• Fri, 26 June 2026

Jamaica is No 1 on the World Athletics top 10 women’s track nations of 2022

Jamaica is No 1 on the World Athletics top 10 womens track nations of 2022 - 1

According to World Athletics, the women athletes of Jamaica ensured that their country ended 2022 at the top of women’s track nations for the year. In a placing table for 2022 that was released on December 19, 2022, Jamaica finished in first place with 75 points, beating out the United States, which had accumulated 74 […]

Jamaica Ranked 2nd-Highest in Brain Drain and Human Flight in the World

Jamaica Ranked 2nd-Highest in Brain Drain and Human Flight in the World - 1

According to a study by the research site GlobalEconomy.com, Jamaicans leave the country to look for better opportunities overseas to such a degree that the island ranks second among 177 countries listed on the Human Flight and Brain Drain Index. Only Samoa has a higher rate of human displacement than Jamaica. Between 2007 and 2022, […]

Top 7 Jamaican & Caribbean News Stories You Missed The Week Ending December 30th, 2022

weekly news stories you missed this week

THIS WEEK’S TOP NEWS STORIES AUTHORITIES IN JAMAICA IMPOSE STATE OF EMERGENCY ON EIGHT PARISHES Eight Jamaican parishes were brought under a declared state of emergency as of December 29, 2022, because of high crime levels, according to Jamaican officials. States of emergency were declared in Kingston, Clarendon, Hanover, Saint Andrew, Saint Ann, Saint Catherine, […]

WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL – Year-End Reflections

Christmas, as we know it, is over. Though the Christmas trees, lights, and decorations are still up in some homes and places, psychologically, we have shifted our minds and thoughts toward the coming new year. With one week between both celebrations, it is also a time of reflection for some of us. Reflecting on what […]

Bounty Killer and Bennie Man to Get Lifetime Awards from MECA

Beenie Man vs. Bounty Killer Verzuz Results in 216% Increase of their Music Catalog

The Marketplace Entertainment Center for the Arts (MECA) honored Bounty Killer and Bennie Man at its awards show on December 28, 2022. Featured at the awards show will be the presentation of lifetime awards from MECA to Jamaican recording artists Bounty Killer and Beenie Man. The two reggae artists competed in the first in-person reggae […]

Jamaican Tina Clayton Named 2022 International Junior Athlete of the Year

Jamaican Tina Clayton Named 2022 International Junior Athlete of the Year

Athletics Weekly named Jamaican sprinter and World Athletics Champion the International Female Junior Athlete of the Year for 2022 on December 8, 2022. Clayton was included on a shortlist for the award that is presented according to the selection of Athletics Weekly readers and featured fellow Jamaican track and field athlete, Kerrica Hill. Clayton received […]

Jamaican-Born Judge Eric Irons Celebrated in Nottingham

Eric Irons Obe

Nottingham in the United Kingdom found a creative way to celebrate the country’s first Black magistrate, Jamaican-born Eric Irons. Irons was born in Spanish Town, Jamaica, and raised there but moved to Nottingham in 1948 after military service during World War II. He had been recruited by the Royal Air Force (RAF) in Jamaica in […]