Jamaica’s Diamond Jubilee Independence Grand Gala Celebrations in 2022 Glitters Forever

Seven-year-old Jamaican Ozana Samuels attended her first ever Jamaica Independence Grand Gala annually held at Jamaica’s National Stadium in Saint Andrew on August 6th, 2022. She hardly could sit down through the opening ceremony to the end of the Gala’s electrifying activities themed ‘Re-igniting a Nation for Greatness’. Her teen sisters had been to annual […]

This Jamaican American Is The Face on Television People In Oklahoma Wake Up To

Jamaican American Jason Hackett anchors the morning KOCO5 News Weekday television program in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, along with co-anchors Shelby Cashman, Alejandra Briones, and meteorologist Jonathan Conder. A telecommunications graduate from the University of Florida, Hackett previously worked as a reporter at the NBC affiliate WPTV in West Palm Beach, Florida. In this position, he […]

Did You Know Pop Music’s Air Horn Originated in Jamaica?

Reggae scholar Roger Steffens says the first air horn to be included in a recording may have been in the B-side dub of the Wailers’ “Raver’s Version” in 1972. The track is an inconspicuous recording released by Tuff Gong until it reaches the three-minute-five-second mark when an air horn sounds just once. There are speculations […]