Carrole Guntley-Brady was the first woman to be appointed as the Director of Tourism at the Jamaica Tourist Board in 1984. It was under her leadership, when the hospitality industry was struggling in Jamaica, that the JTB took a new approach to marketing the island. During the early 1980s, Jamaica was known more for violence than its beautiful white sand beaches. Guntley-Brad made it her […]
The Life and Work of Artist Gene Pearson
From the moment you drive up to the studio of ceramic artist and sculptor Gene Pearson, you are greeted by one of his many works of art: a gigantic steel gate in the shape of his iconic Nubian mask. It’s this mask, the head, that the artist has become known for internationally. Pearson, a 1965 graduate of the Edna Manley College of the Visual and […]