The annual Red Rose for Gregory Concert which is usually staged on Valentine’s Day was recently held on Mother’s Day on the lawns of Hope Gardens in Kingston, Jamaica. It was the first…
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Farm workers fuming
A group of Jamaican farm workers in Ontario, Canada, who say their location was not one of those visited by a fact-finding delegation which investigated conditions on farms there in 2022, stayed off…
Catastrophe looms
Hundreds of Jamaicans living in Clarendon’s southern coastal region could be exposed to a disaster of cataclysmic proportions if the island gets hit by a major weather system this year. That frightening possibility…
WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL – Don’t Settle
Sarai thought she needed a plan. Ten years had passed since the Lord had promised the childless couple a son (see Genesis 12:7) and they were still waiting. God had even repeated the promise…
The Art of Reggae Music Festival 2023 Caps Lovely Mother’s Day Weekend in Florida
Earlier this month, the Arts Park at Young Circle in Hollywood, Florida hosted the second staging of the Art of Reggae Music Festival which featured a stellar line-up of headliners: Wayne Wonder, Glen…
London-Born Jamaican Designer Martine Rose Is New Creative Director At Clarks
Martine Rose, a designer based in London, has been named by the British shoemaker, Clarks, as the first guest creative director in the company’s history. Taking on her newly established role on May…
‘Baseless and irresponsible’
NIGEL Jones, attorney-at-law representing Zavia Mayne, has dismissed as baseless and irresponsible the report of the Integrity Commission touching and concerning the provision of legal services in 2011 to Factories Corporation of Jamaica…
Cops to join CXC probe
THE police Counter-Terrorism & Organised Crime Investigations Branch (C-TOC) is set to be called in to probe the leak of the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) Mathematics Paper 2 examination, which was written…
Getting A Jump On Hurricane Season!
Last week, NOAA reported that it had found a possible first storm of 2023. National Hurricane Center specialists doing a routine re-assessment of a system that developed off the east coast of the…
The Church should keep its identity intact.
Bishop Ruel Robinson, District Overseer of the New Testament Church of God, says the church must maintain its purpose, its relevance as the moral conscience of society, and lead by example in holiness,…