Our Peace Of History
This post features an article that was published in The Afro News in November 2011. It’s an online magazine about the black community in the UK, creating a positive image of ourselves and the community. It also features Caribbean and African news.
Radio station powered by sun, wind and volunteers
UNESCO supported JET FM 88.7, located in Jeffrey Town, St Mary, aired on 27 May 2008. It’s partially powered by wind and solar energy and is Jamaica’s first community radio to be owned and operated by a farming community.
Maas Roy unofficial mayor of Jeffrey Town
This post contains a copy of an article about Mass Roy in the Gleaner, a synopsis of his life story as published 11 January 2010.
Maas Roy and the dead colonel
With bullets flying all around them, the colonel was put on a stretcher which Stanley Roy secured to the back of their lorry with four gun slings. As they were about to speed away, a high-ranking officer turned up with the colonel s foot, wrapped in a blanket.
BBC Vietnam
This article is written in the Vietnamese language which is not any use if you don’t speak Vietnamese. But there is a lovely photo included of Stanley Roy Archer standing in front of a number 127 bus to Victoria.
Where self reliance is more than a word
Jeffrey Town: Where self-reliance is more than a word Published 13 August 2006 by Olivia Leigh Campbell in the Jamaica Observer. There’s also a little more reading about Jeffrey Town further down.