Sandra Lindsay (top left), was surprised during her Zoom interview with Deiwght Peters, when Prime Minister Andrew Holness made a guest appearance.
Sandra Lindsay will appear on Sunday’s episode of Rolling with Deiwght Peters. The Jamaica-born nurse – who works at the Long Island Jewish Medical Hospital in New York – is the first person in the United States to receive the much-heralded and anticipated Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
In an interview, which Peters describes as “divine destiny”, Lindsay speaks about the importance and safety of the vaccine. “On the day I watched Sandra’s vaccination live, I knew she was Jamaican as she spoke her first words. After learning she is from my home parish of Clarendon, within a few hours, I was connected through her family,” Peters shared with
The story of the Grinch who stole Christmas has been re-purposed and re-told countless times over the past five decades. But this Yuletide season, Jamaicans at home and abroad will get to experience the storyline in a way that connects uniquely with the culture as the ASHE Academy brings the classic to life in an exciting new children’s musical titled
Crinchy Mon: The Christmas Thief. According to writer and director, Michael Holgate, the production will incorporate different lessons learnt from COVID-19, which is this year substituting for the green-skinned monster that usually ‘steals the joy of Christmas’.
“It’s almost like there is a grinch that is stealing Christmas right now and it’s not the government, it’s this thing called COVID. It feels like there is something that is taking Christmas away from us, from our kids especially with the lockdowns and everything and so the story is a perfect story to kinda show us the real meaning of Christmas,” said Holgate.
‘Christmas still a keep!’ That is the message The Ashe Company hopes to send this holiday season as they get ready to roll out their annual Christmas special. Dubbed ‘12 Days of Christmas with the Ashe Ensemble’, the production will include dramatic pieces, as well as special musical arrangements and choreography.
“12 Days of Christmas was an idea coined by the ensemble as a gift to our fellow Jamaicans this holiday. Ashe has always been pioneers in spreading love and warming people’s hearts, especially at Christmas, and we thought if we have the capacity, the talent and everything necessary to put together a top-class production for our fellow Jamaicans, why not offer it you,” said Ifidel Williams, Ashe’s integrated marketing and communications lead.