Jamaican Student Awarded $5 Million Scholarship from China
Jamaica’s Tagera Ottey has been presented with a $5-million scholarship from China National Pharmaceutical Corporation (Sinopharm) to study medicine in the People’s Republic of China. Mike Henry, Jamaican Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), had made an appeal on behalf of Ottey to the company and praised the firm on […]
On this day in Jamaican History: Vincent “Randy” Chin, the founder of VP Records Distributors, was born
On October 3, 1937, Vincent “Randy” Chin, the founder and owner of VP Records Distributors, the world’s largest independent label and distributor of Caribbean music in the world, was born in Kingston. His father was a carpenter who migrated to Cuba from mainland China but later settled permanently in Jamaica in the 1920s. In the […]
Reggae Band Caught Up in Kavanaugh Investigation
The British reggae-pop band UB40 has found itself enmeshed in issues that arose during the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh, the individual nominated to the United States Supreme Court by the Republican administration During the course of the confirmation proceedings, several of Kavanaugh’s classmates from his high school and his college years at Yale have come […]
