On Friday, April 5, The African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica/Jamaica Memory Bank (ACIJ/JMB) hosted a media launch of the International Junkanoo Festival of Tourism and Culture: Festival And Exhibition of Masquerade, Tourism and Culture. The...
Neslyn Eugenie Watson was born in Elderslie, St Elizabeth, to Norman Watson and Linnett Barrett. She, who has 15 siblings from both sides of her family, attended school at Elderslie and Retirement. For a while she worked as a civil servant in the...
EASTER IS a very important holiday in Christendom. It’s the memorial of the arrest, crucifixion and resurrection of the Messiah Jesus Christ. Christians claim he, who was betrayed by Judas, shed his blood to save the world from sin. They firmly...
VIVIAN CRAWFORD, born in Moore Town, Portland, came to historic Kingston city for the first time in 1949, on a market truck. The experience was so enriching that he went back home speaking “proper English”. Ten years later, he returned to Kingston...
IN JAMAICA, rum cream liqueurs are regarded as beverages for females, yet they have universal appeal. People’s palates like their smooth, creamy taste. There are several brands on the market, and since 2022, Smith’s Rum Cream, manufactured in May...
FORMER PRIME Minister P. J. Patterson recruited Dr Carlton Davis, a mineralogist, into his government at a time when there was a great need to transform the civil service. And for several years, Dr Davis was the head of the civil service in the...
FOR DECADES, St Thomas has oft been referred to as the ‘forgotten parish’. Yet, it is a place steeped in history and heritage and is endowed with some spectacular natural features, for nature has given St Thomas more than its fair share of beauty...
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...
