Book: I am a Promise Author: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce with Ashley Rousseau Illustration: Rachel Moss Critic: Glenville Ashby, PhD ‘I am Promise’ pivots to children or so it appears. The language is seemingly pedestrian, the illustrations...
PARIS (AP): NotRe-Dame kept Christmas going even during two world wars – a beacon of hope amid the bloodshed. Yet an accidental fire in peacetime finally stopped the Paris cathedral from celebrating midnight Mass this year for the first time in...
Love? If it ever was I remember her, Blinded – by love, At least that’s what she calls it The constant Badly-batter of his` baby In the corner, Up the road, Down the road, On the steps of their apartment. Anytime he...
National Baking Company recently donated J$500,000 to the Spark It Up Education Grant. Dan-Neil Dunkelly is the second and most recent beneficiary of the education grant. The final-year student of Caribbean Maritime University, pursuing a Bachelor...
December – it is called the ‘best month of the year’ – for it is at the cusp of ushering in a new year, a time for retrospection and to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. The events of December 25, leading up to Nativity, may be over 2000 years...
In this, the second installment of collaboration between poets of Jamaica and Puerto Rico, we share with you poems from Louise Bennett Coverley, John Figueroa, and Julie Mahfood, and by Ana Portnoy Brimmer, from Puerto Rico. Here’s to poetry and...
December 22 should be cemented into the consciousness of all Jamaicans. On that day in 1781, the slave ship Zong arrived in Black River with just over half of the enslaved Africans who were forcefully put on the ship in Ghana, and 122 of them had...
Book: “Trace of Evil” by Alice Blanchard (Minotaur) Witchcraft –both historical and current – becomes a gripping metaphor for how violence can continue to permeate a community for decades in this intricately plotted launch of a new series. In her...
Hate conceived Rage like a volcano Tore through his groin Every thrust every grunt His seed exploded and found A target … piercing, splitting Shattered battered Broken pieces form an alien Unwanted formed from within Every second that passed Her...
No matter how elegant your theory is, experimental data will have the last word. Observations of the retrograde motion of the planets were fundamental to the Copernican revolution, in which the sun replaced Earth at the centre of the solar system....
“Make two teams, throw this ball, topple the peg, and run and collect the ball,” instructed Akira Kanehama, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) volunteer and Physical Education (PE) Assistant at the Core Curriculum Unit in the Ministry of...
A recent initiative that should see over 250,000 Jamaican learners benefiting from globally recognised certification opportunities was recently signed between the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information (MoEYI) and City...
Christmas is universal and elicits reactions from all. As the Jamaican and Puerto Rican poems that will be shared over the next two weeks illustrate, there are fundamental similarities in the Christmas celebrations, such as Christmas trees,...
One hundred exceptional Jamaican teachers were celebrated at Carlong Publishers’ biennial Teachers’ Appreciation Luncheon and Awards held recently at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel. This year, in partnership with the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC), 100...
Order of the day Peace retreats to solitude, as violence shows its’ gory head. Hopes and dreams, before they breathe, are sometimes marked as dead. Confusion dressed in various garbs is the order of the day. Headless subjects grip a side and...
“The essence of this poem…,” said Aleksei Sazanov, head of consular section, Embassy of the Russian Federation in Jamaica, “ … is that love is unconditional …” Sazanov was giving context and translation of ‘Wait for Me’, a poem by Konstantin...
The people of Japan are known for being punctual and polite, and the country is synonymous with its gorgeous cherry blossoms, food, and fashion. In popular culture, traditional Japanese fashion has become a mainstay, with many large fashion houses...
Book: My New Normal: Reflections of a Stroke Survivor Author: Hilary Wehby M y New Normal: Reflections of a Stroke Survivor relives the transformative experience of Hilary Wehby. It is a stark reminder of our vulnerability. Its message is daunting...
MOSCOW (AP): As sleet falls on a cold November day, communist-era apartment blocks dominating Moscow’s suburban skyline look bleak and forbidding. But it is precisely these sprawling city outskirts that are the focus of a major international art...
Jamaican fine artist Joshua Higgins is concerned about what he perceives as a decline in the local art scene and the glaring lack of an artistic imprint on the current construction boom under way in Kingston and other parts of Jamaica. The painter...
IGT Jamaica’s After School Advantage (ASA) Centres, including four Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation (WCJF) sites, have benefited from recent improvements. Members of staff from the Company’s technology department visited the ASA Centre at SOS...
