As the creative and cultural industries develop, Caribbean creative and cultural practitioners are often forced to redefine themselves and to sometimes take on additional roles for the sake of their sector’s success. A great weakness of creative...
Giving you your roses while you can still smell them This poem is dedicated to Juieth Tucker, 91, and Cynthia Robinson Tucker, 90, my grandparents whom I love very much. Both alive. Both well. Married forever. I wrote this poem to say I hope...
Even though I started my working life at the then Bureau of Women’s Affairs, which was established coinciding with International Women’s Year in 1975, I am still making some interesting discoveries about women and the workplace. From feedback, it...
Huawei Technologies Jamaica Company Limited has welcomed six students from the University of Technology, Jamaica and The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, Jamaica for its internship programme. The programme, which was launched in 2019,...
On Friday, August 26, Greek graphic designer Maria Papaefstathiou launched her poster exhibition, ‘Portraits of Jamaica’, at the Regional Headquarters of The University of the West Indies (UWI). Co-hosts of the event were the Institute of...
Half time love Breadcrumbs, are for birds, not for boys or girls; To settle is a crime, for nothing - less than best is a waste of time. Don't be mistaken, even the son said he felt forsaken but hot and cold, can...
Jamaicans have a history of travel, and for many, a passport has long been a desired document. It is a symbol of nationality, a travel document, and official identification. In our history, all the peoples who settled in Jamaica, including the...
The word ‘Educare’ has its origin in the Latin word ‘Educare’, which means ‘to elicit’. Educare has two aspects: the worldly and the spiritual. Worldly education brings out the latent knowledge pertaining to the physical world. Spiritual...
Within just two years, the United Kingdom (UK) could be home to the planet’s biggest drone superhighway thanks to the plans of a group of technology companies. It sounds like something out of a science fiction movie, but it is just one of a number...
Theodore Eustace Sealy, 1909-2001, was associated with The Gleaner newspaper for over 50 years. He had a front-row seat to many events of national and regional importance after he joined the newspaper’s editorial staff at a junior level in 1928,...
A teacher is like a guidepost. He or she should guide the students in the proper direction. If the guidepost itself is loose, how can it point to the right direction? So a teacher should have a steady mind. Only then can he guide the students along...
Every pregnant woman anxiously awaits the birth of her child. When the baby is born healthy, it is a joy. Nicole Baker felt that joy when her baby girl was born. But it morphed into unspeakable sorrow when the baby died suddenly four days later. It...
Jamaican Ceramics: A Historical and Contemporary Survey is a refreshingly comprehensive examination of the development of ceramics from pre-history to today. This visually rich, exciting, and authoritative book is an unprecedented survey that...
Every country has stories to tell, paths of history that it has walked on, and foundations upon which its future is built. A country’s flag, is a symbol of its freedom and identity, and its inherent value systems – the Indian tricolour encapsulates...
Jubilation 1 The jubilation began with the creation of the nation. The joy outpoured, the Tree of Hope we planted, the heights we would attain, the fellowship we swore, the vows we made, the promises laid down – Who knew it would be so...
Trees teach the lesson of sacrifice in the sense that they not only bear fruits while they are alive,but also give away their body to be used as firewood once the life goes out of them. Amongst teachers, a tree is the greatest. (Telugu [language...
As said many times, as a small, developing island state, international trade, both imports and exports, is very important in Jamaica’s economic development. Jamaica, becoming an independent nation, supported the concept that trade and development...
The General Election held in April 1962 was won by Sir Alexander Bustamante’s Jamaica Labour Party (JLP). The new premier, aged 78, appointed his Cabinet, which would prepare Jamaica for Independence and lead the country through its first years as...
You are dealing with children as their teachers, guides and examples. You have to equip yourselves for those roles by living the values that distinguish man. Establish the values in yourselves, practise them, and derive great joy from them. “As...
TEL AVIV, (AP) A long-lost painting by the British graffiti artist Banksy has resurfaced in a swank art gallery in downtown Tel Aviv, an hour’s drive and a world away from the concrete wall in the occupied West Bank, where it was initially...
During his recent state visit to Jamaica, the President of India, Ram Nath Kovind, while addressing the joint sitting of the Jamaican Parliament, exclaimed that if cultural richness was made the metric for measuring the strength of nations, Jamaica...
Technology is not static, and nowadays, it is moving so fast that some people cannot keep abreast of it. It is pervading every aspect of our lives and we cannot help but being affected some way or the other by it. These are the days of teller-less...
With Jamaica poised to become an independent nation on Monday, August 6, 1962, it had to be prepared not only to have its own national emblems/symbols, but it had to now assume responsibility for its own foreign policy and defence. So the...
