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This is a list of newspapers in Jamaica: Daily Star; The Daily Gleaner, the oldest Jamaican daily published by Gleaner Company, founded in 1834, oldest continually published, English language newspaper in the Western Hemisphere; The Agriculturalist, the oldest and most consistent agricultural newspaper in the Caribbean for 28 years. Published ...
The Jamaica Star is a newspaper often cited as a resource for happenings in Jamaica. According to an advertisement in Editor & Publisher in 1965, the Star was one of the first papers to carry the King Features Syndicate's coloring and comics page for children. References
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
The Gleaner. The Gleaner is an English-language, morning daily newspaper founded by two brothers, Jacob and Joshua de Cordova on 13 September 1834 in Kingston, Jamaica. [1] Originally called the Daily Gleaner, the name was changed on 7 December 1992 to The Gleaner. The newspaper is owned and published by Gleaner Company publishing house in ...
The Sunday Gleaner, first published in 1939, is a weekend paper reaching twice as many readers as the daily paper. The Star is an afternoon tabloid. "The people paper", it provides investigative reports, news, special columns, and stories. The Weekend Star, first published in 1951, reviews of Jamaican music, dance, theatre, and culture.
Jamaican Standard English is a type of International Standard English ( English language in England ). There are several language varieties that have significantly impacted this dialect of English. English was introduced into Jamaica in 1655, [4] because of the colonisation by Britain. British English was spread through post-primary education ...
Jamaica Observer is a daily newspaper published in Kingston, Jamaica. The publication was owned by Butch Stewart (now deceased), who chartered the paper in January 1993 as a competitor to Jamaica's oldest daily paper, The Gleaner. Its founding editor is Desmond Allen who is its executive editor – operations.
The Gleaner stated: "Judging by the reviews and pop culture references to his on stage character, Ramsey is a budding star with his delightful sense of comedic timing and delivery, razor sharp wit and gift of physical comedy." A two-month run was followed by a tour of the Jamaican and West Indian diaspora in the United States, Canada, and England