Important arts, culture and creative events happening around the world, especially in Jamaica on August 6. Power to the creative minds! QUESTION: Dear Jamaican herbalist, Someone told me today to drink tea from the sour top trees bark. I know about the leaves… but the bark — hmmm? Gloria RESPONSE: Dear Gloria, Was the person who advised you an elderly person or someone who is close to elderly persons? I do not see many Jamaicans using the bark, although they do know about the leaves. The bark is very good…
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How, Why we are charged customs duty in Jamaica on imports?
If you happen to be on the receiving end in Jamaica, of bought or free goods by air or sea, its good to know how charges are calculated before you go to collect
Read More’60 minutes’ Mike Wallace is dead
Mike Wallace who made ’60 minutes’ a compulsion dies at 60. SEE MORE: http://news.yahoo.com/mike-wallace-60-minutes-star-interviewer-dies-143725872.html
Read MoreUsing Easter lilies at Easter time as herbal treatment
Happy Easter! The Easter lily is a plant which many Jamaicans look forward to at Easter time although its not always in bloom at this time. Easter being so unpredictable with dates. Here’s a useful article on the flower itself – Easter lily in California HEALTH BENEFITS: Traditionally Easter lily (Lilium longiflorum) flowers have been used in medicines especially for one’s heart and lungs and kidneys too. Working against heart palpitations, certain poisons in the body, Easter lily bulbs and flowers are good for the nerves system, sore throat and…
Read MoreUS most collected ‘Painter of Light’ Kinkade dies at 54
A devout Christian, Kinkade was a ‘Painter of Light’ – his paintings depicted images from bible passages, tranquil scenes with lush landscaping with streams…
Read More‘Missing my MOM’ by Jolie Jamz, Jamaica on Facebook
Great Jamaican minds write superb poetry… Important events of arts, culture, law and entertainment and creative happening around Jamaica are listed on this site. See more by scrolling on the front page or clicking calendar in the menu above. Support Jamaica’s creative minds! Mom is MORE than just a word it is the woman lying there beneath that unrepentant earth Her boned knuckles clutched around the off-white King James Version Bible we buried with her Because it was her favourite book Though it had leaves that were falling out it…
Read MoreGramps Morgan dedicate ‘Life too Short’ sales to Martin clan
Soulful Reggae star, Roy ‘Gramps’ Morgan stands in solidarity with the family of Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old boy recently killed in South Florida.
Read MoreCleanse my eyes with Jamaican herbs
break a piece of the tree’s very small branches and place in water to drain some of the sap. Use the mixture as eye drops until your eye condition clears
Read MoreIts not Easter time in Jamaica if…
Ahhh its good ole time easter again. Traditionally though if traditions, myths, beliefs, practices of this time in Jamaica is not discussed, it doesnt feel like that good ole time Easter where we celebrate the Rock of Ages, Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, who clefts for us as humanity. Easter hymns make us cry… Easter myths make us go HUH? Lots of Jamaicans however swear by them. Its perhaps the only holiday where we do some things unique as Jamaicans. We do the Easter bunny, Easter bun, and chocolate thing…
Read MoreUK resident replies to ‘Crime on Jamaican returnees’ letter
Hi Joel I have just read your articel on ‘crime on returnees to Jamaica’ which was published in 2010. I am not sure if since this you have done any further research or investigation into this issue but as the daughter of a retired woman who is living in Jamaica I am extremely concerned for her safety. My mother has moved back to Jamaica after suffering a bleed on the brain that very much nearly killed her. As a result of the brain trauma she now has brain damage that…
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