March 11, 2018
Blood in the ink: The birth of the Jamaica Observer could not have been foretold…
“…I think we knew, or at least suspected, that life was never going to be the same after March 7, 1993, when we hit the streets with what would become only the fourth daily journal in the long and sordid history of Jamaican newspapers.
“What we, my team and I, most certainly did not know was how much we were changing the trajectory of Jamaica’s development and the unique space in time that we were about to occupy in the lives of Jamaicans…”
Don’t miss this blow by blow account of the dramatic twists and turns behind the intriguing story of the birth of the Jamaica Observer, written by award-winning founding editor Desmond Allen, in a special 25th anniversary commemorative issue on Wednesday, March 14, 2018.