Art & Leisure

Book: Pearls Among Stones Author: Christena Williams

Every Sunday mi come a Sunday school

He was born Colin Beckford 46 years ago. Today, he's known as Ringo, who has a ring in his nose, a skilled boatman who has been taking visitors around Portland's San San Bay and Blue Lagoon.

So, it was off to the air show. It was a holiday, after all, and I needed the break. My blood pressure had risen to a deadly 140/90 and I was not about to drop dead before I experienced the big 4-0.

Many of us are asked that question, but do we really know the answer? How do you answer such a question anyway? All you know is that you're here on Earth doing what you were told to do all your life and you know no different than to think that there can be something else, something better or greater.

Classical Chinese painting has a long history and is one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions in the world. The art form distinguishes itself from other cultures' arts by emphasis on motion and change with dynamic life.

Book: John Hearne's Life and Fiction: A Critical Biographical Study

Jamaican literary giant, Kwame Dawes, recently reintroduced the public to a poet most had thought they had left behind in high school: T.S. Eliot.

"All the world's a stage ... ." The words echo from William Shakespeare's As You Like It. For the Ward Theatre, the stage is the world from which voices echoed, scenes were enacted, and emotions played out to a rousing audience.

A second-form student from the Norman Manley High School will have her entire university tuition paid in full - if she can get there.

Nellie Olson migrated to Jamaica from Indiana, in the United States, after the 1907 earthquake with her husband, the Reverend George Olson. They were both Christian missionaries, and the couple enjoyed a tremendously productive life in Jamaica. They established the Church of God in Jamaica and a theological seminary.

In a bid to help improve literacy in Manchester schools, DOS 2009 Limited, local distributor of RICOH equipment, has embarked on an initiative to provide much-needed digital equipment to eight rural institutions in the parish.