Let's dance!
FOR ONE week in July, young dancers from more than 50 countries around the world will gather in The Hague in the Netherlands. The event takes place every three years and will be hosted by Dance and Child International (daCi), an...

Shame and disgrace!
DEAR MIKEY Smith: Miss Lady on her way to St. Elizabeth wid de biggest potato pudding you can ever imagine. She sey she talk to you just de odda day an yu memba har an how dat was yu favourite.

Guyanese wins Commonwealth Writers' Prize
GUYANESE SCHOLAR, Professor Mark McWatt won the coveted 20th Commonwealth Writers' Prize in the category overall best first book for his novel Suspended Sentences: Fictions of Atonement. The winners were announced Tuesday last by His Royal Highness...

A voyeuristic view of plantation society
THE THING I find most disturbing about the anonymously written text Marly; or, A Planter's Life in Jamaica is not that it deals with slavery, but that it has been labelled a 'Caribbean Classic'. This is disturbing because Marly is clearly an argument...

'The Right to be Proud' of Jamaican heritage
THE RIGHT to be Proud: A Brief Guide to Jamaican Heritage Sites is a relatively small book ­ just 60 pages.

J'can leads touring choir
DR. HOPE Davis, the multi-talented Jamaican organist and current chair of the music department, director of concert choirs and associate professor of music at Livingstone College, in North Carolina, United States, is currently leading some 28 members...

GTECH Jamaica unveils education programme
GTECH JAMAICA, the technology services provider to lottery giant, Supreme Ventures, has launched an education programme for schools in rural areas. The programme will seek to identify and assist high performers by way of scholarships and grants that...