Donald Bogle at 95 is now happily retired, living in Toronto, Canada. At the height of his professional career in education, he rose to become a Rhodes Scholar, and Jamaica’s first past student to have become principal of Wolmer’s Boys’ School. He...
The cultural group Braata Singers has been in existence in New York City for 15 years and, during that time, they have delivered excellent choral folk performances nationally and internationally to consistent rave reviews. The group’s initial...
The days were dreary for sure after Monday, September 12. But those nights in 1988 were straight from a hellish horror movie with families enveloped in clouds of blackness, barely able to see each other after sunset because the nights were so dark...
ROTA is Reggae on the Avenue, and it is arguably the best representative of an authentic dancehall party in Brooklyn, New York City. It mimics Jamaica as a sort of outdoor/indoor street location and due to its summertime set-up, the ROTA party...
COMING ON the heels of his gold medal win in the 4x100-metre men’s relay at the Paris Olympics for Canada, Jamaican-Canadian sprinter Brendon Rodney has joined the athletics division of the GC Foster College of Sport in Spanish Town, Jamaica....
Labour Day Weekend in the United States, which falls just before the first Monday in September, is the biggest party season for Caribbean Americans. More than one million people watch the Caribbean floats each year, and the entertainment spotlight...
It was the perfect New York City night out! After consecutive days of pouring rain, some of it brought on by the remnants of Hurricane Debby, the New York City skies suddenly cleared and a shimmering Saturday evening sunset formed the backdrop for...
NEW YORK: Clive Blackwood, executive vice president and general auditor at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York, is the keynote speaker for this year’s Jamaica People’s Ball in New York in celebration of Jamaica’s 62nd anniversary of Independence...
Passionate and high-energy tourism events and social media/PR director Steven Pottinger has died. He was 56. Steven’s mother, Norma Thomas, confirmed that her beloved son died at Medical Associates in Kingston on Sunday night after a prolonged...
CORAL SPRING, Trelawny: Ten top-tier travel advisers from the northeastern United States (US) were in Jamaica last week on a familiarisation tour called ‘Come Back to Breathtaking’. The travel specialists were in the island learning about new...
CORAL SPRING, TRELAWNY: Ten top-tier travel advisers from the northeastern United States are in Jamaica this week on a familiarisation tour called ‘Come Back to Breathtaking’. The travel specialists are learning about new properties and updating...
A new wave of economic development has been unfolding in Guyana as a result of the discovery of oil and natural gas in that CARICOM nation. The find is estimated to be worth at least US$150 billion and signs of the new wealth are everywhere:...
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has declared Saturday, May 11, Issa Trust Foundation Day in New York. The special honour is in recognition of the foundation’s ongoing efforts to raise funds for the construction of the Mary Issa Paediatric and...
Gramps Morgan, one of the founding members of iconic Grammy winning reggae group, Morgan Heritage, is currently in Asia, making brave attempts to heal and clear his mind after the death of his brother Peetah Morgan, who died in Florida at age 47. “...
The Issa Trust Foundation is intensifying its efforts to make a health centre for children in Richmond, St Ann, a reality. In this regard, the foundation is staging its second fundraising gala in New York City on Saturday, May 11, at the posh East...
The Rt Reverend Rose Hudson-Wilkin, the Jamaica-born Bishop of Dover, will address the Festal Evensong at the Cathedral of St Jago de la Vega in Spanish Town, St Catherine, on Sunday. Hudson-Wilkin was born in Montego Bay, St James, and describes...
Keisha Schahaff, the Caribbean’s first traveller into space, has landed in Jamaica. Schahaff and her teenage daughter rocketed onto newspapers around the world a few months ago when they became the first Caribbean nationals to journey into space....
Although I have enjoyed a wide range of travel experiences over the years, both daunting and thrilling, my visit to the Nairobi National Park humbled me, reinforcing the profound interconnectedness of all creatures in a meticulously balanced food...
When I arrived at my resort in the north shore of the Dominican Republic on an early Friday morning, a part of me was exhausted. I had to endure one of those late-night flights from New York to the Caribbean. But, another part of me was wide awake...
Next Friday evening, September 22, a Jamaican book bashment of sorts will unfold in New York City. Under the umbrella of the American Foundation for the University of the West Indies, seven Jamaican writers will converge in Manhattan to share...
JOSEPH MCINTYRE, a centenarian from Balaclava, St Elizabeth, passed away on Tuesday, three days before celebrating Friday’s National Centenarian Day. At 102 years old, McIntyre enjoyed a full life, and he certainly had a lot to celebrate during his...
In 1956, global entertainment icon and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte had already bulldozed his way to the top of the Billboard album charts. His release called Calypso was cemented on the weekly American charts for over half a year and its...
Jamaica’s deputy director of tourism for the Americas, Donald Dawson, has stepped down from managing the lion’s share of Jamaica’s tourism fortunes worldwide. Donnie Dawson, as he is called in tourist industry circles contributed over 44 years to...
Last Monday was celebrated as Commonwealth Day in the United Kingdom and across the member countries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Americas, the Pacific and Europe. In Britain, shortly after King Charles III delivered his first-ever...
