Access to menstrual products should be treated as a necessity, not a luxury. With primary and high schools back to face-to-face delivery after nearly two years of remote learning because of the COVID-19 pandemic, now is the ideal time to address...
Life’s aftermath ebbs and flows throughout Ocean Vuong’s poetry collection Time Is a Mother. An ode to his mother’s passing, Vuong orbits the contours of grief, embedding them into clausal configurations and juxtaposed tones. These structures are...
With the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls Championships (Champs) concluding on Saturday, I thought that I would tell the story of my discovery of Gerald Claude Eugene (G.C.) Foster, 1885-1966. I took note that the College of Physical Education and...
Sophie’s Childlike Faith, second book written by the author, Sophia Erskine, made its debut at number one on Amazon in new releases. Sophie’s Childlike Faith is a compilation of stories centred around the miraculous power of faith. Each story...
Clinton Vane De Brosse Black, 1918-1993, government archivist, historian and author is Jamaica-born and bred. He dedicated his life to serving Jamaica. It has been said in recent times by a caller to radio talk programmes that Clinton Black was not...
Students of today are the future citizens and leaders of the country. For the country to progress, the citizens have to cultivate sacred thoughts, moral, ethical, and spiritual values, all of which must begin in early childhood. In this regard,...
Just over 100 years after slavery was abolished in Jamaica, a community was established at Pinnacle in St Catherine. Pinnacle was created as a place and a concept for industry and self-reliance. The year was 1940 and Jamaica was still under...
Education must result in purifying one’s perceptions. It has to develop and co ordinate moral and spiritual urges and ensure good character. While discriminating between “good” and “bad”, the educated person must apply the criterion of service to...
Affirmation Heroes is a book written by Lavar Drummond, a Jamaican living in Detroit. This book teaches our young minds to think positive thoughts as well as to manifest the good they want to see in their lives. The book follows the journey of Gio...
The Gleaner newspaper is the first recipient of the Moods! World’s Poetry Day certificate for contribution to empowerment of persons and a gift to education; the certificate was awarded by the Moods! Committee at Church Teachers’ College,...
The Jamaica Library Service (JLS) is the recipient of copies of the book: ‘Shaping a Servant Leader’ by Neville Ying, donated by Seprod Foundation. Thirteen volumes were donated, which is in addition to a complimentary copy from the author,...
Rudolph Augustus Burke was a planter, sportsman and politician. He was born in St Thomas on June 13, 1899, the son of Charles Simeon Burke, a farmer, of Llandewey, St Thomas. He attended Wolmer’s Boys and Jamaica College between 1909-1916. At JC,...
With Jamaica starting to ease restrictions and entrusting citizens with the responsibility to live with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, it is time to put the spotlight on the efforts of Jamaican and Caribbean stakeholders to engage in planning for public...
When Russia invaded Ukraine, Ukrainian American writer Ilya Kaminsky’s poem ‘We Lived Happily During the War’ went viral across social media. Poetry can often help people make sense of the world in difficult times. For World Poetry Day, The...
“Let us move together, let us grow together Let us foster the knowledge that we have earned together Let us live together in harmony” How many countries have won freedom from foreign rule, but sadly, have not won unity? Students! Unity is...
From the mid-1920s, the Scotts were a prominent family in Jamaica. George Hosford Scott was born in Kingston on January 18, 1893, to George and Edwina Scott. His father was a contractor/builder. He attended Wolmer’s Boys’ School and joined the...
Exams play a big role in evaluating students. Testing is an important method used to determine the extent to which course material has been learned by pupils and provides a standardised mode for certification. Despite the fact that exams are a key...
The Peter Massias Foundation presented scholarship in the amount of $200,000 to three students of Camperdown High School Janae Hudson and Shanoya McKenzie will receive a one-time award of $50,000 each based on the impact their application essays...
What a journey it has been for Knox College! Since opening its doors in 1947, the institution has grown significantly to a current population of 1,600 students. Founded by Rev Dr Lewis Davidson and David Bent under the auspices of the Presbyterian...
As International Women’s Day was commemorated on Tuesday, March 8, I looked at my copy of the Who’ s Who of Jamaica BWI 1941-1946, which has 671 pages, and found that it included just about 80 women. Most of these women were mainly educators,...
At a book launch in Kingston, CEO of Lifespan Spring Water Co Nayana Williams officially introduced her novel titled The Lifespan Movement: Progress. Purpose. Happiness. It was held on the occasion of International Women’s Day 2022, which was...
A student’s motto When you see my mother leave star, Worry think mi a go road go par. Mi afi tek my book and go read, Nuh girl and nuh boy cant gi mi no weed. Right now mi wah fi live my dream, Doing that nuh depend no team. Di heights by great...
