St Petersburg is undoubtedly one of the most picturesque cities in the world – from its European-inspired architecture, its signature colourful, eclectic-style to its neoclassical and Baroque style to its water corridors, and the art, the city is a...
The engaging storyline and realness of the characters in Barbara Jenkins’ De Rightest Place makes it a book you breeze through in a matter of days. Set mainly in and around a bar called De Rightest Place, in the environs of a working-class...
She’s what you’d term the consummate creative – through the sensory ‘dry land tourist’ tales of her ‘Right Roun Di Corna’ blog to the pieces in her JadeLauren eyewear brand, Lauren Campbell is colouring the world with beauty, life, and bomb...
Redlining a Holocaust is a rigorously researched oeuvre that establishes Dòwòti Désir as one of the most important figures in contemporary African thought. Redlining is an imaginative and monumental undertaking, a literary, visual, and oratorical...
Let us step away from the dreaded ‘C’ word that has engulfed us and focus on how one can focus on one’s well-being and how Mother Nature provides both the means and the solutions to balance one’s life. Both an art and a science, one of mankind’s...
Let’s have heart Let’s have heart And space ourselves Three feet apart Let’s act fast to bring this disease to its last Let’s have heart and play our part To do our best to turn the spread off Hand sanitizers Elbow coughs Masks and...
As the global battle against the deadly COVID-19 disease wages on, with each country’s government, healthcare industry, and general public playing its part in defeating this new and relatively unknown enemy, two seemingly unlikely foot soldiers...
Vodou evokes a schizophrenic response among the misinformed. Reactions abound: apprehension, incredulity, and vilification. It is not that Vodou struggles for meaning. Vodou has its own particular ideal. It is primordial sense. It is very much...
Parish Histories of Jamaica Project, a publication by the JN Foundation in collaboration with the Department of History and Archaeology at The University of the West Indies, Mona, was launched recently. Jenny Jemmott of Department of History and...
In 2020, when information is literally glued to our fingertips, technological innovations fill the stratosphere, the economy is reeling. Under the catastrophic effects of the coronavirus pandemic, one has no choice but to be creative – be creative...
At the outset, author Ivy Slater shares the existential crisis that spurred her to change careers. Slater’s psychosocial experience after the passing of her father and the stagnation she experienced at her printing business proved exhaustively...
COVID-19 nightmare The poet in me lies dormant in this COVID-19 nightmare, So concerned am I, to ensure that I’m taking care Of my person, my property, my family, my friends, Making sure to tie up all loose ends! There’s food to buy, and...
The COVID-19 pandemic around the world has taken the world by storm, touching the lives of every human being on Earth. The global nature of the crisis has united us as human beings and tragedy and deaths in any country by COVID-19 worry us all....
We continue our journey highlighting the journey of Peace Corps volunteers (PCV). In this third and final instalment, the underlying and broad message is that volunteerism is a combination of one’s personal choices, external influences, and a keen...
A ‘Peace of Paradise’ garden has been created in George Headley Primary School, which is positively affecting behavioural change in students. The garden was created by students, teachers, and members of the community for the 2019 Trees for Peace...
We continue the positive reinforcement of humane spirit and action when humanity, as a collective, is grappling with an unprecedented calamity. “We shall overcome” is the mantra, and going by the indomitable strength we possess, we definitely...
Lloyd Eubank-Green’s ‘Jamaica’s Gifts to the World’ is concisely and punctiliously delivered. While included in this roster are legendary figures such as Jimmy Cliff, Courtney Walsh, and Michael Norman Manley, others are hardly household names....
NEW YORK (AP): Overheard as the entertainment world stalled in response to the coronavirus outbreak: “What are we gonna do now, read books?” That’s exactly what Pamela Milam will be doing, and lots of them. Milam is a selection reader for the...
The Corona crisis Rona Rona read all about it! On the cover of every newspaper and magazine. News of the Corona crisis is everywhere. People, people be very aware. Mi na try fi frighten yuh or give you a scare This is now the world’s greatest...
We are living in exceptional times – historical, unprecedented, challenging, life-altering - and it is also a time when we recognise the relentless services of those who make a difference, serving, and giving back to communities. It has been an...
Practitioners of allopathic medicine are welcoming the role of complementary therapies in treating patients. In a classic example of East meets West, qigong (pronounced ‘chee-gong’ and also written as ch’i kung) is one of the four pillars of...
