Google Celebrates Jamaican Mary Seacole with Doodle
Internet search site Google honored Jamaican Mary Seacole with a commemorative doodle on October 14. 2016. Mary Seacole was a nurse known as “Mother Seacole” to the British Army. She learned herbal medicine from her mother, who knew the traditional remedies used in the Caribbean and Africa. In spite of the challenges Seacole faced as […]
Chef Noel Cunningham Braised Cow Foot with Beans
“Hated by many because of the name, but if it’s properly prepared, this dish is one that you will love. My grandmother is a lover of ‘everything cow’ except for the hair and the rope. She was the one who introduced me to cow foot and I must add that she was a good cook […]
Usain Bolt Confirms Plans to Retire After World Championships in 2017
Jamaica’s Olympic champion sprinter Usain Bolt will participate in his last Racers Grand Prix in Jamaica in June 2017 and will retire from competition two months later after the World Championships in London, which will be held between August 5 and 13, 2017. Bolt says that he is definitely retiring from the sport after the […]
Day 292 of 365 Things to Do, See & Eat in Jamaica – Take a Tour of Mico College
Mico College was established by funds left by Lady Mico in 1690 to her nephew Samuel, with the stipulation that he would marry one of his cousins. Samuel did not do this, however, and in 1834, he used the money to fund education for people of color in the West Indies. Mico College attained significant […]
Caribbean Bar Association Dedicates Annual Event to Helping Haiti
Hurricane Matthew, a powerful category 4 storm, had no mercy when it ripped across the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. But this time, it was Haiti’s southwest peninsula that took the hardest hit – hundreds were killed, countless homes destroyed and the majority of the country’s crops have been washed away. “Haiti is no […]
