In his New and Collected Poems (Peepal Tree Press 2018), we travel from Ian McDonald, the dad watching his new-born son sleep to Ian McDonald, the grandpa, watching his granddaughter sleep; from a young man marvelling at the mystery, wander, and...
Author: Vinette Hoffman-Jackson Book: Did the Right Sperm Win 2 Critic: Glenville Ashby, PhD In Did the Right Sperm Win 2, Vinette Hoffman-Jackson lends her experience as a motivational speaker to the written word. This time though, we have the...
Judy Ann MacMillan’s autobiography Born Ya: The Life and Loves of a Jamaican Painter captures with verve and passion the struggles of a light-skinned Jamaican woman to be a painter in the ‘humid island incubator’ of Jamaica in the latter half of...
JAMAICA’S ARCHITECTURAL heritage is one of the most diverse and readily seen examples of the creativity and skill of the Jamaican people. This heritage consists of buildings such as churches, courthouses, industrial structures such as factories and...
“When you’re a nurse, you know that every day, you will touch a life or a life will touch yours.” This comment from a retired nurse who served for years at The University Hospital of the West Indies holds true for a young woman who dreamed of...
“You are going to Japan at a very historic time,” said Hiromasa Yamazaki, ambassador of Japan to Jamaica, to the 23 JET (Japan Exchange and Teaching) Programme cohort members on July 11 at his residence in Kingston. “It is the dawn of the new...
A purple strip in the middle of a piece of repousse art hanging on the wall catches the eye of the viewer instantly. A closer look reveals that they are the tightly squeezed bodies of people – the story of the Middle Passage. This is one of 54...
Constantia Soteriou from Cyprus is the winner of the 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. In Death Customs, Soteriou writes about mothers and wives in Cyprus who were led to believe that their loved ones were missing after the 1974 war when the...
This week, we present the fourth and final instalment of the extract from ‘Truth be Told: Michael Manley in Conversation’ by Glynne Manley. October 22, 1993 – Nyumbani GM: Just to complete this small portrait of Horace Clarke, is it true that...
YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP): Japan’s culture of cute makes no exceptions for poop. It gets a pop twist at the Unko Museum in Yokohama near Tokyo. Here, the poop is artificial, nothing like what would be in a toilet, and comes in twisty ice cream and...
LONDON (AP): A figure of a roaring lion, about the size of a loaf of bread, is the latest step in the fight to preserve culture from conflict. The sculpture is a replica of a colossal 3,000-year-old statue from the Temple of Ishtar in Nimrud, in...
If you’ve ever participated in a virtual-reality (VR) experience, you might have found yourself navigating the virtual world as an avatar. If you haven’t, you probably recognise the experience from its portrayal in film and on television. Popular...
My first informal lessons in black history were as an infant sitting with my parents on Saturdays in the family room digesting a steady diet of North American adventure films starring white explorers in Africa encountering and defending...
Jamaica’s National Standards Curriculum (NSC) is rooted in the local context and is designed to meet the needs of the Jamaican learner. It allows for the interrogation of national requirements and international expectations and places them in local...
Professor Densil Williams has urged corporate governance professionals to become the champions of change in their respective organisations as a necessary condition for improving organisational productivity. According to Williams, change in...
Truth be Told: Michael Manley in Conversation with Glynne Manley July 6, 1993: Woodclyffe Stables, England August 1, 1994: Ciboney Hotel, Ocho Rios GM: You are approximately two and a quarter years into retirement and right now you are relaxing...
Book: My Date With Depression: From Mental Uncertainty to Self-fulfilment Author: Kwame M.A. McPherson Critic: Glenville Ashby, PhD M y Date with Depression breaks new ground on a little understood illness and a taboo subject in the black...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP): In a mission to clean up trash floating in the ocean, environmentalists pulled 40 tons (36 metric tons) of abandoned fishing nets this month from an area known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Mariners on a 140-foot (43-...
From an elevation, one could see mats lined on the floor at the Campion College auditorium, if one was to make the imagination take a hop skip and a jump – like colourful magical carpets ready to take-off, or for the gastronomically inclined,...
A review of Jerusalem: A Biblical and Historical Case for the Jewish Capital by Alfred Sangster The book Jerusalem: A Biblical and Historical Case for the Jewish Capital – of 338 pages, authored by attorney Jay Sekulow, was published in...
Sunday Gleaner Arts & Education continues with the selected extracts from Truth be Told: Michael Manley in Conversation with Glynne Manley. Here is Part II of never-before seen insight into the life of Jamaica’s former prime minister...
