Mental therapy at festival - 'Miss Sarah' survives street people scandal to tell her tale
The last time Margaret 'Miss Sarah' Fletcher was in the parish of St Elizabeth was 1999, and she still remembers staring at the dreaded mud lake, as unscrupulous men instructed, "run, run and don't stop". ... Last weekend, the 76-year-old psychiatric patient returned to the breadbasket parish on a more pleasant journey...

Organisers look towards year 10
Just after the traditional blessing had been said and the large crowd under the tents at Jake's, Treasure Beach, St Elizabeth, had started to disperse last Sunday, Calabash's founder and artistic director Colin Channer asked the festival's producer, Justine Henzell, about next year's dates.

JADA hails Stafford Ashani
The Jamaica Association of Dramatic Artists (JADA) has expressed its regret at the passing of Stafford Ashani - one of Jamaica's outstanding actors, film-makers and playwrights. Ashani died last Tuesday and was buried last Friday.

Story of the Song - General Trees calls for the '$50 Bill'
When General Trees did $50 Bill around 1984, he would not have had any idea that he would one day see a note 100 times the value of the one he sang about in circulation. And while he deejayed about the need for a note half the value of the then recently introduced $100, at that time the highest value Jamaican banknote in circulation, Trees won't be doing any songs calling for a note in between the $1,000 and the new $5,000.

Brian Van Flandern's mixing and mingling
As a world-class mixologist, Brian Van Flandern knows quality when he sees it. A bartender for 18 years before he became one of the world's best mixologists, Van Flandern has created cocktails for some of the most prestigious hotels in the United States, is the ambassador for Don Julio tequilas and has his own consultancy.

Jarcat - first Jamaican Web-based record company
For the first time, Jamaica will have a web-based record company in the form of Jarcat Records. The brainchild of Third World's Stephen 'Cat' Coore, hotelier Donahue Jarrett and businessman Philip Hill, Jarcat Records will also offer a full range of services from distribution to events management.

'Felt like I was dead but alive to watch'
During the finals of the Gospel Song Competition in 1998, a full house at the Ranny Williams Entertainment Centre warmed to the country-styled strains of Hold My Hand Today, performed by Glacia Robinson, a husky-voiced singer from Manchester.

Grace-full beginning in music
The Grace Children's Club was "an integral part" of the early musical life of Christine MacDonald-Nevers, now an actress, folk and classical singer (contralto) and the leader of the internationally acclaimed Jamaican Folk Singers.