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Violet Brown (née Mosse; 10 March 1900 – 15 September 2017) [2] was a Jamaican supercentenarian who was the oldest verified living person in the world for five months, following the death of Emma Morano on 15 April 2017 until her own death at the age of 117 years, 189 days on 15 September 2017.
Jamaican actress [130] John Kenley: 1906–2009: 103: American Broadway director and producer [131] Barbara Kent: 1907–2011: 103: Canadian-born American actress [132] Yuriko Kikuchi: 1920–2022: 102: American dancer and choreographer [133] Robert Kinoshita: 1914–2014: 100: American art director [134] Hans F. Koenekamp: 1891–1992: 100 ...
Gordon Arthur Cyril "Butch" Stewart OJ CD (6 July 1941 – 4 January 2021) was a Jamaican hotelier and businessman. He was the founder, owner, and chairman of Sandals Resorts, Beaches Resorts, and their parent company Sandals Resorts International, as well as The ATL Group and its subsidiaries Appliance Traders and The Jamaica Observer.
Barbara Joy Gloudon OD OJ IOJ (née Goodison; 5 February 1935 [1] – 11 May 2022) was a Jamaican writer. She received two Seprod Awards from the Press Association of Jamaica and Order of Distinction. Gloudon was a scriptwriter for Jamaica's Little Theatre Movement (LTM) [2] and wrote radio drama. She hosted a radio talk show for thirty years ...
Kenneth Lloyd Khouri (1917 – 20 September 2003) was a pioneering Jamaican record producer and founder of Federal Records, the first recording studio in Jamaica, which was sold to Bob Marley's Tuff Gong record label in 1981. [1] He is credited by reggae historians for the birth of rocksteady in the 1960s. [2]
In later years, he taught full-time as head of the Caribbean, Latin American and jazz department (Popular Music Studies) at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts in Kingston, Jamaica. [6] Cooper was appointed Officer of the Order of Distinction (OD) in 2005. [7] Cooper died from cancer on 12 October 2023, at the age of 71 ...
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The Jamaica Observer is a daily newspaper published in Kingston, Jamaica. The publication was owned by Butch Stewart (now deceased), who chartered the paper in January 1993 as a competitor to Jamaica's oldest daily paper, The Gleaner. Its founding editor is Desmond Allen who is its executive editor – operations. [1]