Art & Leisure

The Library and Information Association of Jamaica (LIAJA) will host the 40th Anniversary Conference of the International Association of School Librarians (IASL), at the University of the West Indies, Mona, from the 7th to 11th August 2011, under the...

I am a man Who walks on a thick Short line of gunpowder with a lit cigarette in hand

The amount of newsprint, airtime, bytes and sound bites gobbled up and spat out by last January's earthquake in Haiti is incalculable - and it continues one year later, what with...

The National Gallery of Jamaica has announced that its Saturday Art-Time children's programme will be continuing in 2011, resuming on January 15.

When I was a youngster, which is not many years ago, it was taboo for men to wear white pants and shoes, pants without back pockets, floral clothes, anklets and bangles, anything pink, earrings, slippers, to press and cream their hair, to 'carry news' and gossip, and to join a school's dance troupe.

She passed, without incident, through immigration at Miami International and moved briskly to collect her luggage. As she approached the carousel, she caught sight of the police officers. They stood still, not looking her way but she still felt the urge to run. Deliberately, she slowed her steps and looked again over her shoulder.

Precisely a year ago, Time magazine revealed that while 65 per cent of the people who made a resolution in 2008 kept their promise for at least part of the year, 35 per cent never even made it past the first week. I believe that the experience of most Jamaicans is similar.

The carpets are worn and the rooms have a musty feel. Yet Havana's iconic Hotel Nacional de Cuba, which marked its 80th birthday last Thursday, wears its slightly shabby elegance with pride, an ageing beauty a bit past its prime.

Do you know anything about Enid Bagnold? Well, she was a British author and playwright who lived from October 27, 1889 - March 31, 1981. She, perhaps, is best known for her 1935 story National Velvet, which was made into a 1944 film starring Elizabeth Taylor.

For John Maxwell He took his pen, pen that's pulse and wrote...

Associated Press: As Greece faced a debt crisis, the government passed a series of strict austerity measures, including tax hikes and cutting public sector pay.The move sparked angry protests, strikes and riots across ...

Local galleries flew flags at half mast this year to mourn the passing of three Jamaican painters - Albert Huie, Seya Parboosingh and Dawn Scott - all of whom contributed to the golden age of the country's art.