Published:Friday | June 10, 2016 | 12:00 AMMel Cooke
Ahead of its second staging in Montego Bay, after starting out in Kingston, additional reasons for moving the Wealth Auto Show to the St James capital were given at the Terra Nova All-Suite Hotel on Waterloo Road in St Andrew last Wednesday.Leighton...
Published:Friday | June 10, 2016 | 12:00 AMMel Cooke
In the days before the significant effect of climate change hit the world, the opening lines of HD Carberry's poem Nature would have resonated even more with Jamaicans than now. The words would have been familiar to every child who went through the...
Published:Friday | June 10, 2016 | 12:00 AMMel Cooke
Tarik Kiddoe is suggesting that a sign be posted outside business places, especially financial institutions, to deal with the issue of criminals using motorcycles. The sign would instruct motorcyclists to remove their helmets so their faces can be...
Published:Sunday | June 5, 2016 | 12:00 AMMel Cooke
During his address at last Wednesdays’s third Annual UTech Jamaica/Joan Duncan Memorial Lecture at the University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech), Downsound Records CEO Josef Bogdanovich gave the audience a choice. He asked those gathered in...
Published:Wednesday | June 8, 2016 | 10:41 AMMel Cooke
After guest speakers Lloyd Stanbury, attorney at law, and Downsound Records' CEO Josef Bogdanovich had spoken at last Wednesday's third annual Joan Duncan Memorial Lecture, Dr Dennis Howard moderated a four-man panel.Each examined an aspect of the...
Published:Wednesday | June 8, 2016 | 12:00 AMMel Cooke
During the panel discussion segment of the third annual Joan Duncan Memorial Lecture held at the University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech), Papine Campus, last Wednesday, two persons used track and field analogies in explaining their approaches to...
Published:Tuesday | May 31, 2016 | 12:00 AMMel Cooke
At five years old, our son strongly associates becoming a man with driving. Not that he puts it that way - he says he wants to become a 'Daddy' so he can drive. That includes taking his children to school, but he may...
Published:Friday | June 3, 2016 | 12:00 AMMel Cooke
Christopher Martin's song Big Deal, done over as a KFC advertisement, has undergone not only an adjustment in lyrics, but also a transformation in character, for the original was a statement of self-affirmation and not feeling inferior to another...
Published:Friday | June 3, 2016 | 6:43 PMMel Cooke
Toyota Jamaica and Kingston Industrial Garage (KIG) are almost neighbours along Spanish Town Road, St Andrew. And within months of each other, they opened new showrooms on Old Hope Road, also in St Andrew, but in a different side of the city and...
Published:Thursday | June 2, 2016 | 12:00 AMMel Cooke
Trimming the number of main stage nights from three to two and not having an overseas act are not the only changes for Reggae Sumfest under its new ownership structure. Robert Russell, vice-chairman and co-producer of the festival, told The Gleaner...
Published:Wednesday | June 1, 2016 | 12:00 AMMel Cooke
Before getting into the meat of the matter this week, a correction from the previous column has been corrected by Robert Russell, vice-chairman and co-producer of Reggae Sumfest, about an erroneous statement in last week's Music and More.Writing...
Published:Friday | May 27, 2016 | 12:00 AMMel Cooke
Even as the cost to repair damage caused by last week's heavy showers, especially in St Thomas, continues, and the incalculable loss of a child's life is absorbed, there is no denying that rain is mood weather.As expressed in Jamaican popular music...
Published:Friday | May 27, 2016 | 12:00 AMMel Cooke
In Jamaican popular music parlance, to 'buss' means that an entertainer has achieved a significant level of hopefully sustainable popularity, enabling them to earn well from their craft. One of the markers of this standing is appearing on a major...
Published:Wednesday | May 25, 2016 | 12:00 AMMel Cooke
Since the announcement that there will be no International Nights on the Reggae Sumfest main stage this year, the naysayers have had a ball doing what naysayers always do. However, there is another way to look at it - not what the summer music...
Published:Monday | May 16, 2016 | 12:00 AMMel Cooke
There is no greater evidence of an intimate relationship between a man and a woman than a child (that is, if they want children).Not a ring, not a car, house, financial instrument, bills from a marriage counsellor (yeah,...
Published:Friday | May 20, 2016 | 12:00 AMMel Cooke
The first Wealth Auto Show of new cars was held in 2011 at the National Arena, Arthur Wint Drive, St Andrew. The second, staged in 2014, was held in Montego Bay, St James, and so will this year's staging in six weeks time. The show will be open to...
Published:Wednesday | May 18, 2016 | 2:28 PMMel Cooke
Tonight, Tony Matterhorn and Fire Links will square off in the finals of this year's Boom All Star Sound Clash at Cling Cling Oval, Olympic Way, St Andrew. They know each other well as sound clash opponents; look back at Fully Loaded 2001 on YouTube...
Published:Friday | May 13, 2016 | 12:00 AMMel Cooke
Land of My Birth, written by Winston Wallace and sung by Eric Donaldson, is one of the Festival Song Competition winners which has transcended the annual Independence celebrations and endured past the year it won (1978).The ultra-patriotic song came...
Published:Tuesday | May 3, 2016 | 12:00 AMMel Cooke
Sexually, there is a world of difference between breaking in and 'brucking out'. While both are related to introducing persons - usually young - to sexual activity, the breaking in is for boys and the 'brucking' out is...
Published:Friday | May 6, 2016 | 12:00 AMMel Cooke
Close to two weeks ago, Magna Motors Dealership Ltd opened its new showroom at 27 Old Hope Road, St Andrew. The location has a long-standing connection with the automobile business, as a gas station was once there.Physically, the Hyundai motor...
Published:Friday | May 6, 2016 | 12:00 AMMel Cooke
Love for the mother is one of dancehall's recurring song themes and guarantees a positive response for a selector at a session.Apart from general love for the mother (which is not matched by similar sentiments for fathers, indicating an imbalance in...
Published:Wednesday | May 4, 2016 | 12:27 PMMel Cooke
No, I am not talking about anti-homosexual lyrics, as the headline may immediately bring to mind. This time around the term was not actually used, but the implication was there when Police Commissioner Dr Car Williams recently stated that there is a...
Published:Tuesday | May 3, 2016 | 1:18 PMMel Cooke
After Carol Lawes, mouth trembling, shuffled her way to the back of the stage where Barbara McCalla, Karen Harriott, Hilary Nicholson and Bertina MaCaulay were already standing behind individual vertical strips of backlit white cloth, there was...
Published:Sunday | May 1, 2016 | 12:00 AMMel Cooke
French journalist and documentary film director Sebastien Carayol has chosen 'Jamaica, Jamaica!' as the title of the exhibition he is curating at the Paris Philharmonic in France, opening in August 2017 and scheduled to run for five months. On...
Published:Tuesday | April 26, 2016 | 12:00 AMMel Cooke
I lay no claim to expertise or even competence at approaching a woman, expressing in no uncertain terms that I am interested in a connection that may include friendship but is not limited to that. It has always been...
