Lifestyle Archive

I am a new mother and I am getting a lot of unsolicited advice from strangers. Sometimes I am annoyed, and at other times, I just laugh at the situation. Since pregnancy, people have been giving me advice and sometimes I resent it.

Bump! Clank! Sprig! The smoking truck laboured up the mountain road. It was carrying sand and seemed unlikely to make it all the way. I stood as far away from it as I could, though there isn't much room on that Dublin Castle road in St Andrew...

JOY KARIAMU has been keeping our African heritage alive in Jamaica and the diaspora through her work as a dance teacher. Kariamu grew up in Manchester but migrated to the United States of America, where while working at IBM, she started a dance class in the late 1980s called Reggaesize.

RAY 'BONGO Ray' Morgan's black, wrinkleless face, framed by tangled dreadlocks, glistened and glowed. Mischief and mystique twinkled in his eyes when he spoke. His laughter was mocking and self-assured. He's in his early 60s, but his trim, lithe, diminutive body looks like that of a petit 16-year-old youth.

Dear Counsellor,I have a lot of stresses and I don't think that I am coping well.- Margaret

You don't just happen upon a place like Content Gap in rural St Andrew. No, sir. Getting there is a military-grade test of your mental fortitude and physical durability. If the long drive doesn't get you, the potholes and narrow roads most certainly will....

KIND HEARTS Limited is an organisation which has been touching the lives of people right across Jamaica through its charitable work. As a family, they have committed to give to the less fortunate in any way they possibly can.

SHE WAS born August 8, 1912, and 100 years later, Rachel Green-Johnson is still going strong, singing for the Lord, and being a living testament of what good food and a happy life can bring.

I returned to Cane River in St Andrew (near Bull Bay) recently, to fulfil an obligation to one Margaret Johnson, an approachable sexagenarian with a minor obsession with orchids...

Q I am a virgin, and an older man has asked me to go to bed with him.

I have developed some bad habits to help myself cope with stress. I smoke a lot and I drink alcohol in large quantities. I would like to kick these habits.