Rebel at art
FROM SMOKING weed to being in a gang, and to jail at least 50 times between the United States (U.S.) and Jamaica, David Joseph Marchand says he has always been outright rebellious at the establishment of any authority. Now over 50 years of age, a glimpse at reality is steering Marchand on the road to repentance...
Literary arts - Campus life
There was that time one Sunday night in February when I sat in my tiny room and reviewed my life at 21, and wondered if it was not better to lie in a mouldy grave and stare through the tombstone up there at the sky.
Assamba welcomes JCDC, National Gallery collaboration
"I do not think I have ever addressed such a large gathering on a Sunday afternoon," observed Minister of Tourism, Entertainment and Culture Aloun Assamba as she beamed at those gathered in the National Gallery, downtown Kingston, on a day when most of the country was focused on a huge crowd further away from the waterfront.
Book review - Bold, beautiful, brilliantly informative
Rebecca Tortello's Pieces of the Past is a superb compilation of about 70 articles from her Gleaner series organised according to eight themes: 'Places'; 'People'; 'Cultural Heritage';' A Nation Emerges'; 'Trials: Natural and Manmade'; 'Jamaicans Who Served'; 'Famous Visitors'; and 'Things Jamaican'.
Literary arts - Visa plans
We had been checking the letter box for three months before the letter arrived from my uncle in America. As usual, the whole family read it. My grandparents beamed with pride because it was from their eldest son who had given every cent to build their new concrete house.
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