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The Gleaner is an English-language, morning daily newspaper founded by two brothers, Jacob and Joshua de Cordova on 13 September 1834 in Kingston, Jamaica. Originally called the Daily Gleaner, the name was changed on 7 December 1992 to The Gleaner. The newspaper is owned and published by Gleaner Company publishing house in Kingston, Jamaica.
jamaica-gleaner .com. The Gleaner Company Ltd. is a newspaper publishing enterprise in Jamaica. Established in 1834 by Joshua and Jacob De Cordova, the company's primary product is The Gleaner, a morning broadsheet published six days each week. It also publishes a Sunday paper, the Sunday Gleaner, and an evening tabloid, The Star.
The Daily Gleaner, the oldest Jamaican daily published by Gleaner Company, founded in 1834, oldest continually published, English language newspaper in the Western Hemisphere; The Agriculturalist, the oldest and most consistent agricultural newspaper in the Caribbean for 28 years. Published by Patrick Maitland; The Jamaica ChurchmanOCLC 63206121
Wounding, robbery, murder. Vincent " Ivanhoe " Martin (1924–9 September 1948), known as " Rhyging ", was a Jamaican criminal who became a legendary outlaw and folk hero, often regarded as the "original rude boy ". [1] [2] He became notorious in 1948 after escaping from prison, going on the run and committing a string of robberies, murders and ...
October 18–19, 1815 – Heavy rains attending a storm caused flooding in eastern Jamaica. Homes were destroyed in St. George and St. James. [21] November 2, 1874 – A Category 2 hurricane made landfall on Clarendon with winds of 170 km/h (105 mph), causing £75,000 in damage and killing five people. [22]
History of Jamaican newspapers. In Colonial Jamaica, during the 18th and 19th centuries, there were a number of newspapers that represented the views of the white planters who owned slaves. These newspapers included the Royal Gazette, The Diary and Kingston Daily Advertiser, Cornwall Chronicle, Cornwall Gazette, and Jamaica Courant. [1]
Lester Lloyd Coke, commonly known as Jim Brown, [2] was a Jamaican drug lord and the founder of the Shower Posse, a gang based out of the Tivoli Gardens [3] garrison community in West Kingston. Coke was identified by the Netflix documentary ReMastered: Who Shot the Sheriff as present and a party to the shooting of Bob Marley on 3 December 1976.
A. L. Hendriks. Arthur Lemière Hendriks (1922–1992) was a Jamaican poet, writer, and broadcasting director (known as Micky Hendriks in his broadcasting career). He was particularly well known for his contributions to The Christian Science Monitor, The Daily Gleaner, and BIM. He also contributed as a columnist and literary critic to the Daily ...