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Mrs. Laxmi Mansingh talking about Indian manuscripts

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"Mrs. Laxmi Mansingh [left] explaining the significance of some Indian manuscripts to the Most Hon. Rev. Samuel Carter, Roman Catholic Archbishop, and Mrs. Hazel Bennett a member of the Executive of the Jamaica Library Association. Occasion was the…

Visitors to the API exhibition of photograph on the damage caused by Hurricane Allen

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"[Roy Thomas] and visitors to the API exhibition of photographs on the damage caused by Hurricane Allen discussing one of the exhibits. The exhibition, which is being held at the Jamaica Library Service on Tom Redcam Drive, contains approximately…

Minister of Mining and Energy Horace Clarke looking at a collection of posters

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"Children do their bit for energy: Minister of Mining and Energy Horace Clarke looking at one of a collection of posters depicting sources of energy and ways of conserving energy. The posters were designed by Girl Guides and Brownies from the…

The Korotso dancers from Nigeria performing at Ward Theatre

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"The Korotso dancers from Nigeria who performed in Jamaica on Monday and yesterday at the Ward Theatre."

Mozambique National Troupe of song and dance

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"A scene from "Mapiko", a secret dance from the northern section of Mozambique. Centre, in mask, is the main dancer representing the evil spirits from the forest where the dance used to be performed. During the struggle for liberation the character…

A scene from a dance by the Conjunto de Danza Popular

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"A scene from a dance by the Conjunto de Danza Popular, a dance group attached to the Karl Marx theatre in Havana. Here a mother [left] looks disapprovingly as she dances with her partner. The Conjunto de Danza Popular will participate in Carifesta…

API Photographic Exhibition Floods in West Jamaica

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"Flood damage exhibition - The Manchester Parish Library's Cecil Charlton Hall is the venue of the current API photographic exhibition "Floods in West Jamaica" which was officially opened on August 1 by Noel Chaplin general manager of Alpart. The…

Belly Woman Bangarang

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"A scene from Sistren's Belly Woman Bangarang, which returns to the Barn Theatre at Oxford and Norwood Roads in Kingston, starting Friday, April 21, at 8:30pm."

Trial of Catonsville Nine

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"A scene from the play The Trial of Catonsville Nine which opens at the Drama School this Friday at 8pm. Here we see one of defendants, Father Phillip Berrigan (left, played by Claude Clarke) before a federal judge (Paul Pinto). In the play nine…

The Rope and The Cross

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"My son, my son: The mother of Judas (Leonie Forbes) cradles her dead son (Gary Harvey) in one of the most dramatic scenes in Easton Lee's arresting, biblical spectacular, "The Rope and The Cross". The colourful dynamic little play has enjoyed full…