KINGSTON, Jamaica – When ladies are honored in Jamaica, they’re typically cut up into classes primarily based on era. For her Queens Of Reggae Island Honorary Ceremony (QORIHC), Laurell Nurse wished to alter that.
The New Jersey-based Jamaican salutes 31 ladies at that occasion’s seventh staging on March 24 at Karl Hendrickson Auditorium in Kingston.
Honorees
The honorees made their mark in the leisure, journalism, culinary, vogue and company sectors. Some, together with educator Alma Mock Yen, have excelled within the arts and journalism for over 60 years. Others, resembling Tifa, are amongst dancehall’s hottest acts.
June Issacs, Laurell Nurse and Patricia Garib – Photograph Credit score: Garfield Robinson
“There’s a era hole within the business and QORIHC has bridged that hole as a result of somebody 80 years-old might be within the room with a 35 year-old, as a result of every has put within the 10 years to qualify. It’s an occasion of unity, the Queendom with Princesses trying ahead too. It was deliberately created that means from the get-go in 2016,,” Nurse instructed South Florida Caribbean Information.
Different 2024 awardees embody Sharon Marley, Sister Carol, Patra, Macka Diamond, D’Angel and Mary Isaacs, broadcaster Suzie Q and actress Audrey Reid.
Recipients, Nurse disclosed, are “chosen by business friends, insiders and the general public.”
Nurse, who works within the US well being sector, can be a recording artist whose songs embody a canopy of Gregory Isaacs’ Night time Nurse. She was impressed to start out an occasion honoring ladies, primarily in leisure, following a eye-opening dialogue with deejay Sister Nancy in regards to the discrimination they confronted within the music business
Sister Nancy, finest recognized for the 1982 dancehall basic Bam Bam, was one of many QORIHC’s inaugural honorees in 2016.
Final yr’s inductees included Althea Laing, a mannequin who appeared on the quilt of Essence; and Bridgett Anderson, who has managed artists resembling Garnet Silk and Samory I.
