Jamaican owned company in Connecticut receives Outstanding New Business Award

The Bloomfield Chamber of Commerce, Connecticut, presented its Outstanding New Business Award to the town’s first black woman-owned bookstore, The Writery Ink, LLC, at its annual awards dinner on May 29th, 2019 in Avon, Connecticut. Welcoming guests, Mayor of Bloomfield Suzette Debeatham-Brown, who also hails from Jamaica, praised the opening of The Writery Ink, LLC […]

Love Blooms in Jamaica, but Marriages Decline

People in Jamaica are still falling in love, but they are turning their back on marriage and formal unions. From 2009-2018, marriages declined by 23 percent and it has sparked intense debate among professionals in multiple fields as to the cause. The decrease in marriages has been blamed on everything from divorces to people getting […]