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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. 

The 1960 shooting of the Royal Hampshire soldiers – Part I

Published:Tuesday | October 15, 2024 | 12:07 AMPaul H. Williams/Gleaner Writer

FROM THE very beginning, there was opposition to the rise of the Jamaican folk religion now known as Rastafarianism and its founder, Leonard Howard, who established a camp near Sligoville in St Catherine. The camp was called The Pinnacle because it...

JADE to host National Debaters’ Week

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

The Jamaican Association for Debating and Empowerment (JADE) Limited, elevating debate culture across Jamaica, will be hosting its second annual National Debaters’ Week (NDW) from Sunday, October 13 to Saturday, October 19, under the theme, ‘Hear...

The Portland and ‘Judgement Cliff’ doomsdays

Published:Friday | October 11, 2024 | 12:07 AMPaul H. Williams/Gleaner Writer

ON WEDNESDAY, October 2, we tell the story of Obeahman Plato and the tsunami, hurricane and earthquake that destroyed Westmoreland in 1780, a year when hurricanes raged. These natural phenomena are not rare, for the island is prone to them, as a...

The 1978 Green Bay massacre

Published:Thursday | October 10, 2024 | 12:07 AMPaul H. Williams/Gleaner Writer

IN THE late 1970s, Jamaica was gripped by the evil hands of political violence, leading up to the general election of October 30, 1980. Michael Manley of the People’s National Party (PNP) was prime minister, and Edward Seaga was the leader of the...

‘From Mental Uncertainty to Self-fulfillment’: The Kwame McPherson story

Published:Thursday | October 10, 2024 | 12:05 AMPaul H. Williams/Gleaner Writer

LAST YEAR, UK-born Jamaican writer, Kwame M.A. McPherson, won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, the first Jamaican to have won this the biggest global fiction-writing competition. But, flashback to 2006. Then, he was starring in his own real-life...

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