Art & Leisure
Fine artist Shawn Ashman has always had a desire to express herself. She started her artistic journey as a young girl in Grants Penand used her art to express her thoughts as she basked in its therapeutic effect while creating. Since then, she has...
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The development of Jamaica’s first ‘living museum’, the WARE Living Museum of Built Heritage and Traditional Crafts, located in southern Elizabeth is well advanced. This open-air/living museum concept is on track to be a unique Caribbean, heritage-...
The National Museum West located in Sam Sharpe Square, Montego Bay, is a hidden gem filled with historical treasure. According to Sharifa Balfour, the curator, the museum is often overlooked because people don’t know that it exists. People pass by...
Stepping Out As I step out today I remind myself That I’m a child of the Most High God The daughter of a King Yes, I am an overcomer More than a conqueror am I I can do all things through Christ Who gives me His strength. It is well, it is well...
Run to Freedom is a story that grabbed my attention and held it from beginning to end. The book is just over 200 pages and the gripping narrative is set on an 18th- century Jamaican slave plantation. It tells the story of the lives of the slaves...
Shanelle McPherson has a passion for cybersecurity and a drive to make a difference in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry. In fact, this combination of knowledge and zeal has already parleyed her to success in several...
Troy McKoy recalls the first time he sat down to write a book about chess. “It was on November 9, 2017, which also happens to be my son’s birthday,” McKoy said. The inspiration, according to him, was something that his wife said seven months...
“We gonna fight, fight, fight, fight, ‘gainst’ apartheid. -Peter Tosh. Many, to this day, consider Peter Tosh an angry, firebrand entertainer who existed in the shadow of Bob Marley, along with whom he and Bunny Wailer founded the Wailers. But...