Homer Davis said ( about Jimmy Cliff ) : “Visitors to the island will now be able to identify with the name Jimmy Cliff, a name which is etched among some of the greatest musicians of all time in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,”

jamaica-gleaner Monday, April 1, 2019 9:22:00 AM EAT

Edmund Bartlett said ( about Jimmy Cliff ) : “Jimmy Cliff is the most significant and celebrated Jamaican that has ever been in the international music and cinematographic sphere. I say that without fear of contradiction, because nobody else has been able to span theatre, big screen, the silver screen as well as the reggae and musical stages like Jimmy Cliff has done. Absolutely no other Jamaican alive or dead. And it is against that background that we honour him here in the parish of his birth and more importantly on the piece of soil on which he was born because he was born right here at that hospital that was located on this spot of ground,”

jamaicaobserver Sunday, March 31, 2019 8:43:00 AM EAT

Olivia Grange told ( about Jimmy Cliff ) : “I would like to see a statue of Jimmy Cliff in the heart of the city (Montego Bay). We have commissioned statues and mounted statues of our athletes. We started in treating with our culture, a statue of Louise Bennett and so there will be many more statues to come,”

jamaicaobserver Sunday, March 31, 2019 8:43:00 AM EAT

Olivia Grange remarked ( about Jimmy Cliff ) : “Today, this afternoon, tonight belongs to Jimmy Cliff. Ska and reggae and other genres, the musician of Jamaica, who is the product of the various genres of Jamaican music ... a player of several instruments, singer, an actor, star of stage and screen and more than anything else, one of Jamaica's greatest poets as a songwriter,”

jamaicaobserver Sunday, March 31, 2019 8:43:00 AM EAT

Edmund Bartlett told ( about Jimmy Cliff ) : “Jimmy Cliff and Perry Henzell were simply the perfect combination,”

jis Monday, February 27, 2017 5:38:00 AM EAT

Olivia Grange added ( about Jimmy Cliff ) : “I must also praise Jimmy for his portrayal of the character Ivan in The Harder They Come, a performance of a lifetime and a role that everyone who has seen that film agrees was a stellar performance. Jimmy was able to make Ivan real, telling an authentic life story against the backdrop of the diversity of life in Jamaica, and giving a performance that made the movie become the legendary work of art it is acknowledged to be,”

jis Monday, February 27, 2017 5:38:00 AM EAT

Homer Davis said ( about Jimmy Cliff ) : “Visitors to the island will now be able to identify with the name Jimmy Cliff, a name which is etched among some of the greatest musicians of all time in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,”

jamaica-gleaner Monday, April 1, 2019 9:22:00 AM EAT

Edmund Bartlett said ( about Jimmy Cliff ) : “Jimmy Cliff is the most significant and celebrated Jamaican that has ever been in the international music and cinematographic sphere. I say that without fear of contradiction, because nobody else has been able to span theatre, big screen, the silver screen as well as the reggae and musical stages like Jimmy Cliff has done. Absolutely no other Jamaican alive or dead. And it is against that background that we honour him here in the parish of his birth and more importantly on the piece of soil on which he was born because he was born right here at that hospital that was located on this spot of ground,”

jamaicaobserver Sunday, March 31, 2019 8:43:00 AM EAT

Olivia Grange told ( about Jimmy Cliff ) : “I would like to see a statue of Jimmy Cliff in the heart of the city (Montego Bay). We have commissioned statues and mounted statues of our athletes. We started in treating with our culture, a statue of Louise Bennett and so there will be many more statues to come,”

jamaicaobserver Sunday, March 31, 2019 8:43:00 AM EAT

Olivia Grange remarked ( about Jimmy Cliff ) : “Today, this afternoon, tonight belongs to Jimmy Cliff. Ska and reggae and other genres, the musician of Jamaica, who is the product of the various genres of Jamaican music ... a player of several instruments, singer, an actor, star of stage and screen and more than anything else, one of Jamaica's greatest poets as a songwriter,”

jamaicaobserver Sunday, March 31, 2019 8:43:00 AM EAT

Edmund Bartlett told ( about Jimmy Cliff ) : “Jimmy Cliff and Perry Henzell were simply the perfect combination,”

jis Monday, February 27, 2017 5:38:00 AM EAT

Olivia Grange added ( about Jimmy Cliff ) : “I must also praise Jimmy for his portrayal of the character Ivan in The Harder They Come, a performance of a lifetime and a role that everyone who has seen that film agrees was a stellar performance. Jimmy was able to make Ivan real, telling an authentic life story against the backdrop of the diversity of life in Jamaica, and giving a performance that made the movie become the legendary work of art it is acknowledged to be,”

jis Monday, February 27, 2017 5:38:00 AM EAT