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Sing your song – Caribbean Tales 2012 lauds Belafonte

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Important events of arts, culture, entertainment and creative events happening around Jamaica between August 6-12, 2012. Power to the creative minds! Of course, you can always click on the calendar Caribbean Tales 2012 is coming up with dynamic events. They are also lauding great people of and relating to the Caribbean. In a video encouraging Caribbean nationals to SING THEIR SONG.. Harry Belafonte is featured. WATCH IT NOW BELOW:

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Power spices of Jamaica soil

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Makes you think everytime you travel across the island — just how blessed Jamaicans are, yet how very little they know. The world clamours and pay out big bucks for herbs and spices so easily grown and found in Jamaica. Interesting enough Jamaica soil is rich, that is very fertile because of where it is positioned. Added to that it’s all NATURAL – free of fertilisers and springing from the ground for the most part. Here are a few with links to more about them. Order them, try them on…

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Modernity is within us, it’s old, but new

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“In this pilgrimage in search of modernity I lost my way at many points only to find myself again. I returned to the source and discovered that modernity is not outside but within us. It is today and the most ancient antiquity; it is tomorrow and the beginning of the world; it is a thousand years old and yet newborn. It speaks in Nahuatl, draws Chinese ideograms from the 9th century, and appears on the television screen. This intact present, recently unearthed, shakes off the dust of centuries, smiles and…

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Damion Crawford clears inaccurate media reports

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Honourable Damion Crawford, member of parliament for East Rural St. Andrew and State Minister in the Ministry of Entertainment and Tourism, wishes to clarify statements made in segments of the media this morning (Friday, March 30). It was reported that the minister had failed to file returns for the December 2011 general election spending, and in response Minister Crawford says, “This morning I heard the report and it is inaccurate. Prior to, and after the December general elections, I followed all the necessary steps and this included filing my returns.”…

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‘Memoirs of a Jamaican media-man’ launches today

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SOURCE: Jamaica Gleaner Ainsley Walters, Gleaner Writer CAREY Robinson’s much-awaited Memoirs of A Jamaican Media-Man will be launched at 6:30 this evening at Pulse’s Studio 38, Trafalgar Road, St Andrew. Described in a Sunday Gleaner review as “a simply wonderful literary feast”, Memoirs of A Jamaican Media-Man is a recount of Carey Robinson’s historical journey through the Jamaican media landscape – print and electronic. One of Jamaica’s most accomplished media personalities, Robinson, like many before and after him, cut his teeth at The Gleaner Company Limited, the Old Lady of…

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Highlighting March 30 in Jamaica, world culture history!

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Important arts, culture and creative events happening around the world, especially in Jamaica on March 30. Power to the creative minds! IN THE YEAR 1971: Jamaican celebrity Terrence ‘Farenheit’ ‘Farenizzi’ Harold is born. Many Jamaicans relate to him only as the former back up singer to Sean Paul. He however has got real talent in music as songwriter, vocals, graphic designer, actor. He is one patron in the OAaSIS International Foundation.

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If you think plastic surgeons arent artists – watch this

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The first successful partial face transplant was carried out in 2005 in France, on a 38-year-old woman who had been mauled by her dog. The world’s first full face transplant was performed in Spain in 2010. Now in 2012 US plastic surgeons perform a successful full face transplant, considered the most extensive to date. Amazing. 37-y-o Richard Lee Norris of Hillsville, Virginia, received a full face transplant including jaws, teeth, and tongue at the University of Maryland Medical Centre in a marathon 36-hour operation. He his nose and lips and…

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