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Jamaica Gleaner Arts &Leisure
published: Sunday | June 29, 2003

'Sly Mongoose' mento exhibition
Tracing a popular dance music in Jamaica

THE SWEET, bouncy strains of mento music emanate from a wooden rhumba box. On a raised dais, instruments used in a mento band are arranged - the acoustic guitar, bamboo fife, tambourine, shakas, grater and fork, bongo drums, and a pair of Dutch pot covers

Reading maketh the man
READING MAKETH a man. Ever noticed how that phrase says nothing about what maketh woman? Maybe because she is made of other things. Already completely made.


Cautious buyers at A D Scott auction
ALL THE elements for a good auction were present...Yet, somehow, the auction of works from the A.D. Scott Collection and a few private collectors at the Terra Nova Hotel last Wednesday fell short of expectations.





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