When she’s not ruling the boardroom in her role as the marketing, communication and sponsorship vice-president of Supreme Ventures, Gail Abrahams is taking charge of hotel lobbies with her bubbly personality and kilowatt grin. Abrahams quashes the notion that a girl boss has to be hard on the inside and outside dressed in her bright …
“A wonderful ‘aha’ moment for me is accomplishing what I’ve set out to do. I’m transforming lives. I like to help people to create a different mindset around what they think is possible. Sometimes you just have to change the lens that you are looking at the world through,” Nadine Burrowes-Seaga said as she sat …
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There are many exceptional young people in Jamaica, and especially exceptional young men who can stand as testimony to the fruits of dedication to excellence, and Keenan Folcner is no exception to this. He currently works as a research and economic officer for the Economic Growth Council at the Office of the Prime Minister, but …
In this our 35th year, Flair celebrates the fighting women among us who, through no fault of their own, have been stricken with this life-changing and devastating disease. To celebrate, a luncheon was held and The Blue Mountain Suite at the Knutsford Court Hotel was transformed into a Pink Warrior wonderland by Everything Events and …
Skydiving has been on my list for about five years now. Initially, I saw it in a movie and just thought how cool it would be to fly in the air like a bird. That’s the stuff that dreams are made of! And so, I added it to the wish list, with no real intention …
October 24, 2019 is Period Awareness Day, an initiative started by author, activist and founder of HerFlow Foundation Shelly-Ann Weeks, to combat the stigma and shame associated with periods. The theme for Period Awareness Day this year is #IAmPeriodProud, which is an effort to directly focus on addressing period shame. So many women and girls …
When Martine Scott was diagnosed with breast cancer at 34 years old, she was in complete shock. As a nutritionist and pilates instructor who had never smoked, doesn’t eat red meat or chicken, has exercised five to six times a week since she was 18, and with no traceable family history of the disease, she …
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For many women who’ve had the unfortunate and life-changing diagnosis of breast cancer, the very last thing they want to think about, or even can think about, is how to style themselves. Things like clothing may very well seem so trivial in the grand scheme of things. Then comes the day when they’ve not only …
The world is still reeling from the report that a 14-year-old schoolgirl in Kenya took her own life after a teacher allegedly embarrassed her for having her period in class. I was personally saddened because I talk to girls in schools here in Jamaica who can relate to being shamed because of their period, and …
Hospiten Jamaica took a novel approach to encourage Jamaican women to undergo mammograms for early detection of breast cancer with a Pink Tea Party at the Rose Hall-based facility on Tuesday. The very intimate setting saw four women from Montego Bay, led by Chamber of Commerce President Janet Silvera, participating in the all-pink soirée, which …
