Fri | Nov 22, 2024

Heritage

Great Jamaican Stories

For the month of October, Heritage Month, The Gleaner will be telling stories, some that are already out there, others that are not well known. Some of these are mentioned in our everyday sayings, but we have never stopped to think about the origin ... the backstory. 

Should Tacky be elevated to National Hero status?

Published:Tuesday | October 22, 2024 | 12:10 AMPaul H. Williams/Gleaner Writer

YESTERDAY WAS Heroes’ Day, a day set aside to honour and remember our men and women who carry the status of ‘National Hero/Heroine’. And for years, Derrick ‘Black X’ Robinson has been advocating for Tacky (originally Takyi) to officially join our...

Charles Town Maroon Colonel Marcia ‘Kim’ Douglas passes suddenly

Published:Saturday | October 19, 2024 | 12:06 AMPaul H. Williams/Gleaner Writer

THE MAROON community in Jamaica, and more so the Charles Town Maroon village in Portland, was hurled into deep mourning on the morning of Wednesday, October 16 when Colonel Marcia Douglas died suddenly. She was 48 years old. Colonel Douglas, who...

Manhunt for notorious fugitives ends without fanfare

Published:Friday | October 18, 2024 | 12:07 AMPaul H. Williams/Gleaner Writer

THE HUNT for the four fugitives wanted for the murder of two infantrymen of the Royal Hampshire Regiment took a gruesome turn on Saturday, June 25, 1960, when the body of three Rastafarians were found buried in one grave, near where the Rastafarian...

Pawns in a bigger game?

Published:Thursday | October 17, 2024 | 12:07 AMPaul H. Williams/Gleaner Writer

WHEN JAMAICAN police personnel and members of the Royal Hampshire Regiment (RHR) went to raid a Rasta Camp at Red Hills in St Andrew on Tuesday, June 21, 1960, they did not go on a whim. The operation took place after a weekend of planning because...

The 1960 shooting of the Royal Hampshire soldiers – Part II

Published:Wednesday | October 16, 2024 | 12:06 AMPaul H. Williams/Gleaner Writer

AN ALL-NIGHT vigil and search for the five men suspected of shooting four privates of the Royal Hampshire Regiment who went with local police personnel to raid a Rasta camp in Red Hills, St Andrew on Tuesday, June 22, 1960 was futile. The...

Pages