Art & Leisure

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Florence, the northern Italian Tuscan city on the banks of the Arno River, is renowned for its architecture and artwork which flowered in the 14th to 16th centuries.

Junior Achievement Jamaica will honour 14 teachers as part of its annual Champions for Youth Awards banquet on May 29. Today, we highlight three of these great teachers.

Self-published authors must learn how to promote their own work. You can have a fabulous self-published book, but without promotion, no copies will sell and no one will even know it exists to even read it. So how can you promote your own book?

The National Gallery of Jamaica is pleased to present 'Anything with Nothing: Art from the Streets of Urban Jamaica', an exhibition of street art from Kingston and its environs. The exhibition will open at the National Gallery on May 25 and will remain on view until July 11.

For a few years now, internationally acclaimed guitarist Seretse Small has been announcing his retirement from paid performances.

Yulanda Parish believes that she is 'naturally connected' with deaf children and is determined to mentor and motivate them as much as possible. She has an incredible zeal to ...

A 'Vignette' has been defined by the Concise Oxford Dictionary as a "brief, vivid description". Paul Jennings' 'Vignettes' certainly fits that definition, but I would also add the adjective "evocative", to adequately capture the intent of the author of this book - to stir our thoughts, memories, and emotions with the nostalgia and poignancy of recollections and reminiscences of the rich experiences of his childhood in West Kingston.

Junior Achievement Jamaica will honour 14 teachers as part of its annual Champions for Youth Awards banquet on May 29. Today, we highlight three of these great teachers.

Pursing a double-major degree in computer science and dance might seem impossible at first glance. However, Juett Carty, the 2014 Jamaica National General Insurance Company (JNGI) Rex Nettleford Scholarship Dance Scholarship recipient, has found a way to pursue her passion.

At high school, we learned about the different types of pollution - air, water, land, and noise - but I would like to suggest marketing as a form of pollution.

Youth Upliftment Through Employment (YUTE) Limited has partnered with eMedia Interactive Limited to train 40 unattached youth in film, television and media production through its YUTE Lens Support programme.