WHEN SHE was 16, Sundra Oakley, actress, dancer, writer and producer, among other things, who was born in Queens, New York, landed her first role in a television commercial. It was the beginning of the fulfilment of her dream to be a big star as an...
IT RAINED on the parade grounds of Newcastle on Saturday, March 2, but the cool water from the sky, the slight mist and the chilly temperate could not dampen the spirit of those who were at the 2024 Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee Festival. And, it...
THE RECENT Creative Career Expo produced and hosted by the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport (MCGES) at the Jamaica Conference Centre, downtown Kingston, targeted senior high-school and tertiary-level students who have an...
MUTABARUKA, BORN Allan Hope, is one of Jamaica’s well-known media personalities and poets. But, he is much more than that. He gained attention in his youth as a performance poet, whose work is searing, rebellious, probing, inciteful, militant,...
ON WEDNESDAY, February 21, the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport hosted its annual Creative Career Expo at the Jamaica Conference Centre in downtown Kingston. In attendance were senior high school and tertiary-level students, as...
FOR 300 years Europeans transported West Africans to the West Indies to work on plantations under the inhuman system of chattel slavery, the narratives of which is told mainly by the Europeans themselves. The voices of the Africans – the ones who...
BRITISH JOURNALIST Nadine White’s documentary, Barrel Children: The Families Windrush Left Behind, will be screened on Friday, February 23 at 10A West King’s House Road in St Andrew at 6 p.m. This is the first screening in Jamaica. The term ‘barrel...
FAMILY, FRIENDS, associates and well-wishers will gather in the Mona Chapel on The University of the West Indies Mona campus to remember and honour the life and work of Dr June Anthea (Mitchelmore) Hassall, “wonderful mother, caring wife, educator...
ON WEDNESDAY, February 21 senior high school and tertiary-level students who have an interest in pursuing studies, or operating businesses, in the creative industries, as well as creative practitioners and entrepreneurs will gather at the Jamaica...
NATIONAL HERO Samuel Sharpe was a complex character, for while he was a Baptist deacon who was given much latitude by his Baptist keepers to preach the word of the Lord, he was also preaching rebellion. The uprising which he inspired, but did not...
While many people call it uglifruit, it is to be noted that only the tangelo that is produced by Trout Hall Ltd may be called ugli. UGLI® is the registered trademark under which Cabel Hall Citrus Ltd markets its brand of tangelos from Jamaica....
IN OBSERVANCE of Black History Month there will be a showcase and brunch under the theme ‘Reclaiming our Roots’ with an emphasis on cultural education on Sunday, February 11, at Barrington Watson Art Gallery, Orange Park Great House, Yallahs, St...
“What’s that?” people would ask with a quizzical look on their face when they see it for the first time. It looks like an orange or grapefruit, slightly resembles a tangerine, but its size and shape say it is neither. Its oily, wrinkled, thick,...
AFTER THE scourge of slavery and the challenges of colonisation, Jamaica evolved into an independent nation which has captured the imagination of the world to which we have given reggae music, top-class sportspeople, Rastafarianism, super-talented...
At the recent January 6 Maroons celebrations at Accompong Town in St Elizabeth, there was a group of people who drew stares, and perhaps admiration, wherever they went because they were bedecked in outstanding Africanesque attire and accessories....
Eastern Jamaica, including the Blue and John Crow mountains region of St Andrew, Portland and St Thomas, has some of Jamaica’s most breathtaking and mesmerising mountain vistas. And that is where the community of Belvedere, Portland is situated....
Dressed in Africanesque attire, with an abeng in his hand, Chief Richard Currie of the Accompong Town Maroons in St Elizabeth stood barefoot at the base of the Kindah Tree as he addressed the massive crowd of local and overseas visitors, and the...
ON FRIDAY, December 15, ‘Journeying Revival Iconography’, an exhibition at the African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica/Jamaica Memory Bank (ACIJ/JMB), a division of the Institute of Jamaica, was declared open by Jo-Anne Archibald, principal director...
People drink hundreds of gallons of canned, boxed and bottled beverages daily. But, do they know what they are drinking, how it was contained, and packaged? Invariably, the answer is, no. For, they have never had the opportunity to see the...
IN SCHOOLS, it has taught for centuries that he/she, him/her and his/her are singular pronouns. Yet, over the years, there has always been a tendency for people to use constructs such as, ‘Everybody must submit their assignment tomorrow.’ This use...
THE BEVERAGE market is a very competitive one on which a plethora of brands, flavours, and essences are constantly jostling for the palates of discriminating consumers. It is an unforgiving space. If people do not like it, they will not buy it. For...
THE CONCEPT of gender had long been underpinned by the physiognomy and genitalia people were born with. Those born with male physical features, including penis and testes, were said to belong to the masculine gender, while those with female...
BLAISE, A Frenchman living and working in Germany, has heard so much about Jamaica that he thinks he now knows the entire country. Hearsay knowledge was not enough for him, however, so the plein-air artiste recently came to the country as a tourist...
“WE HAVE revived an industry that provides new opportunities for business for other entrepreneurs … and this is a prelude, this is just the start of the explosion of the textile cottage industry with Jadire in Jamaica. It is not only about the...
Dr Maureen Tamuno arrived in Jamaica at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in June 2021 as the Federal Republic of Nigeria’s high commissioner to Jamaica, Haiti, Belize, and the Dominican Republic. On Monday, November 13, she returned to Nigeria...
