Jamaica is most famous for its extremely laidback atmosphere, created by its unique culture. The music, language and attitudes of the Jamaican people have spread across the world from the third largest islands of the Caribbean, but nowhere does it better
Rose Hall may be the most popular great house tour in Jamaica, butGreen Wood Great House is a must. It is one of the few Great Houses that survived the Slave rebellion of 1831. Although slave owners, The Barrets were benevolent and spared from the uprising, thus making the home one of...
Woody Allen's "Annie Hall" is known for its obsessive, endearing protagonist: Alvy Singer (played by Allen), unable to fathom why his love (Diane Keaton) left him. This is the movie that beat "Star Wars" for the Best Picture Oscar. #9. The Shop Around the Corner (1940) - Director:...
The nearest airport is Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, located about 15 minutes west of the Hilton Rose Hall Resort & Spa. The hotel recommends an outside service for transfers, Jamaica Tours Ltd., and can help you book. The price is $28 per person, one way. ...
This particular piece of journalism follows the career of June Barrett who has worked in Florida as a home care worker since 2003, not long after she immigrated to the United States from Jamaica. It’s a hard, demanding job, but it doesn’t pay very well. I remember well that I didn...
Jamaica’s Kobe Lawrence won the Jamaican Under 20 and Carifta Games titles and placed second at the ISSA/Grace Kennedy Boys and Girls Championships. Lawrence, who threw 62.67m this year at the Jamaica Under 20 Championships, is planning to double up the shot put and the discus throw. ...
Wide Sargasso Sea:In this prequel to Jane Eyre, based on the novel by Jean Rhys, the infamous madwoman in the attic becomes a sympathetic character of her own. In 1830s Jamaica, Creole heiress Antoinette (Rebecca Hall, Parade’s End) marries Englishman Edward Rochester (Rafe Spall), but th...
— U.K. comedian Sir Lenny Henry used his own family history to create“Three Little Birds,”a BritBox series that follows three women moving from Jamaica to London in the 1950s. Henry says the show’s immigration story is universally relatable because all immigrants ...
The 21st century is beautiful and its name is Truman Peyote: two guys, Caleb Johannes and Eric Farber, from Jamaica Plains, Massachusetts who so successfully meld the textural possibilities of the digital and analog, of samples, found sounds, and live instrumentation, that their music is less ...
Let’s meet TTC and FLI Boys TTC (Wilburn L. Henry) TTC is from the old school. He was born and raised on the north coast of the sunny, Reggae Island Jamaica, in a small district named Cole Gate, near the tourist resort town of Ocho Rios. He is the 7th of nine children, four...