Top 7 Jamaican & Caribbean News Stories You Missed The Week Ending November 30th, 2018

Jamaican and Caribbean weekly news stories you missed this week

THIS WEEK’S TOP NEWS  STORIES UNESCO PLACES REGGAE ON LIST INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE LIST The cultural agency of the United Nations, UNESCO, has had Jamaica’s reggae music tradition to its Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The agency made its decision at the 13th session of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding […]

On this day in Jamaican history: Mavado was born

Mavado

On November 30, 1981, David Constantine Brooks, better known as the dancehall artist Mavado, was born and raised in the Cassava Piece community in Kingston, Jamaica. The deejay, songwriter, and singer is also known as Gully Gaad. He was influenced by the music of Bounty Killer, and when he was 15, Bounty Killer became his […]

WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL – Walking in the Dark

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There is something about the dark that frightens some people. As J.R.Tolkien in his classic The Hobbit observes, “It cannot be seen, cannot be felt / Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt / It lies behind stars and under hills / And empty holes it fills / It comes first and follows after / Ends […]