Published:Sunday | March 22, 2020 | 12:00 AMPaul Williams
Every major religion has a book, a piece of literature, its main source of reference, and Jainism is no different. It has canonical scriptures that do not belong to a single era, and which has been revised...
Published:Saturday | June 8, 2019 | 12:00 AMPaul Williams
As fate would have it, Eva Schloss, nee Geiringer, was not separated from her mother, Mutti, from the moment they were taken from their hiding place by SS officers in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. She was, however,...
Published:Saturday | May 18, 2019 | 12:00 AMPaul Williams
From the Dutch prison in Amsterdam, 15-year-old Eva Schloss, her family and hundreds of others were brought by the SS to a rural village called Westerbork, where the conditions were not so bad. They were then taken...
Published:Wednesday | December 26, 2018 | 12:00 AMPaul Williams
Symerna Blake has done it. She has given up her full-time public relations and marketing jobs, and is now spending her nights and days creating and marketing three-dimensional clay representations of the flora and fauna of the Caribbean for your...
Published:Wednesday | December 26, 2018 | 12:00 AMPaul Williams
The Gleaner chanced upon Felix George, on Wednesday, December 20, in the Canoe Valley of south St Elizabeth and Manchester. We were leaving the scenic Alligator Hole, when he appeared out of nowhere, just as the hens and rooster, and a little...
Published:Thursday | December 20, 2018 | 12:00 AMPaul Williams
Jamaica has no shortage of talented artists and artisans. From east to west, north to south, they have been creating world-class pieces that betray the depth of their intuitiveness and training. Their entrepreneurial zeal is as amazing as their art...
Published:Tuesday | October 2, 2018 | 12:00 AMPaul Williams
The evening was going well, and the fashion spoke for itself. It was rich, colourful, fit for royals. And there were many stylish chiefs, chieftainesses, kings and queens, princes and princesses, strutting their finery on...
Published:Tuesday | September 11, 2018 | 12:00 AMPaul Williams
If ever there were anything that definitely would be at the unveiling of the Miss Lou statue in Gordon Town Square on Friday, September 7, it would be the bandana - that colourful piece of our cultural and social fabric...
Published:Thursday | June 14, 2018 | 12:00 AMPaul Williams
Paul H. Williams Gleaner Writer This weekend marks the end of Ramadan 2018, the holiest month on the Islamic calendar. Some Muslims will be having a feast to break the month-long observance that they have been going through. The start of the...
Published:Wednesday | November 15, 2017 | 12:00 AMPaul Williams
It will be two days of reminiscence and reflection this Saturday, November 18, and Sunday, November 19, when objects and items from the past will be on show at the 26th annual Antiques and Collectibles Fair. It will be held inside Lindo Auditorium,...
Published:Friday | August 18, 2017 | 12:00 AMPaul Williams
In Rasta: A Soul's Journey, Donisha Prendergast travels around the world to find out what it means to be Rastafari, to come to terms with her own identity as a Rastawoman. Some of the things she found brought her to tears, exposing her vulnerability...
Published:Friday | August 11, 2017 | 12:00 AMPaul Williams
Great Huts Resort Paradise on the Edge, located atop cliffs overlooking Boston Bay in Portland, is a small, eco-friendly, Afrocentric retreat resort that is big on the arts.It has an arts programme that engages visitors and locals alike. One such...
Published:Monday | May 22, 2017 | 12:00 AMPaul Williams
One month before Robert Dwayne Morrison was born, on November 18, 1967, his father died. He spent the first years of his life with his mother and grandmother in Bethel Town, St Ann.In the summer of 1975,...
Published:Monday | May 22, 2017 | 12:00 AMPaul Williams
Viola McLean-Brissett was truly a western Jamaica woman. She was born in Balaclava, St Elizabeth, and moved to live with her then husband-to-be Vivian Brissett of Warsop, Trelawny. She settled...
Published:Friday | March 11, 2016 | 12:41 PMPaul Williams
On November 21 and 22, last year, the Franciscan Ministries, under the distinguished patronage of Christopher Issa, chairman of Spanish Court Hotel, presented Classical Harmony, featuring the Immaculate Conception High School Symphony Orchestra,...
Published:Wednesday | January 27, 2016 | 12:00 AMPaul Williams
Up to a few weeks ago, the old Jewish cemetery at White Church Street in Spanish Town, St Catherine was covered with dirt and other debris. One section was a garbage dump, where fires were lit. A marble headstone, in excellent condition,...
Published:Tuesday | September 15, 2015 | 12:22 PMPaul Williams
He's known in the Kumina community as Cha Cha Ben, the dramatic, animated slender man whose Kumina drumming dexterity is second to no other. To see Cha Cha Ben play is to get a lesson in Kumina drumming.At points he would briskly swipe his hand over...
Published:Wednesday | August 12, 2015 | 12:00 AMPaul Williams
Located at Boston Bay, Portland, just five minutes from the Boston jerk centre, Great Huts Resort, Paradise on the Edge is an African-themed, eco-friendly retreat that has cliffs, a beach, a meadow and a jungle in which birds sing and chirp with...
Published:Thursday | July 16, 2015 | 12:00 AMPaul Williams
Two weeks ago, we wrote about the rise and the evolution of the American Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in the United States. The information in the expose might have caused some amount of confusion, as some people are not aware there is a...
Published:Friday | June 5, 2015 | 12:00 AMPaul Williams
Traditionally, set-ups and the marking of the ninth-night were times to mourn, to reflect on the deceased's passing, and to support those who were left behind.But over the years set-ups and 'nine-nights' have evolved into mainly dancehall parties...
Published:Wednesday | June 10, 2015 | 12:00 AMPaul Williams
WE ALL need food to survive, but it is widely felt that there are some types of food that kill. Perhaps over time. And those are the ones that one school of thought believes were nourished by synthetic fertilisers and those said to be genetically...
Published:Saturday | May 16, 2015 | 12:00 AMPaul Williams
The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) remains adamant that opposition to the proposed breakwater project in Long Bay Negril is founded on misconstrued information.Armed with Cabinet approval, NEPA is pushing on with the controversial...
Published:Thursday | March 12, 2015 | 5:48 PMPaul Williams
WATT TOWN, St Ann:IN HIS bright-red, epaulette suit, and pink-and-khaki layered turban, Jason Young walked around the hilltop Zion Headquarters and Jerusalem Schoolroom, located at Watt Town, St Ann.It was Wednesday, March 4, the day of the first...
