Published:Wednesday | December 23, 2015 | 12:00 AMPaul H. Williams
BLACK RIVER, St Elizabeth:On December 28, 2007, a monument in memory of the 132 Africans who were killed in the Zong Massacre was unveiled in Black River, St Elizabeth.The plaque on the monument was mounted by the Institute of Jamaica and the...
Published:Wednesday | December 23, 2015 | 2:11 PMPaul H. Williams
On December 28, 2007 a monument in memory of the 132 Africans who were killed in the Zong Massacre was unveiled in Black River, St Elizabeth. The plaque on the monument was mounted by the Institute of Jamaica and the Jamaica National Bicentenary...
The Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park in which Old Nanny Town is located has to be one of Jamaica's most rugged terrains. Spanning the parishes of Portland, St Thomas, and St Andrew, it encompasses over 55, 845 hectares of mountains, hills...
The calabash, also known as Crescentia cujete, huingo, krabasi and kalebas, is the fruit of the calabash tree, and is native to the Caribbean, South, Central and North America. It is not to be confused with its gourd relatives.This round or oblong...
On Monday, October 5, Niketa Thomas, his cousin Dwight Brown and another relative were at Thomas' home in the Molynes Road area. Brown, who was visiting the island, requested a lift from Thomas to Half-Way Tree. He said he was going to rent a car...
MORANT BAY, St Thomas:Justice Patrick Robinson, the first Jamaican to sit on the International Court of Justice, flew from The Hague in The Netherlands to speak at the 11th Paul Bogle and the Martyrs Lecture held on Thursday, November 29, in Morant...
Exactly 150 years after Paul Bogle was hanged, Governor Edward John Eyre was yesterday found guilty of conspiracy to murder Bogle, George William Gordon, Leticia Geohagen, and Mary Ward.In a two-hour-long enactment of the trial, including a less-...
Published:Thursday | October 15, 2015 | 10:52 AMPaul H. Williams
On Monday, we will observe Heroes' Day to reflect on the work and achievements of seven people who have received our highest national honour possible, National Hero. They are Nanny of the Maroons, Marcus Garvey, Paul Bogle, George William Gordon,...
MORANT BAY, St Thomas:On October 11, 1865, disgruntled peasants, led by Paul Bogle, marched from Stony Gut to Morant Bay in St Thomas to voice their grievance over social and economic challenges and what they considered the injustice that was being...
It was billed as one of the major events of the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Morant Bay Uprising, and people turned up on Saturday night at Stony Gut, St Thomas, in great numbers, in the dark.Nevertheless, it was a festive...
Jamaicans are today marking the 150th anniversary of the Morant Bay Uprising, one of the defining events in the country's history.To commemorate this special anniversary, the St Thomas Parish Development Committee is collaborating with the Ministry...
THE IMMEDIATE post-Emancipation period in Jamaica was a time of great socio-economic hardship, especially for former enslaved Africans, who were not socially and financially prepared for full freedom. There were cries for justice, which the...
Published:Wednesday | September 23, 2015 | 10:02 AMPaul H. Williams
Jerald 'Maas Jimmy' Walker, late of Seaforth, St Thomas, was known the world over as a master Kumina drummer and drum-maker. And for years he drummed for the National Dance Theatre Company.In an article written about him in The Gleaner in 2009, he...
Published:Thursday | September 24, 2015 | 1:25 PMPaul H. Williams
MORANT BAY, St Thomas:The Malongo tradition is a Congolese religion in which there is a belief in one supreme God, even though there are many other nature deities. There is also a great reverence for nature. And according to Cuban Malongo priest,...
Published:Thursday | September 17, 2015 | 12:00 AMPaul H. Williams
Before Christianity was introduced into Africa, Africans had their own structured cosmology, at the centre of which was a reverence for and a relationship with nature. It also embodied a spiritual connection between the living and the departed, to...
Published:Monday | September 14, 2015 | 12:00 AMPaul H. Williams
On Saturday, September 12, Jerald Isaiah Walker, also known as 'Jimmy', 'Maas Jimmy', 'James Walker', and 'Kimbellie', was interred in the Seaforth Burial Scheme Cemetery after a thanksgiving service in...
MORANT BAY, St Thomas:When Congolese were settled in Jamaica as indentured labourers to ease the labour shortage on some plantations after Emancipation, they continued to practise their traditional religious rituals, such as Kumina, which has a high...
Published:Wednesday | September 2, 2015 | 12:00 AMPaul H. Williams
It was given to Jamaica as an Independence gift but, after 53 years, Trench Town High School is no more, leaving some of its illustrious alumni broken-hearted and sad.The facility is to be transformed into a career training institution while the...
Published:Wednesday | September 2, 2015 | 1:16 PMPaul H. Williams
CHARLES TOWN, Portland:If Colonel Frank Lumsden were looking on last weekend, he would have been pleased at the turnout to pay respects to him and to celebrate his life, work, and achievements. It was three nights of glowing tributes and diverse...
Due to the sensitive nature of the story, the correct name of the subject will not be disclosed. He, however, lives in eastern Jamaica, and is thus 'renamed' Mr East.East has his own church, and for more than 40 years, he said, he has been smoking...
O'Shane Reid told his friends at the University of the West Indies (UWI) recently, that should he die, they should cry, not celebrate.Today, his friends are in tears. The glossy eyes and the sad tone of their voices betrayed the grief that UWI...
Published:Wednesday | August 26, 2015 | 12:00 AMPaul H. Williams
CHARLES TOWN, Portland:The Maroon community, local and overseas, is celebrating the life of Colonel Frank Lumsden, former leader of the Charles Town Maroons of Portland. He passed away at his home on August 18 at age 73.In accordance with the...
Colonel Frank Lumsden of the Charles Town Maroons died at home on Tuesday after battling cancer for a few years.After studying and working in the United States for many years, Lumsden returned to Jamaica in 1998. He was born in 1942 in Buff Bay, not...
Published:Wednesday | August 19, 2015 | 12:00 AMPaul H. Williams
PORT ANTONIO, Portland:Among other things, Portland is known for its yellow-heart breadfruit, which, like other types of breadfruit, is cooked and roasted. Uncooked and cooked breadfruit is also fried, and jerked breadfruit is offered at some jerk...
CHEESEFIELD, St Catherine:In Cheesefield, St Catherine, if you asked people in their late 40s, and perhaps older, who taught them in basic school, invariably you will be told Miss English.For decades, Letriana English had laid the educational...
