Our Stories: Villa Flamez Finds Peace in Troubled Kingston Community
For many people, Jamaica is pictured as an island paradise – white sandy beaches, a beautiful and vivacious culture, rich and wholesome food, and attractive people. And while that image is not far from the truth, if the lens is focused on the inspirational stories of ordinary Jamaicans, you’d find a sharper, richer and truer […]
ArcLight Culver City presents ‘The Beauty Within’ by Monique Lai
An exhibition of black and white and colour photographs now showing thru 13th December 2016. It is an eye-opening experience to live, to learn, and to see a culture with its own traditions and lifestyle. The idea to shoot this book came to me while I was looking out of my window in Brooklyn. I […]
I need back my redundancy money I loaned out
QUESTION: Dear Legal Wiz, My wife and I were made redundant and so we started lending out the redundancy money. We hoped we could earn from the interest. We did up a company letterhead and started lending out. A lot of the persons refuse to repay. These persons were our friends are giving us problems […]
Top 10 reasons to support Arts of Jamaica
ARTS – “A good artist, it is often said, is fifty to a hundred years ahead of their time. The artist must depict this new world before all the evidence is in. … Leaders must learn the same artistic discipline, they must learn to respond or conceive of something that will move in the same […]
Day 305 of 365 Things to Do, See & Eat in Jamaica – There’s No Place like Nanny Town
Nanny Town in Portland was not developed on the most accessible piece of property. It is located on Nanny Town Hill at some 2,000 feet above sea level. This is the most famous of the Maroon settlements in Jamaica, and at one time, there were more than 140 houses here. The town was named for […]
Busy Signal, Tessanne Chin for Jamaica Music Conference
“It is no secret anymore. Reggae has finally begun to permeate the United States mainstream market in a big way. The focus of Snow’s publicity campaign will be to establish Snow solely on the basis of his music, with as little knowledge of his race as possible. Therefore, the advance music mailing will not go […]