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The Gleaner, a newspaper of record in Kingston, Jamaica, published by: The Gleaner Company, a newspaper publishing enterprise in Jamaica; The Daily Gleaner, a daily newspaper serving Fredericton, New Brunswick, and the upper Saint John River Valley in Canada; Henderson Gleaner, a daily newspaper in Henderson, Kentucky, U.S.
According to the Jamaican 1834 census, that potentially included 5,000 free black men and 40,000 free coloureds (mixed-race). After the full abolition of slavery in 1838, the Lodges were open to all Jamaican men of any race. On May 25, 2017, Masons from around the world congregated in Jamaica to celebrate its 300 years of freemasonry. [1] [2] [3]
Donald Jasper Harris was born in Brown's Town, St. Ann Parish, Jamaica, the son of Oscar Joseph Harris and Beryl Christie Harris (née Finegan), [7] [8] who were Afro-Jamaicans.
RJR Gleaner Group/Don Anderson poll [42] – 37: 25 38 12: 21–23 August 2020 Jamaica Observer/Bill Johnson poll [43] 1,000 37: 23 40 14: 20 July–6 August 2020 Nationwide News Network/Bluedot poll [44] – 52: 34 14 18: 23 July–3 August 2020 RJR Gleaner Group/Don Anderson poll [45] – 36: 20 44 16: 9–12 July 2020 Jamaica Observer/Bill ...
Alexander Bedward. Alexander Bedward (born 1848 in Saint Andrew Parish, north of Kingston, Jamaica - died 8 November 1930 [1]) was the founder of Bedwardism. [2] [3] He was one of the most successful preachers of Jamaican Revivalism.
In 1953, Goodison began her career at The Gleaner newspaper, working as a reporter, [6] and writing for the paper's social pages under the pseudonym "Kitty Kingston". [7] Simultaneously, she wrote the column "Stella Seh" at the Jamaica Star , [ 4 ] where she used Jamaican patois for the first time in a newspaper.
The Voice was founded in 1982 by Val McCalla, [2] who was working on a London local paper called the East End News in 1981. He and a group of businesspeople and journalists created a weekly newspaper to cater for the interests of British-born African-Caribbean people.
Lester 'Jim Brown' Coke was the father of Christopher Coke and leader of the Shower Posse gang. The gang gained traction due to material support from the CIA, which would give arms to gangsters supportive of the Jamaican Labour Party in the Jamaican political conflict, such as Shower Posse.