A sculpture meant to celebrate emancipation in Jamaica has sparked a heated debate in the capital Kingston, over its liberal portrayal of a naked male slave. The 3.3-metre bronze statue was placed ...

A larger-than-life statue of a nude African man and woman - unveiled in Kingston, Jamaica, to commemorate the abolition of slavery - has inspired many Jamaicans to call for another kind of banishment.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica’s 173rd anniversary of emancipation will be observed with an Emancipation Jubilee heritage festival at the Seville Great House and Heritage Park in the parish of St.

We, as a people, must always display power and pride in our national symbolism. And, as a nation and people of Jamaica, we have a choice. Why the big member man statue instead of the “freedom ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, December, 1859. ... that all this widespread ruin is to be attributed to Emancipation only. But thinking and intelligent men are no longer convinced by these state complaints.

Charles Nesson announces that he is hosting a programme on the the Public Broadcasting Corporation of Jamaica on August 1 (Jamaica's Emancipation and Independence Day) “in which Jamaican leaders talk ...