JAMAICAN ACTOR Paul Campbell last Thursday presented his Anancy Stories CD in Mandeville, a move by himself and two of his friends to keep Jamaica's heritage alive.
The presentation was made at the Northern Caribbean University where Campbell told Anancy stories to a group of children who were intrigued by the interesting and hilarious folklore.
Paul Campbell Tells 'Anancy Stories'
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4G Network
Have you heard about the 4G network? In many countries, telecommunications companies are grabbing everyone’s attention by advertising a faster wireless connection. Lightening speed some boast, no more waiting on the browser to load; gone are the days when people sit down and “buffer” their favourite TV program. With the fast pace society that we live in, no one has the time and patience to wait anymore and so 4G was released. So what is this 4G network? Is it really better than the others? Where did this idea of 4g network step from?
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High Oil Costs Drive Jamaica's Clean Energy Agenda
KINGSTON, Apr 30 (IPS) - A growing appetite for oil and some of the Caribbean region's highest electricity rates and petroleum prices are driving Jamaica's thrust toward clean energy alternatives. This country of 2.7 million people now spends more than it earns on imported oil.
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Photographic Highlights of NCU CMP Spring 2012
Residents from several communities in Manchester who successfully completed the Community Music Programme (CMP) of the Department of Music at Northern Caribbean University (NCU) wowed members of the public and the NCU family recently at their recital. The recital was held in the Hall of the Department of Music on NCU’s main campus in Mandeville. The CMP is a non-academic, after-school community enrichment programme for individuals over the age of four who want to develop their musical skills and techniques. Participants gracefully performed musical pieces in the areas of piano, guitar and voice.
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Photographic Highlights of NCU CMP Awards
Residents from several communities in Manchester who successfully completed the Community Music Programme (CMP) of the Department of Music at Northern Caribbean University (NCU) wowed members of the public and the NCU family recently at their recital. The recital was held in the Hall of the Department of Music on NCU’s main campus in Mandeville. The CMP is a non-academic, after-school community enrichment programme for individuals over the age of four who want to develop their musical skills and techniques. Participants gracefully performed musical pieces in the areas of piano, guitar and voice.
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The History and Progression of Photography - Part 1
Suzie is driving home from work, she realizes that the sun is setting so she takes out her camera to get the perfect shot...being an avid nature lover she just cannot resist taking pictures of God’s creation. Everyone loves beautiful pictures and even if we tried we could not avoid seeing pictures because they are all around us, in books, on the television, in the stores, on billboards etc. Pictures also help us to relive memories: I am sure that a nostalgic feeling is present when one looks back at old pictures in albums or yearbooks. Everything around us has the potential to be a photograph, as Ansel Adams stated some years ago “you don’t take a photograph, you make it.” The simplest of things such as an ant or a piece of wood, can be made into a world-class photograph based on how it is taken and for what purpose it is taken.
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Manchester Residents Benefit Form NCU Music Programme
Residents from several communities in Manchester who successfully completed the Community Music Programme (CMP) offered by the Department of Music at Northern Caribbean University (NCU) recently wowed members of the public and the NCU family at their recital. The recital was held in the Hall of the Department of Music on NCU’s main campus in Mandeville. The CMP is a non-academic, after-school community enrichment programme for individuals over the age of four who want to develop their musical skills and techniques. Participants gracefully performed musical pieces in the areas of piano, guitar and voice.
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Photographic Highlights of CJC Education Summit - Divine Service
The Central Jamaica Conference (CJC) of Seventh-day Adventists (SDA) recently held its education summit at the Spanish Town SDA church where Jamaica's Minister of Education the Honourable Ronald Thwaites motivated and encouraged the educators and children to continue holding onto the values and morals of the Bible. The Education Minister who spoke during the afternoon session of the Sabbath day event called for partnership among the various entities in helping to solve the needs of the valuable commodity.
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Eve's Nutrition
Regardless of the age of becoming a mother, nutrition plays an important role in the health of a woman. Women from puberty to menopause and beyond have different nutritional needs than men. Becoming a mother during the adolescent stage can be challenging because adolescent girls have increased nutrient needs for growth and development. If these needs are not met, it may result in anaemia, compromised growth and development and negative body image (too fat or too slim).
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Jamaican entrepreneurs can enjoy greater levels of success, says Jukie Chin
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Juici Patties, Mr. Jukie Chin believes that with a change of attitude to work, a willingness to start small (he started in a room vacated by his sister who had gotten married and left the family home), and the discipline of ploughing back profits into the business, Jamaican entrepreneurs can enjoy greater levels of success.
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Photographic Highlights of NCU MEC/JSIF Closing Exercise
The closing ceremony of the Canaan Heights Community Development and Training Initiative that was spearheaded by Northern Caribbean University’s (NCU), Morris Entrepreneurship Centre (MEC), in association with the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), and the European Union (EU), held on Wednesday May 9, 2012 was one such event that had many of the above features. And it was during a presentation of one of the Canaan Heights participants in the initiative that I was struck with that “interesting” moment. In her presentation she gave us an acronym for the word POOR: Passing Over Opportunities Repeatedly. This probably wouldn’t win the Pulitzer Prize. But what a telling piece of truth this is!
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Inter-America officially launches its newest institution, Herbert Fletcher University
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Inter-America officially launched its online educational institution yesterday in Miami, Florida, during a colorful ceremony that drew the attendance of top church leaders and educators from the 12 universities in the territory all dressed in their academic regalia.
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NCU Student Represents Jamaica at International World Skills Competition
As a child Rushio Billings has had a passion for developing large scale web applications. He enrolled at Northern Caribbean University (NCU) where he is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Science (BSc.) degree in Computer Science. He is an active member in the University’s Computer and Information Sciences Academic Club and is also a member of the MicroSoft Imagine Cup Team which has afforded him the opportunity to participate in international competitions.
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Portraits of God's Love
Perhaps the most well known and used text in the Bible is John 3:16; this portion of scripture emphasises the reason Christ laid down His life on Calvary for the salvation of the human family. John says that reason is love. “For God so loved the world, that He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” It is this same John who helps us to understand why God can only act out of love in 1 John 4: 8 where he points out that God is Love. However, we cannot see God directly so He has painted several portraits of Himself: we see that portrait in the life of His son Christ Jesus, and that is why Christ said, when you see me, you see the Father; we see Him in his creation, that is why the Psalmist David says in Psalm 19 that “The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament sheweth his handywork;” indeed, human beings have also been tasked with that responsibility – to show forth God’s love. This photographic review gives us a glimpse, a portrait of God’s love.
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I Only Followed Orders: Oh Really?
Do you suppose that in every instance where an individual becomes culpable in a fraud case it necessarily originated with that individual? To what extent do you think some might have just been caught and carried away in a current of corruption?
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Photographic Highlights of EJC Education Awards Dinner
Northern Caribbean University (NCU) president Dr. Trevor Gardner on Thursday May 10,2012 lauded the crème de la crème of the education department of Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) schools in the eastern parishes of Jamaica. The East Jamaica Conference (EJC) of SDA recently recognized the distinguished faculty and staff at an awards dinner at the Knutsford Court Hotel in Kingston. The more than sixty awardees were recognized for their sterling contributions in the field of education by the EDJ Education department. The educators were lauded as building blocks of any society who ought to be honoured always in order to make the society more profitable.
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Inter-America: Church reorganizes in South Mexico to better serve explosive growth in region
Inter-America's top church leadership voted to reorganize the Seventh-day Adventist Church in South Mexico into two union regions. The decision came during day two of the church's executive committee meetings in Miami, Florida, on May 9, 2012. The decision was the result of years of careful study of the explosive growth and the need to better cater to the church membership there, church leaders said.
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Inter-America: Institutional boards report on growth and plans
Inter-America's institutional boards reported on their growth, financial progress and future plans as Seventh-day Adventist board members from throughout Inter-America met in Miami, Florida, United States on May 7, 2012.
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Inter-America: Church appoints associate publishing director, new GEMA leaders voted
Dr. Erwin Gonzalez, who has served as president of GEMA Editorial House, was appointed associate publishing director for the church in Inter-America earlier today during the executive committee meetings, which began yesterday in Miami, Florida, United States. GEMA, located in Mexico, is one of two publishing houses in the Inter-American Division (IAD) territory.
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Inter-America: Church business meetings begin focused on spiritual revival
Dozens of Seventh-day Adventist leaders from throughout the 21 regions of the Inter-American Division (IAD) gathered yesterday to begin their mid-year executive committee meetings. Leaders reaffirmed their commitment to the comprehensive spiritual revival and reformation initiative implemented throughout the territory more than a year ago. The three days of meetings are taking place in in Miami, Florida.
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