Jamaica Times

Jamaica Times

The "Jamaica Times" was a literary newspaper for literature from Jamaica and the Caribbean. The author Thomas MacDermot (aka Tom Redcam) was the editor from 1900-1920 and was an assistant before that, and the author Herbert George de Lisser was an editor for several years starting in 1889. It was a weekly paper primarily for teachers and ministers but also for a wide spectrum of the middle classes.

Editors

*Herbert George de Lisser, 1889
*Thomas MacDermot, 1900-1920

External Links

* [http://books.google.com/books?id=NErz9DR1AxkC&pg=PA167&lpg=PA167&dq=%22jamaica+times%22+newspaper+began&source=web&ots=xRPNLPekbh&sig=dEoH7BqjeHacSE0kJY_9K2ztnKw&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=10&ct=result Herbert G. de Lisser at the "Jamaica Times"]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=lgGmrpvSjxkC&pg=PA22&lpg=PA22&dq=thomas+macdermot+%22jamaica+times%22+newspaper&source=web&ots=uF1RhIxdgR&sig=Qt4VaFstV32I0G-WzVKzYE5Tz9A&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=8&ct=result Thomas MacDermot's role as editor of the "Jamaica Times"]
* [http://www.dloc.com/?s=cnip&b=UF00085573 Original issues of the "Jamaica Times"] openly and freely accessible for all within the Digital Library of the Caribbean


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