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Media – Review Of Jamaica Absolutely

The foreword, written by Arif Ali, the editor of this splendid volume, has high marks for the Jamaica which he came to investigate and write about. In this book, the 21st in the ‘Nation’s Series’, the reader is given a breathtaking review of this ‘fairest isle’. Some 30 individuals have contributed individual essays, many photographers [...]

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Issues of the Heart – Counseling for Teens and Young Adults

Jacqueline Champier, a counselling psychologist, has just released her first book – “Issues of the Heart – Counseling for Teens and Young Adults”. The book comes on the back of a study which revealed that half of Jamaica’s teen girls were forced to have sex, and 94 per cent of adolescent pregnancies were unplanned. The [...]

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Media – Jamaican Books That Did Well In 2009

Louise Bennett-Coverley, Tanya Shirley and Robert Lalah are among the local writers with bestsellers in 2009. Naysayers have long held the view that Jamaicans think ‘everything from ‘farin’ good’. Well, that’s not completely true, certainly not where books are concerned. A check with two leading Kingston retail stores showed books written by Jamaicans were popular [...]

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