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PORTLAND, Jamaica – The Portland police say they will ensure the safety of all parties concerned if the May 8 selection of a new chief of the Moore Town Maroons goes ahead as planned. Superintendent K...

PORT ANTONIO, Portland — Controversial leader of the Accompong Maroons, Colonel Richard Currie, has rejected claims that he is behind a push to have Colonel Wallace Sterling replaced, by an 18-yea...

One of the leaders of the descendants of Jamaica's Afro-Indigenous people has apologized for helping enforce slavery centuries ago on the Caribbean

The Maroon apology for their role in crushing slave rebellions and forcibly returning runaway slaves to British-owned sugar plantations is not supported, in full, by Colonel Lloyd Lattibeaudiere o...

Jamaica Observer readers have welcomed the apology from Maroon Queen Gloria Simms for the much regretted role of the Maroons of Jamaica in suppressing slave rebellions in Jamaica, under treaties signe...

On Good Friday 2022 the Paramount Chieftainess and Queen of the Maroons of Jamaica Gamaang Gloria Simms offered a heartfelt apology on behalf of her indigenous group for its much-regretted rol...

I t took almost three centuries, but on Good Friday 2022 the Maroons of Jamaica apologised for their sordid role in crushing popular anti-slavery uprisings and forcibly returning runaway sl...

I. That all hostilities shall cease on both sides forever. II. That the said Captain Cudjoe, the rest of his captains, adherents and men, shall be forever hereafter in a perfect state of freedom and l...

THE relatives of 53-year-old Lloyd Davis, the Bethsalem, St Elizabeth, farmer who was sho...

THE relatives of 53-year-old Lloyd Davis, the Bethsalem, St Elizabeth, farmer who was sho...