Jamaica Gleaner
Published: Thursday | October 30, 2008
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Big bang expected for 'Hush'
Jamaica-born scriptwriter Marcia Weekes plans to make a big bang with her Barbados-made film Hush. The film - also co-directed by Weekes, who lives in Barbados - looks at issues facing young people, such as sex, proper condom use, peer pressure, abortion-parenting skills...

Third World updates classic, plans album
At 35 years old, reggae rocking Third World is heading into middle age. They are, however, keeping 'up to the time' by infusing some of their classics with the energy of some of Jamaican music's outstanding younger voices, as well as producing new material...

Something extra
One of our Baby Brides (flashback to the Bachelorette Issue of Flair), Miss Jamaica World 2008 Brittany Lyons, showed off her wardrobe yesterday, and Something Extra gives a few sneak peeks.

Calabash cradles Jamaican spirit
At all of eight years old the Calabash International Literary Festival, 2008 Gleaner Honour Award recipient in Arts and Culture, has exploded the myth that 'Jamaicans don't read', cradled the creativity of nascent writers and made a sleepy town on Jamaica's farming-rich south coast...


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