July 01, 2013
If we are to judge by the enthusiasm and excitement of prospective carnival revellers, we could safely say that Jamaicans are fast adopting this kind of culture. The pre-carnival fetes are now more jammed than in previous years, and the bands are doing great business signing up masqueraders....
July 01, 2013
Raymond Cochrane, a Professor of Psychology at the University of Birmingham, UK, is also Director of a Mental Health Trust in that city. The Health Trust covers a part of Birmingham where a substantial number of people of Caribbean origin live. A year ago he met Dr. Frederick Hickling, a Jamaican...
July 01, 2013
An outlet at the highly trafficked Soverign Centre was critical for Caribbean Any Ticket -the islandwide ticket sale service. Consulting his rolodex, Any Ticke's Managing Director, Nigel Cooper, hit paydirt. Carol Sanders, fellow alumni of Toronto's Ryerson Polytechnic University, owned the...
July 01, 2013
Dr. Petrine Archer Straw wants Jamaican art to mirror the soul of the entire nation. The art that is most accessible doesn't always nourish the larger society, she says. With intellectual rigor and fine scholarship, she summons powerful support for her arguments. She believes the culture holds...
July 01, 2013
Nothing in Jamaica liberates the senses or raises the rhythm quite like Kingston, its capital. Negril is naughty, Ocho Rios is gorgeous and Montego Bay has much Caribbean charm. But the pounding energy of the reggae beat and the "irie" good feeling of Kingston stirs Jamaicans and the...
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