Barbara Requa – Saluting 60 Jamaican Women
“I always wanted to dance” – Barbara Requa. When she was six years old, she saw her older brother dancing and that was it. She was hooked. He taught her her first dance and she never stopped. At seventeen her dream to become a professional dancer came true , when she enrolled in Jamaica’ s […]
Sugar Minott’s Nephew Jamaican Basketball Player Josh Minott Signs with NBA Team
Jamaican forward Josh Minott, 19, the nephew of Jamaican reggae singer, producer, and sound-system operator Lincoln Barrington “Sugar” Minott, has signed a four-year contract to play with the Minnesota Timberwolves in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was Number 45 overall and a second-round pick in the 2022 NBA draft. The deal is a standard […]
Jamaican, Gloria Henry, Receives Prestigious Nearshore Americas Executive of the Year Award
Gloria Henry of Montego Bay, Jamaica, is vice-president in charge of logistics and BPO at the Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ). She has been honored with the Nexus Illuminate Award for Executive of the Year for 2022 from Nearshore Americas in recognition of her efforts toward sustaining Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) during the COVID-19 pandemic. […]
Sonia Pottinger – Saluting 60 Jamaican Women
In the rough and tough of record production, many persons believed it was a man’s world and therefore no place for a woman. But Sonia Pottinger did not agree. She believed that women should be able to work at whatever they loved to do, and Sonia loved record production. This was during the 1960s shortly […]
Jamaican-American Pinky Cole Launches New Shoe Line
Jamaican-American Pinky Cole, a successful businesswoman and CEO of the “Slutty Vegan” restaurants, celebrated the Juneteenth federal holiday by introducing a new line of shoes. Cole has taken a historic step and made the “Slutty Vegan” the first vegan restaurant to join with a fashion brand – Steve Madden – in a limited-edition collaboration. She […]
Six Jamaicans Amongst Ignite Caribbean 30 Under 30 Awards
The Washington DC-based, Institute of Caribbean Studies (ICS) honored 30 leaders under the age of 30 years old, including six Jamaicans, with Ignite awards as Caribbean change-makers for exemplary work in their field of interest. Thirty leaders at the Ignite Caribbean 30 Under 30 ChangeMaker Awards were honored on Saturday, June 25, 2022, commemorating National […]
Jamaica House Returns To The UK for the 2022 Commonwealth Games and Jamaica’s 60th Independence
The popular hospitality pop-up, Jamaica House, which highlights the best of Jamaican culture, music, and food for fans of Jamaica, will come to life in Birmingham this year, from August 3rd to August 7th, 2022. It will coincide with Jamaica’s 60th anniversary of independence and the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. Jamaica’s Tourist Board and Ministry […]
Top 7 Jamaican & Caribbean News Stories You Missed The Week Ending July 29th, 2022
THIS WEEK’S TOP NEWS STORIES JAMAICAN TOURISM MINISTER PROMOTES SHARED CARICOM VISA Edmund Bartlett, Jamaica’s Minister of Tourism, is calling for a single visa to be shared among the member states of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). He proposed the shared visa at the inaugural Organization of American States (OAS) policy forum held in Montego Bay. […]
Listen to the Podcast of the Jamaica & Caribbean Weekly News Summary for the week ending July 29, 2022
Listen to the 7 Jamaica & Caribbean News items you may have missed for the week ending July 29, 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
Florizelle O’Connor – Saluting 60 Jamaican Women
Florizelle O’Connor is a firm believer in equal rights and justice, that all persons – rich or poor, black or white – are created equal and should be so treated by the government and laws of the land. ‘Flo’ as she was popularly and lovingly known, dedicated her life to seeing that poor people who […]