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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. 

Marcus Garvey dies a dejected and disappointed man in London

Published:Wednesday | November 13, 2024 | 12:07 AMPaul H. Williams/Gleaner Writer

IN APRIL 1919 Garvey announced plans to launch a steamship business, known as the Black Star Line Shipping (BSL) Company, as a way to transport cargoes of African produce to the United States. He held a mass meeting inside Carnegie Hall, New York...

Marcus Garvey establishes the UNIA

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

IN UNFLATTERING circum-stances, Malcus Mosiah Garvey was born in St Ann’s Bay, St Ann, on August 17, 1887. Somewhere along the journey, Malcus was changed to Marcus. Garvey became a printer’s apprentice before moving in 1906 to Kingston, where he...

Two pigs, some lashes inspire a war and exile to Africa

Published:Thursday | November 7, 2024 | 12:11 AMPaul H. Williams/Gleaner Writer

AFTER YEARS of frustration, the British colonisers signed treaties of peace and friendship with the Maroons, in 1738 with the Leeward Maroons of western Jamaica, and the Windward Maroons of eastern Jamaica in 1739. The treaty in the west was signed...

Enslaved African inspires Jamaica’s first tourist resort and botanical gardens at Bath

Published:Wednesday | November 6, 2024 | 12:07 AMPaul H. Williams/Gleaner Writer

TONI-ANN SINGH in her capacity as Miss World Jamaica might have brought some attention to the district of Bath (where she lived for a while), located in the eastern parish of St Thomas; but it was Jacob, the run-away enslaved African who...

The mob kills the custos, notable people and volunteers from Bath

Published:Thursday | October 31, 2024 | 12:09 AMPaul H. Williams/Gleaner Writer

AT THE time of the Morant Bay Uprising in 1865, Edward John Eyre, the British colonial governor, was in charge of the administration of the colony, in which there were dissenting voices, much discontent among the laity and in the Assembly over the...

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