On January 5 1978, the Green Bay Massacre took place. The event came about as a result of secret operation by a special unit of the Jamaica Defense Force, called the Military Intelligence Unit, under a People’s National Party governments. The secret operation resulted in five men of the Jamaica Labour Party were shot dead by the JDF,  after they had been ambushed at Green Bay. 

Song: Green Bay Killing - Papa Kojak

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The Christmas Rebellion, also known as the Baptist Rebellion, was an eleven-day rebellion that mobilised as many as sixty thousand of Jamaica’s three hundred thousand slaves in 1831–1832. The planning and organisation of the revolt came from enslaved literate leader Samuel “Daddy” Sharpe, who had been given limited freedom to move around the island. Sharpe used this freedom, especially his literacy and ability to travel, to discuss and plan for the actual revolt. Even though, it was to be a peaceful strike, on December 27, 1831, a fire, started by a woman, broke out on the Kensington Estate in St. James, would lead to the event that would be considered the largest slave rebellion in the British Caribbean. 

Song: Babylon System - Bob Marley and the Wailers

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On our first ever episode of Researcher's Cut, we spoke to author of Troubling Freedom: Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation, Dr. Natasha Lightfoot. Dr. Lightfoot is an associate professor at Columbia University specialising in slavery and emancipation studies, and black identities, politics, and cultures in the fields of Caribbean, Atlantic World, and African Diaspora History. Her book, mentioned above, goes into the events which  contributed to the Antigua Riots of 1858. 

Song: Handsworth Revolution - Steel Pulse

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 In 1858, an Antiguan man had a dispute with a Barbudan man. The events which unfold will involve rioting and an attack on Barbudan business on the island of Antigua. Still, the most remembered thing from the riot was how a group of oppressed black women in Antigua organised & took up arms to expressed their hatred for the society, proceeding Emancipation, that they were force to live in. 

Song: Queen Ifrica.- Lioness On The Rise 

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In 1976, the government of Jamaica did not allow for a Miss World Jamaica pageant to be held. As such, on paper, technically there is no Miss Jamaica 1976 winner. However, wearing the sash of Miss Jamaica World, Cindy Breakspeare became the second Jamaican to win the global beauty pageant when she won in 1976. On this episode, we explain how these two things are true.

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On October 15th of 1968, the University of the West Indies lecture, Dr. Walter Rodney, was banned from entering the country; that left his pregnant wife and son in Jamaica without him. When students at UWI learned that their professor was barred from re-entry in the country and stranded on an airplane, a protest organised by the UWI Guild of Students at the university would take place. The protest, the largest student organised protest in Caribbean history, would erupt into unrest which would become known as the Walter Rodney Riots of 1968. What would transpire is levels of anti-blackness, violations of human rights, police brutality, government propaganda and nationalism, that ripple throughout the Jamaican society and the Caribbean in the days to follow after the largest

Song: Riot - Damion Marley and Sean Paul

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On the first installment of our the impact series, which details the contribution of Dancehall creatives in our societal space, we breakdown the discography of legendary artists, Beenie Man & Bounty Killer

Song: Who Am I - Beenie Man

Song: Down In the Ghetto - Bounty Killer

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In the 1970s, the first PNP led administration underwent measures to upgrade and developed the Lilford, Sandy and Mcgregor Gully in the Kingston and St. Andrew area. These three projects would give rise to unseen levels of corruption thus resulting in millions of dollars been stolen, a government worker been killed and Michael Manley, prime minister and party president, calling the police on his own political party. 

Song: Gully Side - Mavado

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As anyone over the age of 30 who went to a Jamaican primary school would tell you, the bulla and pink milk was an experience that made their childhood. Even though bulla and pink milk is no longer in schools, the famous government-supplied meal for children from low-income schools has defined many Jamaicans’ scholastic experience. 

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The Jamaat al Muslimeen coup attempt was an attempt to overthrow the government of Trinidad and Tobago, instigated on Friday, 27 July 1990. Over the course of six days, Jamaat al Muslimeen, held hostages at the Red House (Parliament building) and at the headquarters of the state-owned national television broadcaster, Trinidad and Tobago Television (TTT).  In the end, the prime minister was shot, persons killed and numerous lives were forever change.

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