There’s more to Jamaica than just scrumptious food, stunning beaches and vibrant nightlife. The island is bejeweled with fascinating hidden gems and natural wonders suited for anyone looking for an off the beaten path adrenaline rush or simply a tra
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Trinidad Muslim League (TML) School, San Fernando has shown that it does not just excel in the academic field, having consistently produced numerous top 100, top ten and number one performances in the Secondary Entrance Assessment (SEA) primary scho
T&T’s Shenika Fernandez, Guyana’s Amanda King and Antigua’s Krystal Benjamin are the winners of the regional final of the 2011 Elite Model Look Caribbean Fashion Competition. The event, held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Port-of-Spain last Saturday,
Jamaica’s rich history and culture are equally appealing as its white sand beaches and vibrant nightlife. Across the island visitors will find various monuments and relics that speak to a plantation era of both hardship and triumph. In the 1800’s he
Jallim is 30, inspired, articulate, sincere. He trained as a sculptor under his father, the venerable Joseph Eudovic, now in his 60s and still directing daily goings-on at Eudovic’s Studio on the Morne, easily one of St Lucia’s most successfully sus
Union organised protest. Photos: Dr Glenville Ashby, Cara Metz and Bruce Coller
Ten years ago recruiters from the New York City Department of Education wooed Caribbean teachers. It was an inviting offer that many of the region’s most seasoned and q
KINGSTON, Jamaica
Three renewable energy projects include a solar panel production facility, a waste-based energy production facility, and self-contained sustainable shrimp farming modules, has been announced for Jamaica by the Hampden Kent Group.
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The annual Women At The Control fund-raiser got off to a galloping start with Jamaica's only female jockey, Georgina Sergeon, who entered 38A Trafalgar Road pillion style on a motorbike with whip in hand and getting the crowd warmed up with a great
The local fashion industry will get a further boost next month as a New York-based industry expert will facilitate a one-day workshop on trends, marketing and exports of fashion products. The Trinidad and Tobago Coalition of Services Industries (TTC
As Jamaica seeks to slash high import food bills, the country and its farmers are reaping success with greenhouse technology.
BY JACQUELINE CHARLES
jcharles@MiamiHerald.com
HIGHGATE, Jamaica
Seraldo Henry swings open the wooden-frame door of the spra
Cubans react to the news that they are now allowed to buy and sell houses
Cuba has approved a law allowing individuals to buy and sell homes for the first time since the early days of the revolution, official media say.
The law, which takes effect o
Impeach the Monsters is a searing and combustive poetic masterpiece exigently sewn unto paginated raiment. Walter Harris III, commonly referred to by his sobriquet, Mankh, is a missionary of sort—not in the classical religious sense. He is a messeng
Forty-four year old Camille Selvon-Abrahams is indeed a trailblazer in the field of Animation in Trinidad and Tobago, and certainly the Caribbean. As one of the country’s well known animators, she now juggles many hats of Program Coordinator and Le
CASTRIES, St Lucia, Thursday
St Lucia has beaten out its CARICOM neighbours, including long-established international financial centre The Bahamas, to be recognised within the World Bank International Financial Corporation’s Doing Business 2012: Doi
After last week’s nerve-wracking episode of Project Runway Anya Ayoung-Chee supporters have come out in full force to ensure she receives the $10,000 people’s choice prize. Anya had revealed she would use the money to start a micro-credit fund for y
A sample of the photographer and filmmaker Roberto Chile "Images of everyday Afro-Cuban" opened in New York under the auspices of the embassies of Venezuela and Cuba in the United States.
The idea came from the exposure of African Descent, consistin
Heather Henderson-Gordon in early days as a professional dancer with the Julliard School, the La Chapelle Douglas Dance Company and the Noble Doulgas Dance Company.
Dancer and choreoghapher Heather Henderson-Gordon’s first full
The SHE Caribbean team in Trinidad (Anya 2nd from right and Mae Wayne front seated) last year for the making of the Autumn issue.
Trinidadians have been watching closely season nine of the Lifetime Reality TV show Project Runway with good reason. Th
In his address to the people, Holness, the first prime minister to be born after Jamaica gained inde
It has happened to you or someone you know. Traipsing through Castries city, your eyes widen in disbelief. You bow your head in amazement. Utter shock fills your being. Ladies, the strap on your shoe popped or guys the sole of your shoe is laugh
