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...
ON TUESDAY, March 11, 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...
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5 was Ash Wednesday, the beginning of this year’s season of Lent, a period when Christians refrain from doing certain things, and engage in certain activities. “Lent, in the Christian church, [is] a period of penitential...
ON THURSDAY, February 20, the African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica/Jamaica Memory Bank (ACIJ/JMB) launched an exhibition called ‘Dancehall Male Fashion’ at 10-12 Ocean Boulevard in downtown Kingston. The event was moderated by Georgette...
The inaugural Kingston Poetry Week got its start on Sunday under the theme A Celebration of Caribbean Voices and Verse and is set to end on Saturday. The observance is put on by JAIKU, in partnership with CARICON, to showcase “the diversity,...
JAMAICAN-CARIBBEAN tourism and hospitality personality/businesswoman Nicola Madden-Greig was recently honoured with the ‘Professional Services Businesswoman of the Year Sales...
From 6 a.m. on Ash Wednesday, the International Youth Fellowship (IYF) in Jamaica was leading more than 200 volunteers in cleaning up a section of the beach along Palisadoes Road which is frequented by locals and visitors. “Yes, it’s the first time...
FROM FEBRUARY 20 to March 8, many of the late Eugene Hyde’s artworks belonging to his family are on an exhibition called, ‘Eugene Hyde 1931-1980 – A Retrospective...
Many students who live at Mary Seacole Hall, a residential facility on the Mona campus of The University of the West Indies, did not know who Mary Seacole really was before they moved in, and some might still not know after their sojourn has ended...
If We must Die is, perhaps, Claude McKay’s most famous poem. It was penned at a time when the United States (US) was rocked by rampant racial violence, and its messages of defiance and of dying with dignity resonated with scholars and the literati...
KINGSTON-BORN Isaac Edmestone Barnes, a trained surveyor and fruit exporter, established his own church, the Kingston Christadelphian Assembly, at 26½ Mark Lane. To escape racism in Jamaica he travelled to Britain, and then as a missionary to...
Before the English arrived in 1655, Spanish Jamaica had eight geographical regions: Northside, Bluefields, Guanaoboa, Withywood, St Jago de la Vega, Liguanea, Yallahs and Morant. From 1655-1675, the English divided the island into parishes, a...
Dr Velma Earle Pollard’s death was sudden. She passed away on February 1 at home in St Andrew, just weeks from her 88th birthday on March 26. Her service of thanksgiving will take place in The University Chapel, Mona on February 21 at 10 a.m....
FROM February 16-21, the Language Section of the Department of Language, Linguistics and Philosophy (DLLP) in the Faculty of Humanities and Education (FHE) at the Mona campus of The University of the West Indies (The UWI) will be hosting a series...
BARNES IS not an uncommon surname in Jamaica, but not many Jamaicans know about Isaac Edmestone Barnes and his great achievements. The first child of William and Amelia Barnes was born at Highholborn Street in Kingston in 1857, yet all his...
On February 10, 1911, a few years before the start of World War I, Mallica Reynolds was born in Byndloss, St Catherine. At age 12, Reynolds had a religious experience and began going by the name ‘Kapo’, and that was what he was called the rest of...
REGGAE SINGER Marissa Lelogeais and her band, The Merry Rockers, returned to the stage on Thursday, February 6 for her second Bob Marley birthday concert at the Bob Marley Museum at 56 Hope Road in St Andrew. She is lead vocalist and band leader....
IN APRIL 1931, Marcus Mosiah Garvey established The Edelweis Park Amusement Company at 67 Slipe Road in Kingston. It was one of the vehicles that he used to promote his messages of black uplifting, race pride, African unity, and economic self-...
KNOWN THE world over as a race leader, black pride activist, and civil rights campaigner, Marcus Mosiah Garvey was an eloquent orator, whose booming, rapid-pace voice was greatly admired by his supporters and detractors alike. He was a politician...
At Professor Roy Augier’s 100th birthday last December, University of the West Indies (UWI) Vice-Chancellor Professor Sir Hilary Beckles hailed him as “a true Caribbean Renaissance Man”. “What a magnificent ongoing innings – 100 not out!” Beckles...
THE EFFORTS to exonerate Marcus Garvey did not die after his death, however, as over the years, many people and groups have been pressing the US government to clear his name, but they were mainly unsuccessful. In 1987, under Congressman John...
Marcus Garvey lost his appeal against his mail fraud conviction, and was taken into custody on February 8, 1925. He began serving his five-year sentence at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Georgia. But, prison walls could not contain his zeal to...
