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Hyacinth Harrison - crash survivor

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"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."

Ms. Pauline Petinaud in African flavor dress

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"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…

Policemen

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Jamaican police officers on desk duty.

A traffic cop at work

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A traffic police directing traffic.

Professor Efrain Paesky, chief of the OAS' Technical Unit on Music and Professor Rex Nettleford

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"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…

Gardens dancers performing Kumina

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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…

National Dance Company of Senegal performing in Jamaica

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"Senegalese dancers of the National Dance Company performing at the presentation function for the Norman Manley Award for Excellence which was held at the Hotel Rose Hall Inter-Continental last Friday, July 4. Their appearance on stage was the…

Carroll Dawes, Joy Erskine and Mackie Burnett during rehearsal of 'Dream On Monkey Mountain'

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"Director and drummers: Seen here are Carroll Dawes, director of the National Festival Theatre of Jamaica, with rehearsal drummers Joy Erskine and Mackie Burnett, during a rehearsal of the company's premier production of Derek Walcott's "Dream On…

A scene from 'Dream on Monkey Mountain'

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"Dream on Monkey Mountain: A scene from the current production of the National Festival Theatre of Jamaica which opened last Saturday night at the Ward Theatre. The production is directed by Carroll Dawes and will continue August 31."