Jamaica’s Reggae Rollers To Compete at 2018 Commonwealth Games

Andrew Newell of Battersea, South London, will take the first Jamaican bowls team to compete in the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia. Newell was inspired to get the team officially recognized for competition by the 1988 entry of the Jamaican bobsled team to the Winter Olympics in Calgary. Newell and his teammate Mervyn Edwards will […]

Jamaican Woman Makes History at the World Customs Organization

Jamaican Velma Ricketts Walker, Commissioner of Customs, has become the first woman – and the first Jamaican – to be elected to the position of chair of the Capacity Building Committee of the World Customs Organization (WCO). She was elected at the ninth session of the committee, which was held in Brussels, Belgium, from February […]