Photo Highlights: Protoje at Irving Plaza NYC
Protoje gave a solid performance in New York City last Friday night, July 8th, at Irving Plaza. Allan Kingdom, the Canadian rapper who featured on Kanye West’s track “All Day”, opened up for Protoje at the Manhattan venue. At the start of his set, Protoje took a moment to address the recent bouts of publicized violence in the […]
Karl Thorne, Jamaican Born Architect and Business, Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
Jamaican, Karl Thorne, president of Karl Thorne Associates, Inc., a successful minority-owned architectural firm in Florida, has been honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the University of Florida. Thorne was born in May Pen and was a student at Clarendon College but left Jamaica in 1977 when the island was experiencing a period of […]
WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL – An Attitude of Ingratitude
English novelist and essayist Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) was on point when he said, “Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.” It is not that we purposefully set out to be that way, but it is easy for us to become so accustomed to certain things that we become indifferent […]
Top 7 Jamaican & Caribbean News Stories for the week ending July 15th, 2016
—————————————- THIS WEEK’S TOP NEWS STORIES —————————————- GIFFORD WANTS JAMAICA TO REMOVE QUEEN AS HEAD OF STATE—07/12/16 Lord Anthony Gifford, Queen’s Counsel, believes that Jamaica should remove Britain’s Queen Elizabeth as head of state, saying that Marcus Garvey would be “shocked and disappointed” at the way Jamaica has structured its social, legal, and constitutional environments. […]
Listen to the Podcast of the Jamaica & Caribbean Weekly News Summary for the week ending July 15, 2016
This is a Podcast of the Jamaica & Caribbean Weekly News Summary for the week ending July 15, 2016. The JAMAICA WEEKLY News Summary Podcast is brought to you by Jamaicans.com. For past Jamaica & Caribbean Weekly News Podcasts please visit our archives.
Day 197 of 365 Things to Do, See & Eat in Jamaica – Jamaica Dunn’s River Falls: Cruise Tours with Snorkeling
Take a three-hour trip to Dunn’s River Falls via catamaran. You can enjoy some snorkeling and/or swim in the Caribbean as part of the tour, viewing live coral reefs and tropical fish. Once at the falls, you can climb its terraces to the top and marvel at the wide vistas of the countryside. Most tours […]
Buju Banton Receives Masters Degree from New York University
The legendary Jamaica reggae artiste Buju Banton has graduated with a Masters Degree in Music Business Management from the University of New York (NYU). Banton was arrested at his home in South Florida in 2009 on drug charges and sentenced to ten years in prison in 2011 at the Sam Gibbons U.S. District Court in […]