NBC Features Jamaican Women’s Bobsled Team and Their Upcoming Olympic Debut
Almost 30 years after Jamaica’s “Cool Runnings” men’s bobsled team participated in the Olympic Games in Calgary, Canada, in 1988, a women’s team from the island is moving ahead with its bid to win a first Winter Olympics medal. The women’s bobsled team is preparing to make history with its first-ever appearance in Pyeongchang. The […]
Top 7 Jamaican & Caribbean News Stories for the week ending December 8th, 2017
THIS WEEK’S TOP NEWS STORIES JAMAICAN GOVERNMENT CONDEMNS SLAVE AUCTIONS IN LIBYA Kamina Johnson Smith, Jamaica’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, responded to international media reports of slave auctions of migrant workers in Libya by addressing the Senate, stating, that “This human indignity is unreservedly and entirely condemned by the Government, and we […]
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WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL – “The Problem is Me”
The prayer was simple but rather profound. Eight words that zeroed in on the problem. “Dear God: I have a problem. It’s me.” There is no doubt that in our Western culture we are more individualistic than in other cultures. Generally speaking, things are centered on ourselves – the things we like or don’t like, […]