Published:Tuesday | January 1, 2019 | 12:00 AMJanet Silvera
Thousands flocked Montego Bay's hip strip, which has been renamed the Jimmy Cliff Boulevard, anxious to celebrate the start of 2019.A smaller, much more intimate group, converged on the Montego Freeport area, to...
Published:Saturday | December 29, 2018 | 12:00 AMJanet Silvera
WESTERN BUREAU:Guests had to flee in panic last Friday evening as gunshots rang out at awedding reception at the Glistening Waters Hotel in Falmouth, Trelawny.When the shooting ended, a disc jockey, 45-year-old Paul Campbell of Florence Hall in the...
Published:Monday | December 10, 2018 | 12:00 AMJanet Silvera
Kirk-Anthony Hamilton gets innovative with Caribbean, ecosystem, technology In May 2015, President Obama invited him to the White House as a part of his Global Entrepreneurship initiative, and Jamaica-born Kirk-Anthony Hamilton was accorded the...
Published:Saturday | December 15, 2018 | 12:00 AMJanet Silvera
WESTERN BUREAU:Opposition Spokesman on Tourism Dr Wykeham McNeill is incensed by the constant delay in the introduction of the long-promised tourism workers pension scheme.According to McNeill, when he demitted office in 2016, "everything was in...
Published:Thursday | November 22, 2018 | 12:00 AMJanet Silvera
WESTERN BUREAU:As Montego Bay's First Dance Studios gears up to stage its annual Christmas concert in two weeks, there are renewed calls for the establishment of a world-class performing-arts centre for western Jamaica.The six-year-old studio...
Published:Saturday | November 17, 2018 | 12:00 AMJanet Silvera
WESTERN BUREAU:Ian Dear, chairman of the Tourism Product Development Company, has promised that the new 'Welcome to Montego Bay' sign now under construction will depict the evolution of the island's tourism capital, and reflect the 'Bay's'...
Published:Monday | November 12, 2018 | 12:00 AMJanet Silvera
Jamaica, particularly the resort town of Negril, has captivated the hearts of Russian tourists, and is fast becoming their destination of choice.This was evidenced by some 30 Russian travel agents, who were...
Published:Thursday | November 8, 2018 | 12:00 AMJanet Silvera
WESTERN BUREAU:When The Sunday Gleaner team arrived at the Pitfour Nyahbinghi Centre in St James, the drumming had already begun, and the words from Bob Marley's Rastaman Chant, 'Babylon You Throne Gone Down' felt like music for the soul.Gathered on...
Published:Tuesday | October 30, 2018 | 12:00 AMJanet Silvera
Enchanted by witches brew and cobweb trees, zombies and ghosts turned out last Saturday night with two intentions in mind: making a difference in the lives of Jamaica's abandoned animals and dancing to DJ...
Published:Tuesday | October 30, 2018 | 12:00 AMJanet Silvera
Some of Jamaica's top reggae and dancehall artistes, were at their musical best performing at the annual 'Open Ear' acoustic concert, held last Friday at the University of the West Indies, Mona campus...
Published:Saturday | October 27, 2018 | 12:00 AMJanet Silvera
WESTERN BUREAU:Visa restrictions have been abolished for certain categories of Russians travelling to Jamaica, 48 years after the two countries officially established bilateral relations.Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett made the announcement last...
Published:Friday | October 26, 2018 | 12:00 AMJanet Silvera
The Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry is upbeat about the expected positive impact of the soon-to-be opened 120-room S Hotel on the St James economy, and particularly the city's tourism centre, the Gloucester Avenue hip strip.The resort,...
Published:Monday | October 8, 2018 | 12:00 AMJanet Silvera
Negril-based sister hotels Couples Negril and Couples Swept Away celebrated their 20th anniversary in true Jamaican style last weekend.The resorts, which are renowned for their ecological prowess, their...
Published:Friday | October 5, 2018 | 12:00 AMJanet Silvera
Nassau, Bahamas:With marked reduction from its main source market, the United States, and only a marginal increase out of Europe, tourist arrivals into the region in the last six months has been a mixed bag.Indications are that international...
Published:Friday | September 21, 2018 | 12:00 AMJanet Silvera
WESTERN BUREAU:Twenty-four years after pioneering one of the country's most successful hospitality distribution entities, Tom Tyler has waded into new territory.This time, the Montego Bay-based businessman, who co-founded Caribbean Producers Jamaica...
Published:Tuesday | September 18, 2018 | 12:00 AMJanet Silvera
As hard as the remnants of Hurricane Isaac tried, it didn't have the strength to derail Jamaica Inn's fabulous 60th anniversary long-service award in Ocho Rios, St Ann, recently.In fact, any force of winds that rained on the...
Published:Tuesday | August 28, 2018 | 12:00 AMJanet Silvera
Oversubscribed, best describes the awesome and fabulous seventh staging of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association's 'Celebration of Fine Jamaican Cuisine' at the Rose Hall Great House last Saturday...
Published:Friday | August 31, 2018 | 12:00 AMJanet Silvera
Not only does Montego Bay now have its own herb house, which trades as Island Strains, the cannabis being prescribed by doctors there is reaped from the first legal ganja-growing farm in western Jamaica.Island Strains, which is operated by Chris and...
Published:Saturday | August 18, 2018 | 12:00 AMJanet Silvera
WESTERN BUREAU:Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett says Jamaica's language training arrangements for tourism workers is not only crucial to the island's multi-destination arrangements with neighbouring countries, but must act as a catalyst to enable...
Published:Saturday | August 18, 2018 | 12:00 AMJanet Silvera
WESTERN BUREAU:Hopes of finding Jamaican Dawna Munroe and her nine-year-old daughter Crystal were crushed last Friday when Italian authorities confirmed they were among the 43 people killed when a bridge they were driving across collapsed in Genoa,...
Published:Tuesday | August 7, 2018 | 12:00 AMJanet Silvera
White Plains, Rochester, New York, will never be the same, after the invasion by hundreds of former Mount Alvernia students and their spouses, celebrating from the Central Florida Alumni Association.The annual event, now in...
Published:Sunday | July 22, 2018 | 12:00 AMJanet Silvera
Damian 'Junior Gong' Marley, who turned 40 today, says it is great to be home performing at Reggae Sumfest on his birthday. The artiste, who recently completed a European tour, said it was very normal to perform on his birthday. "Music...
Published:Saturday | July 21, 2018 | 12:00 AMJanet Silvera
Neither Gucci, Moschino nor Michael Kors made it into the fashionable Reggae Sumfest mall that transformed the grounds of the Catherine Hall Complex in Montego Bay, St James. In fact, Night One of the event tagged the world's largest reggae...
Published:Friday | July 20, 2018 | 12:00 AMJanet Silvera
WESTERN BUREAU: Promoter, manager and booking agent Copeland Forbes, feels that if Jamaica capitalises on reggae music, the country will not need to borrow from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Forbes, who has had over 50 years ...
Published:Monday | June 25, 2018 | 12:00 AMJanet Silvera
Simone Haughton Campbell's ascension to executive chef at Couples Swept Away in Negril, took a total of "20 fabulous years" at the resort, the 44-year-old says.Today, she boasts the title of being...
