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The Jamaica Observer is a daily newspaper published in Kingston, Jamaica. The publication was owned by Butch Stewart (now deceased), who chartered the paper in January 1993 as a competitor to Jamaica's oldest daily paper, The Gleaner. Its founding editor is Desmond Allen who is its executive editor – operations. [1]
This is a list of newspapers in Jamaica: Daily Star [1] The Daily Gleaner, the oldest Jamaican daily published by Gleaner Company, founded in 1834, oldest continually published, English language newspaper in the Western Hemisphere [2] The Agriculturalist, the oldest and most consistent agricultural newspaper in the Caribbean for 28 years ...
Stewart also founded The Jamaica Observer newspaper in January 1993 [12] and, in 1994, started the Air Jamaica Acquisition Group to buy a majority stake in Air Jamaica. [13] The group paid $37.5 million for a majority share of the airline; of which, Stewart held a 46 percent stake [14] and became the new chairman of Air Jamaica. [15]
The Gleaner is an English-language, morning daily newspaper founded by two brothers, Jacob and Joshua de Cordova on 13 September 1834 in Kingston, Jamaica. [1] It is the oldest continuously published newspaper in the Western Hemisphere. [2] Originally called the Daily Gleaner, the name was changed on 7 December 1992 to The Gleaner.
Jean Lowrie-Chin (née Gopaulsingh; born December 5, 1951) is communications consultant, seniors advocate, author and newspaper columnist in Kingston, Jamaica. [1] She is the founder and managing director of PROComm (PRO Communications Limited) and also the founder-CEO of CCRP (Caribbean Community of Retired Persons).
Makiya Seminera was a politics intern with The News & Observer in summer 2023 and is now a reporter with McClatchy’s national Real Time team. Ethan Hyman is a photojournalist.
In 1953, Goodison began her career at The Gleaner newspaper, working as a reporter, [6] and writing for the paper's social pages under the pseudonym "Kitty Kingston". [7] Simultaneously, she wrote the column "Stella Seh" at the Jamaica Star, [4] where she used Jamaican patois for the first time in a newspaper. [8]
In Colonial Jamaica, during the 18th and 19th centuries, there were a number of newspapers that represented the views of the white planters who owned slaves.These newspapers included the Royal Gazette, The Diary and Kingston Daily Advertiser, Cornwall Chronicle, Cornwall Gazette, and Jamaica Courant.