Photo Highlights: New Venue, New Vibes a Hit Recipe for South Florida’s 2019 Grace Jamaican Jerk Fest
Prior to this year, South Florida’s Grace Jamaican Jerk Festival had called Markham Park in Sunrise, Florida home for 14 years. Started in 2001, the Jerk Festival in its fledgling years was sitused at C.B. Smith Park in the Pembroke Pines area of South Florida. However, this year’s 18th staging of the Festival on November 10th […]
Jamaican-American Marlon Hill Among 3 Influential South Floridians To Be Recognized at CMEx Leadership Awards Ceremony in Miami
Respected members of the South Florida community – a Jamaican-American attorney, a Trinidadian-American journalist, and a cruise line executive – will be recognized and honored at the 2019 Caribbean Media Exchange (CMEx) Leadership Awards to be held in Miami on December 14. Marlon Hill, business lawyer, strategist, civic mobilizer and partner at Hamilton, Miller & […]
Track Star of Jamaican Descent Named United Kingdom 2019 Sportswoman of the Year
The Sunday Times in the United Kingdom named Dina Asher-Smith, 23, a British sprinter of Jamaican descent, its Sportswoman of the Year for 2019. With her win in the 200-meter event at the World Championships held in October 2019 in Doha, she became the first woman from Britain to attain a major international title, and […]