Woman of Jamaican Descent Gives Rousing Commencement Address at One of Oldest Colleges in US
On June 4, 2021, Lia James, who is of Jamaican-Haitian descent, was selected to give the 2021 Commencement Address at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, one of the oldest colleges in the United States. Her father is Jamaican Bruce James, the president of the MVP Track Club and manager of Olympian Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, and her mother […]
Jamaica to Expand Connections with Cuba in Education Sector
The Education Ministries of Jamaica and Cuba have entered into a new agreement that will allow them to provide mutual professional and academic aid. The original educational sector collaboration agreement was signed by the two nations in 1997. According to the website of the Cuban Foreign Ministry (MINREX), Fayval Williams, Jamaica’s Minister of Education, Youth […]
