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Part One in a series of articles giving practical advice on handling varied challenges from cultural to financial, when staying on Jamaican soil. Continue Reading

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I live on an island and I cant swim! Writing about the decline in culture as I see it through hazy, myopic lenses is somewhat weird. I call the kettle black and I am a junk-filled pot. I feel like the accusing voices stick like sweat o the back of my neck and the loudest of all dissenters-the Alvins- screeching nauseatingly in my ear. This is a ‘squeakel’!
As I smoke my last cigarette, I hope I exhale the smoke as thoughts to Jamaicans to think about what two dancehall artistes and hordes of their fans are trying to do. They are going along the lines of PNP/JLP and we will not have it!
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Over three hundred performers will be the feature at the Festival of Drum and Voices in the Emancipation Park in New Kingston, Jamaica. The festival, slated for 6:30p.m., is being held Thursday, December 17, by The Creative Production and Training Centre (CPTCContinue Reading

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There was a modest audience for the opening night on November 21 of the University of the West Indies’ Dramatic Arts Society production Krismus Duppy. Krismus Duppy, entails duppy culture through the tale of a two siblings being set upon by the restive spirit seeking to agitate and educate a family to do good.Continue Reading