PORTLAND IS known the world over for its breathtaking vistas of cascading and sparkling waterfalls, mesmerising blue holes, sun-kissed beaches, lush vegetation, misty mountain peaks in the distance, dramatic coastlines, meandering rivers, and so...
TRELAWNY IS widely known for its yellow yam, and as the birth parish of track superstars Veronica Campbell and Usain Bolt. And Toni-Ann Williams, a strawberry farmer, might be another reason why this western Jamaica parish is world renowned. Yet,...
OF ALL the 50 nominees for the 2023 Prime Minister National Youth Awards for Excellence, held recently on the lawns of Jamaica House, Odane Brooks was the one selected to make the response on behalf of the nominees, at the end of the programme....
AT THE recent ceremony for the 2023 Prime Minister National Youth Awards for Excellence held on the lawns of Jamaica House, keynote speaker Prime Minister Andrew Holness and Dr Taniesha Ingleton, managing director at the HEART/NSTA Trust, revealed...
IF YOU cut Evad Campbell you might perhaps see musical notes and not blood flowing from his veins. He is music personified, and when he received his Prime Minister’s National Youth Award for Excellence in the field of music on Saturday, April 20 it...
ON SATURDAY, April 27, and Sunday, April 28, the showgrounds of the Jamaica Horticultural Society, located at the corner of Gibson Drive and Gibson Close in Hope Pastures, St Andrew, will be as busy as a bee searching for nectar at this calendar...
Fifty young people were nominated for the 2023 Prime Minister’s National Youth Awards for Excellence (PMNYAE) \, and on Saturday evening, on the lawns of Jamaica House, 21 nominees became awardees. They are Kuti Kamau Ra, Nile Anderson, Aayush Jain...
Evad Campbell was the lone nominee in the music category of the 2023 Prime Minister National Youth Awards for Excellence (PMNYAE), held on the lawns of Jamaica House on Saturday. And, thus, he was the default winner. But that does not take anything...
Two teams from the University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech) argued their way to first- and second- place positions at the grand finals of the National Collegiate Debating Competition held at St Ann’s Moneague College on Tuesday, April 2....
Twenty-three stories have been shortlisted for the 2024 Commonwealth Short Story Prize by an international judging panel, chaired by novelist and 2014 winner, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi. The shortlisted are from 13 countries, including for the...
Earlier this month, Jamaica’s Taino chief, Kasike Kalaan Nibonrix Kaiman, gave a presentation titled, ‘Stories as medicine: Taino and African Healing and the Environment in Jamaica’, at Northeastern University, a private university with its main...
On Thursday, March 21, in his budget presentation, Prime Minister Andrew Holness said he would table the Jamaica Omnibus Protected Areas Policy Green Paper for the declaration of the protection of five areas, under the Natural Resources...
On Friday, April 5, The African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica/Jamaica Memory Bank (ACIJ/JMB) hosted a media launch of the International Junkanoo Festival of Tourism and Culture: Festival And Exhibition of Masquerade, Tourism and Culture. The...
Neslyn Eugenie Watson was born in Elderslie, St Elizabeth, to Norman Watson and Linnett Barrett. She, who has 15 siblings from both sides of her family, attended school at Elderslie and Retirement. For a while she worked as a civil servant in the...
EASTER IS a very important holiday in Christendom. It’s the memorial of the arrest, crucifixion and resurrection of the Messiah Jesus Christ. Christians claim he, who was betrayed by Judas, shed his blood to save the world from sin. They firmly...
VIVIAN CRAWFORD, born in Moore Town, Portland, came to historic Kingston city for the first time in 1949, on a market truck. The experience was so enriching that he went back home speaking “proper English”. Ten years later, he returned to Kingston...
IN JAMAICA, rum cream liqueurs are regarded as beverages for females, yet they have universal appeal. People’s palates like their smooth, creamy taste. There are several brands on the market, and since 2022, Smith’s Rum Cream, manufactured in May...
FORMER PRIME Minister P. J. Patterson recruited Dr Carlton Davis, a mineralogist, into his government at a time when there was a great need to transform the civil service. And for several years, Dr Davis was the head of the civil service in the...
FOR DECADES, St Thomas has oft been referred to as the ‘forgotten parish’. Yet, it is a place steeped in history and heritage and is endowed with some spectacular natural features, for nature has given St Thomas more than its fair share of beauty...
WHEN SHE was 16, Sundra Oakley, actress, dancer, writer and producer, among other things, who was born in Queens, New York, landed her first role in a television commercial. It was the beginning of the fulfilment of her dream to be a big star as an...
IT RAINED on the parade grounds of Newcastle on Saturday, March 2, but the cool water from the sky, the slight mist and the chilly temperate could not dampen the spirit of those who were at the 2024 Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee Festival. And, it...
THE RECENT Creative Career Expo produced and hosted by the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport (MCGES) at the Jamaica Conference Centre, downtown Kingston, targeted senior high-school and tertiary-level students who have an...
MUTABARUKA, BORN Allan Hope, is one of Jamaica’s well-known media personalities and poets. But, he is much more than that. He gained attention in his youth as a performance poet, whose work is searing, rebellious, probing, inciteful, militant,...
ON WEDNESDAY, February 21, the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport hosted its annual Creative Career Expo at the Jamaica Conference Centre in downtown Kingston. In attendance were senior high school and tertiary-level students, as...
FOR 300 years Europeans transported West Africans to the West Indies to work on plantations under the inhuman system of chattel slavery, the narratives of which is told mainly by the Europeans themselves. The voices of the Africans – the ones who...
