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(Jamaica Gleaner) Hotelier Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart has died.
Stewart was founder of Sandals Resorts, Beaches Resorts, and their parent company Sandals Resorts International, as well as The ATL Group and The Jamaica Observer.
The article Jamaican hotel mogul 'Butch' Stewart is dead at 79 appeared first on Stabroek News.
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(Jamaica Gleaner) On the heels of last weekend’s titanic clash between dancehall artistes Beenie Man and Bounty Killer that captured the attention of international fans, media outlets, and industry players, there is a push for the two to be reissued with United States visas to promote Jamaican music and culture.
“This was a boost to our spirits, our tourism, our economy, our music, and, most importantly, Brand Jamaica,” international reggae artiste Shaggy, whose given name is Orville Burrell, said.
“It’s about time we rally the powers that be to free up these artistes …, allow them travelling visas and work permits so they can travel freely to promote our culture and represent our brand.
At the time, an email advisory was sent to airlines not to board the artiste, as well as three other deejays, as their visas were being revoked.
Several other dancehall acts are without a US visa, among them Popcaan and Tommy Lee Sparta.
He describes himself as \"a 26-year-old boy from Migori living in Nairobi, who just finished his degree in sound engineering at the School of Audio Engineering in Cape Town\".
Having academic knowledge in sound and music has enabled me to record and mix my own music, and for other artistes too.
I seek to create a unique sound, but I still haven't found a musician whose style fits mine perfectly.
But I believe if I was to go on tour with Alicia Keys, Coldplay or Simi from Nigeria, their audience would easily relate to my music because of the similarities in sound and lyrics.
How easy or hard was it for you to deal with geographical and cultural differences as a student and musician in South Africa?
Enterprise Holdings Vice President and General Manager Kevin Moore stands before nearly 100 colleagues at his company’s St. Louis headquarters. His audience is 90 rising stars from across the company who are there for the company’s Minority Leadership Forum. But the audience also includes Enterprise Executive Chairman Andy Taylor (the family-owned $20B company’s second-generation leader), CEO and President Pam Nicholson, Chief Operating Officer Chrissy Taylor (Andy’s daughter), and other top officers. And their participation isn’t ceremonial here. The company’s leadership participates all day, each day of the Forums.
The high-potential employees in the audience listen intently to Moore’s story. He grew up in Sacramento … was first in his family to go to college … joined Enterprise’s renowned management training program in Long Beach. He tells them how he met his wife, Martha, as an Enterprise Rent-A-Car branch manager, how he moved to St. Louis for a corporate position, then on to Detroit for his first VP-level position. That led to his first international position in Ontario, Canada, before he secured his current role as General Manager of the Tampa region, one of the company’s largest tourist markets.
It’s a story the future executives in the audience can relate to, because they’ve seen it happen before. Moore is just one of the success stories that’s come out of the fledgling diversity team Enterprise launched in 1995 – a group that included Moore, Nicholson and many other senior leaders. The initiatives Kevin and the team created laid the groundwork for the company’s current diversity programs. And, as the ranks of diverse leaders have grown, so has the company. When Kevin started, Enterprise had around 200 locations and $250 million in annual revenue.
Today, it’s the largest car rental company in the world, with 9,600 locations, 97,000 employees and $20.9 billion in annual revenue.
One key to that growth, as Moore tells his team, is that “this is really an employee development company.Yes, we are really,
The first batch of the 1,044 Jamaican ship workers who returned to the island on Tuesday afternoon has departed for government quarantine centres in St Ann after being processed at the Falmouth cruise ship pier in Trelawny.
The Jamaican workers were repatriated aboard Royal Caribbean's Adventures of the Seas cruise ship, which remains docked at the port.
Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of National Security, Mathew Samuda, says the Jamaicans were allowed to disembark in trances of 40 and 20 and were subjected to health and safety screening including being tested for COVID-19.
Holness said ship workers who test positive will go into state quarantine while those who test negative will be allowed to quarantine at home for 14 days.
Persons in home quarantine will have their location tracked and must do a video check-in multiple times a day, Holness said.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A Britain-born woman who went on a high-speed joyride through two parishes, ending in a spectacular crash that killed two persons, has been sentenced to a fine of just under $1 million.
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WESTERN BUREAU: Dalton ‘Red Yute’ Smith has cried every morning since Tuesday, unable to temper his mourning for the man he called ‘Father’, Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart, whose life was celebrated yesterday at the chapel at Sandals Montego Bay in St...
COVID-19 disturbances have had a direct impact on most people’s mental health in one way or the other and the best way to treat anyone you meet is just to be kind because virtually everyone is under some sort of mental strain.
Whilst we may not all be trained to assist people when they get into such problems, the best thing that we can do this mental health awareness week and beyond is to be kind.
While that is a good development, online learning is a potential source of stress to learners coming from poor backgrounds where gadgets that connect to the internet are unavailable and data bundles are not affordable.
The national lockdown and restrictions on movements and gatherings put in place to contain the spread of the virus have a strong bearing on people’s mental health.
As we celebrate mental health awareness week, let us bear in mind that people around us are potentially under mental strain.
Due to the changes in the atmosphere and lifestyle, many diseases and chronic pains have built their home in our body. Many types of research have taken place to find out proper medications through which these diseases and chronic pains can be treated properly. Cannabidiol oil or CBD oil is Read More
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Eager politicians were on Tuesday urged to temper their expectations about how far a $1-billion road programme will help in restoring Jamaica’s flood-hit corridors after weeks of rainstorms. Each of the 63 constituencies will be allocated $15...
Gladys Maria Knight is an American Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, actress, and humanitarian. She was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on May 28, 1944, to Sarah and Merald Knight Sr. and began singing in church as a child. At age seven, she gained minor fame after winning a performance contest on the televised “Ted Mack and the Original Amateur Hour.” In 1953 Knight, her brother Merald Jr., her sister Brenda, and their cousins Eleanor and William Guest formed a musical act called The Pips. Brenda Knight and Eleanor Guest both left the group to get married and were replaced by Edward Patten and Langston George. By 1960 The Pips had begun to perform and tour on a regular basis.
Knight and The Pips first experienced major success after signing with Motown Records in 1966 and began touring with The Supremes as an opening act. While at Motown, Knight and The Pips produced several major hits including, “I Heard It through the Grapevine,” “If I Were Your Woman,” and “Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye).” She was responsible for sending the Jackson 5’s first demo tape to Motown Records after seeing them perform at “Amateur Night” at the Apollo Theater in August of 1967.
In 1973 Knight and The Pips left Motown Records and signed with Buddah Records and enjoyed major success with several top-charting hits including “Midnight Train to Georgia,” “On and On,” “Ive Got to Use My Imagination,” and “Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me.” Knight and The Pips continued to produce major hit songs until the late 1980s. Her humanitarian work includes her collaboration with Dionne Warwick, Elton John, and Stevie Wonder in 1986 for the iconic AIDS benefit anthem “That’s What Friends Are For.”
Knight decided to branch out and pursue a solo career in 1989. Throughout the 1990s, Knight continued to tour and record successful R&B and gospel music. In 1996 Gladys Knight and The Pips were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Ohio. Additionally, Knight has been honored with numerous Grammy Awards, American
(ThyBlackMan.com) Deciding on whether to do a full-body workout or focus on one muscle group can be overwhelming. Achieving fitness goals is a long-term commitment and takes persistence and time. So it’s important to choose what would be best for you so that you can see real results after a certain period. So let’s have […]
(Jamaica Gleaner) It’s not often that a mother and her daughter graduate at the same time, from the same university, with the same degree.
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Culture Minister Olivia Grange has announced that the cleaning of the statues of the nation’s founding fathers — The Right Excellent Sir Alexander Bustamante and the Right Excellent Norman Manley — at St William Grant Park in downtown Kingston will be this year’s National Labour Day Project.
Prime Minister Andrew Holness will lead a “small and social distanced team, taking all the safety precautions that will work to clean up, fix up and plant around the statues of the two National Heroes on Monday,” said Grange.
The scope of work for the national project also includes repairs to the base of the statues, repair of electrical conduits and landscaping.
Grange said the national labour day committee was “careful to select national and parish projects which can be implemented by small teams, without putting anyone’s health at risk, while honouring the aim of the annual Labour Day observance which is to celebrate work and workers and volunteering our labour to make a difference in our communities.”
Parish projects, to be led by mayors across the country, include the cleaning of the monument in tribute to National Hero, the Right Excellent Sam Sharpe, in Montego Bay, St James as well as the cleaning and sanitising of the Lucea Market in Hanover and the Junction Market in St Elizabeth.
Quotations from Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Toms Cabin and other novels and books. Learn more: Harriet Beecher Stowe Biography
• The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
• If women want any rights they had better take them, and say nothing about it
• Women are the real architects of society.
• So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master -- so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil -- so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
• I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into the street and cries for help to save her children from a burning house thinks of the teachings of the rhetorician or the elocutionist
• I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
• When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you till it seems you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
• So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesnt somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
• Common sense is seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be.
• The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
• Friendships are discovered rather than made.
• Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
• Although mothers bodily presence disappeared from our circle, I think that her memory and example had more influence in molding her family, in deterring from evil and exciting to good, than the living presence of many mothers.
It was a memory that met us everywhere; for every person in the town seemed to have been so impressed by her character and life that they constantly reflected some portion of it back
A true Jamaican patriot, visionary leader, tourism mogul extraordinaire and the greatest marketer tourism has ever seen. That is how tourism giant 79-year-old Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart, who passed on Monday in the United States, is remembered by...
The police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding an incident captured in a video being circulated, showing policemen in confrontation with two members of the public. The video shows a man hurling expletives...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — From local food banks stepping up to meet the steep increase of people seeking assistance, to small businesses adapting to rapidly changing environments, to military service members and front-line workers committed to keeping our communities safe, Wells Fargo said it salutes those working together to support each other year-round, and especially during the holidays.
The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) Combined Index closed Friday on a winning note in heavy trading, with an advance/decline ratio of 33/37.\tThe JSE Combined Index advanced by 795.17 points or 0.20 per cent to close at 391,611.75\tThe JSE Main Market...
This is the first in a series by our reporters on how they covered the news during the coronavirus pandemic. �
Madagascar on Sunday announced the first death of a patient suffering from novel coronavirus, nearly two months after it was first detected in the country.
The 57-year-old hospital worked died on Saturday and had underlying diabetes and high blood pressure before he was infected, an official from the anti-coronavirus task team said.
He was a car park attendant at a hospital in the eastern city of Toamasina.
Several African countries have ordered or expressed interest in the purported remedy, which is known as Covid-Organics.
But the World Health Organization has warned against \"adopting a product that has not been taken through tests to see its efficacy\".
CONROY STERLING begged his mom, Joan Spence, not to break down and cry as he, twin Conrad, and adopted brother Rohan were repatriated to the island aboard the Adventure of the Seas cruise ship on Tuesday afternoon.
After months of quarantine in their cabins after the cruise industry sank amid the global coronavirus pandemic, the three men, along with more than 1,000 other Jamaican cruise ship workers, were reunited in their homeland via the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line ship that docked at the Falmouth Port in Trelawny.
None of the 1,044 crew members will be allowed to disembark the vessel until Thursday after being processed by immigration, customs and health officials, but that is fine with Spence, who drove approximately 130 kilometres from Portmore, St Catherine, to witness the heart-warming homecoming.
And like many other family members awaiting the outcome of the repatriation, Spence said she thought they were never coming home anytime soon.
After health surveillance and COVID-19 tests are completed, crew members will be accommodated at the Bahia Principe and Jewel Paradise Cove hotels in St Ann for at least three days while they await the results, Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton told The Gleaner last night.
Fans were devastated to learn of the death of the best selling author of ‘Sister, Sister’, and ‘Before We Were Wicked’ New York Timesbest-selling authorEric Jerome Dickeywho penned such classics as “Sister, Sister” “Before We Were Wicked” and “Friends and Lovers” about Black life, revolutionizing […]
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A YEAR shy of her 20th anniversary as a member of parliament, Shahine Robinson, 66, has died having lost her battle with lung cancer.
Until her sudden illness in October, last year, Shahine Robinson was well-known in Jamaican politics and had been affectionately considered the darling of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP).
Robinson was, in fact, one of the most recognisable women in the governing JLP, who would from time to time unleash political fury on rival, the People’s National Party, despite her usually calm demeanour.
Robinson then pulled off another exciting win at the national polls in 2002 for the North East St Ann seat which brought joy to the JLP.
Former Prime Minister PJ Patterson also paid tribute to Robinson, mentioning that in 2019, after his accident, Robinson had wished him full recovery while he was being discharged from hospital.
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Giving all praise and honor to God.
The Bible calls us to hope, to persevere and have faith in things not seen. They were still living by faith when they died, the scripture tells us.
They did not receive the things promised. They only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth.
We are here today to remember a man of God who lived by faith, a man who believed in things not seen, a man who believed there were better days ahead off in the distance, a man of service, who persevered knowing full-well he would not receive all those things he was promised, because he believed his efforts would deliver a better life for those who followed, to Jennifer, his beloved wife, Eliana and Malana, his beautiful, wonderful daughters, to the Mother Emanuel family and the people of Charleston, the people of South Carolina.
I cannot claim to have had the good fortune to know Reverend Pinckney well, but I did have the pleasure of knowing him and meeting him here in South Carolina back when we were both a little bit younger…back when I didn’t have visible gray hair.
The first thing I noticed was his graciousness, his smile, his reassuring baritone, his deceptive sense of humor, all qualities that helped him wear so effortlessly a heavy burden of expectation.
Friends of his remarked this week that when Clementa Pinckney entered a room, it was like the future arrived, that even from a young age, folks knew he was special, anointed. He was the progeny of a long line of the faithful, a family of preachers who spread God’s words, a family of protesters who so changed to expand voting rights and desegregate the South.
Clem heard their instruction, and he did not forsake their teaching. He was in the pulpit by 13, pastor by 18, public servant by 23. He did not exhibit any of the cockiness of youth nor youth’s insecurities. Instead, he set an example worthy of his position, wise beyond his years in his speech, in his conduct, in his love, faith and purity.
As a
