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Jamaican musical trailblazers made Toronto a world-class reggae hotspot

August 1, 2024 admin Arts and Culture, culture, diaspora, Jamaica, jamaican canadian, Living, music industry in canada, national film board of canada, nfb, reggae

Credit to Author: Ramya Ramanathan| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2024 16:40:27 +0000

At the height of the golden age of reggae, some of Jamaica’s brightest stars left their homeland to relocate to Toronto. Now their stories and the musical community they helped build are celebrated in an anthology series Sounds & Pressure: Reggae in a Foreign Land.

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‘I obeyed like a robot’: Abuse survivor tells of predator priest

February 18, 2019 admin abuse, assault, children, Jamaica, Latest News Stories, Pope, priest, Religion, sexual abuse, Vatican, World

Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 04:49:33 +0000

Jamaican victim of sexual abuse, Denise Buchanan, poses in front Saint Peter's square on February 18, 2019, in Rome. - "I was 17 years old when I was raped by Brother Paul," Denise Buchanan, Jamaican, explains 40 years later. Her fight to have the Catholic Church recognize her status as a victim of this Jamaican priest illustrates the isolation of many victims of sexual abuse in the clergy against the denial of justice and omerta, exacerbated in poorer countries or states where the Church remains influential in society. Denise decided to become involved by becoming a member of the steering committee of a new global network of victims, ECA (Ending Clerical Abuse). (Photo by Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP)

Denise Buchanan was 17 when she was raped by a seminarian who continued to abuse her when he became a priest in her native Jamaica. The Catholic Church, she says, has offered her nothing but their “prayers.”

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