Jamaica Gleaner News- Arts & Leisure - Sunday

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Here come the brides

THOUGH much of the Western world frowns upon polygamy, there are many others who see it as perfectly natural for a man to have multiple wives.South Africa's President Jacob Zuma famously has three wives, and earlier this year, he...

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O'Meally-Nelson presents CHASE with 'Heart Song'

Dr Blossom O'Meally-Nelson's presentation last Monday afternoon of Heart Song: Poems of my Transformation, at the CHASE Fund's New Kingston offices served a dual purpose.

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Spring breakers help in Rotary book drive

COCONUT CREEK, Florida:A faculty advisEr's visit to his native Jamaica seven years ago made him aware of the critical lack of reading materials in some schools and public libraries islandwide.

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Works of the radical Hart to be published

The work of Richard Hart, the firebrand who was expelled from the People's National Party (PNP) in 1952 for his Marxist views, will be revisited in a book scheduled for release in early 2011.

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Spartan Health Club supports book drive

The Rotary Clubs of Jamaica has launched an islandwide book drive. Below are the drop-off points: The Gleaner, 7 North Street, Kingston

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UNESCO supports the Rotary Race to Literacy

THE JAMAICA National Commission for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (JNC-UNESCO) has endorsed the Rotary Race to Literacy book drive, pledging not only the support of Jamaica but also promising to extend the support of the 193-member countries of UNESCO through its national commission.

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University/College round-up

Minister of Health Rudyard Spencer on April 5 laid the first tile at the site of training facilities at the Lionel Town Hospital, Clarendon, where the College of Health...