Art & Leisure
Chemistry deals with that most fundamental subject: matter. New drugs, materials, and batteries all depend on our ability to make new molecules. But discovery of new substances is slow, expensive, and fragile. Each molecule is treated as a bespoke...
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The year has changed, and life continues. Every life carries an unseen battlefield within. In a world that constantly encourages displaying and exposing every move, we have forgotten to contain our inner world’s secrecy. Is everything you have...
As the final echoes of the hurricane season fade into November’s history, Jamaica enters a season we call winter, a period both gentle and profound. While winter elsewhere summons images of snow and frost, our Jamaican winter arrives as cool...
By way of response to Devin Leigh’s “Apongo was a rebel leader in Jamaica …” The name Apongo, also called Wager, reaches us through a fragile and morally compromised source: a 134-word handwritten note in the diary of Thomas Thistlewood, an 18th-...
“A Snapshot of Jamaica’s Surviving Spanish Legacy” is a new mini-exhibition launched by National Museum Jamaica in collaboration with the Simón Bolívar Cultural Centre. It features fragments of Spanish culture that endured the 1655 English conquest...
As the sun dipped below Jamaica’s western horizon and the Caribbean Sea caught its last glimmers, an unmistakable anticipation filled the air. In communities across the island, from Kingston’s busy waterfront to the peaceful seafront of Black...
DORAL, Florida. (AP) When Fernando Dávila was 8 years old in Colombia, he failed a drawing class because he painted donkeys red. There was a reason for that: He is colour-blind. Now the 72-year-old Dávila is an established and respected artist...
As the new year arrives, greetings, resolutions, and hopes fill the air. We wish each other happiness, success, and peace, believing that a change of date may change life. But a deeper truth quietly waits to be noticed: happy new year does not...
A Jamaican Christmas has always been more than a date on the calendar. Long before the glitter of imported décor and the rush of modern commerce, Christmas in Jamaica was anchored in service, reflection, and gratitude values that remain deeply...
How can we celebrate Christmas in a mash-up land? (A Jamaican advent lament and hope) How can we celebrate Christmas In a mash-up land, O Lord? When zinc and sorrow scatter the roads, And every breeze remembers the storm. When the people line...
KYIV (AP) Maxim Kilderov works among reminders of death — scorched metal, torn fabric, and the personal debris of lives cut short by war. In a basement near Kyiv’s Maidan Square, the Ukrainian street artist has assembled a grim collection of...
OTTAWA (AP) A selection of Inuit artefacts returned by the Vatican is now at the Canadian Museum of History, after First Nations, Inuit and Métis leaders for years called for the repatriation of Indigenous items. Pope Leo XIV gave the artefacts...
