Liverpool Honors Bob Marley with Seven-Foot Statue
On September 7, 2021, in Liverpool, England, attendees at the Positive Vibration Festival of Reggae honored Jamaican reggae icon Bob Marley with a seven-foot-tall statue. The statue had been unveiled just two days earlier. The festival, which is promoted as “a weekend city celebration of the uplifting power of reggae and dub’s righteous reverberations,” launched […]
Jamaican Ann-Marie Campbell Started as a Cashier at Home Depot and is now Executive VP Overseeing Over 2,000 Stores
Jamaican-born Ann-Marie Campbell manages 2,200 Home Depot stores, more than 400,000 employees, and runs the company’s international operations for Canada and Mexico. Fortune named her to its Most Powerful Women in Business list from 2014-2020, and the 16th Most Powerful Women in 2020. Campbell was born in Kingston, Jamaica, attended Holy Childhood High School, and […]
Jamaica Tourist Board Releases Behind The Scenes Footage of Jamaica To Celebrate The Release of “No Time To Die”
To celebrate the release of the latest James Bond film, the Jamaica Tourist Board has released behind the scenes footage of No Time To Die. The footage showcases cast and crew as well as some of the locations shot in Jamaica. Jamaica is the birthplace of 007, where Ian Fleming created and wrote the Bond […]
Top 7 Jamaican & Caribbean News Stories You Missed The Week Ending September 24th, 2021
THIS WEEK’S TOP NEWS STORIES JAMAICAN TOURISM MINISTER TO CELEBRATE WORLD TOURISM DAY Edmund Bartlett, Jamaica’s Minister of Tourism, will join with the international community to celebrate the United Nations World Tourism Day on September 27, 2021. The celebration is designed to recognize the ability of tourism to fuel inclusive development policies and programs while […]
WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL – The God of Second Chances
Poor Jonah. His plan to take a break from his prophetic duties to avoid going to Nineveh to prophesy against it, as God had told him to, had fallen apart. Instead of relaxing at a villa in Tarshish, the ship he was traveling on had experienced a violent storm. When it was determined that the […]
Listen to the Podcast of 7 Jamaican & Caribbean News Stories You May Have missed for the week ending September 24, 2021.
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