Eloquent Ancestral Voices Speak in Zion Roses – Book Review

A follow-up to her book Kumina Queen, Jamaican poet Winsome Monica Minott’s new work Zion Roses, takes us into the world of history, art, lived experiences, forgetting, and belonging with ferocious dignity. Her poems are biting, sharp around the edges, eliciting such emotion the reader becomes emotionally entangled in the words. ‘Under A Darker Sun’ […]

Three Jamaican students cop $500,000 (JMD) Gillian Whylie Scholarships

With the Covid-19 pandemic raging and causing economic hardship on so many, the Gillian Whylie Scholarship Fund (GWSF) is pleased to announce the award of $500,000 in scholarships to three worthy students for the 2021-22 academic year.   Zori Blake of DeCarteret College received a scholarship valued at $200,000 to support her first year studies […]

Sisterhood. A Kaleidoscope Of My Jamaican Childhood

A sister is a gift to the heart, A friend to the spirit, A golden thread to the meaning of life. (Isadora James :1890-1975) Early  one April morning in 2010, Velma picked me up from my home in Garveymeade.  Her daughter Sheryl was with her.   We were on a journey. For me it was a […]