Frances-Anne Solomon To Receive “WIFT TORONTO Crystal Award for MENTORSHIP”
Award-winning filmmaker and producer Frances-Anne Solomon will receive the 2022 “WIFT Toronto Crystal Award for Mentorship” in recognition of her outstanding contribution in helping to motivate, guide and support emerging and mid-career professionals in the Canadian screen-based media industry, often serving as a role model to younger entrepreneurs as they grow in their own careers. […]
Physician in Chicago Launches Jamaican Coffee Company to “Give Back” to Country that Invested in Her Future
Dr. Shardee Heinisch, a pediatric dermatology fellow in Chicago, Illinois, has started a Jamaican coffee company, Mellow Royale Café, as her way to “give back” to the nation that made an investment in her future. Heinisch launched the company in 2021, and since then, it has made its mark by being the first firm to […]
Maryland’s First Black Attorney General Has Jamaican Connection
Former congressman and lieutenant governor of Maryland, Democrat Anthony Brown, achieved a historic election victory in the state, becoming its first African American attorney general. Brown described his win as an honor and a privilege in a speech to supporters in Baltimore following announced projections by the Associated Press on election night on November 8, […]
Usain Bolt Foundation Donates Printers to Jamaican Primary Schools
The Usain Bolt Foundation has donated 125 Epson printers to early childhood institutions and primary schools in Jamaica. The printers will be used to provide worksheets and textbook prints for students. The donation is made possible through the Foundation’s two-year partnership with Epson. A total of 225 printers will eventually be supplied to Jamaica’s schools […]
Inaugural 3on3 Basketball for Jamaican High School Boys
Calabar, Excelsior, Manchester High Schools along with Knox College will join York Castle, Herbert Morrison, Holland, St James and Cornwall for the inaugural 3on3 basketball in Montego Bay this Saturday (November 19). Calabar and Excelsior are the qualifiers from the southern conference, while Manchester and Knox came out on top in the central conference. Players will vie for […]
Listen to the Podcast of the Jamaica & Caribbean Weekly News Summary for the week ending November 18, 2022
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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 […]