Deepika Lal holds a cone made of plastic bag, filled with henna paste. Grasping it with artistic perfection, she uses subtle, meticulous strokes to draw out lines on the palm, converging to create an intricate design.
Representatives of academia, government and the private sector gathered for the recent joint launch of the Mona ICT Policy Centre and the book Ringtones of Opportunity: Policy, Technology and Access in Caribbean Communications.
They entice, solicit, whip up emotions and put a glee in the eyes. Shop-window displays are critical to grab attention and encourage the window shopper to open the door and walk into the store, especially during the Yuletide season.
Do you sometimes feel that you keep doing and trying and doing and trying but nothing seems to be working? There are so many things going on around you, you don't know where to start or end and it's like a maze of confusion? Well, I guess you feel like...
"Gunshots. Dad tells me they were the first thing I heard coming into this world. And the last thing my mom heard as she left. I don't have time to go into the details of how those two events are connected, do I, Detective ... ?"
Shattered and broken she has left me, in a hollow damp box, lost in her affliction. My essence is lost and the vigour of my perfume has been diluted or is completely diffused in misconception, mental slavery and overwhelming oppression.
Tasha rolled her eyes at the young man eyeing her from across the schoolyard. He was clearly new, because as far as Tasha could tell, she had no idea who he was. She could feel his eyes gallivanting all over her body ever since the lunch bell rang. This boy was just sitting there on the fifth form block railing just staring at her like a little creep.
With as much as half of the year designated the atlantic hurricane season, there can be little doubt about Jamaica's vulnerability to natural hazards. And if ever there was need for a reminder, Superstorm Sandy which swept through parts of the Caribbean and the United States east coast a month ago, should still be fresh in our collective minds.
Two powerful books were recently launched at the Norman Manley Law School, UWI, Mona, last Wednesday, November 14 - Howard Hamilton's Born to Defend and Adam McIntyre's Understanding the Criminal.
Thomas Alva Edison's saying, "a genius is one per cent inspiration and 99 per cent perspiration", could fit Arthur Harriott, who is turning metal from its rustic form into subtle and intricate pieces of furniture and objects of daily use.
Spanish Town-born artist Delroy Milwood said that he intends to use his paintbrush to achieve his dream as one of the nation's top artists. Milwood, who was raised in the Brunswick Avenue area of the 'Old Capital', said that he is now formalising his artistic endeavours and has now enrolled at Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts.
It's their divine right, they suppose, to jump on to the bus of their choice to 'trace' all and sundry. Angels sent by God, harbingers of doom, soothsayers they all are. Some toothless, some penniless, some fearless and fare-less.
Redbones the Blues Café, which has gained and maintained notoriety as one of the Corporate Area's most popular restaurants bars and art galleries, as well as an intimate location for live music and other artistic presentations, will be celebrating its 15-year anniversary in December.
We're about to leave Waldeck Castle on Lake Eder in central Germany. Actually, the lake is a huge reservoir built 1904-11 to provide not drinking water - although it could supply Berlin for an entire year - no, it was built to control the flow of rivers.
The art world has long contended that it has never been taken seriously enough by media and other sections of society to garner the necessary support to showcase it as an authentic part of the Jamaican culture.
