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Stories by Marcia Thomas/Contributor

Published:Monday | October 28, 2024 | 12:06 AMMarcia Thomas/Contributor

Shortwood Teachers’ College was established on the 28th of September 1885 to train female teachers resulting from the development programmes of Governor Sir John Peter Grant. It was then called the Jamaica Female Training College. In June 1887,...

Published:Monday | October 7, 2024 | 12:07 AMMarcia Thomas/Contributor

A family from Manchester named Nash has made a great contribution to promoting and developing Jamaica’s cultural heritage both at the national and international levels over 170 years. The story is that, in the late 1830s, three brothers, George,...

Published:Wednesday | March 22, 2023 | 12:48 AMMarcia Thomas/Contributor

Norman Washington Manley (1893-1969), national hero of Jamaica, chief minister, premier, and founder of the People’s National Party and the National Workers’ Union, acquired Drumblair Pen in 1924 when he was a barrister-at-law. He sold it in 1927...

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