On the last Sunday of October I went on another monthly trip with my friends in the One Love photography group on Flickr. The last trip was at the end of July when we went to Somerset Falls in Portland, Jamaica. This trip though was a little closer to home within Kingston’s city limits as we went...

It’s late, I can’t sleep and I am up reading all kinds of things on the internet. I hope you read my about page, because if you did you would have known that I am also a military buff that almost joined the British Army. British Colonial Naming – HMS Jamaica I was reading up on various...

Japanese Emperor Akihito celebrated the September birth of his grandson, the imperial family’s first male heir in four decades, in a New Year’s poem issued to the public on Monday. Prince Hisahito’s Sept. 6, 2006, birth to Princess Kiko, the wife of the emperor’s second son Akishino,...

Japan’s new imperial baby – the first male born in 41 years – has been named Hisahito during a traditional ceremony in hospital in the capital, Tokyo. The baby was born to the emperor’s second son Prince Akishino and his wife Princess Kiko, on 6 September. Prince Hisahito is third...

Japan’s Princess Kiko gave birth on Wednesday to a baby boy, the first imperial male heir to be born in more than four decades and the answer to the prayers of conservatives keen to keep women off the ancient throne. The birth will scuttle for now a plan to let women ascend the throne, an idea...