Learn about the Maroons of Jamaica and their significant contributions to the country's development at the groundbreaking Maroon Symposium at UWI Mona.
The National Works Agency (NWA) is urging motorists using several corridors in St Mary, Portland, and St Thomas to exercise extreme caution as heavy rains continue to impact roads. The NWA says there have been instances of flooded roads, landslides.
The Charles Town Maroon community is vowing to continue its vital work in preserving Jamaica’s history, art and culture. The group was presented with its RJRGLEANER Honour Award at a ceremony on Tuesday at Television Jamaica’s Lyndhurst Road studio.
Marcia Kim Douglas, acting colonel of the Charles Town Maroons, is overjoyed that the group is to receive the RJRGLEANER Honour Award for Arts and Culture. “I am very happy that we are able to use our music to entertain and that the cultural.
It was billed as five days of academic discourse, rituals, ancestral veneration, cultural explosion and entertainment, and the 15th International Charles Town Maroon Conference and Festival, held from Wednesday, June 21 to Sunday, June 25, inside.