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Jamaica Gleaner Arts &Leisure
published: Sunday | April 20, 2008

Eon and Robby - Body design kings
Decorating the body is an art form that is almost as old as art itself. Throughout the world, there is evidence that human beings have been decorating their bodies for millennia - the reasons range from ritualistic to aesthetic.

Literary arts - Rising out of the ashes

Janet stared at the pile of dirty clothes and tried not to concentrate on the intense pain in her belly. No food had touched her mouth since yesterday - the last piece of bread she had given to her children with some mint tea. It wasn't much, but at least it put something in their bellies until lunchtime at school.

Book Review: Little Island - Big Adventure

MARIA ROBERTS Squires' Little Island - Big Adventures is fun reading that is highly recommended. Set in the Eastern Caribbean on a tiny Grenadine island, this teen adventure "celebrates friendship, family life and the pleasures and trials of living in a small-knit community".

Literary arts - Dying to Marry Him (Conclusion)

It was then that Michael told his father of the proposal that his girlfriend had made to him on the evening before. Harry was more puzzled than ever and no closer to finding an explanation for why the girl should lay such a charge against his son. The two decided to go to bed, but neither slept much that night.

Bromley Armstrong: Fighting for Human Rights (Part 3)

Jamaican-born Bromley Armstrong's union work, fighting to improve workers' rights in Canada, did not go unnoticed by a fellow Jamaican. Armstrong remembers: "Ken Sterling was brought in by the United Steel Workers of America to be trained on union autonomy. He invited me to come to Jamaica to become an organiser with the National Workers' Union.





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