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Published:Tuesday | May 14, 2024 | 12:08 AMDave Rodney and Anthony Turner/Gleaner Writers

New York: The luxurious Cipriani on East 42nd Street was the Saturday night venue for the Issa Trust Foundation For the Children Gala to raise funds to build and open a health centre in St Ann, Jamaica. Both ticket prices and expectations were high...

Published:Monday | January 1, 2024 | 12:08 AMDave Rodney and Anthony Turner/Gleaner Writers

Naturalised Jamaican citizen Dushyant Savadia on New Year’s Eve fulfilled a lifelong dream when he arrived at the camp base of Mount Everest in the Himalayas and engraved Jamaica’s name at 18,500 feet on the world’s highest mountain range. “Yes, I...

Published:Wednesday | November 4, 2020 | 12:19 AMDave Rodney and Anthony Turner/Gleaner Writers

Genesis Whitlock is still in high school and was unable to vote on Tuesday because she’s 17 years old, a year below America’s voting age. But the fact that she was unable to participate in this election has only intensified her resolve to make a...

Published:Tuesday | May 21, 2019 | 12:14 AMDave Rodney and Anthony Turner/Gleaner Writers

Who remembers the hit song, Informer, which was recorded by Canadian dancehall/reggae singer Snow on the East West Records America /Atlantic label? The song was released in 1993, and it immediately became a smash hit that stayed atop the Billboard...

Published:Wednesday | April 17, 2019 | 12:25 AMDave Rodney and Anthony Turner/Gleaner Writers

Can Buju Banton, Jamaica’s Grammy-winning reggae icon, return to the United Sates to perform again? Can he, once again, electrify stages at concert venues in the land that locked him away behind bars for seven years on drug charges, almost...

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