Scott’s Cove, on the St Elizabeth side of the border with Westmoreland, was once idyllic. Category 5 Hurricane Melissa changed that. On one side of the cove sat a fishing village; on the other, roadside shacks sold fried fish, which have a...
Hurricane Melissa ripped through western Jamaica, devastating Cornwall county and parts of Manchester and St Elizabeth. Other parishes, too, felt the wrath of the Category 5 storm. In the east, Portland’s Rio Grande Valley — long recognised as...
There can be no conversation about Treasure Beach, St Elizabeth, without a mention of Jakes, a world-renowned hotel situated on the edge of the coastline, and Jack Sprat, the restaurant “considered the headquarters of eating and drinking in...
The parish of St Elizabeth was among 12 Anglican parishes established between 1655 and 1675, named after Elizabeth, Lady Modyford, wife of Governor Thomas Modyford. In 1773, Black River replaced Lacovia as the parish capital. Once called...
“BIRTHED FROM a God-inspired vision in 2021 to merge administration, creativity, production, media and Kingdom purpose into one powerhouse platform, Arianna Lawrence, coined the term ASW. It began as a small, faith-fuelled idea to help leaders,...
Outside the Samaritan’s Purse field hospital on the grounds of Black River High School, a small act of kindness recently unfolded, capturing the spirit of resilience following Hurricane Melissa. From the back of a car, Earl Whyte of Brucefield...
On the St Elizabeth side of the border with Westmoreland, there once was an idyllic little fishing village. The village remains but, since Hurricane Melissa tore through, it is almost unsightly, and was littered with damaged boats and debris when...
It is said that a wise man builds his house on the rock, and a foolish man builds his upon the sands. For, in the event of a storm, the house on the rock will stand, but the house on the sand will crumble to pieces. In 2007, Hurricane Dean proved...
Sangster International Airport (SIA) was partially damaged, and so too was the Knutsford Express (KEX) depot located on its property. I waited at the depot for three hours for my pick-up driver to arrive, but he never appeared. I suspected a...
I left St Andrew on the morning of Monday, November 3, for familial and professional reasons – all because of Melissa, who had turned our lives upside down, quite literally, and for some, into a living hell. Poor or nonexistent telecommunication...
IN THE first quarter of the 2000s, Jamaica was significantly affected by hurricanes, including hurricanes Ivan and Dean. Hurricane Ivan, a Category 3 system lingered on the land from September 10-12, 2004. It passed south of the country,...
THERE WAS a hurricane from October 12 to 14 in 1812, August 1813, October 1815, October and November 1818, August 1832, and October 1875. In the occurrence of August 18-19, 1880, in eastern Jamaica, there was damage to crops, and to the ships and...
JAMAICA HAS produced some great poets. Many of them were more than writers, engaging in other endeavours to eke out a living, and they perhaps did not see poetry as a structured business as we know it now. But, can poetry within itself be a...
WE ARE still in Jamaica’s heritage month, and Heritage Week was concluded on Monday, October 20 with the annual National Honours and Awards Ceremony at King’s House. But, there is a place in Boston, Portland called Great Huts Eco Resort –...
“Our first event, ‘Our Love’, was held in February 2022, and that really marked the beginning of our journey. We officially registered Well Ample Productions in 2023, after realising how much impact and community energy was growing around what we...
PAUL BOGLE was born James Bogle. He was called Paul after he became a deacon in the native Baptist Church. He fathered at least three children – William, Richard and Cecelia. He was a small cane farmer and businessman who owned horses. Along with...
ALEXANDER BUSTAMANTE and Norman Washington Manley are widely regarded as the fathers of Jamaica’s political independence, the process of which ended on August 6, 1962 when Jamaica officially ceased to be a colony of Britain. There were also a new...
FROM 1823 rumours were going around that the king of England had granted the enslaved their freedom. The rumours were rife in late 1831, especially since Reverend Thomas Burchell was off the island. He went away for medical reasons as the inclement...
THE CAMPAIGN against Marcus Garvey in the US came from the wider community and people within his own organisation. Chief among his detractors were W.E.B. DuBois, Wilfred Adolphus Domingo, and A. Philip Randolph. The latter two had been early...
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...
NOT MUCH is known about Queen Nanny’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 sub-human conditions. Hundreds of the enslaved did...
FROM FRIDAY, October 17 to Monday, October 20, Great Huts Eco Resort, an eco-friendly, Afrocentric nature sanctuary, perched on the cliffs overlooking the turquoise Boston Bay in eastern Portland, will be hosting a series of activities in keeping...
THE NATIONAL Gallery of Jamaica (NGJ), located in the Kingston Mall in downtown, was swarmed with patrons on the evening of Sunday, September 28, as it opened its newest exhibition, ‘One Nation, New Symbols’ (ONNS). The space was packed with people...
“O N SUNDAY, August 31, Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia Grange officially opened the Natural History Museum of Jamaica (NHMJ) Exhibition Gallery, by way of a ribbon-cutting exercise. Construction had started in 2009,...
