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The Blessed Sacrament Cathedral in Montego Bay joyfully welcomed two new members to their faith community on Sunday, September 13, 2020. Here we see Fr Crescencio Abinal Jr (centre) blessing the water for the baptism of Joyce Walters and Jaheim...

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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We’ve been living under COVID for years, say craft merchants

Craft vendors across the island who have been for years struggling to get a share of the multibillion-dollar tourism pie say that the current coronavirus pandemic has now robbed them of the occasional crumb they would get from the

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Holness urges investors to recharge businesses

Prime Minister Andrew Holness used Thursday’s resumption of dining at restaurants in Jamaica to rally investors and entrepreneurs to reignite economic activity to emerge from recession. Lauding Thalia Lyn, founder and CEO of Island Grill, for...

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Cabbies steering through rough COVID-19 road

These qualities, she told The Sunday Gleaner, are key ingredients behind her successful enterprise even as many of her male colleagues plying the Waterford to Portmore Mall route in St Catherine are haemorrhaging from a drastic decline in passengers since the COVID-19 pandemic gripped

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DownSound has big plans for Catherine Hall Entertainment Complex

DownSound Entertainment (DSE) Ltd is promising, among other things, “state-of-the-art” amenities at Catherine Hall Entertainment Complex in Montego Bay, should it be successful in its bid to secure a long-term concession to operate the

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Sister Angella Harris a ‘gentle giant of a woman’

Veteran educator and Franciscan Sister Angella Harris was yesterday hailed as a woman steeped in grace and humility as family, friends, and colleagues and several persons whose lives she touched joined in a memorial service to salute

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Jamaican pilots lead AA’s return to ‘The Rock’

MORE THAN 40 American Airlines pilots were born in Jamaica, and of that lot, two of them were responsible for steering the first flight of 126 passengers to the island on Monday as the island reopened its tourism

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First African Baptist Church, Savannah, Georgia (1773– )

First African Baptist Church, located in the historic district of Savannah, Georgia, is recognized as one of the nations oldest African American Baptist Churches. Although the church was not officially established until 1788, the original congregation of mostly enslaved individuals had been formed

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Affidavit outlines case against 3 J'can cops on drug rap in US

MONTEGO BAY, St James — An affidavit in support of a criminal complaint against three Jamaican cops filed by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents outlines that the trio collaborated to distribute at least 500 grams of cocaine in the United

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Mt. Olive Baptist Church, Albuquerque, New Mexico (1899- )

Arriving in Albuquerque, New Mexico Territory, in 1898, Mrs. Tabytha Watson began the organization of a Baptist church with prayer meetings which included her two children, in her home. By the following year the church was named Mt. Olive Baptist and members raised $135 to purchase a lot at 510

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Da Costa, Mathieu (17th Century?)

Mathieu Da Costa, a free black seaman, is believed to be the first person of African ancestry to reach Canada and he is the first recorded black man to visit the region of Port Royal in Nova Scotia. Although little is known of his background before he reached Canada, Da Costa is said to have had

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Norwood placed under COVID-19 community surveillance

THE NORWOOD community, on the outskirts of Montego Bay, St James, was yesterday placed under community surveillance by the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) after several positive COVID-19 cases were

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Jamaica: Three family members killed in crash

(Jamaica Star) When 80-year-old Neville Haughton and other family members were heading back to St James from their farm in Westmoreland on Tuesday, little did they know that it would be the last ride for three of

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Early African-American Poets

Civil rights activist Mary Church Terrell pronounced that Paul Laurence Dunbar was “the poet laureate of the Negro race,” at the height of his fame as a critically acclaimed poet. Dunbar explored themes such as identity, love, heritage and injustice in his poems, which were all

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COVID-19 blamed for one-year construction delay for MoBay bypass

MONTEGO BAY, St James — The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has been blamed for pushing back, by a year, the start of construction on the highly anticipated US$22-million Montego Bay bypass

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George, David (1742-1810)

David George, a slave and later a Baptistminister, was born in 1742 on a plantation in Virginia. His parents had been brought fromAfrica as slaves, and the cruel treatment they suffered prompted George to runaway to South Carolina where he hid for several years among Native Americans, firstas

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MoBay mayor targets dangling utility cables

Montego Bay Mayor Homer Davis has made a bold move to put an end to the many instances of dislodged cable wires hanging from Jamaica Public Service Company (JPSCo) poles across St James, which have been exposing members of the public to danger and distracting from the aesthetics of the

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Fango, Gobo (1855-1886)

Gobo Fango was born in the Eastern Cape Colony in what is now South Africa around 1855, just before the beginning of the eighth of the nine Xhosa Wars (Cape Frontier Wars) against British and Boer settlers. Fango was a member of the Gcaleka tribe, a sub-group of the Xhosa peoples. These frontier

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University of the West Indies

Each of these countries is either a member of the Commonwealth of Nations or a British Overseas Territory. The aim of the university is to help unlock the potential for economic and cultural growth in the West Indies, thus allowing for improved regional autonomy.[1] The University was originally

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PNP: Dismantling of local governance structures opens the door to corruption

President of the People’s National Party (PNP), Dr Peter Phillips, says there has been a systematic weakening of the local government structures by the Jamaica Labour Party-led municipal corporations. Phillips says this has had the...

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Jewel Scott breaks legal and racial barriers in Georgia

Former Jamaican honorary consul to Atlanta, Jewel Scott, recently created history by becoming the first Caribbean national to be elected to the Superior Court of Clayton County in the southern US state of

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Black Hebrew Israelites

Black Hebrew Israelites (also called Black Hebrews, African Hebrew Israelites, and Hebrew Israelites) are groups of African Americans who believe that they are descendants of the ancient Israelites. Black Hebrews adhere in varying degrees to the religious beliefs and practices of both Christianity

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Tighter restrictions for travellers when borders reopen

AS JAMAICA makes preparatory steps to reopen the tourism sector and, by extension, the country’s borders, more stringent measures are proposed to contain the spread of the COVID-19

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Montego Bay streets sanitised

St James Street and Sam Sharpe Square in Montego Bay have been sanitised by the parish’s municipal authority as part of ongoing measures to combat the coronavirus

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Jomo Kenyatta: Early Days to His Political Awakening

Jomo Kenyatta was the first President of Kenya and a prominent leader for independence. Born into a dominant Kikuyu culture, Kenyatta became the most famous interpreter of Kikuyu traditions through his book Facing Mount Kenya. His younger years shaped him for the political life he would come to

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From Marva With Love: Pastor Roy Jones, Jr.

On “From Marva with Love,” we recently heard from Pastor Roy F. Jones, II, Pastor of New Hope Missionary Baptist Church in

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Mario Deane murder case hit by yet another delay

Western Bureau: For the seventh consecutive time, the absence of a long-awaited medical psychiatric report has led to a delay in the case against Marvin Orr and Adrian Morgan, the two inmates charged with murder arising from the 2014 death of Mario...

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Twelve parishes benefit from Temple of Restoration goodwill

Western Bureau: It is a massive show of goodwill. The Temple of Restoration Ministries, based in Brooklyn, New York, has been delivering care packages to the nation’s most needy across 12 parishes over the past eight weeks, which they hope is...

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Bonetta, Sarah Forbes (1843-1880)

Sarah Forbes Bonetta, a princess of the Egbado clan of the Yoruba people, is best known as the goddaughter of Queen Victoria of Great Britain. Bonetta was born in 1843 in what is now southwest Nigeria. Her parents names are unknown as are the names of her siblings who were all killed in the 1847

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Taxi rape alarm! - Manhunt on for another cabbie out west

A ROBOT taxi operator, who allegedly raped a 17-year-old girl in Hopewell, Hanover, on Thursday, leaving her badly traumatised and in a state of anguish, is now being sought by the

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