Kenya is a vast country in East Africa, washed by the warm waters of the Indian Ocean. It is a land of cheetahs, elephants, gazelles, giraffes, tribes of conquering lions and, yes, reggae music. I was there a few days ago. After soaking up a few...
Many of us grew up in post-independence Jamaica with assorted popular fragrances such as Khus Khus, Cacique, Brut by Faberge, and Old Spice. And there was also Aqua Velva, a fragrance that ran a clever ad in Spanish on the Jamaican JBC TV, urging...
Few jobs on the planet have changed as radically over the years as the job of a flight attendant. At the turn of the last century when wealthy wanderers started paying top dollar to travel, the planes were much smaller and it was the co-pilot who...
New York City police are still hunting for a Jamaican father, Dwayne Gordon, who allegedly drugged and raped three of his stepdaughter's friends when they stayed at his Queens home for sleepovers, according to a senior police official with...
Jamaica received an unexpected travel endorsement last week on MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell Show. The endorsement came from Dr Kizzmekia Corbett, the African-American viral immunologist, who is credited with...
Hoteliers say short-term bookings are trickling, and concerns about an increase in COVID-19 cases in Jamaica are triggering cancellations. Jamaica recorded another death from COVID-19 in the past day and saw another...
There was a time when cinemas dotted the Jamaican landscape islandwide. In the ’60 and ’70s, Kingston was overflowing with cinemas of various shapes and sizes. The rural parishes were well supplied, too, with at least one or two in each parish...
Last week, Jamaica lost a cultural giant, Elaine Perkins, who was indisputably the queen of Jamaican radio drama for over two decades, from the 1960s to the 1980s. Elaine, 84, the widow of the late popular radio host and Gleaner columnist Wilmot...
