Do more for the arts - Professor Mervyn Morris calls for more recognition
After being conferred with the highest honour issued at yesterday's National Honours and Awards Ceremony, literary giant, The Honourable Professor Mervyn Morris, called for more recognition to be given to distinguished service in the arena of the arts....
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IMMIGRATION CORNER - Qualifying for a UK student visa
Dear Mr. Bassie, I would like to further my studies in the UK. Could you please tell me what are the requirements for obtaining a student visa?...
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Urriola-Tam is new Caribbean Shipping Association president
Carlos Urriola-Tam of Panama was elected the 15th president of the Caribbean Shipping Association (CSA) during the association's 39th annual general meeting held last week in Suriname. Jamaica's Grantley Stephenson, chairman and chief executive officer of Kingston Wharves...
Buoyant Jamaica look to sink Kiwis
Fresh from their spectacular and thrilling one-point victory over world number-one Australia, Jamaica's Sunshine Girls will be hoping to maintain their momentum today when they face New Zealand in the opening match of their two-Test...
- Sunshine Girls crave win over Ferns
- 'We miss representing the region'
- Miller pilots Melbourne to victory
EDITORIAL - Revisiting the national honours
There was nothing contrived about the pride and dignity with which more than 100 people received national awards at yesterday's ceremony at King's House that was part of Jamaica's celebration this past week of its heritage and heroes...
LETTER OF THE DAY - Add accountability to transparency
The Editor, Sir: I write in response to Monday's editorial, 'Aubyn Hill and the case for transparency'. I agree with your position; however, let me address the matters of conflict of interest; the need for Mr Hill to respond; and value for money...
THEATRE REVIEW - 'Two Can Play': a story with thunderous honesty
News and opinion houses, in their desperate but necessary bid to grab readers, listeners or viewers, are slaves to exaggeration and hyperbole. Reporting on a gangwar shoot-out in Rockfort, the Saturday Gleaner screamed one word in blood-red block capitals ....
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Winston and the Lady Devil
So Miss Elizabeth Reitwood, a self-proclaimed, moody maker of table mats in the small farming community of Kemps Hill in Clarendon, is one peeved woman. "And afta all ah dat, nothing nuh come outa it," she said when I turned up at her wooden home in the community recently....