The national costume for Jamaica’s representative to Miss Universe 2019 was based on the legend of Annie Palmer. It has evoked outrage. Some construe this as a celebration of slavery; however, the ...

Within Afro-Jamaica religions, “science” is used as descriptor for traditional medicinal knowledge, ritual practices, and spirituality. Practitioners of Obeah, Myal, and other Afrocentric spiritual ...

In the wake of the decriminalisation of some usages of ganja (cannabis sativa) and the acceptance of it by the powers that be in the Rastafarian religion as a sacrament, one would have thought that ...

(Jamaica Gleaner) For more than a century, the practice of obeah has been illegal under Jamaican law. But just as lawmakers were getting ready to push the maximum fine to $1 million for anyone found ...