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Calabar High School is an all-male secondary school in Kingston, Jamaica.It was established by the Jamaica Baptist Union in 1912 for the children of Baptist ministers. It was named after the Kalabari Kingdom later anglicized by the British to Calabar, in present-day Nigeria.
The Gleaner Company, the Jamaica Observer and the Sunday Herald, three of Jamaica's large newspaper companies, make their home in Kingston. Several television and radio stations including Television Jamaica (TVJ), CVM TV, RJR 94 FM , TBC Radio 88.5 FM, Hitz 92 FM, FAME 95 FM, LOVE TV, ZIP 103, Kool 97 FM and LOVE FM, are all based in Kingston.
It was founded in 1944 as "The Priory House" by Henry Fowler, a Jamaican Rhodes scholar, political activist and patron of the arts and educational causes. Fowler was Priory's headmaster from its founding until his retirement in 1973.
Una Lorraine Morris (born 17 January 1947) is a retired Jamaican sprinter, physician, restaurateur, and food caterer.She represented Jamaica at the 1964, 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics in eight sprint events in total, with the best achievement of fourth place in the 200 metres in 1964.
Eric Anthony Abrahams, also known as "Tony", [1] was born on 5 May 1940, [2] to Eric Abrahams and Lucille Abrahams. [3] His father was a director of a corporation. [4] He was educated at Jamaica College and studied economics, history and English at the University of the West Indies beginning in 1958.
Doris Albertha Darlington (died 25 June 1998) was a Jamaican Maroon who owned a food shop and later a liquor store in Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1950s and 1960s.This site provided the initial space for her son Coxsone Dodd to begin playing music for customers, a practice that eventually led to his founding Studio One and becoming one of the island's key musical forces.
Its Moonraker bar is spread across two storeys, is open on all sides, and occasionally hosts jazz, blues, soca, and reggae concerts. [ 2 ] The seaside location only took up its James Bond Beach name following a suggestion by Kingston -based journalist Neil-Monticelli Harley-Rüdd to the Jamaican Tourist Board.
Rockfort was a centre for Jamaican popular music, [2] where it became associated with Rastafari, thanks to the activities of Count Ossie.Others who have performed and lived in the area were Horace Andy, Don Drummond, [3] Johnny Moore, and Tommy McCook. [4]