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Winston 'Bello' Bell

Winston “Bello” Bell has been in the business of theatre since 1975 when he had his first taste of the stage in the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) Festival Competitions. At that time Bello was a student at Camperdown High School where he met Keith Noel who introduced him to theatre...

In 1976 Winston won the Best Actor award in the Secondary School’s Drama Festival and numerous other awards at the JCDC’s National Drama competition.  He has since then added three Actor Boy awards to the tally for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor respectively.

Between 1978 and 1981 Bello attended the then Jamaica School of Drama (now Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts) where he was exposed to formal theatre training.  While there he mastered roles in such plays as Shakespeare’s “Tempest” – Dario Fo’s “Accidental Scott’s “Dog” – Rawle Gibbons’ “Sheperd” among others. Winston has performed in almost all the islands of the English speaking Caribbean and is a well known figure in Jamaican theatre.  His involvement in the very hilarious comedy revue “Laugh Jamaica” and his long time partnership with “Blakka,” which forms the “Bello and Blakka” comedy duo, puts Bell at the top of his game in Jamaican theatre.

 

Bell’s on screen acting credits include “Orchid House” produced by Picture Palace for BBC Channel 4 – “Going To Extremes” produced by ABC (out of America) – “All my Children” daytime soap opera for ABC – “Third World Cop” in which he plays the ever popular character “Floyd” who is always calling for “back up!” – “One Love” in which he plays the character of “Selector ‘G.’ He is also very well known for his role as “Assistant Commissioner McLaren” in the Jamaican soap opera “Royal Palm Estate.” Bello has also acted in two German movies which were shot in Jamaica. His most recent film credit is in the role of “Concierge” in the soon to be released Warner Brothers feature “License to Wed”.

 

Bello is a self taught musician who plays the drums, keyboards, guitar and bass.  He is a singer and songwriter and has co-written for Judy Mowatt.  This multifaceted Jamaican is also the author of the recently published book SEX IN THE CHURCH”. Bello is also an ordained minister of the gospel.

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Posted By: Love mi National Anthem
Apr 09, 2008

Hey Bello

Mi live a New Jersey my yute, and mek mi tell yu. Mi love listen to yu station. Mi love how yu big up Ja and everyting good bout it. Anyweh mi goh ina di States and hear Ja national anthem a play, every Yardie stand up and sing it to di end. So even dough some a wi deh yah ina di diaspora, wi still love yard. Your show and Ragga remind mi of everyting weh mi love bout yard. Hey Bello, a long time mi left yard, soh mi noh know how the dance hall ting a run, so could you ask, no scratch dat, implore everybody who a run a dance anyweh ina di world fi play di Ja anthem at the start a dem dance, and wen the dance over, soh wi can all stand up and seh yeah, wi proud fi be Jamaican.

Yardman ina diaspora

Posted By: lorrena aka shorty
Apr 12, 2008

hi mr bello how or u me and my grandmother was listen to

u was talking about in the out side bathroom a lady call u

about a wheel chair and my grand said lord i wish if i could get one can u see if u can help her am from st elizabeth thank u the doctor is testing her for cancer in the cerive

Posted By: Jim Dandy
May 01, 2008

HaiL Bello Keep Up The Good Work From Jim Dandy Toronto Canada

Posted By: Koren Witter-Thomas
May 09, 2008

Hi Mr. Bello I am having a fundraising concert for my son daniel Thomas who has cerebral palsy and is due to receive treatment on starting on the 24th of June. The Concert will be on the 24th of May at UWI Assembly hall and i am looking for a MC. Could You obilge me please.

It is for a worthy cause.

Posted By: Concerned Jamaican
May 17, 2008

it is a shame that in the 21st century in Jamaica we still have so called leaders of our country fighing and acting like 5 year old kids over power. It is a world problem, Obama and Clinton, Haiti problem, Zimbabwe problem. They all bring me back to Sirrea Leone, Angola. The thing is that countries like Sirrea Leone and Angola start fighting after they found Diamond so we can say then lives were lost which will never be a good thing but they were fighting for something. Diamond. Everyone wanted to control the diamond fields. They were getting great gains from these fields that the people of the country never saw. Why are the Jamaican politicians fighting so hard to sit in the house. I draw the same conclusion that there is a gain that we Jamaicans knows nothing about a financial gain.

Jamaican people have spoken at the September 2007 General Election, away with Portia give us Bruce. It is not for the media of journalist, political analyst or people of high society to try and change. Regardless of how slim the margin is PNP and the leaders need to sit back fix their internal problems and get prepared for 2012. And if in 2012 the people dont like the way JLP did it we need to try NDM or whichever new party that is on the scene then.

Jamaica is our investment it is where most of us will have to stay until we die and we need to take a first hand approach into how our company is managed. For 18 years PNP reign we have seen peoples lives going down into a dark pit, crime rate going out of control, more guns on the street, little or no growth in many fiscal years. Who was the managers at these trying times. PJ Paterson, Portia Miller, Peter Phillips, Omar Davis and many others that have not shown to the Jamaican people that they understand our cry. All of a sudden the same set of people found the answer, they know all the wrongs that JLP is doing after a few months. How is it that they did not know and could not see 18 years of wrong doing. Kern Spencer 33 year old trying to make off with $276 million. I am sure he is not the first just that he is the one we knew about. Why should any Jamaican trust the PNP with our countries affair, because of highway 2000 and a few other projects that does not really benefit the poorer Jamaican. What have the PNP done with Education, Agriculture, Health, Tourism the social affairs of our Jamaican people. I can answer nothing to boast about. Tourism have survived mostly because hotiliers need the business so they advertise Jamaica. I remember one advertisement of Jamaica running on television overseas for years now "come to Jamaica and feel alright" but Sandals and Superclubs have alot. Many people had to stay home with their sickness because they could not afford to pay at the clinics and hospitals, kids had to stay home because parents could not afford books, school fee, lunch money, bus fare etc. With Free health care and free education we see that will change. All this violence in schools is that a new problem or something that have started for years but is now coming to the surface. Jamaica face a food crisis like the rest of the world, but what would be diffrent if Roger Clarke and the PNP was not that short sighted did good with agriculture over the past 18 years. We would not be facing a problem as bad as we are now.

I think Portia and the PNP heads have been encouraging Phyllis Mitchell and Dabdoub to go to the courts trying to see if she can ge back in power. She said on the night of her defeat that she will not accept defeat and that she will be a nightmare for the PNP. But look how she decides to gain power, sensible people know that the world now faces a food crisis, rice is a problem not only in Jamaica but everywhere, oil prices have risen to over $123 per barrell. She puts it across to people in Jamaica that will not understand as if JLP caused the oil prices to go up and JLP caused the rice to go up and JLP caused a problem in our agriculture sector. PNP did not even know that one day this is what it would be if America continue the war in the middle east.

They have not said anything about Casino gambling and it shows their intention to trick Jamaicans. The plan for Harmony Cove was in the making before the election, before JLP came into power. We know that the developer of Harmony Cove is big in Casino so there must have been some for of agreement between the PNP and Harmony regarding Casino. Now that they are not in the hot seat they make it seems like they had no intention to go casino.

Jamaica have no control over the food crisis and oil crisis but we could be sailing on calmer water if we had leaders over the past 18 years that could see a little further than these do. If they had start dealing with LNG and Clean coal, agriculture where would Jamaica be today.

Phyllis Mitchell and Dabdoub need to accept defeat and not be like their leader Portia Simpson. This make things complicated for the people of Jamaica in that we are looking to go back to the poles for maybe a General Election. That is like stopping operation of the country to please a few that want to gain power that they really did not earn. The goal should be now to get back every Jamaican life on track, reduce the crime rate, and bring Jamaican into primetime. Asafa Powell, Usain Bolt, Vernocia Campbell and many other are out there doing it, we need the politicians on track now.

Until Jamaican people realize that the government work for us, we placed them in power we decide what happen we will ever be going through this annoying battle. I say we fire Portia because her attitude is not what we need in Parliament or any Constituency in Jamaica. She should work with a private sector, nothing to deal with people or government business. Phyllis and Dabdoub is seeking a free ride and I agree with Bruce no one that won their seat through the courts should be allowed to sit in the house. The people decie who should represent them, and the said Vaz.

It is time for Portia and the PNP to realize that is not about them it is not about Bruce and the JLP or NDM it is about the lives of Jamaican people. You dont play with peoples lives the way they decide to do it because no one will take the blame for the destroyed lives in Jamaica. It is about time that PNP give up and be a friendly oposition in the house to see what good can come out of them being there.

We need a better Jamaica for ourselves and our children, we need to leave a great company in the hands of our chuldren and not something that they have to come try to fix. Over the years Americans, Canadians, England have left a country that seem to be moving forward the new generation. Why cant Jamaica do the same.

I call on Media, Politicians, Citizen and all people living in Jamaica to lets get busy and fix Jamaica.

Concerned Jamaican

Posted By: THINGS BOUT YARD
May 29, 2008

HI MR BELLO I AM GREETING YOU FROM THE UK. THE THINGS I WOULD LIKE TO TALK ABOUT IS THE WAY SOME OF OUR OWN PEOPLE SELL OUR COUNTRY ABROAD. I AM FROM THE PARISH OF ST ELIZABETH AND I CAN SAY I AM VERY PROUD TO BE KNOWN AS A JAMAICAN. THE GOOD THINGS ABOUT JAMAICA HARDLY GET SAID MOST OF THE TIMES, AND YOU CAN ALWAYS BET YOUR LAST DOLLAR THE BAD THINGS ARE ALWAYS IN BOLD BY SOME OF OUR PEOPLE WHO CLAIM THAT JAMAICA IS NO GOOD FOR THEM ANYMORE. GOOD LUCK TO THOSE WHO TEK PEOPLE COUNTRY FI DEM OWN AND TRY TO PUT DOWN JAMAIAC THE TIME. TAKE CARE

Posted By: THINGS BOUT YARD
May 29, 2008

HI MR BELLO I AM GREETING YOU FROM THE UK. THE THING I WOULD LIKE TO TALK ABOUT IS THE WAY SOME OF OUR OWN PEOPLE SELL OUR COUNTRY ABROAD. I AM FROM THE PARISH OF ST ELIZABETH AND I CAN SAY I AM VERY PROUD TO BE KNOWN AS A JAMAICAN. THE GOOD THINGS ABOUT JAMAICA HARDLY GET SAID MOST OF THE TIMES, AND YOU CAN ALWAYS BET YOUR LAST DOLLAR THE BAD THINGS ARE ALWAYS IN BOLD BY SOME OF OUR PEOPLE WHO CLAIM THAT JAMAICA IS NO GOOD FOR THEM ANYMORE. GOOD LUCK TO THOSE WHO TEK PEOPLE COUNTRY FI DEM OWN AND TRY TO PUT DOWN JAMAIAC THE TIME. TAKE CARE

Posted By: THINGS BOUT YARD
May 29, 2008

HI MR BELLO I AM GREETING YOU FROM THE UK. THE THING I WOULD LIKE TO TALK ABOUT IS THE WAY SOME OF OUR OWN PEOPLE SELL OUR COUNTRY ABROAD. I AM FROM THE PARISH OF ST ELIZABETH AND I CAN SAY I AM VERY PROUD TO BE KNOWN AS A JAMAICAN. THE GOOD THINGS ABOUT JAMAICA HARDLY GET SAID MOST OF THE TIMES, AND YOU CAN ALWAYS BET YOUR LAST DOLLAR THE BAD THINGS ARE ALWAYS IN BOLD LETTERBY SOME OF OUR PEOPLE WHO CLAIM THAT JAMAICA IS NO GOOD FOR THEM ANYMORE. GOOD LUCK TO THOSE WHO TEK PEOPLE COUNTRY FI DEM OWN AND TRY TO PUT DOWN JAMAIAC ALL THE TIME. TAKE CARE

Posted By: m
Jun 10, 2008

hi belo and uohena hi its mulaine

Posted By: BELLO
Jun 12, 2008

It is always very encouraging to experience the passionate with which concerned Jamaicans speak about our country. I believe that it is very important that you all continue to push your thoughts via this medium. I will be visiting this page regularly to make sure that I am kept abreast with your comments and concerns. Let us continue to work together to make Jamaica a better place. You can contact me at albelwin@aol.com I would love to hear from you personally

BELLO

Posted By: Yvonne tph
Jul 03, 2008

I can surely say this station has been a blessing to me in many ways. Raga with the laughter, Bello/Euphemia with the spiritual side and the taking me back to yard part of it.

Love it, love it, and will continue to listen and be inspired with its diversity. Guys keep up the good works and may God continue to bless and inspire you all as you continue to inspire Jamaican at home and abroad and other people are tuned in too.

Nuff luv

Yvonne-NY LINK

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