Jamaican Rugby Team Wins Final in South Florida

Jamaica’s Under-19 team was victorious over the Bahamas in the Rugby Final at Vizcaya Park in Miramar, South Florida. The Jamaican Rugby Team dominated the match, beating the Bahamas’ team 50 to 0. The final was part of the year 2016 RAN Superweek scheduled for July 9 to July 16, 2016, which features 23 matches and […]

Jamaican Olympic Champion Usain Bolt Featured on Cover of Sports Illustrated

Sports Illustrated magazine has featured Jamaica’s Usain Bolt, six-time Olympic champion and fastest man in the world, on its cover just weeks before he competes at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Although Bolt withdrew from the Jamaican Olympic trials on July 1 due to a tear injury to his left hamstring, he […]

Facts on Jamaica: The first breadfruit tree

The first breadfruit tree in Jamaica was planted in St. Thomas at the Bath Botanical Garden. The British Captain Cook discovered breadfruit on Tahiti, and his description of the fruit caught the public’s imagination back home in England. The first tree in Jamaica was brought to the island from Tahiti by Captain William Bligh in […]

Day 198 of 365 Things to Do, See & Eat in Jamaica – Exploring Good Hope Estate

Put on your explorer’s hat and investigate the history of Good Hope Estate, a 2,000-acre plantation. Accessible from Ocho Rios or Montego Bay, you can stroll the estate grounds, view the Colonial Village at the site, and see former plantation buildings. There’s a pool at the plantation where you can swim, and you’ll have a […]

Yashika Graham Returns From Venezuela’s World Festival of Poetry Inspired

Emerging Jamaican poet Yashika Graham recently returned from the 13th  annual World Festival of Poetry in Venezuela, in which she participated with fellow Jamaican poet, Mel Cooke. During the weeklong festival Graham read throughout the capital of Caracas as well as in the states of Cojedes, Sucre and Aragua, where she was also part of […]

Yashika Graham’s Directions From The Border Video For Release

Westmoreland born poet Yashika Graham, fresh from participating in the World Festival of Poetry in Venezuela, is poised to release a video for the title poem of her forthcoming first collection, Directions From The Border. The poem, which documents what she calls ‘a literal and spiritual journey,’ takes the reader through often impossible terrain, charting […]