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Wayne Vincent Brown (born 18 July 1944 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago; died 15 September 2009 in Stony Hill, Jamaica) was a columnist, poet and fiction writer, and a teacher and mentor to numerous Caribbean writers. His mentorship was not without controversy, however. He is referenced in Safiya Sinclair’s 2023 memoir How to Say Babylon ...
Jamaica Observer is a daily newspaper published in Kingston, Jamaica. The publication was owned by Butch Stewart (now deceased), who chartered the paper in January 1993 as a competitor to Jamaica's oldest daily paper, The Gleaner. Its founding editor is Desmond Allen who is its executive editor – operations.
Barbara Joy Gloudon OD OJ IOJ ( née Goodison; 5 February 1935 [1] – 11 May 2022) was a Jamaican writer. She received two Seprod Awards from the Press Association of Jamaica and Order of Distinction. Gloudon was a scriptwriter for Jamaica's Little Theatre Movement (LTM) [2] and wrote radio drama. She hosted a radio talk show for thirty years ...
Gordon Arthur Cyril "Butch" Stewart OJ CD (6 July 1941 – 4 January 2021) was a Jamaican hotelier and businessman. He was the founder, owner, and chairman of Sandals Resorts, Beaches Resorts, and their parent company Sandals Resorts International, as well as The ATL Group and its subsidiaries Appliance Traders and The Jamaica Observer .
Biography. Hearne was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, of Jamaican parents and attended Jamaica College in Kingston. After serving in the RAF during the Second World War, he read English and Philosophy at Edinburgh University. [1] He trained as a teacher at London University and from 1950 to 1952 taught in a Jamaican school.
Harvard University ( AB) Edward Philip George Seaga ON ( / siˈɑːɡə / or /- ˈæ -/; 28 May 1930 – 28 May 2019) [1] was a Jamaican politician and record producer. [2] He was the fifth Prime Minister of Jamaica, from 1980 to 1989, and the leader of the Jamaica Labour Party from 1974 to 2005. [3] He served as leader of the opposition from ...
L'Antoinette Stines. Lenora Antoinette Stines (born September 5, 1951), better known as L'Antoinette Ọṣun Awade Wemo Stines is a Jamaican director, choreographer, author, actor and dancer. [1] She is the founder and artistic director of L'Acadco: A United Caribbean Dance Force, [2] an industry-leading contemporary dance company based in ...
jacquelineabishop .com. Jacqueline Bishop is a writer, visual artist and photographer from Jamaica, who now lives in New York City, where she is a professor at the School of Liberal Studies at New York University (NYU). [1] She is the founder of Calabash, an online journal of Caribbean art and letters, housed at NYU, [2] and also writes for the ...