Laura Facey's 'Stand'
CLEAR, SUNNY skies seemed to be smiling on 'Where I Stand', an exhibition of new work by Laura Facey. Held last Sunday at the artist's St Ann home, the show marked her first time hosting an open house. The event was lively, well attended and replete with singers and players of instruments
Book Review - An evaluation of events, leaders that shaped Ja since Independence
THE BOOK, Two Steps Forward, Two Steps Backward, gives the viewpoint of lawyer and University of the West Indies tutor Kent Gammon on the role of Edward Seaga as a political leader and the impact of his administration on Jamaica.
Literary Arts - A tale of Christmas (Part 1)
It was two days before Christmas. Three old cronies walked down the road to the rum bar at the corner. Mass Cecil Riley, Mass Tom Saunders and Mass Hezekiah Simms were regular visitors to the bar. In fact, they were so regular, that scarcely a night passed when they were not seen, late after the bar closed supporting each other's clumsy steps back home to resigned and long-suffering wives.
Literary Arts - When dogs commit 'murder'
Stop the count! Resume the debate! For must man be hanged alone? Shouldn't he be joined by his best friends, who have earned themselves the unflattering moniker of murderer? Because, the front-page lead headline on a local tabloid, two Thursdays ago, howled 'Dogs murder alleged thief'!
Book Review - A colourful read
HOW MANY times have we heard the saying, "If walls could talk"? If stone and mortar had the chance to speak what tales they would tell. In the Historic Landmarks of Port of Spain, Trinidadian author and historian Michael Anthony turns to some of the city's most noted landmarks to recount it's history as well as that of wider Trinidad & Tobago.
