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PHOTO FLASHBACK: Celebrating Leonie Forbes OD 1937-2022

Published:Friday | October 28, 2022 | 8:03 AM
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A young Leonie Forbes in 1959
JBC'S WOMAN Leonie Forbes, introduced Mr Merrick Needham, acting general manager of the JBC to the television audience in 1967 when he broke a sealed box to pick the lucky winner of £1,000 radiogram.
Leonie Forbes, at left, narrates the developments leading to Emancipation, while Patsy Ricketts, right, leads dancers in expressing the cry for freedom in the July 30, 1988 "Full Free-150", dramatisation of the events leading up to Emancipation in 1838, at the Spanish Town Square.
Theatre legend Leonie Forbes in 1967
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Leonie Forbes was a theatre legend. She did significant work with Jamaica Broadcasting Commission and also appeared in a number of television dramas and local plays.