ON SEPTEMBER 30, 1961, with Jamaica on the cusp of political independence, the government announced a contest for a national anthem, starting with a competition for the words. The successful lyrics would be published so that they could be set to...
THE RECOMMENDATION of the Jamaica Horticultural Society that the lignum vitae should be the floral emblem of Jamaica was adopted by the select committee in the House of Representatives after due consideration, and it went on to suggest that the...
AFTER CENTURIES of colonial rule by Britain, Jamaica was finally going to be an Independent nation in 1962. And, an Independent nation would have to have its own national emblems. Independence was to be in August, so the Government had to have...
ON TUESDAY, August 5, the Institute of Travel and Tourism of The Gambia (ITTOG) and Western Hospitality Institute (WHI) in Montego Bay, St James will sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) virtually for institutional collaboration, in a...
FROM THE Americas to England, the free African man, Olaudah Equiano, returned. Eventually, he became involved in the movement to abolish the slave trade and slavery itself. The religious group, The Quakers, were the main antislavery agitators at...
ABOUT 1768, Olaudah Equiano returned from America to Britain, where his very interesting life continued to unfold. He went back to work on the sea, travelling sometimes as a helper on deck. In 1773, he travelled on the Royal Navy ship HMS Racehorse...
The following is the first in a three-part series on the life of Olaudah Equiano, a former enslaved African who was credited with helping in the abolition of slavery. THERE WERE many reasons why slavery was abolished at the time it did. White...
THE STORY of the Jamaican Maroons is the story of the beginning of the evolution of the Jamaican nation. They were the first people of African descent in the Western Hemisphere to free themselves from European enslavers. Their official Emancipation...
ONE OF the panels at the Africa Caribbean Symposium held inside the Half Moon Conference Centre in Montego Bay, St James on Tuesday, July 8, was entitled, ‘Trade and Finance as a Bridge’ under the theme of, ‘Financing Afro-Caribbean Trade and...
“Breadfruit deh yah fi stone dawg” is an utterance that can be heard during the breadfruit-eating season in this country. It means that the popular fruit is in great abundance, so much so, much of it is going to waste. Yellow-heart, white-heart,...
“I have a physical disability that affects my mobility, and which results in me using a wheelchair. Just to note, while it is a part of who I am, it does not define me or the things I am capable of doing,” Yanique Mendez told The Gleaner. Earlier...
DWAYNE GRANT, as a police officer, is serving and protecting the Jamaican people, but, he’s also preserving and telling the checkered stories of black people in his art, art that is provocative, revealing, “bold”, and embracing black spirituality....
KEMISHA OATES stood tall with pride at the lectern, beaming and eloquently reading a well-written speech. All eyes were on her, and her clear voice resonated in the hall of The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston as she addressed the gathering...
“Imagine a Jamaica where every craft item, every flavour, and every handmade treasure fuel national prosperity. That is the Jamaica we are building, a nation where tourism is not just an economic driver, but a force of transformation, inclusion,...
IN A brief ceremony in the boardroom of the Half Moon Hotel in Montego Bay, St James on Tuesday, Jamaica signed a partnership agreement with the African Export Import Bank (Afreximbank), headquartered in Cairo, Egypt, the 13th CARICOM country to do...
FOR THE second consecutive year, the St Mary Literary Festival will read out, inside the Port Maria Anglican Church Hall in St Mary, today, July 5 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. And Kwame McPherson, the 2023 winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize is...
AT THE 2024 Prime Minister’s National Youth Awards for Excellence, held at the lawns of Jamaica House in May, Nathaniel Bailey arrived onstage in his wheelchair rocking and beaming to collect his trophy for ‘Excellence in Sports’, yes, sports,...
AGAINST THE background of a blazing and crackling ‘bunfire’, Gloria ‘Mama G’ Simms stood, like a spectre of Nanny of the Maroons, as a beaming MC Daveai Ellis handed her a lifetime achievement trophy given to her by the Charles Town Maroons of...
FRIDAY, JUNE 20 was designated ‘Academic Conference Day’ under the theme, ‘The Land Part 2 – Ancestral Connections. Indigenous Rights. Stewardship’, at the 17th Annual International Charles Town Maroon Conference and Festival. Academic papers on...
RECENTLY, A 12-member delegation of Junior Chamber International (JCI) Jamaica, led by 2025 national president, Reneil Clarke, represented the island at the 2025 JCI Conference of the Americas, held in Roatán, Honduras, where hundreds of emerging...
ON FRIDAY, June 20, the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ), the nation’s central bank, announced an “impact investment” of $15 million for over a three-year period, as part of Kingston Creative’s Adopt-A-Block initiative, which seeks “to ensure the creation of...
SENIOR CITIZENS in western Jamaica, especially those who have a knack for art and have never explored and exposed their creative side, are invited to sign up for art classes to be held by Golden Designs, ‘Jamaica’s leading company for creative...
THE 17th iteration of the International Charles Town Maroon Conference and Festival unfolds from Friday, June 20 to Monday, June 23 at Charles Town in Portland. It is an academic, commemorative and celebratory event, chock-full of fun, festivity...
CARICOM youth ambassadors for Jamaica, Odane Brooks and Christal Parris-Campbell, led the visibility launch and contract signing for the development and installation of an aquaponics and food garden project at Clan Carthy High School. The launch of...
“At just three years old, I fell on my elbow shortly after waking up. The impact shattered the bone into five pieces, setting me on a long and painful road. Much of my childhood was spent on hospital wards, enduring pain, surrounded by the cries of...
