Students of Holy Family Primary and Infant School were beneficiaries of an initiative by Boston College and its alumni in collaboration with Royale Computers and Accessories. The students were gifted with tablet computers, which would assist them...
In this winter of hunkering down at home, there’s a trend that’s just right for the times: quilts as décor and as art. An artistic quilt might be displayed prominently on a wall, thrown over a couch, or just folded and hung from the rungs of a...
In Robert Jones Jr’s The Prophets, Samuel and Isaiah are two enslaved men in love on a Deep South plantation. They spend their days caring for the animals in the barn, which has also become their haven. It is where they can be together, where they...
2020: A year in review We started 2020 with a very hopeful, positive vision, But this year had its own plans and a very disastrous mission. So instead of abounding greatness, something else became quite clear, And that was a realisation to be...
Whether you are an avid reader or not, you may consider reading Men and Women of God Arise in the Workplace and Conquer! How to Navigate The Seas of Jealousy, Envy and Sabotage. The central theme of this book by Kadeen Dobbs is to teach and train...
French fashion designer Pierre Cardin possessed a wildly inventive artistic sensibility, tempered by a stiff dose of business sense. He had no problem acknowledging that he earned more from a pair of stockings than from a haute couture gown with a...
It is a New Zealand-Jamaica Christmas 2020 and new year 2021 at Meeting Ground. Welcome (or Kia Ora as we say in New Zealand) to Christmas and the New Year. I always think of this period as a baptism or cleansing time before we face the coming...
Rotary has initiated training programme for the next generation of peace leaders from various cultures and countries. Since the Rotary Foundation launched the Rotary World Peace Fellows programme in 2002, a total of 1,300 young leaders from across...
As 2020 winds down, we take a walk down the lanes of history. World heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali visited Jamaica in December 1974 at the invitation of Prime Minister Michael Manley. His four-day visit was considered to be a spectacular...
Patience A mind programmed to wait, Overcoming negative periods, Optimistic, looking forward to something positive Tolerance at its highest level, Humility greatly exercised. Taking life one step at a time. Open your mind, Creativity comes from...
Welcome to the second instalment of this special Christmas edition. The lines below from poets in Jamaica and New Zealand reflect the climatic similarities between both countries, throwing up hardy plants for the season – the red-blossoming...
Developing general pedagogical skills is insufficient for preparing teachers as is having teachers acquiring only content knowledge. The knowledge base of teaching rests at the intersection of content and pedagogy. We can define “pedagogical...
Title: Fool Me Twice Author: Jeff Lindsay (Dutton) Reviewer: Bruce DeSilva (AP) Riley Wolfe has surely met his match in Fool Me Twice, the second novel in Jeff Lindsay’s series about the self-proclaimed world’s greatest thief. This time, his...
To create more accessible video games, researchers at the University of Toronto (U of T) are partnering with major studios, non-profit organisations, and influential gamers with disabilities through U of T’s new Accessibility Arcade as well as an...
NEW ORLEANS (AP): A new museum under construction in New Orleans will explore the journey of immigrant Jews and subsequent generations to the American South who brought with them a religious way of life they struggled to maintain while seeking...
Barita Investments Limited recently donated $2.8 million towards refurbishing the Mary Bond Early Childhood Development Centre. The institution, which is over 40 years old, has seen many students including Paul Simpson, CEO at Barita, who walked...
The most precious gift I received in the Sacrament of Baptism was the sense of belonging and coming home. It was the answer for deep yearning that awoke in my heart from the age of 10 when I heard the Word of God proclaimed at a Baptist crusade in...
I would love for you to pause for a moment and visualise an ant lifting a big log. You know how small an ant is, and you know the many dangers that the ant faces every day. There are insects that love to eat ants, and there are humans who love to...
It seems unlikely that a sightless private detective could be of much use, but, in Blind Vigil, the seventh book in Matt Coyle’s series featuring San Diego gumshoe Rick Cahill, the protagonist is determined to prove the doubters wrong. Blinded by a...
I stumbled into the Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) and have not looked back since. Initially, I started off with my first degree in the Faculty of Social Sciences and enjoyed my programme. I was taught by some of the best lecturers who were both...
This year’s Meeting Ground Christmas edition features the works of poets from New Zealand and Jamaica. For this first instalment, the featured Jamaican poets are in the diaspora but born and mostly raised in Jamaica. In their work is the dialogue...
