RECENTLY WE published an article on how, despite our efforts to break away from the political ties that Jamaica has with Britain, there will always be a strong connection between both jurisdictions because the names of hundreds of places in Jamaica...
THE GREAT majority of the Jamaican people are descendants of Africans who were forcibly removed from their homeland and transported across the Atlantic in overcrowded vessels to work on plantations owned by Europeans in a brutal system of chattel...
ON JULY 17, The Gleaner published a story headlined, ‘Jamaica-born artist Garfield Morgan making lasting impressions in Canada’. In it we look at how Morgan has been making a name for himself through his art in that North American country,...
For centuries, Jamaicans have been using herbs (bushes, vines, tree leaves, roots and barks) for a variety of physical, mental, psychological and medical ailments. Hot beverages (bush teas), tonics, balms, oils and powders are some of the things...
In terms of medal count and the quality of the six medals that Jamaica earned at the just-concluded 2024 Olympics in Paris, France, was the most disappointing since 2008 when Jamaica, a fully fledged bird, flew around the ‘Bird Nest’ stadium in...
AFTER EMANCIPATION in 1838 the peasantry class emerged out of the former enslaved people. Some people were established in free villages, from which cheap labour was supplied for the plantations that still thrived from the legacy of slavery. It was...
SOON, THE monarchy of Britain will not be the head of the Jamaican state. It has been such since 1661, six years after the British, led by Admiral William Penn and General Robert Venables, arrived on the Spanish-ruled island on May 10, 1655. The...
The 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France, was promoted to be like none other, especially with the opening ceremony centred about and on the River Seine, an ambitious display of French architecture, history, and culture. And the world waited to see...
IN THE mid-1990s, the tension between Jamaica’s top female sprinters and their American counterparts was the strongest ever. There was absolutely no love lost between them. The fiercest rivalry seemed to have been between Merlene Ottey and Gail...
JAMAICA, LIKE most sovereign territories, has national emblems that represent our autonomy, history, and culture. Some people hold them dear to their hearts, but to others, they are meaningless for a variety of reasons. We are not at all patriots...
YEARS AGO, Frank Lumsden, colonel of Charles Town Maroon village, wanted his niece, Nomali Lumsden-Campbell, a music educator, to contribute in a significant way to the annual International Charles Town Maroon Conference and Festival. Colonel...
ON SUNDAY, August 11 a huge breeze of poetry will be passing through the University of Technology Jamaica (UTech) in Papine, St Andrew, to manifest SenYAcum Edutainment’s 14th Annual Jamaica Poetry Festival (JPF), in partnership with UTech, the...
AT MIDNIGHT on August 1, 1838, Governor Sir Lionel Smith read the Emancipation Proclamation on the steps of the portico of the governor’s mansion in Spanish Town, St Catherine. Yet, that was not the beginning of full freedom. The people were still...
THE 1738 treaty of peace and friendship between the Leeward Maroons of western Jamaica and the British, and the 1739 treaty between the Windward Maroons of eastern Jamaica, effectively gave the Maroons their freedom from British control under...
DESPITE ‘EMANCIPATION’, ‘Independence’, and the Government’s current plans to get rid of the monarch of Britain as Jamaica’s head of state, these sovereign territories are forever linked by the names of places. But do you know how some places in...
CUDJOE LED Jamaica’s first insurrection by enslaved people, on Sutton plantation in Clarendon. He and many of the enslaved fled to the hills of Clarendon. They were always on the move as they fled the unrelenting enslavers in the tough and...
ON AUGUST 1, 1838, enslaved people in Jamaica and other parts of the British Caribbean were emancipated after over 300 years of enslavement by Spain and Britain. But 100 years before that, the Leeward Maroons of western Jamaica had already got...
IN 2018, Garfield Morgan left behind an enviable reputation in Jamaica when he migrated to Montreal, Canada, where he has since been making quite an impression on that North American country’s art scene. Among other accomplishments, he was...
SINCE 2014, the Christmas in July tradeshow has been giving small-business entrepreneurs the opportunities to showcase, market, and sell gift items that are produced locally. An initiative of the Tourism Linkages Network of the Tourism Enhancement...
“WE RETURNED all the glory to God Almighty for the success. On behalf of the executive and the planning committee of the AYJ (Alliance of Yorubas in Jamaica) Cultural Exposition 2024, we sincerely appreciate you all for your contributions, support...
DR KADAMAWE K’NIFE is a lecturer/researcher in the Mona School of Business at The University of the West Indies Mona campus. He is also the director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship Thinking and Practice, and a strong believer in wealth creation...
Jamaica has acres and acres of unused lands, but people are struggling to find suitable pieces on which to build their own homes, for various reasons, including lack of security, inconvenient locations and high prices. And it seems that even the...
THE OBSERVANCE of the first anniversary of the launch of the Alliance of Yorubas in Jamaica (AYJ) Association of Jamaica will take the form of a ‘Cultural Exposition inside the Alfred Sangster Auditorium at the University of Technology, Jamaica...
AS THE Charles Town Drummers, Singers and Dancers brought the 16th Annual International Charles Town Conference and Festival (AICTMCF) to a riotous close on the evening of Sunday, June 23, a special group of men, women and children sat in the Asafu...
JARED HALL is an artist, storyteller, illustrator, graphic designer, and animator, who has a bachelor of arts degree in illustration from Rhode Island School of Design, and is currently pursuing his master’s degree in animation at California...
