It was Christmastime and the basic school that Michael St Augustus Wellington attended was having its annual Christmas 'breaking-up' - a concert and feast. Read More →

Louise Bennett-Coverley, Tanya Shirley and Robert Lalah among local writers with bestsellers this year Read More →

Leaving Jamaica after four and a half years as British high commissioner and after interacting with three different prime ministers, as well as people of all walks of society during that time, Jeremy Cresswell has come to the... Read More →

The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, will host its annual Mona Homecoming Week of celebrations from February 14-20, 2010. Read More →

In the last three decades, the rate of murder has been increasing at an alarming pace in Jamaica. Today, Jamaica has one of the highest murder rates in the world. Clement Branche and Sophia Morgan, researchers in the department of sociology... Read More →

Jamaican-born Bernard Hoyes, master painter, is among the many Caribbean nationals who have served their countries well on foreign soil. Now residing in California, Hoyes is among the most widely collected and exhibited contemporary artists internationally. Read More →

More THAN 60 students at the Salem Runaway Bay campus of the Northern Caribbean University (NCU), who earned grade point averages (GPA) between 3.0 and 4.0 for the 2008-2009 academic year, were honoured for their academic... Read More →

The University College of the Caribbean (UCC) recently received accreditation from the University Council of Jamaica (UCJ) for all eligible degree programmes. Read More →

The Caribbean Court of Justice has invited the Faculty of Law, University of Technology, to participate in its second International Law Moot Court to be held in March 2010 in Trinidad and Tobago. Read More →

It is close to midnight when I peek through my living room windows and see Salim standing just outside my gate, his slender frame silhouetted against the glare of the streetlights. Read More →