Filmmaker, Cecile Emeke, turned her first short film ‘Ackee & Saltfish’ into an online web series. Around the same time, she published her independently produced documentary series ‘Strolling’ on YouTube. In so doing,...
Jeanine McIntosh Menze inked her way into the annals of history, becoming the first black female aviator in the history of the United States (US) Coast Guard. McIntosh Menze was born in Kingston, Jamaica and spent her earlier days as a student at...
With the future of the country’s national airline uncertain, Audrey Marks wanted to leave Air Jamaica after 10 years. But the proposed separation terms were unfavourable. Marks, in her 20s at the time, didn’t surrender. She hired an...
Alethea Plummer noticed the severity of her patient’s ulcers, and her will as a nurse intensified. She monitored and dressed wounds twice daily and patients recovered quickly. A high patient-recovery rate is common at the Hyacinth Lightbourne...
Jamaica’s social problems worried Greta Fowler because of how tightly crime and ravaging poverty gripped the nation. Though perturbed, she was not hopeless. Fowler believed theatre could diffuse the unrest in society and at the same time,...
Senator Dr Saphire Longmore is a true nation builder. There she was in 2017, fighting HER2-positive breast cancer, undergoing intense treatment, reconsidering the future of her two sons and coming to grips with a new reality. With her life on the...
While travelling up the mountainside in Jamaica, Lauren Le Franc saw many dedicated women producing some of the “best” coffee. She expected communities to reap the benefits of having hard-working small farmers and quality beans. She was...
Kamilah Taylor is an experienced engineer. It’s her job to come up with elegant and simple solutions to problems. In her field, there’s always something new she has to figure out - similar to life. Taylor’s dad played an...
Kelly Abrahams went to the Dallas Fashion Institute in hopes of mastering the art of garment construction. Instead, she grappled with discrimination and was left to reevaluate the colour of her skin. “You barely existed,” she told Women...
