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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 raids on the Rastafarian fortress of Pinnacle – Part II

Published:Wednesday | October 9, 2024 | 12:06 AMPaul H. Williams/Gleaner Writer

THEY CALLED the hilltop Rastafarian settlement in St Catherine The Pinnacle, because of the lofty heights in which it was situated. And, the Rastas basked in the manifestation of existing in a space, far from the madding crowd, one in which the...

The raids on the Rastafarian fortress of Pinnacle – Part I

Published:Tuesday | October 8, 2024 | 12:07 AMPaul H. Williams/Gleaner Writer

ON NOVEMBER 2, 1930, Ras Tafari Makonnen was crowned Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia, in Africa. His supporters believe that he was the earthly manifestation of God or Jah. His birth, it is said, was foretold in the Bible and his lineage goes...

When the churchwarden is a thief

Published:Friday | October 4, 2024 | 12:08 AMPaul H. Williams/Gleaner Writer

THE STORIES of bank employees pocketing the money of their employers and clients have been around since the start of the formal banking system. Some people just cannot help themselves from helping themselves with the money that is put into their...

The mad murderer of Edinburgh Castle

Published:Thursday | October 3, 2024 | 12:06 AMPaul H. Williams/Gleaner Writer

JAMAICA HAS had many serial killers, some committing heinous acts, for which they were never found to be charged. There were those who paid for their dastardly acts, sometimes by way of the hangman’s noose. Lewis Hutchinson was one of them, but he...

Obeahman Plato and the great disaster of 1780

Published:Wednesday | October 2, 2024 | 12:06 AMPaul H. Williams/Gleaner Writer

OBEAH, A type of witchcraft which originated in Africa, was practised widely during the days of slavery in Jamaica. It was used for benevolent and malevolent purposes. Practitioners were revered and feared at the same time because the people firmly...

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