Jamaica to adopt SITA’s Digital Travel Declaration to streamline inbound travel as tourism recovers
Digital Travel Declaration will allow travelers to submit all travel and health documentation required for entry into Jamaica through a single platform. Top Caribbean tourist destination Jamaica will adopt SITA’s Digital Travel Declaration solution allowing travelers to submit all immigration, customs, and health documentation required for entry into the country through one easy, efficient, and […]
Jamaican-Born Graduate, Trisha Bailey, Makes Largest Athletic Donation to UConn in Its History
Trisha Bailey, a member of the University of Connecticut’s (UConn) Class of 1999 and a former university track athlete, has made the largest athletic donation in UConn history. The funds will be used to renovate Greer Fieldhouse and represent the lead donation to be put toward a $60-million expansion of the facility where Bailey spent […]
Bobby Digital x Sizzla Kalonji 20th Anniversary of Da Real Thing
The year 2022 marks three significant album anniversaries for Reggae singjay Sizzla Kalonji. Born Miguel Collins in 1976, Sizzla’s recording career began in 1994, 2022 is the 20th anniversary of ‘Bobby Digital’ Dixon’s Da Real Thing, released October 16, 2002, and the respective 25th anniversaries of Bobby Digital’s Black Woman & Child and Fatis “Xterminator” […]
Nakisaki Humanitarian Consortium And Jamaican Community Club Partner To Host Baseball Coaches Certification Program
The Nakisaki Humanitarian Consortium, Inc. (NHC) under its Sports Development Initiative will partner with the Cheapside Youth Club (CYC) to host a four-day baseball coaching clinic beginning Thursday, October 20th at the CYC in Cheapside, St. Elizabeth. The event will include a two-day baseball coaches certification program. The certification program provides coaches of all levels […]
Bob Marley on List of 25 Greatest Albums of All Time
Bob Marley’s 1984 album release, “Legend: The Best of Bob Marley and The Wailers,” was ranked Number 13 on a list of the 25 greatest albums of all time compiled by Yardbarker. The album has been named the best-selling reggae album in history, selling some 25 million copies worldwide. It features different versions and edited […]
Crime Is A Big White Elephant In Jamaica
I have spent more than 30 years in Diaspora engagement, learning, collaborating, starting, and leading several for-profit businesses and non-profit organizations. The one thing that is a common thread among everyone who moves from Jamaica to the Diaspora is the high cognizance of high crime in their home country. It is no wonder the US […]
Jamaican Runners Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Shericka Jackson among 10 Nominees for World Athlete of the Year Title
Jamaicans Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Shericka Jackson have been included on the short list of athletes being considered for the title of Female Athlete of the Year by World Athletics for 2022. Fraser-Pryce, 35, achieved a historic first in 2021 when she became the oldest female athlete to win a sprint title. Jackson, 28, was awarded […]
Reggae Girlz’s Hishamar Falconer First Jamaican Woman Inducted into Lindsay Wilson College Hall of Fame
Hishamar Falconer, a former player for Jamaica’s national women’s Reggae Girlz football team, has been inducted into the Lindsay Wilson College Soccer Hall of Fame. She is the first woman from Jamaica to receive the honor and only the second Jamaican, the first being Tyrone Marshall. Falconer played for Maverley and Barbican in the local […]
Jamaican-Born Individuals Celebrated History Channel as Black British World War Heroes
The United Kingdom celebrates Black History Month in October, and in recognition of Black History, Sky History has compiled a list of ten Black British war heroes who served the country in one of the two World Wars. Several of these heroes were born in Jamaica. Jamaican-born William Robinson “Robbie” Clarke, who was the first […]
Study Finds Jamaica Has Double the Global Average Percentage of Women in Managerial Jobs
According to a study by the International Labor Organization (ILO), women accounted for about 28.3 percent of all managerial positions in the world in 2020, but in Jamaica, which was ranked in eighth place in the survey, approximately 56.7 percent of the country’s managerial jobs are held by women. This is over twice the global […]