Jamaica’s Theodore 'T' Miller, founder of the famous Lititz Mento Band from South St Elizabeth and Manchester, died on June 10 at the age of 88, after a career lasting more than 70 years. His loss, as the Gleaner recently reported, “represents a great loss to Jamaica's cultural heritage.” Mento is a style of Jamaican…
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The Jamaican Government will be allocating additional funds to the Poet Laureate of Jamaica Programme according to an announcement by Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Minister, Hon. Olivia Grange, and relayed to the public in a speech delivered by library chief Joy Douglas, at a recent launch of ‘Last Reel’, a new poetry collection by Poet Laureate (2014-2017), Professor Mervyn Morris.
KINGSTON, Jamaica The Government will be allocating additional funds for the development and execution of the Poet Laureate of Jamaica Programme.
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Three pre-eminent Jamaican poets are lauding fellow poet Ishion Hutchinson for being shortlisted for Canada’s prestigious International Griffin Poetry Prize. One of the world’s most generous poetry awards, the prize, this year, is worth CDN$130,000.