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Jamaica's record keeper. Inside the 191-year-old archives of @jamaicagleaner, the oldest operating newspaper in the Caribbean. 876-932-6078

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#ThisDayInOurPast: October 15, 1968 Guyanese lecturer, Walter Rodney was barred from re-entering Jamaica by the local immigration authorities on his return from Canada. videos.jamaica-gleaner.com/v…
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#PhotoFlashback: April 1963 The Carnival Queen at the Wolmer's Boy School Fair, Sonia Penso, 19 y-o Stenotypist pose with the runners up in the contest. At right is Verna Gunter who came 2nd and at left is Helen Shaw who came third. The Beauty contest was held at the School Fair.
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#PhotoFlashback: April 20, 1983 William Craig of Montego Bay, pledging his allegiance to the Queen on being sworn in as custos of St James at King’s House by Governor General Sir Florizel Glasspole. Among those witnessing the ceremony are (from left) Lady Glasspole, Mrs Craig,
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Mr Donald Davidson, chief of protocol, and the governor general’s acting A.D.C. Capt Charles Rodriquez.
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#PhotoFlashback: April 1982 Nancy Martin, Miss Jamaica Universe 1982 with runners up at the National Arena in April. At extreme right is Stephanie Silvera, “Miss Appleton Gold” and Janice Powell, “Miss Judy Hale Travel”, third and fourth runners-up respectively.
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Second runner-up Joan Mirander, “Miss Manskin” (second from left) and first runner-up, Tracey Ann Marsh, “Miss Body Mist”.
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#PhotoFlashback: April 16, 1966 The Governor-General, Sir Clifford Campbell, partners Mrs. Charles Duhaney (right), at the annual Rotary Ball held at the undercroft of the Senate building, University of the West Indies.
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The ball which was attended by some 800 people was the main fund-raising event of the Rotary Club of Kingston.
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#PhotoFlashback: April 1956 Three professors took time out for a chat over coffee in the Senate House of the University College of the West Indies (UCWI), in the interval between the formal opening of the inaugural meeting of the Standing Advisory Committee on Medical Research
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in the West Indies, & the beginning of the business session. From left are; Professor Eric Cruickshank of the UCWI, Professor R. Platt, Professor of Medicine at the University of Manchester; and Professor A. C. Frazer; Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Birmingham.
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#PhotoFlashback: April 1964 Rev. Cleve Grant (left) pastor of the Constant Spring Church of God welcoming Rev. James Earl Massey, Principal of the Jamaican Theological Seminary & Mrs. Massey at the 50th Convention of the Church of God in Jamaica in April.
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Rev. and Mrs. Massey came to the island from Detroit in January.
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#PhotoFlashback: April 13, 1964 Lady Bustamante, wife of the PM, pinning a Jamaican Independence Medal on U.S Ambassador Mr William C. Doherty, at Palisadoes Airport, just before they flew to Washington. In the background (from left) are Sir Alexander, Donald Sangster, Deputy PM.
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#PhotoFlashback: April 10, 1964 Mrs. Eddie Perkins (left), wife of the junior welterweight champion, who was in the island in preparation for his world title fight with Jamaica’s Bunny Grant, smiles as she receives an orchid corsage from the U.S Ambassador, Mr. William Doherty.
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In the forefront is Dr. Douglas Manley, vice-president of the Jamaican Boxing Board. The corsage was presented to Mrs. Perkins at a press luncheon held at the Sheraton Hotel.
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#PhotoFlashback: April 1964 The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Donald Sangster, addressing the gathering at the opening of the new Medical Faculty Building at the University of the West Indies (UWI). From left are
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the acting Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Professor Harry Annamunthodo, the Vice-Chancellor, Mr. Phillip Sherlock, HRH the Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone & Chancellor of the UWI; and Sir Andrew Cohen, Director-General of the British Department of Technical Co-operation.
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#PhotoFlashback: April 7, 1964 From left: Mrs Margaret Hewitt of Colin Turner Ltd, who was to be in charge of the Jamaican Weekly Gleaner operations in Britain,
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with Jamaica’s Minister of Trade Robert Lightbourne and Jamaican singer Ida Shepley at the official launching of the first issue of the Weekly Overseas Gleaner in London.
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#PhotoFlashback: April 1976 P. J. Patterson, Minister of Industry, Tourism and Foreign Trade (center) at a press conference held at Norman Manley Airport on his return from Cuba in April. At Mr. Patterson’s right is Mr. Adrian Robinson,
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