Art & Leisure

It was a night under the stars at the Hotel Four Seasons on Friday, October 28, when Yaundeen Wright launched her second anthology called Teachers Are Human Too.Close friends and family of the Jamaica-born poet were gathered together to show her...

The artistry I found to be compelling as I witnessed the simplicity of the design process, Sachi Shitara chatting easily while creating my customised gift bag - in less than 10 minutes!Two sheets from the day's Gleaner publication - my choice of the...

BODDEN TOWN, Grand Cayman:Luelan Bodden's display at the welcome reception for the participants attending the Caribbean Week of Agriculture 2016, which ended last Friday, was the standout stall. Having been driven for almost 45 minutes after a long...

Inner-city Spanish Town community. The dark lanes and the 'dead yard' were busy. It was the wake for the community activist who was killed in broad daylight by the area don, 'Jim Bum'. Nobody in the community had seen Jim Bum since then.People were...

How many milk cartons does it take to make a roll of toilet paper,? asked Yoichi Ishii, section manager of Corelex San-Ei Regulator Tokyo Mill, the answers were way off the mark ranging from 25 to 75. "Five," Ishii said, as he tore a...

Exactly a year ago, in New York City, a glitzy annual fundraiser, hosted by the Rockhouse Foundation at Joe's Pub in Lower Manhattan, raised nearly a quarter million dollars in one night to fund charities administered by the foundation in...

Like any tradesman, if you are without your tools, you can't get to work. The same applies to anyone with a job, business, or even a hobby and even the simple daily task of everyday life - you need your tools. As an author, you, too, need your tools...

An exhibition of paintings by Carol Crichton opened at The Olympia Gallery on Thursday evening with keynote address by Senator Tom Tavares-Finson, CD, QC, president of the Senate as well as chairman of the National Gallery of Jamaica.The works on...