Guiding star
The words of Guiding Star resonate with the purity of a genuine observer. A natural poet, he's been writing since the '70s and the work has always struck a chord with his listeners. To hear him tell it, everyone that hears his poems has something encouraging to say.
Art of Collage and Assemblage opens
The Mutual Gallery will host its first exhibition for 2008 titled: The Art of Collage and Assemblage, starting on February at 14, 6:00 p.m. Cecil Cooper, head of the Fine Arts Department at the Edna Manley College for the Visual Arts and Performing Arts, will be the guest speaker.
Slavery exhibition for National Gallery
The National Gallery of Jamaica on March 2 will be opening an abridged and amended version of the Yale Centre of British Art's exhibition titled 'Isaac Mendes Belisario: Art and Emancipation in Jamaica'.
Spider's parlour
"Remember me?" She smiled as she asked it.How could he forget so quickly? She was the nurse from inside. They were outside now.
The forbidden fruit
He takes her hand and pulls her toward him. He touches her cheek ever so gently and looks at her with longing eyes. She looks up at him and his mouth immediately captures hers in a wildly passionate kiss.
Trading in 'black gold'
Two of the Caribbean's most distinguished historians, Hilary McD. Beckles, professor of history and principal of the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill campus, Barbados, and Verene A. Shepherd, professor of social history...
The Wordsmith - A forum for examining the language of speech and writing
To be called 'Swarthy': The passage of time and the effect of contex the meaning and/or connotation of words. In Jamaica one, will 'bruck fight' if described as swarthy, especially as it is usually packaged disparagingly as 'him big an swaati like', with a connotation of oversized and malodorously sweaty.
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