Cedella Booker : Sad demise

Cedella Booker passes away in Miami published: Thursday | April 10, 2008 Howard Campbell, Gleaner writer A team from the Tuff Gong Recording Studio in Kingston celebrate what would be Cedella Booker's final celebration of her son Bob's birthday with her, at her home in Nine Miles, St Ann in February. - Norman Grindley/Deputy Chief Photographer Cedella Booker, mother of pop icon Bob Marley and matriarch of reggae's most famous...

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New BioPic on Bob Marley "No Woman No Cry: My Life With Bob Marley’

The Weinstein Company has purchased the rights to the book ,Rita Marley, Bob Marley’s widow, wrote detailing her life with the reggae legend who died of cancer at the tender age of 36. The book, titled No Woman No Cry: My Life With Bob Marley, gives Rita’s account of the couple’s tempestuous marriage, which began in 1966, and encompassed affairs, separations, the bringing up of four children, and an assassination attempt in 1976. TWC’s...

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Robert Nesta Marley "The Biography"

Robert Nesta Marley BORN: February 6, 1945, St. Ann, Jamaica DIED: May 11, 1981, Miami, FL In the year 1944, Captain Norval Marley married a young Jamaican girl named Cedalla Booker. On February 6, 1945 at two thirty in the morning their son, Robert Nesta Marley was born in his grandfather's house. Soon after Bob was born his father left his mother. He did however give financial support and occasionally returned to see his son. It was now the late...

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Kenyan elections 2007, the quagmire.

Cry the beloved country....a lot is in the works over the just concluded and disputed general elections that have left Kenya deeply divided, i,m not going to offer my analysis yet, but just came across an interesting report by the African policy institute which offers a way out of the mess we are in. Read with objectivity. Breaking Kenya’s Impasse Chaos or Courts? Africa Policy Brief No.12 January 2008 KENYA’S 2007 ELECTION HAS PRECIPITATED THE COUNTRY’S WORST CRISIS SINCE THE ABORTIVE AUGUST 1982 coup by the Air Force: 700 deaths, nearly 300,000...

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