Jamaican Writer Nicola Yoon’s Young Adult Novel Now a Major Motion Picture

The young adult novel, “The Sun Is Also a Star,” by Jamaican writer Nicola Yoon will be released as a major motion picture by Metro Goldwyn Mayer and Warner Brothers studios on May 17, 2019. Yoon was raised in Jamaica and in Brooklyn, New York. She attended Cornell University where she majored in electrical engineering. […]

Top 7 Jamaican & Caribbean News Stories You Missed The Week Ending March 1st, 2019

weekly news stories you missed this week

THIS WEEK’S TOP NEWS  STORIES CONSTANT SPRING MARKET TO BE DEMOLISHED The Constant Spring market in Manor Park, St. Andrew, will be demolished in order to make way for expansion work on Constant Spring Road. The action will go ahead following the lifting of a temporary injunction by the Supreme Court that prevented the Kingston […]

WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL – Responding to Love

responding to love

Just over two weeks ago we celebrated Valentine’s Day and across every language and culture where the day is celebrated, people took the time to affirm and reaffirm love. Unless by mutual agreement to bypass the day’s sentimentalities, not many relationships would survive in which one person ‘forgot’ the obligatory tangible show of affection. Rightly […]