Jason Sawyers is the winner of the 2013 JPS Night Lights Photo Competition held last month. The winning entry, shot at the Spanish Town roundabout in St Catherine, captured the top spot among 400 entries from professional and amateur photographers across Jamaica.
There is a semblance of movement/in the gentle Christmas breeze/of the white-washed trees./The stones in the yard, also white,/and done to catch the light,/are gleaming in the sun./Yams, cocoas, vegetables and fruits/are in abundance,
Everybody wants to be on radio or TV, so why not online radio? Yes, there is such a thing as online radio and it has actually trumped traditional radio. You can set up in less than a minute and be your own host or disc jockey in real time.
Marie Baillie loves animals, and she knows that the Jamaica Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (JSPCA), of which she is a client, is strapped for cash. So, this trained nurse-cum-banker-cum-nurse sent her caregiving mode into overdrive, and has come up with an idea to raise funds for the ailing institution, which might soon have to give up the premises on which it is operating at 10 Winchester Road, Kingston 10.
On Sunday, December 8, Stewart's Hardware Limited with co-sponsors Berger Paints hosted its 3rd annual art show, 'Art Affair', at its Stewart's Hardware and Home Centre May Pen, Clarendon, branch.
The calm and pleasant atmosphere in the garden of the Emrie James Museum at the St Andrew High School for Girls, on Cecelia Avenue in St Andrew, served as the perfect backdrop for the launch of Island Reliquaries: Voices from a Jamaican Past on Tuesday, December 4.
New York-born Dr Paul Rhodes, known popularly as Dr Paul, of Washington, DC, has a long association with Jamaica, from his tourist visit here in 1973, to pursuing a medical school elective in Hanover in 1974, ....
The brick-wall edifice still reverberates with the click of the hooves of the carriage drawn by horses, aristocracy in all their Sunday best, alighting and walking up the doorsteps.
It's been hours now that I've been sitting at this intersection with my hazard lights on. A few passers-by offered assistance, but they couldn't help with the problem. For the problem was not with the car but with me. I don't know if I should go left or right.
Robyn MillerContributorSet on lush sloping lands, mounds of Blue Mountains hugging every inch of them, Stafford Schliefer could not have chosen a better location for his 'Potpourri' exhibition of 28 new works on a warm December afternoon.It was the...
The name Fabian Barracks may not ring a bell in theatre circles, but if last Thursday's gala night performance of Gaza Boys at the Theatre Place, Haining Road, is anything to go by, all that may change soon for the young, promising writer and director.
Exquisite and thought-provoking! Katherine Silvera's work focuses on a constant visual dialogue with herself and ideas held in her subsconciousness. Her pieces recently exhibited at the Flow Boardroom, Hope Zoo, depicted a world related to her experiences and reality and signified a multitude of themes and contorted forms on different subjects.
Right here in Jamaica, the biggest gift-giving season is Christmas. Even some of those who do not believe in the Yuletide from time to time are caught up in the frenzy of Christmas shopping, which can be quite stressful for some people.
Father Ho Lung's advocacy of another aspect of subsidiarity was evident during a concert tour of Trinidad and Tobago in January 1978, when he told a journalist that he wished to preserve the local indigenous cultures of the Caribbean: "He stresses that,...
Last Sunday afternoon, Professor Edward Baugh's reading from his new publication, Back Sand: New and Selected Poems, was preceded by an extensive analysis of what Dr Michael Bucknor described as "Baugh's poetics of the unnoticed".
Respected Jamaican artist Stafford Schliefer, who once said painting for him is like "breathing", will this afternoon team up with Cecil Cooper to serve up a 'Potpourri' of art at 3 Belcour Lodge on the outskirts of Papine, from 1 to 5 p.m.
"Art found me, it was in me and all I had to do was to let it flow," said Tashanya Traile, a young, self-taught artist. Traile says she is an artist inspired by personal experiences and struggles.
Kinetic art is unique. It does not cling haplessly on walls or stand like cold, emotional sentinels. It engages you, eliciting a response, as it literally comes alive, thanks to unseen motion sensors. And the man behind the magic is Guy Beckles, the only celebrated kinetic artist in the Caribbean.
