JamaicaPressRelease.com » Jamaican Authors http://www.jamaicapressrelease.com Jamaica’s Window to News Directly from the Source Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:40:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 University Players’ Tribute to Trevor Rhone http://www.jamaicapressrelease.com/2009/10/13/university-players%e2%80%99-tribute-to-trevor-rhone/ http://www.jamaicapressrelease.com/2009/10/13/university-players%e2%80%99-tribute-to-trevor-rhone/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:23:47 +0000 Publisher - J.P.R http://www.jamaicapressrelease.com/?p=1213 a_004The University Players’ will pay tribute to the late Trevor Rhone with a staging of his award-winning comedy “Two Can Play” which will be presented for just six performances beginning Saturday October 17th and continuing through to Monday October 26 at the Philip Sherlock Centre for the Creative Arts, UWI, Mona.

Two Can Play, a work which won the award for Best Jamaican Play in 1982, features performances by 2008 Actor Boy Award nominees Nadean Rawlins and Alwyn Scott,

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“Musings started out as a

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]]> http://www.jamaicapressrelease.com/2008/07/14/bourdain-fried-in-dancehall-fat-for-saying-bitches/feed/ 0 Manchester Promise Fulfilled – Whit Stennett http://www.jamaicapressrelease.com/2008/06/24/manchester-promise-fulfilled-%e2%80%93-whit-stennett/ http://www.jamaicapressrelease.com/2008/06/24/manchester-promise-fulfilled-%e2%80%93-whit-stennett/#comments Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:09:07 +0000 JamaicaNational http://www.jamaicapressrelease.com/?p=162 Frustrated with life in colonial Jamaica, he took up an offer for a trial to play county cricket with Northampton. Arriving in Manchester in 1959, he instead chose a career that leads him to become the first black mayor of Trafford and an audience with the Queen.

“I was an angry young man,” he said. This anger was directed at the social and political conditions in pre-independence Jamaica.

“A lot of young men like me had ambitions

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]]> http://www.jamaicapressrelease.com/2008/06/24/manchester-promise-fulfilled-%e2%80%93-whit-stennett/feed/ 0 BOOK LAUNCH OF YVONNE COKE’S PERSPECTIVES FROM THE JAMAICAN MAP http://www.jamaicapressrelease.com/2008/06/16/book-launch-of-yvonne-coke%e2%80%99s-perspectives-from-the-jamaican-map/ http://www.jamaicapressrelease.com/2008/06/16/book-launch-of-yvonne-coke%e2%80%99s-perspectives-from-the-jamaican-map/#comments Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:36:37 +0000 Nicole West-Hayles http://www.jamaicapressrelease.com/?p=149 Write Visions Limited in association with Hands Across Jamaica For Righteousness (HANDS) launches Yvonne Coke’s second book entitled, Perspectives From The Jamaica MAP. This event will be held at the Pantry Garden, 4 Dumfries Road, Kingston 5 beginning at 6.00 p.m. on Wednesday, June 18, 2008. The guest speaker will be Bishop Joel Edwards, General Director of the Evangelical Alliance of the United Kingdom.

Perspectives From The Jamaican MAP promotes God’s vision for Jamaica as found in the National Motto, Anthem and Pledge (MAP).

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]]> http://www.jamaicapressrelease.com/2008/06/16/book-launch-of-yvonne-coke%e2%80%99s-perspectives-from-the-jamaican-map/feed/ 0 Jamaican Author Tells Immigrant’s Story http://www.jamaicapressrelease.com/2008/05/06/jamaican-author-tells-immigrants-story/ http://www.jamaicapressrelease.com/2008/05/06/jamaican-author-tells-immigrants-story/#comments Tue, 06 May 2008 14:59:52 +0000 GeorgeGraham http://www.jamaicapressrelease.com/?p=121 Popular author George Graham, whose book, “Hill-an’-Gully Rider,” sparked widespread comment in the Caribbean, explores the life of a Jamaican immigrant in his new novel, “The Color of Ice: A Canadian Serenade.”

Born in Black River, Jamaica, Graham immigrated to Canada during the late 1950s and lived there for about 20 years, with two breaks to return to live and work in Jamaica. During one break he was Public Relations Director for the Jamaica Industrial Development Corporation, and during the other he was one of the founding editors

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