Montreal is a marvelously multicultural city. Our Berber taxi driver is thrilled that we had visited his native Morocco earlier this year. The Spanish-born shoe salesman tells us how he loves the city while our Bangladeshi waiters (college graduates) are busily studying French to increase their employment opportunities.
Dr Anthony Vendryes, the prolific Gleaner health columnist and nutrition expert, is out with another book of health tips and guidelines, especially for women.
Cindy stood next to the old Nissan and chewed her nails anxiously. She craned her head to peer through the glass windows of the driving-test centre. Past the long line of people extending almost to the front doors, she saw four or five people behind the counter. The examiners.
Ever since Johannes Gutenberg invented mechanically movable type that ushered in the printing process in the 15th century, the question of the survival of the book has been raised every time there has been a new technological advance.
Painter Gerard Hanson's exhibition, 'Jamaica Home From Home', which was cancelled in May due to the unrest in west Kingston, began last Thursday at the Revolution Gallery in St Andrew.
My mother used to sit around the Singer sewing machine pedalling away, singing and humming, humming and singing, and sewing. The songs, replete with African retentions, were Revivalist songs, songs to make you think, songs to make you reflect, songs to make you fret.
Renorene Graham, operator of the Little Feet Early Childhood Development Centre in Spanish Town, has lauded the St Catherine Cooperative Credit Union for enhancing school safety.
Five months ago, Princeton Brown, a 19-year-old academic over-achiever living in Port Antonio, Portland, sat at home trying to figure out what to do with his life.
For businesswoman Andrea Dempster, the determination to make Bookophilia - her popular Hope Road book store, café and lounge - a success, is driven by her personal passion for books and a desire to eventually prove that Jamaicans do read and can be encouraged to read more.
Master Painter Barrington Watson celebrates a milestone of 50 years of drawing with the publication of a new book, Barrington: 50 Years of drawing 1958-2008, depicting more than 200 drawings dating back to 1958.
Of late, I, Oxy Moron, have been thinking very much about our existence in this unfolding universe, trying to figure out some of the mysteries of life, and wondering why the world is replete with so much...
In celebration of National Heritage Month 2010, the National Gallery of Jamaica is pleased to present a panel discussion to accompany its current exhibition,...
But for the bloody Grenada revolution of 1983, life in the small territories that comprise the Windward Islands is considered docile compared to larger Caribbean countries like Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago.
Some of us are blessed with good neighbours. Those of you who keep fit by climbing the rocky, pot-holed, eroding-around-the-edges and threatening-to-collapse road known as Mountain Spring, Kingston 6, might be surprised to learn that up to 12 years ago Daniel Theophilous Palmer, Esquire, lived just before the mouth of the spring.
Alan 'Skill' Cole, the former Jamaica football star who was a key member of reggae legend Bob Marley's inner circle, is writing a book about their friendship and the challenges the singer faced in his final months.
Banks are usually quiet. Even the most boisterous person suddenly becomes decent when he or she steps into a bank. Yet, there are those who, from time to time, forget they are in a 'hallowed' place. The persons who speak through their cellular earpieces readily come to mind.
The Harrison Preparatory school in Spanish Town, St Catherine took some time last week to reflect on Jamaica's rich heritage. The school's Jamaica Day celebrations transformed the grounds into a bright display of patriotic colours.
The Department of Literatures in English, University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, will pay tribute to Dr Victor Chang on Tuesday, October 26 at 6 p.m. at the Philip Sherlock Centre for the Creative Arts on the occasion of his retirement from the UWI. Dr Chang retires as senior lecturer after having taught in the department for 32 years.
Two fine artists, Gaston Tabois and Gene Pearson, were among 12 persons awarded Musgrave Medals last Wednesday afternoon. However, Tabois was one of three persons not on hand to be presented with their medals at the Lecture Hall, Institute of Jamaica in Kingston.
Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa won the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature last Thursday as the academy honoured one of the Spanish-speaking world's most acclaimed authors and an outspoken political activist who once ran for president in his tumultuous homeland.
ONE OF Britain's youngest authors is releasing his second book at the end of the month. Jordan Takpi, 10, from Newham, east London, wrote his first book, Jordan and His Spots, at the tender age of six and had it published when he was just seven.
