More than 40 years after his shocking expulsion from the institution where many of his ideals were shaped and 31 years after his death, Walter Rodney packed the Neville Hall Lecture Theatre at the University of the West Indies...
Her face is magic, magnetic, mesmerising. The camera loves her. I'd read before about certain people whose interaction with film transform them into stellar attractions.
Arthur Wint's place in history was assured when the six-foot, five-inch quarter-miler became the first Jamaican to win an Olympic gold medal at the 1948 Games in Manchester, England.
The many empty chairs that outnumbered those taken by the audience at the Undercroft at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona campus on Thursday, October 13, told a story of their own for attendance to events staged at the...
Dr (Lady) Sue Dale Tunnicliffe, lecturer in education and research associate, Institute of Education, University of London, will be visiting Jamaica as special guest of The Mico University College, to participate in its Research Day, scheduled for...
Acclaimed Trinidadian writer Earl Lovelace will deliver the Fifth Edward Baugh Distinguished Lecture on Sunday, November 13, at 11 a.m., at the Philip Sherlock Centre for the Creative Arts.
Zoe 'Aunt Zoe' Gordon, a much-loved fixture in Connors district, located on the Clarendon and St Catherine border, recently celebrated her 100th birthday with much fanfare.
The Department of Literatures in English, University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona will hold the first in a series of writers' workshops on Saturday, November 12, 2011 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the UWI, Mona campus.
Jackie Ranston, author of the recently launched Behind the Scenes at King's House 1873-2010, commissioned by the Jamaica National Building Society with proceeds going to the King's House Foundation "for the restoration and maintenance of this house in history", left school in London at age 16 to work for Longmans, Green & Co publishing firm.
In her darkest hour, a stranger stepped in and made things better. Sonia Lambert, a struggling single mother whose tale of falling on hard times was highlighted in Arts and Education two weeks ago, has received a helping hand.
Sister Adele Marie Hugue, OSF celebrated her 100th birthday on October 12. Born in Long Island, New York, USA, Sister Adele Marie entered the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany in 1933 and after a year and a half of Formation in Religious Life, she was missioned to Jamaica, arriving in Kingston by banana boat in 1934.
Few topics evoke as much passion as religion, which suits a self-described argumentative like Timothy Aldred just fine. His indifference to the tenets of traditional Christianity inspired him to write Bamboozled! Besieged by Lies, Man Never a Sinner, his third book.
If you are going to read one book to change your diet and your life, The Kitchen Counter Cooking School is it. The second book by Le Cordon Bleu graduate Kathleen Flinn starts with her stalking a woman...
Father Richard Ho Lung's latest theatrical production, Acts of the Apostles, produced to raise funds for his Missionaries of the Poor charities, recently closed. We take a look back....
