Jamaican-Born Artist Based in Canada Wins Visual Arts Award
Charles Campbell, a visual artist who was born in Jamaica, is the winner of the 2022 Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation for the Visual Arts VIVA Award, which brings with it a $15,000 grant. Campbell is a painter, sculptor, and performance artist based in Fernwood who has been working in multiple disciplines for some 30 […]
Self-taught Jamaican Chef Based in UK Moves from Home Catering to a Café
Jamaican-born chef Deron Russell Coleman, who created a large food-fan base with his traditional dishes made in his home kitchen in 2021, will now be serving his jerk chicken, curried goat, and other authentic treats at Craig’s da Flava, which will be serving Tuesdays and Saturdays from 3 to 9 pm within the Tall Orders […]
Listen to the Podcast of the Jamaica & Caribbean Weekly News Summary for the week ending August 5, 2022
Listen to the 7 Jamaica & Caribbean News items you may have missed for the week ending Auust 5, 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
Top 7 Jamaican & Caribbean News Stories You Missed The Week Ending August 5th, 2022
THIS WEEK’S TOP NEWS STORIES RASTAFARIANS CELEBRATE EMANCIPATION DAY, CALL FOR REMOVAL OF BRITISH QUEEN AS HEAD OF STATE A group of Rastafarians that included Ras Iyah V celebrated Emancipation Day on August 1, 2022, at the Urban Development Corporation (UDC) in Montego Bay. Ras Iyah V believes that the Rastafarian community was integral in […]
WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL – Whose Fault is it Anyway?
How much of what goes “wrong” in our lives do we hold God responsible for? The tendency to blame someone or something else has been with us since Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden. You might recall that after the couple sinned, Adam blamed Eve who blamed the serpent (Genesis 3:1-13), and if […]
Jamaicans, Grace Jones and Beam, Featured on Beyonce’s “Renaissance” Album
Superstar recording star Beyonce released her seventh studio album, “Renaissance,” on July 29, 2022, on her Parkwood Entertainment label and Columbia Records. The album includes 16 tracks and collaborations with two Jamaican artists: the iconic Grace Jones and Tyshane “Beam” Thompson, son of Papa San, a veteran dancehall gospel deejay. Grace Jones is featured along […]
Dame Karlene Davis, DBE – Saluting 60 Jamaican Women
Born and raised in Jamaica, Karlene Davis went to England because she wanted to be a midwife. She first trained as a nurse, later as a midwife and then as a teacher of midwifery. Why? Because she wanted to see midwives acknowledged for who they really are – “ the lead professionals in maternity care….” […]
10, 60, 100 – Jamaican Jerk Festival New York 2022 Was A Winning Combination
No these are not part of the winning lotto numbers of the recent Mega Millions drawing won by one person in Illinois – but they are significant. The recently concluded Grace Jamaican Jerk Festival New York held at Roy Wilkins Park in Queens on Sunday July 31st celebrated its 10th anniversary in fine style with […]
Velonique Bowen is Crowned Miss Jamaica Festival Queen 2022
Miss Kingston and St. Andrew, Velonique Bowen, came out on top to become the Miss Jamaica Festival Queen for 2022. The highly anticipated Jamaica 60 Coronation took place at the National Indoor Sports Centre on Emancipation Day, Monday, August I, 2022. Sheri-Gaye Johnson, Miss Clarendon was awarded the first runner-up title, while Le Chone Redwood, […]
What is it like being a Jamaican in Mexico?
In our “Jamaicans to the World” series, Jamaicans.com founder, Xavier Murphy, speaks with Turner Francis and Theresa Barrett. They are Jamaicans living in Mexico. Xavier: What is it like being a Jamaican in Mexico? Hi, I’m Xavier Murphy, the founder of Jamaicans.com. And today in Jamaicans to the World I talked to Turner and Theresa […]