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Cornelia Parchment beauty, brains
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NEW YORK -- THE GLEANER caught up with Miss Jamaica 1982, Cornelia Parchment recently. Reminiscing, she said, "I had just returned to Jamaica from Toronto in 1982 and I will admit I was a little chubby but nevertheless I wanted to enter the Miss Jamaica Beauty Contest. I went to Mickey Haughton's gymnasium and said to him, "I want to enter the beauty contest." Mickey looked at me and started to laugh and I knew it was because of my size. That laugh made me dare him and so I said, I will be yo...
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Children of Jamaica Outreach to host Annual Charity Fundraiser Ball
The Weekly Gleaner
; CHILDREN OF JAMAICA Outreach, Inc. (COJO) will hold its eighth annual charity fundraiser ball on December 6, 2003 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, LaGuardia Airport. This year's special guest speaker will be the Honorable Aloun N'dombet Assamba, Jamaica's Minister of Tourism and Industry. The Ball will
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Jamaica, Farewell
The Weekly Gleaner
; Jamaica, Farewell Jamaica-born writer and actor, Debra Ehrhardt gave a rousing performance that earned her a standing ovation on the opening night of her one-woman play, Jamaica, Farewell. Her transformations from a little girl to a young woman and the characters she encounters along that journey
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Miss Jamaica U.S.A. on prize trip
Caribbean Today
; Marie Gregory Caribbean Today 11-30-1995 Miss Jamaica U.S.A. on prize trip. Miss Jamaica U.S.A. for 1994-95. Fern Proctor recently made her prize trip to the island spending time at Club Jamaica, in Ocho Rios and the Pegasus Hotel in Kingston. Fern has dual citizenship as her father is American,
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Resorts & Travel: Jamaica extends goodwill, island-style, to City
New York Amsterdam News
; Vinette K. Pryce New York Amsterdam News 11-25-1995 Resorts & Travel: Jamaica ... whispered everything from entertainment, news, politics, gossip, but mostly the word ... carpet for all their guests and spread the news of the "goodwill ambassadors" campaign ...
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Jamaica is free from the shackles of the IMF
The Weekly Gleaner
; ... joked about days not so long ago when Jamaicans overseas had to wait until a government official visited the United States to get news from Jamaica. The honourable Prime Minister said that in these modern times that we known about things before they happen, as ...
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Jamaica's Art Movement
The Weekly Gleaner
; Jamaica's Art Movement Cultural Nationalism - A Voice Of Independent Jamaica New York - Jamaica recently celebrated 44 years of Independence. World-renowned as a tourist haven, Jamaica is famous for its pulsating ska and reggae rhythms, white sand beaches, spicy cuisine, and of course its signature
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Jamaica seeks U.S. business investment
New York Amsterdam News
; Julian Jingles New York Amsterdam News 09-30-1995 Jamaica seeks U.S. business investment. The country that ... at the opening of the seminar on Thursday morning and later at a news conference, that Jamaica was poised to enter a "new era." In the ...
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Consul general of Jamaica visits Hub
Bay State Banner
; ... Guscott as he presented Baxter-Collins to the assembly of Jamaican Americans. "She will also convey to you what's the latest news and what's happening in Jamaica." Said Collins, "I always enjoy coming to Boston. As I head into Boston proper I feel I've come ...
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Tiffany Simile is Miss Jamaica US 2004
The Weekly Gleaner
; Tiffany Smile, 21 year old, was crowned Miss Jamaica US 2004 on Sunday, July 25th at Carib New York in New Rochelle. She was selected amidst great excitement from a group of fourteen contestants representing the parishes of Jamaica. Tiffany was born in Brooklyn New York to Jamaican parents who
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Jamaica, Farewell arrives in Broward
The Broward Times
; Debra Ehrhardt's one-woman play, Jamaica, Farewell, about her journey from her native Kingston to America, is coming to South Florida after successful runs in Los Angeles and New York. Ehrhardt is set to perform before what could be her largest Jamaican audience at the Broward Center for the
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