Jamaica

Culture, Arts, People, Jamaica

Cheryl Daley-Champagnie: heart forms

Cheryl Daley-Champagnie is both a business woman and an artist. With a facility that many artists would envy, she transforms what she...

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Immerse, Literature, People, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago

Melanie Abrahams: “I like Jamaica, but I’m more Trini-minded”

There were always books around the house growing up — Anansi’s fables, Enid Blyton, Winnie-the-Pooh, fairy tales about soucouyants and...

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Embark, Food and Cuisine, Jamaica

The reasoning is the seasoning

“That is a beautiful question,” Ben Tsedek says, with a gleam in his eye. “Sit down. Let me tell you what’s wrong with carrots.”...

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Arts and Architecture, Culture, History, Jamaica

Jamaican art: open house

The iconic work of the National Gallery of Jamaica It’s a hot Sunday afternoon, and the streets of downtown Kingston are still and...

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Embark, Literature, Arts, Barbados, Jamaica

Word of mouth (November/December 2014)

King James version Nicholas Laughlin explains why a new novel by Jamaican writer Marlon James just might be the Caribbean book of the year...

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Embark, Sports, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago

Take twenty: cricket, that is

Twenty20 cricket, which has been around for only eleven years, has already established itself as the most popular form of the venerable...

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Immerse, Culture, People, Sports, Jamaica

Icah Wilmot: star of the surf

The Palisadoes is a narrow finger of land jutting out from Jamaica’s southeast coast, which protects one of the largest natural harbours...

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Engage, Culture, Literature, Jamaica

Ready, set, read

The novel All Over Again, by Jamaican author A-dziko Simba Gegele, is a lively boyhood saga set in Jamaica, and written with a lyricism and...

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