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With the ink barely dry on his valedictory speech, Lemar Archer is now preparing the eulogy to deliver at his father’s funeral. His dad, Clifford Archer, died of natural cause in Jamaica roughly a month before Lemar graduated from Emerson College in Boston, USA, with a Master’s degree in Theatre Education and Applied Theatre. “I was planning to graduate and take the degree home to my father,” the 28-year-old told The Beacon. He added: “I really wanted my father to see me graduating because we talked about it for years and he was the one who supported and financed me throughout all levels in school…Read More →

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Dear Sir, I read the May 1, 2019, article about Mr. Everton Pusey and his efforts to keep his community park clean in Lluidas Vale, St. Catherine. If possible, please communicate to him the effect this had upon me, a Jamaican who is consigned to live abroad in Brooklyn, New York. Even here, in the so-called ‘Promised Land’ of America, there are so many people who have no problem making the world a dirtier place, and others who passively do nothing about it. I take my daughter to a playground near our home, and I am constantly dismayed at the amount of garbage that childrenRead More →

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The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) said the St Ann’s Bay Police are investigating the death of a man who was found with gunshot wounds in Mammee Bay, St Ann, today, December 19. He has been identified as 34-year-old Kevin Mechado from Mango Walk in St James and Pine Wood Court in Florida, USA. The JCF said: “Reports from the St. Ann’s Bay Police are that, about 1am, Mechado allegedly drove to a service station suffering from a gunshot wound to his right leg where he subsequently fell out of the car clutching a firearm. He was assisted to hospital where he was pronounced dead.” TheRead More →