Today's Jamaican launch of Olive Senior's first novel, Dancing Lessons, at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona marks a milestone in this award-winning Jamaican author's achievements.
Title: Then Again Publishers: Random House Author: Diane Keaton In her revealing and perceptive memoir, actress Diane Keaton recalls the bittersweet love affair that's dominated her life.
Micro is a new, posthumous story from the late Michael Crichton, who died in 2008, and finished by Richard Preston, author of the non-fiction best-seller The Hot Zone. It's a thriller about a biotech company in Hawaii and a group of students who end up stranded and endangered in a rain forest.
Experts have reclassified a painting of an old man long thought to have been made by one of Rembrandt's students as having come from the hand of the Dutch master himself, after X-ray analysis revealed outlines of a self-portrait of the artist as a young man underneath.
"Students island-wide who will be sitting the CXC/CSEC examinations, I implore you to make use of the opportunities being afforded. You owe this to yourselves to do your best and to deliver on your potential and on this tremendous investment being made by the National Commercial Bank."
We can see St Patrick's Cathedral from our window on the 32nd floor of the Waldorf Towers in the historic Waldorf Astoria Hotel on Park Avenue and 50th Street, mid-town Manhattan. Even better, Prime Minister Andrew Holness greets us at breakfast this morning as he prepares for a day of meetings, speeches...
This anthology of short stories by students of grade 10 and 11 at St Mary High School, was compiled by head of the school's English department, Althea Tucker-Clarke.
Author Charles Finch is always at home in the 19th century, so he has no trouble developing his sea legs in his new Charles Lenox mystery, A Burial at Sea.
It's always sounded like a joke in search of a punch line: Hollywood star Hedy Lamarr helped develop the technology that would make cellphones, Wi-Fi and GPS possible.
Prize-winning Jamaican writer, Olive Senior, will launch her first novel, Dancing Lessons, on Sunday, December 11 at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona campus.
Paul Mountain Primary School in St Catherine has been refurbished and expanded at a cost of more than $21 million, courtesy of Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF). The newly renovated compound was officially opened last week.
FORT SMITH, Arkansas (AP):About five years ago, while visiting his daughter in Japan, Bob Worley toured a silk museum where the exhibits opened with a mulberry tree, a web and a worm.
MARYSVILLE, Wash. (AP):Jason Rounds isn't just a toymaker. He's the son of a toymaker, a second-generation, modern-day Geppetto, at 37 years old, inspired by his father, who was inspired by him.
