While the slave trade was effectively abolished on January 1, 1808, British slavery in the West Indies was not. So, the abolitionists, bearing in mind that slavery should be gradually abolished, did not sit on their laurels. They were now...
The fight against slavery started with the Society of Friends, also known as the Quakers. In 1671, their founder, George Fox, strongly told the members of his society in Barbados to set the enslaved Africans free. By 1774, any Friends who were...
THOUGH AFRICAN drumming was outlawed on the plantations during slavery days for awhile because the colonists considered it to be seditious, it did not die. It survived during and after slavery. Thus, Jamaica has a rich drumming culture. The drums...
Under British plantation slavery, enslaved people were regarded as chattel – the property of their holders, who subjected them to their whims and fancy. The enslaved had absolutely no right to self-determination, and could be sold or repossessed at...
For over 300 years, Europeans enslaved Africans on the plantations of Jamaica and other Caribbean islands. Slavery was a brutal system of hard labour, the loss of lives and limbs of hundred of enslaved people, some of whom resisted from day one....
TIMES ARE hard, and so some people have more than one stream of income. This has given rise to a wide variety of cottage industries in Jamaica. For some, their small business is the only source of income. And there are those who are even using...
HER PETITE frame and intellectual depth give credence to the Jamaican maxim, ‘She likkle, but she tallawah’. She is small, but powerful and useful. She regards herself as a warrior, advocate, activist, spiritual leader, and healer, among other...
On Saturday, July 15, at 5 p.m., the Alliance of Yorubas in Jamaica (AYJ) will be launched inside St Andrew High School’s Margaret Gartshore Hall at 10 Cecelio Avenue, off Half-way Tree Road. Dr Maureen Tamuno, Nigeria’s high commissioner to...
The energy. The spirit. The dexterity. The militant look on his face. That is what you see when Delano ‘Ras Padam’ Douglas is around the Maroon drum. He can also sing and dance. Hear the poignant and dramatic cadence of his voice when he leads a...
Member of Parliament for West Portland Daryl Vaz has applauded the efforts of the organisers of the annual International Charles Town Maroon Conference and Festival, noting its cultural, historical and tourism value to the parish. The event was...
SINCE 2008, THE Charles Town Maroons in Portland have been producing and hosting the Charles Town International Maroon Conference, and a few years ago ‘Festival’ was added to reflect the festive elements of the event, where scholars from all over...
On Saturday, June 3, Queen Nanny Legendary Maroon Chieftainess, Roy T. Anderson’s second full-length documentary, premièred on American television via The African Channel. Last Saturday, Akwantu: The Journey debuted on the said channel at 1 p.m....
Queen Nanny: Legendary Maroon Chieftainess, a film by Jamaica-born Hollywood stuntman/filmmaker Roy T. Anderson, will be airing on American TV for the first time on Saturday, June 3 at 8 p.m. EDT on The African Channel (TAC). This landmark one-...
THE GLEANER met Reneto Fuller at the launch of the Cecil Cooper Foundation and inaugural scholarship exhibition, staged at the Olympia Gallery in Papine, St Andrew, on Friday, June 17, 2022. He was not smiling broadly when he was being presented...
THE CLOUDS threatened to rain on the parade. Drops fell on to the lawns of the Nigerian High Commission along St Andrew’s Waterloo Road, and on to the head and shoulders of some patrons. Tents had been erected in the event that the weather got...
Jamaica and Nigeria share cultural and ancestral roots, and things are getting even stronger as St Andrew’s Saint International, one of the premier modelling agencies in the English-speaking Caribbean, is catapulting Nigerian models into the...
FOR SOME people, their natural curly, kinky hair is a challenge and a bother. They do not know how to take care of it. Some cover it with wigs, weaves, and extensions; others are forever looking for solutions rather than hide their ‘beauty’. If...
It’s annual flower show is the marquee event of the Jamaica Horticultural Society (JHS). It is where members of the society, from in and out of parish, supporters and patrons gather to see the best in show and buy flowering and non-flowering plants...
The Gleaner chanced upon Winston Joseph, who this writer met at an event sometime ago in St Andrew. It turned out that he was still creating eye-catching figurines made of wood, right there in his yard in Aleppo, St Mary. In his humble workshop,...
KYLE LAMBERT grew up in Ocho Rios, St Ann, where he attended Columbus Preparatory School. From the Garden Parish, he made the educational transition to St Andrew-based Ardenne High School, where his sojourn ended after grade nine. The migration...
Three Jamaican representatives who participated in a debate and cultural exchange programme at The University of West Georgia (UWG) in the USA have described the experience as memorable, and having ‘delivered richly in its educative and...
Five males were shortlisted for The 2022 Prime Minister’s National Youth Awards for Excellence in sports. They included sprint sensation Bouwahjgie Nkrumie of Kingston College, West Indies cricketer Rovman Powell, national and world Under-20 triple...
“IT’S LITERALLY a dream come true, as I was actually a photographer at this event about 10 years ago, and I remember saying that I was one day gonna truly focus and grow a business deserving of national recognition; and I am so happy that I was...
Saturday, February 25. The temperature was sweltering. Yet, there were many masqueraders, most of whom were covered from head to toe in Jonkunnu costumes marching from the plazas along Constant Spring Road in St Andrew to Nelson Mandela Park in...
Marcus Garvey Technical High School (MGTHS) started in 1971 as St Ann’s Bay Junior Secondary School. Not very long ago the name was changed to honour Jamaica’s first national hero, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, who was born in St Ann’s Bay in 1887. In July...
