From Jamaica to Colombia: How Anasia Reid Built Medellín’s Only Jamaican Restaurant
What’s it really like being a Jamaican doing business in Colombia? For Anasia Reid, the journey began with travel, curiosity, and a longing for the flavours of home, and eventually led to building a thriving Jamaican restaurant in Medellín. In this episode of Jamaicans Doing Business Abroad, Jamaicans.com founder Xavier Murphy sits down with Anasia […]
Honouring Thomas P. Lecky: The Jamaican Scientist Who Reimagined and Elevated Local Agriculture
On the 121st anniversary of his birth, Thomas Philip Lecky stands as one of Jamaica’s most consequential yet understated scientific minds. Best known as the architect of the Jamaica Hope cattle breed, Lecky’s work reshaped dairy farming in the tropics and demonstrated that world-class innovation could emerge from local knowledge, patience, and deep respect for […]
Albert Huie at 105: The Man Who Taught Jamaica to See Itself
Albert Huie was born in Falmouth, Trelawny, on December 31, 1920, at a time when Jamaica had not yet fully imagined itself through its own art. Over the course of a career spanning more than five decades, Huie would help change that—becoming one of the central figures in the formation of modern Jamaican painting and […]
Jamaican Born Educator, Kamar Samuels, Set to Lead New York City Public Schools
Kamar Samuels, a Jamaican-born educator with nearly two decades in the New York City public school system, is expected to be appointed as the next New York City schools chancellor. The anticipated move by Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani would place Samuels at the helm of the largest public school system in the United States, serving more […]