Art & Leisure

Students from five institutions that are home to IGT After School Advantage (ASA) Centres were an part of educational visit to the Scientific Research Council (SRC) recently. The learning tour was designed in partnership with IGT Jamaica, which...

The advent of Presbyterian missionaries marked a sociological turning point in the annals of Caribbean history. Never short on detail and data is Jerome Teelucksingh’s work, a boon for the student of East Indian Diasporic Studies. Teelucksingh’s...

Walls – they create barriers, could be seen as divisive, may draw a line between two extremes. For some, they are a blank canvas waiting to be splashed with vivid imagination and colours. These expressions are oft wild, rebellious, and a work of a...

Phoebe Douse – said like “Zeus but with a D”– is written and illustrated by L. Samuels. Phoebe Douse: S3A2 shares the story of a young teen, born to Jamaican parents – and raised in Texas with the help of her maternal grandmother – Naan who is very...

Director Guy Nattiv paints a tenebrous world marked by hatred. Still, he leaves the door of redemption ajar. With a mere 18 minutes to deliver a message steeped in symbolical hyperbole, Nattiv leaves little to the imagination. The opening scene of...

Education Education, Di ruler of our nation. Without it, there is no elevation. Poverty will only bring frustration to our nation. Let’s make a difference and change our current situation. Education, education, education. What’s happening to our...

Shernette Richards-Francis, teacher of English language at Spot Valley High School in Montego Bay, shares that she got involved in robotics following a workshop hosted by The University of the West Indies, Western Campus, and was fascinated by the...

Mallica Reynolds, better known simply as ‘Kapo’, was the charismatic leader of the Zion Revivalist Church and the Patriarch Bishop of the St Michael Tabernacle. Reynolds was born on February 10, 1911, in Byndloss, a rural community in St Catherine...

Amid widespread concerns about spousal violence directed at women in Jamaica, this year’s International Women’s Day, March 8, takes on greater significance and provides an opportunity to celebrate our women for ‘holding up more than half the...

With Bob Marley brought to life in Bob Marley in Brixton, Sade, who ‘never liked doing more than one take of a song’, nods to Ted Hughes and his crow poems, the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire in London, which claimed 72 lives, and more shared references...

Black and blue He loses his fuses And abuses with his fists clenched For his anger pours To have his thirst quenched His temper reacts to his impulsive and obscene curse His fear will tear through your face and hair He is not worth the need...

New novels about ­climate change – ­climate fiction, or cli-fi – are being published all the time. The nature of the climate crisis is a difficult thing to get across, and so imagining the future – a drowned New York City, say; or a world in which...