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.
Old Harbour Bay resident Theodore Waul got up one morning five years ago and decided that he needed to express himself through painting and he has not looked back since.
It was almost six in the morning, the sun had already risen and Shannon opened her eyes. Her room was a mess, just like every other morning, scattered with textbooks and notepads everywhere. Shannon barely had time to clean up anymore, all she ever managed to do these days was either study or sleep, especially sleep, she was just so tired lately.
Catch the Wind - The Novel has all the elements of a good story mixed with some keen observations of human behaviour. It is a love story played out in the lives of two people struggling to be a success. There are elements of intrigue, romance, danger and betrayal.
