Welcome to Bluefields Bay Villas, Jamaica! Welcome to Bluefields Bay Villas from Andrew H Moncure on Vimeo. Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to spend a few glorious days at the beautiful villas of Bluefields Bay with their gracious hosts the Moncures. This video captures much of the natural

Join the Banyan Tribe December #Calm4Christmas Yoga Challenge!  We all know that December can be hectic what with all the rushing around that accompanies the holidays! So how about some yoga for the holidays? Banyan Tribe is inviting you to commit to a yoga home practice (even for 2 minutes) by choosing

We at YardEdge love Jamaican chocolate! So we are super excited to see Airbnb team up with Jamaica’s own chocolate company One/One Cacao and its chocolatier Nick Davis! I’ve sampled One/One Cacao’s chocolate and can attest to its yumminess! And dark chocolate has significant health benefits too! Dark chocolate is

Twenty years ago, when a schoolboy named Omaall Wright followed an instinct that led him to become a founding member of the Area Youth Foundation, he was already a Jamaica Festival prize-winning poet and performer and in 2001 co-wrote the runner up Festival Song “Feel di Breeze”. He was co-creator

Michele Lee Lambert will be staging an art exhibition at Grosvenor Galleries from November 25th to December 10th. It will be the first encaustic ( beeswax and damar resin) art show to be staged in Jamaica. This art form predates oil and acrylic.  It was invented by the Greeks and

Exhibition of Self Taught Jamaican Artists happening November 15.  Support Jamaican art! 

Jamaica and the Caribbean’s first net zero energy building was officially opened yesterday on the University of the West Indies’ (UWI) Mona Campus. The 2,300-square-foot structure, situated along Gibraltar Way, is designed as a model to encourage construction of sustainable and energy-efficient buildings throughout the region. As a prototype, it

Once again, Banyan Tribe will be presenting “Yoga in the Hills” on Saturday, October 21st, at 4pm in the hills of St. Andrew.  “Yoga in the Hills” is an outdoor yoga and meditation practice led by Karin Wilson Edmonds, a certified yoga instructor, in a beautiful garden setting. The location

What does “wellness” mean for you? Finding wellness in Jamaica. Here’s an interesting story from Self magazine on finding out what wellness means for you. The author travels to various places including Jamaica to observe how the local people live, incorporating “wellness” into their lives. “Traveling the World Taught Me That I

Jamaica Puts a Different Face on the Runways Here’s an interesting article from the New York Times on how Jamaicans are changing the face of the modeling runway. “His machete blade a blur, Tevin Steele whacks the top off a fresh green coconut. Deftly knifing a window through the tender