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Set in 1964, a direct cinema camera crew follows Willie Pep, retired two-time world featherweight boxing champion. Now living in Hartford, Connecticut with his wife Linda, an aspiring actress half his age, a drug-addled son, his Italian immigrant parents, mounting debts and the feeling of faded glory ... Pep decides to make a return to the ring ...
In December 1976, Patterson was rehearsing with Marley at 56 Hope Road when gunmen opened fire on the group, injuring Marley, wife Rita, and manager Don Taylor. [9] In September 1980, Patterson was with Marley when he collapsed jogging in Central Park, and remained with Marley through his cancer treatment both in New York and then at the clinic ...
4 July – Category 4 Hurricane Beryl causes a six- to nine-feet storm surge and fierce winds along Jamaica's southern coast, killing at least one person there before tracking to the Cayman Islands. [4] 26 July–11 August – Jamaica at the 2024 Summer Olympics [5]
Sandra Jacqueline Denton (born 9 November 1964 [3] [4] or 1969 [5] [6] [7]), better known by her stage name Pepa or Pep, is a Jamaican-American rapper, best known for her work as a member of the female rap trio Salt-N-Pepa. Denton starred in The Salt-N-Pepa Show, a reality TV series focusing on reforming the group which aired on the VH1 network ...
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Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Jamaica 5 February – Drought, increases in local demand, and a drop in the number of farmers all contribute to a marijuana shortage.The COVID-19 pandemic and related curfew means that farmers have a difficult time in irrigating their fields.
Jamaica competed at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, France, from 28 August to 8 September 2024. This was the nation's fourteenth time competing at the Summer Paralympic Games after it made its debut at the 1968 Summer Paralympics. The delegation consisted of only one competitor from one sport.
The movie was helped by the wave of recognition that the general culture of Reggae music and Rastafari were receiving at the time. Despite the movie's accolades however, it could not compare to many Hollywood blockbusters in terms of revenue and was part of the ongoing process of investors becoming increasingly resistant to funding Jamaican ...