‘Tis the Christmas season when typically there is a flood of old and new music at carol services across the island. One of the highly anticipated holiday events is the decades-old Festival of Nine Lessons...
Boutique hotels tend to be attractive for discerning travellers because of their high-quality personalised service. The welcomes from staff are warmer, and the smiles are brighter. Guests feel that exhilarating sense of being human when they check...
She was born in the railway farming town of Balaclava in St Elizabeth in the early 1960s and raised in the cultural melting pot of Trench Town. Her home was a modest wooden structure where rays of sunlight would barge in through several small...
The much-anticipated, decades-old Kingston Christmas tradition of the annual University Singers carol service took place last Sunday at the University Chapel, at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona campus. The festival of nine lessons...
Bishop Percival William Gibson was a trailblazing founding father of pre-independent Jamaica. Many Jamaicans are very familiar with the annual Gibson Relays held at the National Stadium in his honour. But the relays are a small part of the mosaic...
Long before there was Spotify and iTunes, youngsters in Kingston got their new music right in the middle of Half-Way Tree, outside a record store called Aquarius. This music hub was an iconic landmark in the 1970s at the bus stop on Constant Spring...
On this Teachers’ Day, I fondly remember Fraulein Daphne Adams, my first German teacher who influenced my love for languages and who transitioned recently in Jamaica. Miss Adams was first and foremost an excellent, no-nonsense teacher of modern...
Typically, musicians tend to stay in their lane. So an artiste who is branded a dancehall icon won’t typically be on an excursion into jazz, and vice versa. However, New York-based Jamaican artiste, known as desmond (with a lower case ‘d’), is a...
As kids are getting ready to go back to school, in parents are on a shopping frenzy, and one of the hot items on the shopping list is a tablet. They come in various sizes, shapes, and colours, and nearly all have accompanying learning apps. But...
