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He also edited Selected Poetry and Bearing Witness: The Best of the Observer Arts Magazine 2000. [6] [7] Brown lived in Jamaica, adopting it as his home in 1997. In 1998, he founded the Observer Literary Arts magazine that spawned a new generation of Caribbean writers. [1] Brown wrote a weekly column for The Jamaica Observer entitled
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The Gleaner Company, the Jamaica Observer and the Sunday Herald, three of Jamaica's large newspaper companies, make their home in Kingston. Several television and radio stations including Television Jamaica (TVJ), CVM TV, RJR 94 FM , TBC Radio 88.5 FM, Hitz 92 FM, FAME 95 FM, LOVE TV, ZIP 103, Kool 97 FM and LOVE FM, are all based in Kingston.
Jamaica (/ dʒ ə ˈ m eɪ k ə / ⓘ jə-MAY-kə; Jamaican Patois: Jumieka [dʒʌˈmie̯ka]) is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies.At 10,990 square kilometres (4,240 sq mi), it is the third largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. [9]
The daughter of Enid and Cyril Harris, Dahlia Harris was born and grew up with her four siblings in Spanish Town, Saint Catherine Parish in Jamaica. [1] She started her acting career in 2005, and has appeared in many television series, and television films.
Christopher Michael Coke, also known as Dudus [2] (born 13 March 1969), [1] is a convicted Jamaican drug lord and the leader of the Shower Posse, a violent drug gang started by his father Lester Coke in Jamaica, which exported "large quantities" [3] of marijuana and cocaine into the United States.
Jamaica's leading annual film event The Reggae Film Festival takes place each February in Jamaica's capital city, Kingston. Members of Jamaica's film industry gather here to make new links and many new projects have grown from the event. Jamaica has many talented film makers but there is a great lack of available funds and resources for filmmakers.
1 May – The first-ever outbreak of chikungunya in the Caribbean reaches epidemic levels. [1]25 September – A privately owned Socata TBM-900 (flight number N900KN) from the US flies without a conscious pilot for a thousand miles after a suspected cabin depressurization and crashes 14 miles off the coast of northeastern Jamaica.