The energy. The spirit. The dexterity. The militant look on his face. That is what you see when Delano ‘Ras Padam’ Douglas is around the Maroon drum. He can also sing and dance. Hear the poignant and dramatic cadence of his voice when he leads a...
Member of Parliament for West Portland Daryl Vaz has applauded the efforts of the organisers of the annual International Charles Town Maroon Conference and Festival, noting its cultural, historical and tourism value to the parish. The event was...
SINCE 2008, THE Charles Town Maroons in Portland have been producing and hosting the Charles Town International Maroon Conference, and a few years ago ‘Festival’ was added to reflect the festive elements of the event, where scholars from all over...
On Saturday, June 3, Queen Nanny Legendary Maroon Chieftainess, Roy T. Anderson’s second full-length documentary, premièred on American television via The African Channel. Last Saturday, Akwantu: The Journey debuted on the said channel at 1 p.m....
Queen Nanny: Legendary Maroon Chieftainess, a film by Jamaica-born Hollywood stuntman/filmmaker Roy T. Anderson, will be airing on American TV for the first time on Saturday, June 3 at 8 p.m. EDT on The African Channel (TAC). This landmark one-...
THE GLEANER met Reneto Fuller at the launch of the Cecil Cooper Foundation and inaugural scholarship exhibition, staged at the Olympia Gallery in Papine, St Andrew, on Friday, June 17, 2022. He was not smiling broadly when he was being presented...
THE CLOUDS threatened to rain on the parade. Drops fell on to the lawns of the Nigerian High Commission along St Andrew’s Waterloo Road, and on to the head and shoulders of some patrons. Tents had been erected in the event that the weather got...
Jamaica and Nigeria share cultural and ancestral roots, and things are getting even stronger as St Andrew’s Saint International, one of the premier modelling agencies in the English-speaking Caribbean, is catapulting Nigerian models into the...
FOR SOME people, their natural curly, kinky hair is a challenge and a bother. They do not know how to take care of it. Some cover it with wigs, weaves, and extensions; others are forever looking for solutions rather than hide their ‘beauty’. If...
It’s annual flower show is the marquee event of the Jamaica Horticultural Society (JHS). It is where members of the society, from in and out of parish, supporters and patrons gather to see the best in show and buy flowering and non-flowering plants...
The Gleaner chanced upon Winston Joseph, who this writer met at an event sometime ago in St Andrew. It turned out that he was still creating eye-catching figurines made of wood, right there in his yard in Aleppo, St Mary. In his humble workshop,...
KYLE LAMBERT grew up in Ocho Rios, St Ann, where he attended Columbus Preparatory School. From the Garden Parish, he made the educational transition to St Andrew-based Ardenne High School, where his sojourn ended after grade nine. The migration...
Three Jamaican representatives who participated in a debate and cultural exchange programme at The University of West Georgia (UWG) in the USA have described the experience as memorable, and having ‘delivered richly in its educative and...
Five males were shortlisted for The 2022 Prime Minister’s National Youth Awards for Excellence in sports. They included sprint sensation Bouwahjgie Nkrumie of Kingston College, West Indies cricketer Rovman Powell, national and world Under-20 triple...
“IT’S LITERALLY a dream come true, as I was actually a photographer at this event about 10 years ago, and I remember saying that I was one day gonna truly focus and grow a business deserving of national recognition; and I am so happy that I was...
Saturday, February 25. The temperature was sweltering. Yet, there were many masqueraders, most of whom were covered from head to toe in Jonkunnu costumes marching from the plazas along Constant Spring Road in St Andrew to Nelson Mandela Park in...
Marcus Garvey Technical High School (MGTHS) started in 1971 as St Ann’s Bay Junior Secondary School. Not very long ago the name was changed to honour Jamaica’s first national hero, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, who was born in St Ann’s Bay in 1887. In July...
Nanny of the Maroons was a legend, thus her National Heroine status that was bestowed upon her in 1982. She was honoured for leading the Windward Maroons in the rugged mountains of Portland to victory over the British in the First Maroon War of the...
It is a general feeling that the job of a pharmacist is boring and routine. That might or might not be so. But in the case of registered pharmacist, Kevar Bennett, it is certainly not an uninteresting life that the recent Prime Minister’s National...
Tahje Wallen was bitten severely by the education bug. In addition to a ton of certificates he has received from local and international institutions, including the World Bank, the Mona High School alumnus also has a diploma in supply chain...
For three days, February 23 to 24, a lot of cloths will be on sale as the Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC) celebrates Black History Month with textile, at the Edna Manley College for the Visual and Performing Arts, in St Andrew. The...
“UNICYCLE Jamaica began as a school uniform recycling initiative in 2018. I co-founded it with my friend, Jordan Nakash, after a discussion about what to do with uniforms I had outgrown. I saw it as an opportunity to start an initiative that could...
Aleppo is a linear settlement in southeast St Mary. To get there from Highgate in the said parish, you have to go through Richmond and turn off the main road between Richmond and Cuffy Gully. The road is narrow and winding, very rough at some...
Sharon Stewart of Aleppo district in St Mary is of a warm and sweet disposition, with a sharp wit and an arresting smile to go with it. And that is perhaps why people in her community are forever drawn to her, to her shop, to her yard. Clearly, she...
There is a worldwide campaign against the use of plastic, which is not biodegradable, and can be detrimental to the environment and human life. And Jamaican stoneware artisan, Michael Hudson, is playing his part in the eradication of the use of...
