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 […]
What’s the Best Where You Live? Jody Ann Gray & Xavier Murphy to Host the Best of Jamaica 2022 Awards Show on January 1st, 2023
The Best of Jamaica 2022 Awards Show will be aired on the Jamaicans.com Facebook and YouTube platforms January 1st, 2023, and will be hosted by media personality Jody Ann Gray and Xavier Murphy, the founder of Jamaicans.com. The Best of Jamaica Awards Show is the biggest event of the year for Jamaicans.com, the world’s leading […]
Bounty Killer and Bennie Man to Get Lifetime Awards from MECA
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
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
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 […]
Listen to the Podcast of the Jamaica & Caribbean Weekly News Summary for the week ending December 23, 2022
Listen to the 7 Jamaica & Caribbean News items you may have missed for the week ending December 23, 2022. The JAMAICA WEEKLY News Summary Podcast is brought to you by Jamaicns.com. For past Jamaica & Caribbean Weekly News Podcasts please visit https://www.youtube.com/outofmanyonline
Jamaican American Yvette Clarke Elected First Vice Chair of US Congressional Black Caucus
The United States Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) elected Jamaican American Yvette D. Clarke, a Democratic Congresswoman who represents the 9th Congressional District in Brooklyn, New York, as its first vice chair. Clarke is the daughter of Jamaican immigrants and has been a member of the US Congress since 2007. She is a senior member of […]
Love & Hip-Hop’s Third Season Is Set in Jamaica
The third season of the popular VH1 reality program, “Love & Hip-Hop,” takes place in Jamaica. The television program’s broadcast was aired on November 28, 2022, and brought the drama, action, and tension that has attracted so many fans and made the franchise one of the most successful shows in United States television history. The […]
Top 7 Jamaican & Caribbean News Stories You Missed The Week Ending December 23rd, 2022
THIS WEEK’S TOP NEWS STORIES JAMAICAN FINANCE MINISTER ACTS TO SOOTHE PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYEES OVER DELAY IN BACK PAY AND NEW SALARIES Dr. Nigel Clarke, Jamaica’s Minister of Finance, is working to calm the anxieties expressed by public sector workers who have seen delays in back pay and new salaries in December 2022. He stated […]
WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL – Reflecting on Joseph at Christmas
The Christmas story never gets old. Adults and children all over the world will enact its scenes in many places of worship and elsewhere. The words of the angels and those of Mary, Elizabeth, Zacharias, Herod, the shepherds, and wise men, to name a few, get repeated. All in fulfillment of Isaiah’s majestic prophesy: “For […]