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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…

"[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…

"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 who performed in Jamaica on Monday and yesterday at the Ward Theatre."

"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, 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…

"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…

"Clearly this is bad and something must be done about it, the quicker, the better is the consensus among Housing Minister Tony Spaulding [left] Sites and Services Director, Clive Laidley [centre] and Youth and Community Development Minister, Hugh…

"Everything goes in the construction of these dwellings - from rusty sheets of zinc for roofing, bamboo-lattices and flattened barrel sides -a t the York Town squatter settlements - unit for human occupation. This the Housing Ministry recognises, and…

Print depicting a Barbadian mulatto woman buying produce from two female vendors. One of the vendors is fully clad and sitting on a basket with another basket of fruits/vegetables before her. The second woman is standing topless with a basket of…