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Jamaica's leading annual film event The Reggae Film Festival takes place each February in Jamaica's capital city, Kingston. Members of Jamaica's film industry gather here to make new links and many new projects have grown from the event. Jamaica has many talented film makers but there is a great lack of available funds and resources for filmmakers.
Family in Jamaica, ... Jamaican families (5 C, 3 P) This page was last edited on 12 May 2022, at 22:57 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Though her family life was otherwise happy, Ziadie has since spoken and written of the many personal issues she faced being raised as a boy when she is biologically female. [4] Her family, the Ziadies, were prominent in Jamaica after emigrating from Lebanon, having grown wealthy from trade. [11]
Donald J. Harris is the father of Kamala Harris. He is a Jamaican-American economist and professor emeritus at Stanford University, originally from Saint Ann's Bay, Jamaica. Of Jamaican descent, Harris was born on August 23, 1938, to Beryl Christie Harris (née Finegan) [20] [21] and Oscar Joseph Harris. [22]
Louise Simone Bennett-Coverley or Miss Lou OM, OJ, MBE (7 September 1919 – 26 July 2006), was a Jamaican poet, folklorist, writer, and educator.Writing and performing her poems in Jamaican Patois or Creole, Bennett worked to preserve the practice of presenting poetry, folk songs and stories in patois ("nation language"), [2] establishing the validity of local languages for literary expression.
Lee-Chin was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica, in 1951 to Aston Lee and Hyacinth Gloria Chen.Both his parents were biracial African and Jamaican-Chinese.When Lee-Chin was aged seven, his mother married Vincent Chen [10] who had a son from a previous relationship, and the couple had seven children together, six boys and one girl. [11]
Barrett family of Jamaica; Beckford family; Z. Ziadie family This page was last edited on 29 November 2020, at 22:56 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
Julian Henriques was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, England; his father, Fernando Henriques, was Jamaican and his mother was of Irish and English descent. [3] When Henriques was 15 or 16, he and his two brothers were brought to Jamaica by their father, which "was the beginning of a longstanding working relationship with the island".