Eighteen-year-old Alexcia Grant of Brown’s Town in St Ann, has always had a love affair with art. Her mother discovered her talent at just two years old, when the toddler drew a picture of them going to the supermarket, and Alexcia has not stopped drawing since, with her work adorning every corner of the family home. While she had raw...

One familiar face at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) is that of 15-year-old Carl Blake, who is receiving free lifesaving treatment. Accompanied by his mother, Elizabeth Nembhard, the youngster journeys to the facility three times weekly for dialysis care, an expensive treatment that filters the blood and removes unwanted waste when the kidneys fail. Carl gets the...

Proud father Dwayne Colquhoun, who is among the first to benefit from the Government’s paternity leave provision, is encouraging more dads to take advantage of the opportunity to bond with their newborns while offering support to the mother. “As the child’s father, you want to experience the different stages of their development… the first coo, laugh, the changes in how...

Polo has been identified as a catalyst that can potentially drive Jamaica’s quest to tap into the multibillion-dollar high-end global tourism sports market. Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, says to fully capitalise on the opportunities available in sports tourism, his Ministry, through the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB), has been working alongside Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia...

The dining experience for persons transiting Jamaica’s biggest tourist gateway, the Sangster International Airport (SIA) in Montego Bay, is being touted to become an unforgettable one with the pending opening of the world’s first Bob Marley-branded restaurant, dubbed ‘Bob Marley – One Love’. An elated Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, tells JIS News that travellers globally have been awaiting the...

The Sangster International Airport (SIA) in Montego Bay, St. James, is undergoing significant modernisation designed to transform it into a world-class facility. Business interests and stakeholders say this is expected to result in the airport’s repositioning to be on par with corresponding facilities in developed countries. They cite the programmed US$70-million runway expansion, opening of the world’s first Bob Marley...

For former student of the Montego Bay High School in St. James, Dora Watt, there is much to be proud of, having copped the award for Most Outstanding Performance in Humanities in the 2022 sitting of the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE). The 19-year-old Christian, who hails from Bethel Town in Westmoreland, made her family and...

Music industry stakeholders are being encouraged to donate antique instruments to the Jamaica Music Museum (JaMM). The call comes from JaMM Director, Herbie Miller, as Jamaica observes Reggae Month during February with a series of events and concerts to highlight and celebrate the impact of the musical genre on the country’s social, cultural and economic development. JaMM, which is a...

Two students of Herbert Morrison Technical High School in St. James have copped top awards for outstanding performances in the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) external tests, which they sat last year. They are Antwan Campbell, who was awarded for the most outstanding performance in building and mechanical engineering drawing, and Jemoy Jarrett, who got the corresponding award for industrial...