Jamaica

Culture, Fashion and Jewellery, Jamaica

Are You Ready for Dancehall?

In Jamaica, anybody who’s seriously into fashion and style has been into dance hall, the style that has spread far beyond the...

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Culture, Lifestyle, Jamaica

Harmony

Near Ocho Rios in Jamaica, film artist Sue Henzel has created a home that is classically Caribbean in its casual beauty. Sue – who...

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Food and Cuisine, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago

Caribbean Christmas recipes

As chill winds blow up here in the north, hastening the birth of Christ, everyone around me is happily browsing or buying gifts, looking forward to a white Christmas. I, on the other hand, am yearning for the land of my birth, and a true Caribbean Christmas.

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People, Jamaica

Bill Morris: a social conscience

Outside all is chaos and crisis, or so it seems. A one-hour train journey now takes two hours. Global warming is hotting up and it is the...

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Arts and Architecture, People, Jamaica

Albert Huie: light on the land

Ever since he was a child, Albert Huie knew what he wanted to be. “From about 11, I felt that I wanted to be an artist. I went to a...

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Film and Television, Literature, Jamaica

Saga of A Rude Boy

We’ve all read a book, heard that it had been turned into a film, watched it, and come to the conclusion that the book was far...

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Music, Business, People, Jamaica

Jamaica’s Chris Blackwell

Blackwell’s island In 1958, Chris Blackwell, a 21-year-old white Jamaican, started a small record label in Kingston. Producing the...

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Music, People, Jamaica

Bongo Herman — The Sacred Drum

Mi na beat drum, mi play wid notes. When oonoo beat drum oonoo beat woman too. Oonoo mek all type a noise. King David say fi play pon yuh...

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