A Very True Observer: Philip Henry Gosse
Life was not easy for Philip Henry Gosse in the early 1840s. He trained for a career as a naturalist, but it was a tough way to make a...
Jamaica Cool
Some years ago I took the Long Island Railroad from Penn Station in Manhattan. A few stops down the line is Jamaica in the borough of...
Byron Lee: Soca Dragon
There’s a body on the bare wooden stage. The open-air “dancehall” is by the sea on the north-western peninsula of Trinidad. It is...
The World of Rastafari
Imagine you’ve booked a holiday. You’re off to the Caribbean; maybe visiting friends on another island. But when you arrive you...
Jamaica Watch – Kingston Jammin’
Flying over Kingston Harbour into the Norman Manley International Airport under a hazy midday sun, you get a panoramic view of Jamaica’s...
Six Miles High: Jamaica’s Blue Mountains
Two. Only two Jamaicans I knew had climbed the Blue Mountain Peak. It towered more than 7,000 feet over Kingston. That meant six miles of...
Dancehall Queen
Jamaica’s dancehall divas and hottest artists
Photo Jamaica
“At a crucial point in my own development as a photographer I had an opportunity to be attached to a gallery and workshop, and it made a...
