“Tombstones erected at Beaufort Moravian Church (BMC) serve as reminder of persons who would have fanned an ever-burning flame for 190 years. These tombstones highlight the founding workers of the church which was established in 1834 as an...
Revivalism is a folk religion in Jamaica that evolved from the Great Revival of the early 1860s as a syncretism of African spirituality and European religiosity. It is replete with symbolism, which is significantly misunderstood by even some...
Myalism was a religious movement that was started by Africans who were brought to Jamaica to work on plantations. It was regarded as one of the first anti-slavery movements as Myalists worked to free themselves from enslavement, an evil caused by...
December 25 is celebrated the world over for centuries as the birthday of Jesus Christ, who, it is said, was born in Bethlehem of Judea after his parents, Mary and Jesus, fled Nazareth to escape King Herod’s edict to kill all male children. The...
CHRISTIANITY IS a religious movement at the centre of which is the profound belief that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was sent to save the world from sin. Thus, the essence of Christianity is underpinned by the life, death and resurrection of...
THE OLD City is a 0.35-square mile enclave surrounded by the Walls of Jerusalem, in East Jerusalem. The length of the walls is 2.497 miles in total, their average height being 39 feet, and the average thickness, 8.2 feet. In 1535, when Jerusalem...
HAMAS, THE acronym for harakat al-Muqawamah al-Islamiyyah, and which means Islamic Resistance Movement, was founded in 1987. It is a militant Palestinian nationalist and Islamist movement in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that is dedicated to the...
WHEN HAMAS operatives invaded Israel from the land, sea and air on Saturday, October 7, it was the latest and strongest demonstration yet to indicate that the Palestinians will not stop until they have driven Israeli out of Palestine. For, the...
FROM SEPTEMBER 20 to 24, 1979, Universal leader and spiritual master of the Ananda Marga Yoga Society, Indian national Shrri Shrii Anandamurtiji (the embodiment of bliss), visited Jamaica en route to Argentina, Venezuela, the Ivory Coast and Ghana...
Lloyd Augustus (and not Aloysius as was published in Part I) George Cooke grew up the son of an Anglican minister. In church, he heard much about missionary journeys from Jamaica to several faraway lands. When he was a 17-year-old Cornwall College...
FROM GERMANY to England and America the Brethren Church evolved. In England and America the Church was fragmented into various branches. Jamaica was one of the places where the Brethren from Bristol and Plymouth, England set up assemblies. They...
The Brethren Church/Assembly germinated in 1708 in Schwarzenau, Germany from where it roots extended to other parts of Europe, including England. One Alexander Mack is credited as the founder. The members were regarded as dissenters from the...
From scores of applications, over 150 were nominated, 60 were shortlisted, but only 17 individuals and two organisations received the Prime Minister’s National Youth Awards for Excellence for the year 2022. They were presented with their awards by...
Bruce Golding’s family life has invariably been in the closet. But on Monday, December 5, the closet doors were flung wide open by his wife, children, and grandchildren, who conspired and pressured him to have them hold a 75th birthday dinner for...
The 18th staging of the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) Best Practices Awards Ceremony, by way of a banquet, unfolded inside The Jamaica Pegasus hotel on the evening of Wednesday, December 7. It was not a night of long speeches, but there was much...
With a name so distinct and resonating, Florizel Augustus Glasspole was destined for prominence. But, no one could have guessed that it would have been associated with the highest office in the Jamaican system of government. The son of Reverend...
In August 1962 when Jamaica became an independent nation, the British government, through the governor, was no longer responsible for the day-to-day administration of the country’s affairs. Yet, it was not a total severance. The Queen remained head...
Sikhism is religion that was established in Punjab, India, in the late 1400s by Guru Nanak Dev, who was also born in Nankana Sahab, Punjab (which is now in Pakistan, in 1464. It is underpinned by the basic principles of service, humility and...
Punjab is a vast region in India. From that vastness has sprung what is considered the world’s fifth largest religion, Sikhism, of which there are over 20 million members worldwide. Its founder, Guru Nanak, was born in Punjab in 1464. He died in...
Last week, we looked at Yahweh in Jamaica in terms of the number of established congregation/branches. Today, we are zooming in on of one them, which said that it has no affiliation with Qahal Yahweh in Paradise, Norwood, St James, which got much...
NTD Ingredientes is a company that sells products for the baking, pastry and food service industries. It began in 1991 in the Dominican Republic, was established in Mexico in 2002, and opened offices in Jamaica in 2015. One of the company’s...
Yahweh is a Hebrew religion that originated in the Middle East. Though it has the Bible as its main source of reference, it does not recognise Jesus Christ of Nazareth as its messiah. Believers regard Yeshua Ha Mashiack as the The Anointed One....
Yahweh’s Restoration Ministry is one of many denominations of the Yahweh religion. Last week, we explored some of the things members believe in based on biblical references. Today, we are looking at some of the their practices based also on...
It is generally agreed by religious scholars that Yahweh is the name of the state God of the ancient Kingdom of Israel, and later, the Kingdom of Judah. His name is composed of four Hebrew consonants,YHWH (known as the Tetragrammaton), which the...
Two weeks ago, the media were replete with stories of the dramatic rescue of three children from the Qahal Yahweh church compound in Norwood, St James amid allegations of cultism, human trafficking, child abuse, sexual assaults and abduction by the...
