Academic and social activist Rev Merlyn Hyde Riley on Saturday smashed Baptist tradition after she was elected the first woman general secretary in almost two centuries of the Jamaican Baptist.
As the gun debate continues in the US, Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness, in his address to the Summit of the Americas held last week, noted the effect of small arms trafficking to Jamaica. .
Born on August 5, 1946 with deformed legs, Sarah Newland-Martin never cared that she was disabled, and for 75 years she showed Jamaica that a physical disability was not an impediment to excel.