IN THE late 1800s, Falmouth was still a very important and busy shipping port, as mercantilism was one of the things that poked the development of that northwestern town, which replaced Martha Brae about 1790 as the capital of Trelawny, named after...
RECENTLY, I visited my home town for familial reasons. To get there as usual, I had to pass through surrounding communities. I had gone back many times before over the decades, but this time around it struck me heavily how much the place had...
REGGAE ICON Robert Nesta Marley’s face, voice and songs are easily recognised the world over. His iconic, larger-than-life persona is captured in a biopic, Bob Marley: One Love, now in cinemas around the globe. This Paramount production is getting...
UNDER THE tutelage of Alao Luqman, a multitalented Nigerian cultural diplomat/volunteer working in Jamaica for the past five years in a variety of artistic endeavours, many individuals and groups have been trained. One of the areas in which...
On the day before Christmas Eve in Port Maria, St Mary, there was initial silence inside the unflattering meat shop. People, some with their jaws resting in their palms, sat still. Others stood staring. A Gleaner news team appeared, and a butcher...
In the Jewish religion (Judaism), a rabbi is a trained teacher of the Torah, who has studied all his life. The Torah is the central reference of Judaism. It has a range of meanings, including the first five books (Pentateuch) of the Hebrew Bible, or...
Some of the beliefs, practices and observances of Jehovah's Witnesses set them poles apart from other Christian denominations, and it has always been like that from the early days. They refer to their body of beliefs as the Truth, and consider...
