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Jamaican lore is filled with stories of and references to a legendary people, the Maroons — fearsome warriors who could melt into the bush and ambush many a British Redcoat. We hear tell of the ...

Ominous signs of climate change adversely affecting Jamaica are becoming almost impossible to miss, unless one is determined not to see them. Former US Vice President Al Gore quoted the ancient proverb in his 2006 film, An Inconvenient Truth,...

The Jamaican government will recognize over 120 individuals at the 2023 National Honors and Awards Ceremony on October 16, 2023, which has been designated National Heroes Day. 

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...

For over 300 years, Europeans enslaved Africans on the plantations of Jamaica and other Caribbean islands. Slavery was a brutal system of hard labour, the loss of lives and limbs of hundred of enslaved people, some of whom resisted from day one....

Young activist Mikaela Loach is bringing a steely determination to the fight for climate justice. Just don’t call her ‘the new Greta’

#Kingston, March 7, 2023 – A bust of National Heroine, the Right Excellent Nanny of the Maroons, was recently unveiled in Holywell, at the Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park (BJCMNP). It was donated to the Jamaica Conservation and Development Trust (JCDT) by sculptor Mark Treunfels, who first came to Jamaica in 1989 as […]

From Ethiopia’s highlands to Siberia to the Australian rainforest, there are thousands of sacred forests that have survived thanks to traditional religious and spiritual beliefs. These places, many now under threat, have ecological importance, experts say, and must be saved.

Nanny took possession of the 500 acres allotted to her and her followers in Portland Parish in 1740. There, she built the New Nanny Town.