For years, visitors and locals were greeted on their travels to and from the Norman Manley International Airport (NMIA) by the colourful tail of an Air Jamaica airplane mounted in the centre of the roundabout. It was iconic, a popular background...
EVERYTHING THAT Revival people do is meaningful. The singing, dancing, trumping, and drumming are loaded with explicit or subliminal messages. Nothing is arbitrary. And, Revivalism is replete with icons. The iconography of Revivalism makes it a...
“RAISED BY a single mother in Bower Banks, I know what sacrifice looks like. This award validated every late night, every obstacle, and every moment of doubt. It reminded me that I carry not only my dreams, but the dreams of my community, and those...
ON THE evening of Saturday, May 31 when Jerome Hanson was announced as the recipient of the 2024 awardee for nation building at the Prime Minister’s National Youth Award for Excellence (PMNYAE) on the lawns of Jamaica House in St Andrew, there was...
TO THE nominees and other members of the audience at the 2024-2025 Prime Minister’s National Youth Awards for Excellence, held on the lawns of Jamaica House on the evening of Saturday, May 31, Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness said, among other...
There has been growing concern about United States travel advisories and the potential drop in the numbers of visitor arrivals in Jamaica, mainly from the United States, as a result of the economic uncertainties arising from recent policies and...
In his presentation at the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) 70th Anniversary Cocktails Reception, at Devon House on the evening of Thursday, May 22, Director of Tourism Donovan White showed a montage of JTB advertisements over the years. In one of the...
On Saturday, May 24, the second day of the 2025 Calabash Literary Festival at Calabash Bay, Treasure Beach in St Elizabeth, between 2:30 and 4 p.m., Jamaica-born poet, author, scholar and educator, Professor Jason Allen-Paisant, will be reading a...
From Friday, May 23 to Sunday, May 25, the idyllic community of Treasure Beach in St Elizabeth will be teeming with patrons, producers and participants as the 2025 iteration of the Calabash Literary Festival unfolds at Calabash Bay, under the theme...
At 10 a.m. on Thursday, May 15, the Morant Bay Urban Centre, situated in the Springfield district Morant Bay, St Thomas, will be officially opened by Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness. This ribbon-cutting ceremony will mark the completion of a...
THE JUNE plum is naturally sour. Even when it is ripe, it has a tangy taste, sweet and sour, if you will. And we Jamaicans, perhaps, all have stories of this sour-but-sweet fruit, embedded in our memories. But, retired University of the West...
IN 2023, Kwame McPherson became the first Jamaican to win the prestigious, global Commonwealth Short Story competition. Since then, his presence is being requested at high-end events and on occasions, such as the one that took place at Buckingham...
FROM APRIL 10-12, two elite debate teams from the Jamaican Association for Debating and Empowerment (JADE) Limited and the St Thomas Renaissance Foundation (STTRF) participated in the 2025 Bluebonnet World Schools Debate International Tournament...
ON TUESDAY, December 12, 2023 The Gleaner published an article headlined, ‘RJ Rums and Spirits growing and exuding the essence of Jamaica’. Among other things it exposed two flavours (ginger and sorrel) of beer brewed by Royal Jamaica Rums and...
AT THE recent Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association’s (JMEA) Expo Jamaica 2025, The Gleaner chanced upon two young men wearing jackets over their jeans and got the impression that they were exhibitors, since patrons were more casually...
B re’r Anancy and the Magic Pot, Brer Anancy and the Easter Egg Hunt, and Brer Anancy and Brer Duck are three books written by V. S. Russell to keep the main character, Brer Anancy, relevant. The former, a colouring and activity book for children...
THIS WEEKEND, Saturday, April 26 and Sunday, April 27, the Jamaica Horticultural Society (JHS) hosts its Annual Flower Show under the theme, ‘70 Years...
PATRONS AT the recent Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association (JMEA) Expo Jamaica 2025 might have seen some youngsters around a steering wheel manoeuvring a vehicle on a screen in front of them. And, they were having fun indeed with the...
PARADE GARDENS is not one of the glorified communities in Kingston for a plethora of reasons. Many of its residents, especially the young men, are underserved and undergoing various challenges. But there is hope, as there is an initiative,...
RECENTLY, INSIDE the ROK Hotel in downtown Kingston, three creative businesses received $150,000 each and a trophy after they emerged winners of their respective categories in the National Craft Product Quality Showcase art and craft competition...
AT THE just concluded EXPO Jamaica 2025, held inside the Nation Arena and the National Indoor Sport Centre in St Andrew, there were many booths displaying and selling skin- and hair-care products made of nature ingredients and scents. There were (...
Patrons at Expo Jamaica, held at the National Indoor Sports Centre and the National Arena in St Andrew from last Thursday to yesterday, were exposed to numerous product offerings from large companies to small-scale entrepreneurs. During an...
THE SEASIDE community of Treasure Beach in south St Elizabeth is known the world over for its laid back charm and rustic allure, not to mention the Calabash Literary Festival. It is also home to many artisans and artists, and from Saturday, April...
Kwame McPherson, the first Jamaican to win (in 2023) the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, has been invited to represent the Caribbean by The Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, at the 34th edition of the Abu Dhabi...
