Celebrating IWD: The Legacy of the I-Threes

                        A few episodes back, we explored how the Jamaican man used fashion as a tool to make statements about concepts of manhood and identity, and we concluded that Jamaicans on a whole consciously and consistently make statements through the language of adornment. We’re ‘all about the bling’ and...

                  Inside today’s edition of the Arts Page, we’re mining for real treasure inside the local jewellery industry. We’ve transitioned from fashion to other ways Jamaicans adorn themselves and have picked the brains of jewellers and local lapidists. We’re discovering that all that glitters, might not be gold: it could be pyrite...

                  Did you know that maypole in Jamaica is always done to mento music? (Maybe you didn’t), but If you caught the Arts Page last week, you would have enjoyed a crash course into a traditional folk form that had its roots, not in Jamaican soil, but thousands of miles away… Join...