Nicholas Young’s Rainforest Pottery and Richard Winter’s Arawak Leather will join 11 other particpants from 9 countries around the Caribbean in Jamaica on the Design Caribbean Stand at the Calabash ...

In the spirit of the celebratory “Emancipendence” season, it’s only right that as Jamaicans we make sure to look back at our history and remind ourselves of what exactly it is that we’re celebrating.

A chronology of key events: 1494 - Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica. Jamaica became a leading sugar exporter with the help of slave labour. Slavery was abolished in the 1830s 1509 - Jamaica ...

In 1504, Christopher Columbus, on his fourth trans-Atlantic voyage, was stranded on the shores of Jamaica, with his ships crawling with marine worms and his crew hungry. The Indigenous Arawak people, ...