Sandra Lindsay, The Jamaican Nurse Who Was First to Be Vaccinated against COVID-19 in USA Earns PhD
Jamaican Sandra Lindsay, who made history on December 14, 2020, when she was officially cited as the first person in the United States to receive a COVID-19 shot, received her PhD in Health Sciences at the A.T. Still University School of Osteopathic Medicine in Mesa, Arizona. Additionally, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in […]
New Jersey City Honors Jamaican Immigrants by Renaming Street “Jamaica Way”
The city of Paterson, New Jersey, paid homage to Jamaican immigrants by changing the name of a two-block portion of Vreeland Avenue to Jamaica Way in their honor. According to Derek Alderman, a geographer at East Carolina University who has studied the street-renaming trend, “Change a street name and you change the way people think […]
Jamaican-based Tech Company, Jamlite Innovations: helping businesses in the pandemic
Tyrone Williams of Jamlite Innovations offers remote work options for his customers In Jamaica, businesses are wrestling with how to assist their staff, implement emergency procedures, and sustain their enterprises in the face of economic uncertainty while the country faces an unparalleled public health catastrophe due to COVID-19. It’s been a learning curve for some, […]