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Review – The Village Curtain: A Jamaica Collection

In today’ s Gleaner newspaper, Paul H. Williams reviews Tony Tame’s book “The Village Curtain: A Jamaica Collection”. It is not surprising that Tame wrote a collection of stories that are invariably about fishing, fisher-folk and the sea, with vivid descriptions of the geography and fauna of the locations. Set in fictitious Jamaican coastal communities, [...]

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Media – Review of Livestock, Sugar and Slavery

In today’s Sunday Gleaner newspaper, Paul H. Williams does a review of Verene Shepherd’s book, “Livestock, Sugar and Slavery”. “Many historians have either failed to write about or simply refused to discuss the fact that apart from sugar cane cultivation there were other commercial uses for land during slavery .. The first in the series, [...]

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