This is Jamaica Announces the Peter Gracey “This is Jamaica” Poetry Scholarship 2022
This is Jamaica is committed to promoting literacy. This scholarship was created to empower children to restore and preserve Jamaican culture through poetry, drama, and the arts. Scholarship Amount: US $2,500.00 broken up in 3 tiers. First $1,000.00, second $500.00 and third place $250.00. Eligibility: Applicants between the ages of 6 and 17 attending a […]
Jamaican Team Does Well in Indonesia Dragon Boat Contest
Jamaican Danikee Knight, a graduate of Calabar High School, had spent only a few weeks in his new country of Indonesia before he learned about the Jakarta Dragon Boat Competition. He immediately became interested in learning more. He connected with Professor Michael Morrison, who had created a Jamaican team and entered the competition in 2017, […]
16 Jamaicans Awarded 2022 Chevening Scholarships to Pursue Master’s Degrees in United Kingdom
The British High Commission in Kingston, Jamaica, announced the award of the Chevening Scholarships for 2022 to 16 Jamaicans. This will increase the number of Jamaicans who received the scholarships since their inception in 1984 to more than 280. The awardees were selected from a shortlist of some 50 individuals who had been chosen from […]
Top 7 Jamaican & Caribbean News Stories You Missed The Week Ending September 9th, 2022
THIS WEEK’S TOP NEWS STORIES JAMAICA’S PRIME MINISTER AND OPPOSITION LEADER EXPRESS SADNESS AT PASSING OF QUEEN ELIZABETH II Upon the death of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II at the age of 96 on August 8, 2022, Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness expressed his “great and profound sadness” at the passing of the Queen, whose reign […]
Listen to the Podcast of the Jamaica & Caribbean Weekly News Summary for the week ending September 9, 2022
This is a Podcast of the Jamaica & Caribbean Weekly News Summary for the week ending September 9, 2022. The JAMAICA WEEKLY News Summary Podcast is brought to you by Jamaicans.com. For past Jamaica & Caribbean Weekly News Podcasts please visit our archives.
WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL – Modern Medicine and Our Sovereign God
Modern science is a bit of a two-edged sword. Wonderful in some ways and worrisome in others. Sometime ago because of a bum shoulder, I had to do an x-ray and an ultrasound. As I sat during the latter, I watched on the screen with much interest what the ultrasound was showing. Several months before […]