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In a bid to strengthen their ties with the Mile Gully community, mining corporation Jamalco, under the leadership of its new managing director, Marvin Jackson, has made a gesture towards Mile Gully High School. The company, operating within the...

In his bid to transform the Newport division, Martin Vivian Tomlinson, a councillor-candidate for the Jamaica Labour Party, is expressing confidence in his ability to bring positive change. Tomlinson last week criticised incumbent Anthony Bryce for...

Residents of Mount Oliphant in South Manchester are desperately crying out for the completion of road repairs in sections of the community, which is home to the JAMALCO bauxite company’s loading station. Valerie Allen, a businesswoman of Mount...

Mandeville, Manchester Campbell’s Castle Primary and Early Childhood School is set to host a fun day tomorrow for the South Manchester community at large. Community members, including an elder who goes by the name Junie, are excited about the...

MILE GULLY, Manchester – With the imminent resumption of bauxite mining here, Member of Parliament for Manchester North Western Mikael Phillips is calling for the construction of a haul road and ...

Robert Burns, (born January 25, 1759, Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland—died July 21, 1796, Dumfries, Dumfriesshire), national poet of Scotland, who wrote lyrics and songs in Scots and in English. He was also famous for his amours and his rebellion against orthodox religion and morality. Burns’s father had come to Ayrshire from Kincardineshire in an endeavour to improve his fortunes, but, though he worked immensely hard first on the farm of Mount Oliphant, which he leased in 1766, and then o...

Robert Burns was voted the greatest Scot over iconic warrior William Wallace in a 2009 poll.

Scotlands most famous poet almost relocated to the Caribbean Credit: Getty If Robert Burns had got his way we might celebrate Burns Night by eating rice and peas and jerk chicken – perhaps with a ginger beer or a Red Stripe – rather than haggis, neaps and a dram. The tough lot of a farmer’s son and, later, as a tenant farmer, and the birth of no fewer than three illegitimate daughters in the space of a year, led Burns to seriously contemplate voyaging to the Caribbean to try his luck over...

Life Burns’s father had come to Ayrshire from Kincardineshire in an endeavour to improve his fortunes, but, though he worked immensely hard first on the farm of Mount Oliphant, which he leased in 1766, and then on that of Lochlea, which he took in 1777, ill luck dogged him, and he died in 1784, worn out and bankrupt. It was watching his father being thus beaten down that helped to make Robert both a rebel against the social order of his day and a bitter satirist of all forms of religious and ...