KINGSTON, Jamaica — Sections of Molynes Road have been flooded due to heavy and increased rainfall across the island due to Tropical Storm Rafael. Whe ...

J Chambers wrote this amazing poem to kick off Black History Month on Blue Peter, written especially for the show. J is a spoken word artist and takes his inspiration from his Jamaican heritage ...

Rachel Robb has made the 2024 CBC Poetry Prize longlist for Palimpsest County. Rachel Robb is a Tkaronto (Toronto)-based ...

And Justin Welby was certainly very different from the bearded, scholarly Rowan Williams. Rowan was not really a company man.

Jamaicans don’t really “get” Halloween, but the island's folklore is replete with stories of “duppies” – ghosts or spirits – ...

MORE than 20 schools are scheduled to be visited during this year’s staging of the Jamaica Poets Nomadic College and School ...

An Anthology of Poetry Celebrating Fifty Years of Jamaican Independence – Peepal Tree Press, 2012 Hold Me to an Island: Caribbean Place: An Anthology of Writing (co-editor with Jeremy Poynting) – ...

A blue plaque commemorating poet, actor and activist Benjamin Zephaniah has been unveiled in his home city. The plaque, at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, was commissioned by the Nubian Jak ...

This week's Jefferson Award winner is a Berkeley woman who has promoted child literacy for four decades, as host of a ...

Long Islanders honored veterans at cemeteries, houses of worship and gyms, where children packed toiletries for those who are ...

The book aims to help children understand the idea of philanthropy. By following along the protagonist as she investigates ...

September 11, 2024 • Safiya Sinclair grew up in Jamaica with an oppressive Rastafarian ... world through her mother's gift of books, poetry, and education. Her memoir is "How to Say Babylon ...