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St. Hugh's High School
St Hugh's High School (also known as St Hugh's High School for Girls) is an Anglican all-girls high school in Saint Andrew, Jamaica. The school was established in 1899. History 1899–1928 Archbishop Enos Nuttall is considered to be the founding father of St. Hugh's High School. Nuttall was the first Anglican Archbishop of the West Indies between 1880 and 1916. In 1890, the Anglican Deaconess Order was established in Jamaica. The Deaconesses were involved in education and in 1897 the Cathedral High School for Girls was founded in Spanish Town. This became the parent school of subsequent Deaconess and diocesan schools. The most noteworthy of these schools (apart from Cathedral High School which in 1954 merged with Beckford and Smith's to form St Jago High School) were St Hilda's High School and St Hugh's High Schools. In 1899, with the encouragement of Archbishop Nuttall, Sister Madeline Thomas, head of the teaching branch of the Deaconess Order, established the Deaco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public School (government Funded)
A state school, public school, or government school is a primary school, primary or secondary school that educates all students without charge. They are funded in whole or in part by taxation and operated by the government of the state. State-funded schools are global with each country showcasing distinct structures and curricula. Government-funded education spans from primary to secondary levels, covering ages 4 to 18. Alternatives to this system include homeschooling, Private school, private schools, Charter school, charter schools, and other educational options. By region and country Africa South Africa In South Africa, a state school or government school refers to a school that is state-controlled. These are officially called public schools according to the South African Schools Act of 1996, but it is a term that is not used colloquially. The Act recognised two categories of schools: public and independent. Independent schools include all private schools and schools t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hardie (archbishop Of The West Indies)
William George Hardie Order of the British Empire, CBE (20 August 1878 – 21 February 1950) was a long serving Anglican Anglican Diocese of Jamaica, Bishop of Jamaica from 1931 until 1949. For the last four of those years he also served as Archbishop of the West Indies, Archbishop of the Church in the Province of the West Indies, West Indies. He was born in 1878 and educated at Highgate School from 1889 to 1890, then at Giggleswick School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. From Ridley Hall, Cambridge he was ordained in 1902. His first posts were Curate, curacies at Holy Trinity Church, Cambridge and then Christ Church, Greenwich. Later he held Vicar, incumbencies at Holy Trinity, Swansea, St John's, Lowestoft and St Luke's, Finchley. In 1928 he was appointed Assistant Bishop of Jamaica before promotion to be its Diocese, Diocesan three years later.New ''Bishop of Jamaica'' The Times Thursday, 21 May 1931; pg. 13; Issue 45828; col F He was invested Commander of the Order of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamaica Gleaner
''The Gleaner'' is an English-language, morning daily newspaper founded by two brothers, Jacob and Joshua de Cordova on 13 September 1834 in Kingston, Jamaica. It is the oldest continuously published newspaper in the Western Hemisphere. Originally called the ''Daily Gleaner'', the name was changed on 7 December 1992 to ''The Gleaner''. The newspaper is owned and published by Gleaner Company publishing house in Kingston, Jamaica., ''The Gleaner'' is still considered a newspaper of record for Jamaica. History ''The Gleaner'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper in the Western Hemisphere—operating since 1834, and it is still considered a newspaper of record for Jamaica in the 21st century. The morning broadsheet newspaper is presently published six days each week in Kingston. The Sunday paper edition is called the ''Sunday Gleaner''. The Sunday edition was first published in 1939, and it reaches twice as many readers as the daily paper. The influence, particularly his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cynthia Thompson
Cynthia Annabelle Thompson (29 November 1923 – 8 March 2019) was a Jamaican sprinter. She was born in Kingston, Jamaica. She was one of four female athletes who represented Jamaica at its first Olympic Games, the 1948 Summer Olympics. Following her athletics career, she became a paediatrician Pediatrics (American English) also spelled paediatrics (British English), is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. In the United Kingdom, pediatrics covers many of their yout ... and retired in 2000. References 1923 births 2019 deaths Athletes from Kingston, Jamaica Jamaican female sprinters Jamaican paediatricians Olympic athletes for Jamaica Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics Competitors at the 1946 Central American and Caribbean Games Competitors at the 1950 Central American and Caribbean Games Competitors at the 1954 Central American and Caribbean Games Central American a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercedes Richards
Mercedes Tharam Richards (Kingston, 14 May 1955 – Hershey, 3 February 2016), née Davis, was a Jamaican astronomy and astrophysics professor. Her investigation focused on computational astrophysics, stellar astrophysics and exoplanets and brown dwarfs, and the physical dynamics of interacting binary stars systems. However, her pioneering research in the tomography of interacting binary star systems and cataclysmic variable stars to predict magnetic activity and simulate gas flow is her most known work. In 1977, she graduated with the degree of BSc in Physics from the University of the West Indies. She then moved to Toronto, where two years later, in 1979, she received the MS in Space Science at York University, Toronto, and in 1986 she earned her PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics from the University of Toronto. She worked as president of Commission 42 of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) which deals with Close Binary Stars, was a member of the Board of Advisers of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosemary Moodie
Rosemary Moodie is a Canadian neonatal physician who was appointed to the Senate of Canada on December 12, 2018. Moodie is a neonatologist at the Hospital for Sick Children and Professor of pediatrics at the University of Toronto's Department of Pediatrics. Early life and education Senator Rosemary Moodie was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica. She attended St. Hugh's High School, and then completed a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery at the University of the West Indies (1982). She pursued post-graduate studies in Pediatric and Neonatal medicine at the Hospital for Sick Children. She has also completed an MBA at the University of Toronto (2001) and a Master's in Public Policy and Administration at Queen's University. Career Senator Rosemary Moodie has been practicing as a neonatologist at the Hospital for Sick Children for over 24 years, and is a Professor of pediatrics at the University of Toronto's Department of Pediatrics. Moodie is also a fellow of the Royal Colle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paula Llewellyn
Paula Vanessa Llewellyn Order of Distinction, CD King's Counsel, KC is a Jamaican lawyer who serves as the country's director of public prosecutions (DPP), 2008 - 2024. She is the first woman to hold the position. Early life Llewellyn was born at the Victoria Jubilee Hospital in Kingston, Jamaica, Kingston, one of the four children of Mavis and Clinton Llewellyn; her mother was a nurse and her father was a realtor. She grew up in Pembroke Hall, a suburb in Kingston's north, attending St. George's Primary School and St. Hugh's High School. Llewellyn went on to the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica, Mona, attending the Norman Manley Law School. She did her internship in Antigua, but returned to Jamaica to take up a position as court clerk at the Saint James Parish, Jamaica, Saint James Parish magistrate's court, based out of Montego Bay. In 1986, Llewellyn became a crown counsel in the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP). She was made a deputy directo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorna Goodison
Lorna Gaye Goodison (born 1 August 1947)Ring, Deborah A. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. 11 September 2013. is a Jamaican poet, essayist and memoirist, a leading West Indian writer, whose career spans four decades. She is now Professor Emerita, English Language and Literature/Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan, previously serving as the Lemuel A. Johnson Professor of English and African and Afroamerican Studies."Lorna Goodison" LSA International Institute, University of Michigan. She was appointed Poet Laureate of Jamaica in 2017 (succeeding Mervyn Morris), serving in the role until 2020. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renatha Francis
Renatha Sian Francis (born November 23, 1977) is an American lawyer who has served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Florida since 2022. She previously served as a circuit judge in Palm Beach County from 2019 to 2022. Early life, education, and career Francis was born and raised in Jamaica. She attended St Hugh's High School and the University of the West Indies, receiving a Bachelor of Science, ''magna cum laude,'' in 2001. Francis operated a bar and a trucking company while attending college in Jamaica. Francis moved to Florida in 2004 and graduated from Florida Coastal School of Law with a Juris Doctor in 2010. She began her legal career as a law clerk at Florida's First District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee from 2011 to 2017. Francis worked briefly as a litigator at the law firm Shutts & Bowen in Miami before being appointed to the Miami-Dade County Court in 2017 by Governor Rick Scott. Scott elevated her to Miami-Dade's Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court in 2018, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fae Ellington
Fae Ellington, CD, OD, is a Jamaican media personality and lecturer best known for hosting the television series ''Morning Time'' on JBC for more than twelve years. Background Fae Audrey Ellington was born on 28 May 1950 in the district of Smithville in Clarendon Parish, Jamaica. She was the only child of Mary "Mae" Williams, and Exford Joseph Ellington, a school teacher. Her parents never married and Fae would not meet her father until she was 21 years old. In addition to growing up with the stigma of being a child of unwed parents, Ellington also had asthma and dyslexia. Career In 1974, Ellington joined the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation (JBC), eventually hosting ''Morning Ride'' for over a dozen years. She also served as one of the main news anchors on Jamaican radio and television for decades. In 2005, she made her directorial debut, when she staged the one-woman show ''Who Will Sing for Lena''. She currently hosts the programme ''Profile'' on Television Jamaica, replac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
