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"Gazon and George Campbell in an intimate scene from Summer Dread by Slade Hopkinson, which will be presented by the NFT of Jamaica at the Garden Theatre, Jamaica House, starting on March 12, at 8pm."

A colour photograph of sugarcane being reaped, bundled and loaded unto a cart by enslaved Africans

"Sugar workers wanted now: Venezuela representative Sr. Rafael Enrique Ayala (left) and Labour Minister William Isaacs discussing the need to send a first batch of Jamaican canecutters to Venezuela almost immediately. The Venezuelan representative,…

A rusty zinc building on a sugar warehouse in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland.

"In the 18th century, sugar was sold as a big cone called a 'sugar-loaf'. Sugar nippers were used in the home for breaking chunks off sugar-loaves for use."

The interior of a sugar factory

Image of an old sugar mill located on the historic Green Castle Estate in St. Mary, Jamaica.

Design drawing of a sugar mill done by Edward Woollery Esq. of Jamaica.

Labourers cutting sugar cane in the canefields.