Jamaica on Track to Have a Record Winter Tourist Season

Minister of Tourism, the Hon. Edmund Bartlett, has announced that Jamaica is set to have a record winter tourist season. Speaking today at the annual breakfast appreciation for staff at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, for the start of the season, Minister Bartlett highlighted that the destination will, “Welcome over 1.4 million visitors […]

Caribbean American Claudine Gay Named at 30th President of Harvard University

Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) at Harvard University, Claudine Gay, the daughter of Haitian immigrants, has been selected to be the University’s 30th president. She has served as FAS Dean since 2018 and guided the biggest and most academically diverse faculty at Harvard in its efforts to expand students’ […]

Jamaica, Everything Is Not All Right

It was February 2016 and as the Jamaica General Elections approached, I contemplated flying into the island to exercise my right to vote. It was a decision I had contemplated from much earlier, having grown tired of what I had concluded was a hapless PNP regime which had dominated the island’s electoral politics for several […]