Jamaican Team Beats Out 500 Schools from Around the World to Be One of Three Runners-Up for the Earth Prize 2022
The all-girls Team Viridis from Jamaica, comprising four friends from Campion College, beat 650 teams from 515 schools in 113 countries and territories around the globe to become one of the three runners-up for the 2022 Earth Prize, an environmental sustainability competition that invites young people between the ages of 13 and 19 worldwide to […]
Top 7 Jamaican & Caribbean News Stories You Missed The Week Ending November 18th, 2022
THIS WEEK’S TOP NEWS STORIES STATE OF EMERGENCY ISSUED TO ADDRESS RISING CRIME RATE Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness has declared a state of emergency in several areas of the country, responding to a rising crime rate that has impacted areas popular with tourists, including Montego Bay. Some of the nation’s central and western parishes […]
WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL – Worshipping God in Difficult Places
According to the narrative, Hannah, much ridiculed by her husband’s second wife about her barrenness, after persevering in prayer and supplication before the Lord, finally conceived and gave birth to her first son, Samuel (see 1 Samuel 1:1-20). We are told that after the child was weaned, Hannah “brought him unto the house of the Lord […]
Jamaican-American Woman Elected to Civil Judge in Brooklyn New York
Jamaican American Beverly S. Tatham, Esq., was elected to the New York City Civil Court in Kings County on November 8, 2022, and will represent Brooklyn’s 7th Municipal Court District. A current resident of Brownsville, Tatham was born in Brooklyn and raised by a single mother who immigrated to the US from Jamaica. She decided […]
Five Jamaicans Nominated for Award in Grammy’s Best Reggae Album Category
The Jamaican reggae artists Koffee, Sean Paul, Shaggy, Protoje, and Kabaka Pyramid have each received a nomination in the Best Reggae Album category of the 65th annual Grammy Awards. The final voting round is scheduled sometime between December 14, 2022, and January 4, 2023, with the winner announced on February 5, 2023, in Los Angeles, […]
Why Early Childhood Education is the key to “Ward-Off” Adolescent Criminal Actions
When the Commissioner of police announced that 875 crimes were committed by children between the ages of 15 and 17 between 2019 and 2022, and the makeup of these crimes are murders, shootings, rapes, break-ins, robberies, and aggravated assaults, the act of collecting and reporting these statistics is TOO LATE. When the National Parenting Supporting […]
What is it like being a Jamaican in Nigeria?
Xavier: What is it like being a Jamaican in Nigeria? Hi, I’m Xavier Murphy, the founder of Jamaicans.com. And today, in Jamaicans to the world, I talk to Carmen Latty, a Jamaican living in Nigeria. Hi, Carmen. Welcome. How are you? Carmen: Hi, Xavier, thank you very much. I’m fine. Thanks. Xavier: Good. Carmen: What […]
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Makes Final List of Those Nominated for Female Athlete of the Year
Jamaican 100-meter sprint champion and three-time Olympic champion, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has been nominated to receive the title of Female Athlete of the Year for 2022 by World Athletics. The Olympian was among the five finalists announced by World Athletics on November 14, 2022. Fraser-Pryce, 35, won her fifth world 100-meter title during the 2022 season […]
Joe Biden’s Agenda Trumps Projected Red Wave
As the US midterm elections approached American voters (Democrats) bolstered themselves in preparation for the much touted “Red Wave” predicted by commentators, expected to sweep away the guts of the Biden Administration’s democratic support in the House of Representatives and Senate. History, it appeared, supported the predictions as it has been the tradition in American […]
Jamaican-Born Scholar Featured on Billboard in New York’s Times Square
Victoria Horne, who was born in Mandeville, Jamaica, and migrated to New York at the age of 10, has been featured on a billboard for Morgan Stanley in New York City’s Times Square as one of the Capstone Project winners in the company’s Jumpstart Lead program for 2022. Horne won first place in the team […]