Last month, patrons had been mulling over Kenyan Jamaican artist Mazola wa Mwashigandhi’s ‘Messianic Parables’ in his ‘Playground’ studio at Craig Hill in St Andrew. “Messianic Parables is a visual and poetic interrogation and reinterpretation of...
The lack of recognition by the Jamaican Government of the Accompong Town Maroons’ claim to sovereignty is part of a geopolitical issue that is a source of much-impassioned debate and anger. A stand-off earlier this year between the Accompong...
The 1692 earthquake was the beginning of the end of Port Royal as Jamaica’s most popular city. In a few seconds its glory days were over, and the place once known as the ‘wickedest city on Earth’ became a shadow of itself. Across the harbour there...
The Caribbean Institute of Hospitality (CIH) has been quietly producing skilled and creative personnel for the hospitality industry. This was evident when the culinary management class of 2019 hosted ‘Culinary Explosion’ on the campus located at 29...
Port Royal’s development and tourism potential were recently thrust back into the talk shops with the announcement by Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett that a floating pier is to be set up so that cruise ship passengers can visit this historic town...
The end of 2014 saw Arthur A. McGowan, the steel-pan musician, evolving from the boy who lived with his father in a little board ‘cabin’ to the man who owned his own coffee factory – Trumpet Tree Coffee Factory. He said he was now “solid as a rock...
Arthur A. McGowan spent his childhood days in the mountainous district of Sugarloaf in the Gordon Town region of east rural St Andrew, from where the city of Kingston can be seen from lofty heights. It was a hard-knock life for the family of ‘kind...
At the Association of Jamaica Potters’ annual art and craft fair held in December last year, Winroy Messam, at age 22, was probably the youngest artist selling his work at the event. On display and on sale, he had drawings done in ‘cross-hatching...
