Two Free Bags & Smiles – Southwest Airlines Flight from Fort Lauderdale to Montego Bay Jamaica
Smiles greeted me everywhere on the inaugural Southwest Airline flight from Fort Lauderdale to Montego Bay. Maybe it was the special “inaugural” flight, or maybe it is just the Southwest way. The fanfare for the flight was enormous with a small reception and music at […]
Road Trip through Jamaica Featured in Elle Magazine
A feature article in the May 23, 2017, issue of Elle magazine describes the journey of editor Sharmaine Lovegrove on a “roots road trip” through Jamaica. Lovegrove’s grandparents left Jamaica in the 1950s and moved to South London. She was born in Brixton and grew up in an area with a large Jamaican community. Her […]
The Tennors: Jamaica Rock Steady Music Pioneers
The Tennor Twins was formed in Kingston, Jamaica in the mid-1960s by singer George “Clive” Murphy, aka Clive Tennors and Maurice ‘Professor’ Johnson. They auditioned a song called “Pressure and Slide”, in the back of a taxicab for Studio One Record A&R arranger Jackie Mittoo of. In 1967 Pressure and Slide, was their first hit […]
Lady Allen to address 3rd Annual Culture Clubs Conference
The Jamaica Cultural Development Commission’s (JCDC) Annual National Culture Club Conference will be held on Tuesday, June 20 at the Golf View Hotel in Mandeville, Manchester, beginning at 10:00 am. The National Conference, which will be held under the theme “Engendering a Culture of Love”, will highlight the major achievements of parish level Culture Clubs […]
Festival Fashion Vibes added to Jamaica 55
As the nation gets into the full swing for Jamaica Independence Festival, the celebratory events planned for Jamaica 55 organized Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC), an agency of the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Jamaicans at home and abroad are asked to “Wear Di Vibes…It’s Jamaica 55”, which is the Festival Fashion Theme […]