This Friday, Jamaica’s high court said that Kensington Primary School was well within its rights to require a 5-year-old to […] The post School in Jamaica bans dreadlocks, high court agrees ...

This is not the first time Jamaica has broken the dreadlock barrier, with Zahra Redwood as Miss Jamaica appearing in the Miss Universe competition in 2007 sporting the look. Redwood was the first ...

When about his dreadlocks, he said it took him 40 years to grow them that long By ERICA NARDOZZI FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Published: 20:35 EDT, 12 September 2023 | Updated: 21:17 EDT, 12 September 2023 ...

You may expect Jamaica to lead the charge too, given that the Caribbean country proudly boasts itself as the birthplace of Bob Marley—possibly the world’s most well-known wearer of dreadlocks ...

Jamaica's political life has taken on a most intriguing twist, thanks to the youth arms of the ruling Jamaica Labour Party and the Opposition People's National Party. Not that ...

Sherine Virgo refuses to cut her 5-year-old daughter’s dreadlocks, seen above, at the request of her daughter’s school. The case has gone to the Jamaican Supreme Court. (Sherine Virgo) ...

WASHINGTON When the U. S. national soccer team tied Jamaica last March in Kingston, there was much whining about conditions, injuries and bad karma. But without an alibi in sight last night, the U.… ...

A school that said a student couldn’t attend classes if she didn’t cut her dreadlocks did not infringe on the child’s constitutional rights, the Supreme Court of Jamaica ruled Friday.

This Friday, Jamaica’s high court said that Kensington Primary School was well within its rights to require a 5-year-old to cut off her dreadlocks before attending classes.

A school that said a student couldn’t attend classes if she didn’t cut her dreadlocks did not infringe on the child’s constitutional rights, the Supreme Court of Jamaica ruled Friday.