Art & Leisure
August 16, 2026
Medical career roadmap for a Caribbean student
The fictitious case of Kerlene Rumble and her mother, Linda Bissram. An A-QuEST General-Information Guidance Note Linda Bissram and her daughter, Kerlene Rumble, are entirely fictitious persons.…
August 16, 2026
Be a ‘mirror’, not a ‘camera’
A mirror and a camera both reflect what comes before them, but there is one important difference: a mirror reflects while a camera records and stores. When an image moves away from a mirror, nothing…
August 16, 2026
A prophet born in St Ann’s Bay
This week, Jamaica pauses to remember the birth of a man whose voice would eventually echo far beyond the small north-coast town where he took his first breath. August 17 marks the anniversary of the…
August 16, 2026
August 9, 2026
The ground where our heroes rest
Last Thursday, Jamaica marked 64 years of Independence, commemorating August 6, 1962, when the Union Jack came down and the black, green, and gold rose over a nation newly free to chart its own…
August 9, 2026
Poems
Freedom calls, I answer Do you hear that ? That’s the sound of no alarm clock to suit another man’s time Do you smell that ? Most people breathe in bitterness, but I – I am inhaling liberation Do…
August 9, 2026
August 16, 2026
WISDOM OF THE WEEK - The root of expectations
Almost all of us carry expectations in our daily life. We expect people to understand, appreciate, and support us; for situations to be in our favour; for life to unfold in a way that only brings joy;…
August 2, 2026
by Janice Mak
Schools are rethinking whether every student needs a laptop
When the COVID-19 pandemic forced in-person classroom instruction to go virtual, students suddenly needed to have their own laptops or tablets in order to interact with teachers and complete…