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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 Jamaica Star is a newspaper often cited as a resource for happenings in Jamaica. According to an advertisement in Editor & Publisher in 1965, the Star was one of the first papers to carry the King Features Syndicate's coloring and comics page for children. References
The Gleaner. 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. [1] 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 ...
This is a list of newspapers in Jamaica: Daily 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 ...
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]
Carolyn Cooper CD (born 20 November 1950) [1] is a Jamaican author, essayist and literary scholar. She is a former professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. From 1975 to 1980, she was an assistant professor at Atlantic Union College in South Lancaster, Massachusetts.
Alma mater. University of the West Indies. University of Oxford. Nickname. Tony. Eric Anthony Abrahams (5 May 1940 – 7 August 2011) was a Jamaican public servant and broadcaster. He was director of tourism from 1970 to 1975, and minister of tourism and information from 1980 to 1984. After leaving office, he co-created a radio show with ...
He returned to Jamaica permanently about 30 years later in the 1930s. Little is known about Bustamante's 30 years spent outside of Jamaica. Political career in colonial Jamaica. He became a leader in activism against colonial rule. He gained recognition by writing frequent letters on the issues to the Daily Gleaner newspaper.