DUBLIN, Ohio (AP): As Doug Lyon bent over his art project, applying blue painter’s tape to paper, he kept asking Hannah Bachmann her opinion. “Nice,” she replied. “Good choice – they’re all good choices.” Lyon, 68, a resident of the Mayfair Village...
In June 2019 Meeting Ground had its first outing, featuring poems from Jamaica and New Zealand. The theme then centred on fatherhood. This time around, our theme is birds from New Zealand and Jamaica. We present Part II of this exciting...
Self-navigating vehicles, intelligent networks, machine-to-machine learning, robotics, artificial intelligence, cryptocurrencies and a host of other technological breakthroughs, once considered farfetched, are revolutionising careers and...
Review: Dead to Her Author: Sarah Pinborough Sarah Pinborough skirts the edge of a soap opera as her third novel delves into a morass of marital infidelity, greed and controlling spouses set against the backdrop of a wealthy, insular community in...
Book: In the Land of Men: a Memoir Author: Adrienne Miller Adrienne Miller was 22 years old when she landed a job as an editorial assistant at GQ magazine. The experience provided a solid foundation that eventually opened a door three years later...
Toni-Ann Singh Within the shores of the Carriblue Toni-Ann Singh we salute you You make us proud from which to hold The spirit of love Black Green and Gold Swaying ever so gently upon our mind Forever always through the age of time Her humble...
BOSTON (AP): Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts is getting ready to show you the Monet. The venerable museum turned 150 on Tuesday, February 4, and one of its biggest birthday gifts is a forthcoming new exhibition offering visitors a chance to see all 35...
For a long time, my relationship with literature, and especially with writing, always felt like I was having a secret love affair. I could not talk about it with anyone at the risk of being dubbed weird, despite something that felt so natural and...
Pablo Neruda’s Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines, and Anthony McNeil’s the Catherine Letter are heartbreak poems that first come to mind when thinking of ‘love’ poems. So, too, is the sad Anabelle Lee, by Edgar Allen Poe. The poems below,...
One of the striking features of Barbados’ famous public monument known as the ‘Bussa Statue’ – has a very powerful and moving inscription at its base … “Let my children rise in the path of the morning up and go forth on the road of the...
The University of The West Indies (The UWI) Mona Campus recognised Vice-Chancellor Professor Sir Hilary Beckles for his 40 years of unbroken service to the regional University at a long-service awards ceremony on Thursday, January 30, 2020....
From May 24-28, 2020, the digital magazine PREE ( preelit.com) will be holding its first writing studio ( preewritingstudio.com) at the University of the West Indies, Mona, in collaboration with the Prince Claus Fund and the Department of...
International Women’s Day, March 8, 2020, will be special for 60 Jamaican women who will be immortalised in print when the RJRGLEANER Communications Group unveils its specially commissioned book, Jamaican Women of Distinction: Holding Up more than...
The End Isn’t it sad when a writer can’t find the words to write, When a fighter can’t find the will to fight, When the sun has lost its light, its shine, its hope, When the moon is hidden and your life’s a downward slope, Isn’t it sad that the...
There are a couple of things that strike a chord with a visitor to the Land of the Rising Sun such as cleanliness, politeness, patience, meticulousness, precision and, there is creativity in every nook and corner of the country – from food...
Jamaica has many historical institutions, many of which have helped to shape the direction of the country. Institutions such as the Kingston Parish Church, St George’s Anglican Church, Nuttall Memorial Hospital, the Mico University College, and...
In June 201,9 Meeting Ground had its first outing, featuring poems from Jamaica and New Zealand. The theme then centred on fatherhood. This time around, we give you birds from New Zealand and Jamaica. Works from New Zealand’s Poet Laureate (David...
Book: The Sober Truth: Debunking The Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and The Rehab Industry Authors: Lance Dodes, MD and Zachary Dodes Critic: Glenville Ashby, PhD The Sober Truth is a direct challenge to Alcoholic Anonymous’ 12 Step Program,...
In her beautiful, suspenseful and timely new novel “American Dirt,’’ Jeanine Cummins succeeds in taking migration – one of the central issues of our time – and bringing it down to human size. The story of one Mexican mother and her young son...
Kingston, Jamaica Downtown Fleet Street a Mural Mecca Projecting images of inner city life like flash cards On otherwise derelict walls. Artists and volunteers of all stripes Incarnating the spirit...
In an updated edition of the best-seller 1,000 Places to See Before You Die by New York Times best-selling author Patricia Schultz, the hefty deluxe edition lists a number of inclusions in Jamaica. The sole photo around the Jamaica listing...
