Jamaicans in Business: Kirk Allen, founder of Slang Teez
This week we speak with Kirk Allen, founder of Slang Teez, a Jamaican bases T-Shirt company. Slang Teez produces custom T-shirts with the latest Jamaican slangs. Kirk came up with the idea to start putting slangs on shirts as Jamaican teenagers were always using them to communicate with each other while texting, tweeting and updating […]
GC Foster College – Repositioning Spanish Town
This past week (February 20), the GC Foster College of Physical Education & Sport, opened its Sport and Recreation Museum and held its inaugural Sport Symposium. For a 30-odd year old institution it is a significant stride to make for the College’s overall development and subsequent progress. What was evident in the two-day event was […]
How can I get my NHT refund after my 15-year departure from Jamaica?
QUESTION: Dear Legal Wiz, I left Jamaica some 15 years ago, but I worked with the Ministry of Health up till I left. How can I get my National Housing Trust (NHT) refund? I don’t remember my NHT number though. Cee Cee RESPONSE: Dear Cee Cee, You need to authorise someone to make checks on […]
Play Review: Stages Theatre becomes classroom for The Student
Paul Beale is one Jamaican who employs writing to create stars in Jamaican theatre. In ‘The Student’ recently opened at Stages, there are five stars – Tanya (played by Joanna Johnson); Melcita (played by Trudy Bell); Mr Donald Stone (played by Dennis Hall); Winston Foster (played by Geddes Vassell), and, Catherine (played by Dacota […]
Book Review: Runaway Comeback
Runaway Comeback’s heroine is Rose Thorn, a high school dropout who flees her native Jamaica after years of physical and mental exploitation and voyaging over intercontinental waters way too many times. She hides out in Brooklyn with her young daughter. Rose believes she was dealt an evil hand in marriage because she was a high […]
A Conversation with the 2012 International Reggae Poster Contest Winner – Alon Braier
Recently we caught up with Alon Braier a 28 years old freelance illustrator based in Jaffa, Israel. He is the winner of the First International Reggae Poster Contest 2012. Here is our conversation with Alon. Tell us about your winning poster? What was the inspiration for this poster? My poster is basically a tribute to […]
Book Review: The Man Who Turned Both Cheeks
Picturesque and impoverished Largo Bay is the background for this explosive novel about love and fear, the second in Gillian Royes’s mystery series featuring Shad, a Jamaican bartender-detective. With the arrival of Joseph, estranged son of Eric, the bar’s owner, hopes for the village’s future come alive but are soon to be threatened. Janna, who […]
Book Review: Black Inventors
About the Book: This book documents a number of inventions, patents and labor saving devices conceived by Black inventors. Among many other inventions, pre-enslaved Africans, developed agricultural tools, building materials, medicinal herbs, cloth and weapons. Although historical documents emphasize that millions of Black people arrived in Canada, the Caribbean, Central and South America and the […]
Book Review: Core Values
The home my family occupied after we moved to Kingston was situated along the route taken by dignitaries on their way to Jamaica House, the Prime Minister’s official residence. As a result of this fortuitous bit of luck, we never had to join the throng at the airport eagerly awaiting Queen Elizabeth, Emperor Haile Selassie […]
Jamaicans in Business: Souad Lawrence, co-owner of the YEBO
Souad Lawrence is co-owner of the YEBO brand which is a signature Jamaican product. Souad and her cousin Natallie Moncrieffe, had mutual passion for handbags started YEBO in 2010. Their focus was on two varieties of bags; Totes and Clutches. Since then they have introduced fashion jewelry. There business is run primarily through their Facebook […]