THE HISTORIC 17th-century town of Black River sits at the mouth of the river of that name. The town stands tall in Jamaican history and boasts a number of firsts for Jamaica and the hemisphere.
MOST PEOPLE familiar with music business veteran Tony Mack know of his work as a producer and booking agent for some of the biggest acts in the Greenwich Farm area of Kingston.
UP TO 1986, walking from West Prospect to the deep rural community of Harker's Hall, St Catherine, to visit her brothers-in-law was one of her favourite pastimes. However, there was nothing more pleasing to Selina Gayle than cooking for persons who visited the home of someone who has passed on.
Doctor, can you please give me a good advice? I am female, age 21, and until last night I was a virgin. But yesterday evening I went to a party in Clarendon, and because I was feeling pretty miserable, I had too much to drink.
At 102 years, with her faculties intact, it was the celebration of a life well lived and continuing for Mitella Woolery when her church family at Mt Salem Seventh-day Adventist recognised her at divine worship recently.
LIFEYvonnie Bailey- DavidsonHow can I study more effectively?Dear Counsellor,I would like you to give me some tips on studying and academic success.-MelodyDear Melody,The ability to study effectively and efficiently has to be learnt and practised.
It had been a long day of driving - a very, very long day of driving. I mean, Portland is, of course, a beautiful parish, but geez, the drive from Kingston is enough to make a grown man scream. It's not so much the distance that bothered me....
Reggae Britannia, a documentary on the impact of Jamaican popular music on British culture, is currently being shown by the British Broadcasting Corporation...
Dear Counsellor: My aunt has dementia and is getting very aggressive. She does not remember some people and has an appetite problem. I am concerned about the aggression.
Q We are a young couple, and we love each other very much. We are both virgins. We are trying to avoid having intercourse because we realise that we are too young to have a baby. But we are both pretty highly sexed, doctor.
It's funny how much life a Monday morning brings to Central Village in St Catherine. It's, of course, normally a busy place, what with four lanes of highway, a tax office and the Registrar General's Department (RGD) all packed into a relatively small area...
When Kevin Clarke was growing up in Port Antonio, Jamaican music fans were big in to soul singers from the United States. Teddy Pendergrass, a throaty vocalist from Philadelphia, was arguably the most popular...
Forty years after the release of their seminal song Sata Amasa Gana, roots-reggae group The Abyssinians are putting a fresh spin on two of their most popular recordings and preparing for a handful of performances...
There are times in life that a man needs to stand up for himself. You know, declare to all who will listen that you've had all you can take and you will take no more. I found myself in such a situation recently while walking through a bushy area in Balaclava, St Elizabeth...
We both stood there staring at the giant tree, waiting for something to happen. Neither of us knew exactly what we expected to happen, but with the haunting silence and subtle, chilly wind, it seemed that if something was going to happen, it was not going to be good....
As a prodigy in Trench Town during the 1950s, singer Jimmy Tucker recalls making the rounds with the community's celebrities which included singer Lascelles Perkins and guitarist Ernie Ranglin.But no one carried more...
