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"Kumina: Members of the Kingston-based Garden Dancers go through their routine of Kumina, an African folk drum dancer (once used to invoke spirits at receptions) in the Hell Fire Club of the Hotel Rose Hall Inter-Continental. Morvin Brooks, 1973…

"Professor Efrain Paesky, Chief of the OAS' Technical Unit of Music, and Professor Rex Nettleford, Artistic Director of the NDTC, in the control booth at the recent session in Kingston at which the NDTC singers recorded 19 Caribbean folk songs for an…

"Sister P - Pauline Petinaud and her associated have taken over the Trans-Caribbean [Ironshore] beach and are busy puttin together a village with a distinct African flavour. Called the Damali Aitoro Village, the concept is to create an atmosphere of…

"Hyacinth Harrison - one of the few people in the back of the bus who escaped alive, tells her story to the Daily News' Roxroy Richards from her bed in the May Pen Hospital."

Sonia Yvonne Steele, a 19 year old contestant in the Miss Trelawny beauty contest.

"Students walking almost in the centre of Queen Street stand in mute testimony - That although the stalls adjacent the Morant Bay Public Market have been removed the vendors are still there denying pedestrians free sidewalk access on the very…

"START to erect a community centre to facilitate and accommodate the youths of Ginger Hall, Bath and Bottom Yard districts and other immediate out-lays and the work is certainly going on at a brisk pace."

"STUDY OF A PORTRAIT - Morant Bay High School Form 5b student, Everton Bryan, who was born in England and has been doing drawing and painting from primary school, migrated to Jamaica with his St. Thomas parents in 1976 and is currently applying his…