If you’re in New York City on a Thursday night and looking for some Jamaican flavoured night life then Brand New Machine at the Happy Endings Lounge in the East Village is the place to be. BNM is well known to Kingstonians as the long running Wednesday night at Fiction-

  Heneka Watkis is CEO and Director of Marketing for a new Jamaican line, Patwa Apparel. YardEdge caught up with Heneka recently to find out what Patwa is all about… YardEdge: What is Patwa all about? Heneka: Patwa focuses on the richness and depth of the cultures existing within the

  Sounds of Life (SO((U))L) will be hosting a series of public discussions and presentations in Emancipation Park called Sound Culture University. Sound Culture University focuses on understanding the relationship between music, society and culture. The gathering provides an alternative space for music lovers, artist, producers, and musicians, to engage

The following is by a concerned Jamaican Mr. Marc Goodman. One of the Caribbean’s most spectacular and tranquil natural sites, Jamaica’s Blue Lagoon has long been abandoned to touts, illegal activity and decay, but is now being developed (most recent being a large artificial beach on its shores, the site

  YardEdge welcomes a guest post by writer, Opal Palmer Adisa on Jamaica’s relationship with Haiti. The distance from Kingston, Jamaica to Carrefour, Haiti is 261 miles and if there were a direct flight, it would only take 35 minutes on a plane. Boukman, the Jamaican, who was sold to