Jamaica Gleaner Flair
Published: Monday Monday | November 9, 2009
Congrats, Trudane - Flair '09 most eligible bachelor
After wading through literally hundreds of emails, we have finally finished tallying the votes and the Flair Bachelor for 2009, is Trudane Hardware! This year's bachelor race has been a sweet ride with readers actively voting for their favourite bachelors... Read More...
Beauty on the beach
Open to a relaxing massage while you lie in the sun?Well, maybe it will be worth your while to indulge in a full body massage or a reflexology treatment on the beach.
Leighton Sanderson of Angel Touch, Massage and Reflexology offers half-hour to hourlong massages... Read More...
Singular Subjects - Feeling the man shortage
Flair has turned up the thermostat in the rooms of women of all ages with its 2009 list of eligible bachelors, and the older dames are not happy at all. The team at The Gleaner's Lifestyle desk told me that they are getting tons of calls from older women... Read More...
Flair Mailbag - The gay issue
I am writing in response to two of your articles 'Will same-sex marriages ever be accepted in Jamaica?' and Singular Subjects - 'The Jamaican gay issue'.I realise that a lot of dialogue has been generated concerning homosexuality in Jamaica. Read More...
Joined in love
Alvin Davis and Shelly-Ann Edwards solemnised their love on August 2 at the Antioch Assembly Church. The ceremony was officiated by Pastor Paul Nelson and reception followed at Hotel Four Seasons, St Andrew... Read More...
Wedding Jamaica out November 16!
Jamaica's official wedding magazine, Wedding Jamaica, will have its grand launch on November 16.A quarterly magazine, it will be launched as an insert in Flair Magazine. Wedding Jamaica provides resourceful information on everything related to weddings... Read More...
New Miss Jamaica UK crowned
Last Saturday night in London, the winner of the Miss Jamaica UK, 18-year-old graphic design student Jessica Thompson whose parents are from Kingston, was crowned. Miss Thompson also won the People's Vote in the Voice and Gleaner newspapers... Read More...
KELLY'S WORLD - It was an interesting week
A who lef'? That's what I'm really beginning to wonder as it seems people in high places are either calling it quits or are getting the boot these days. The governor of the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) Derick Latibeaudiere was unceremoniously 'shubbed' from one of the most important... Read More...
PORTMORE WOMEN SPEAK ...Taking a toll
On July 15, 2006, the first set of cars rolled through the contentious Portmore toll plaza in St Catherine. Portmore Citizens Advisory Council (PCAC), had called for a boycott of the facility saying residents were being forced to pay to travel... Read More...
Commercialising a community
Times have no doubt become increasingly harder for many people. This is so especially because of the economic crisis resulting in, among other things, a higher cost of living, as well as numerous job redundancies. Because of this, persons have been forced... Read More...
HEALTH & FITNESS - Hospital needed in Portmore
With Portmore being the largest residential community in Jamaica, (the Statistical Institute of Jamaica's 2001 census recorded 156,469 people, and the population has grown much more since then), and with nearly half of that 2001 total being women... Read More...
Fashion trends in Portmore
Being fashionable doesn't have to mean driving miles and walking for hours. For Portmore residents, this is true as they are fortunate to have several fashion boutiques in their city. Regarded as the Sunshine City, Portmore in St Catherine... Read More...
Parenting in Portmore
Success in the classroom and good behaviour are two things all parents like to see in their children. Coming out of the Flair's Portmore Women's Forum on October 30, some students of Portmore have trouble doing both, and the discipline factor affects their grades... Read More...
PORTMORE: Myth versus reality
Jamaicans do many things better than anybody else, and generalising is one of them. One place and its people, some of us get horribly wrong in the facts department, is Portmore. You would be surprised at the number of stereotypes that people have of Portmore. Read More...
