Listen to the Podcast of the Jamaica & Caribbean Weekly News Summary for the week ending October 27th, 2017
This is a Podcast of the Jamaica & Caribbean Weekly News Summary for the week ending October 27th, 2017. The JAMAICA WEEKLY News Summary Podcast is brought to you by Jamaicans.com. For past Jamaica & Caribbean Weekly News Podcasts please visit our “News and Events archives“
Winston Quest First Jamaican Architect to Win Prestigious German Award
Jamaica’s Winston Quest made history when he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship in Germany. Quest, who attended Black River High School and Munro College, is the first Jamaican architect to receive this award, besting 42 other candidates from 19 countries to win the award. He will start his one-year participation in the fellowship […]
How much do you know about the postal service in Jamaica?
Jamaica was the first British colony to have a post office as the booming sugar industry required the creation of a reliable postal service. The postal service began in 1671, and the first dedicated post office building was built in St. Jago De La Vega, which is now known as Spanish Town. The first Postmaster […]
Top 7 Jamaican & Caribbean News Stories for the week ending October 27th, 2017
THIS WEEK’S TOP NEWS STORIES GOVERNMENT SAYS CHINESE NOT ALLOWED TO FISH IN JAMAICAN WATERS According to Jamaica’s Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed between the government of China and the government of Jamaica on September 22, 2017, will not permit Chinese fishers or boats to fish in […]
The Incursion Wins Best Documentary Award
The Incursion, a film by Jamaican director and producer Sasha-Gay Lewis, has won best documentary short at the Los Angeles Film and Script Festival. The Incursion, which also won a honorable mention award at the Los Angeles Documentary Film Festival (DOC LA) over the weekend was directed, produced, written and edited by Sasha-Gay Lewis. “For […]
WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL – By Accident or On Assignment?
She was a young Jewish girl and a slave in the household of a Syrian soldier. Like many other females in the Bible, we do not know her name. Yet the only recorded words she spoke live on almost 3,000 years later. The writer of the book of Kings tells us, “And she said unto […]
