAMMS General Manager, Evon Mullings, told...
A policeman has been hospitalised after he was shot and injured in Portmore, St Catherine, on Saturday. It's reported that about 11:40 a.m., the corporal was doing business at West Henderson Boulevard in Greater Portmore when he saw...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lawyers for Sean "Diddy" Combs pushed back against a woman's lawsuit that accused him of sexual assault, filing a motion on Friday to dismiss some claims that were not under law when the alleged incident...
JMMB Bank has confirmed that the Visa debit cards of a "small portion" of its clients have experienced a Bank Identification Number (BIN) attack. It notes that a BIN attack is a common tool used around the world, for external fraudsters...
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi authorities on Saturday were investigating the killing of a well-known social media influencer, who was shot by an armed motorcyclist in front of her home in central Baghdad. Ghufran Mahdi Sawadi, known as "Um Fahad...