13 Jamaicans Receive 30-Under-30 Caribbean American Emerging Leaders/Change Makers Award

Thirteen Jamaicans have been honored for their exceptional leadership and volunteerism in the Caribbean American community by receiving the 30-under-30 Caribbean American Emerging Leaders/Changemakers Award. The award is given to those who demonstrate leadership in the United States a CARICOM member nations, or a non-independent British, French of Dutch Dependency. A list of the 13 […]

Jamaican Professor Receives US Patent for Anti-Cancer Potential of Native Plant

Jamaica’s Dr. Lawrence Williams, adjunct professor in the College of Health Sciences at the University of Technology, and his co-researcher Dr. George Levy in the United States, have seen the successful resolution of 28 years of research on the indigenous guinea hen weed (Peteveria aalliacea) of Jamaica. Dr. Williams has been granted a patent from […]

Jamaica’s Alia Atkinson Wins Gold in Breaststroke Double

Star swimming champion Alia Atkinson won the 100-meter Short-Course breaststroke gold medal at Berlin’s FINA/airweave Swimming World Cup on August 7, 2017. Atkinson added this medal to the gold she had already won in the competition’s 200-meter Short-Course event on August 6, the anniversary of Jamaica’s independence. She clocked a time of 1:04.71 minutes in […]

Art Exhibition – Walk Good: From Africa to Jamaica, Visions of the Motherland

Come home to a place you’ve never been on Friday the 25th of August. Please join us for 38InPrint, an art exhibition by international Cameroonian artist Shiri Achu. The 38 piece collection of Limited Edition Prints will be on display until the 8th of September at the University of the West Indies, Vice Chancellor building, […]