Listen to the Podcast of the Jamaica & Caribbean Weekly News Summary for the week ending June 17, 2022
Listen to the 7 Jamaica & Caribbean News items you may have missed for the week ending June 17, 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
Jamaican Scholar Journeys from Coronation Market to Pursuing Doctoral Degree in Neuroscience
Jamaican Malika Allen, 22, will begin studying for a Ph.D. in neuroscience in the United States in August 2022. It is not surprising that Allen will pursue an advanced education, but what is remarkable is how she overcame serious financial challenges and other obstacles to achieve success. Allen’s childhood was spent in Meadowbrook, St. Andrew, […]
Kamala Harris, Jamaica- Caribbean-American Woman of Influence
United States Vice President Kamala Harris was in 1964 in Oakland, California to an East Indian mother and a Jamaican father. Her parents were both active in politics in their Oakland community and often took their daughter with them to protests. She credits her parents with giving her a passion for social justice early in […]
Bessie Stringfield, Jamaica – Caribbean-American Woman of Influence
Bessie Stringfield, the first Black woman to ride a motorcycle solo across the United States, was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1911 to a Jamaican father and a Dutch mother. While questions have arisen about her birth and family, the popular consensus is that the family moved to Boston, Massachusetts, and when she was five, […]
Diane Abbott – Saluting 60 Women Pioneers
“If you are out for money, if you just want to be famous, politics is not the right field for you. The important thing is to really care about people and to be committed to improving the lives of people.” Diane Abbott was born in England, of Jamaican parents. Her mother was a nurse and […]
WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL – “Come…and rest a little while”
In his book The Life You’ve Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciples for Ordinary People, John Ortberg observes, “We suffer from what has come to be known as ‘hurry sickness’,” a condition Meyer Friedman defines as “above all, a continuous struggle and unremitting attempt to accomplish or achieve more and more things or participate in more and more […]
Dr. William Thornton, British Virgin Islands – Caribbean-American Man of Influence
Dr. William Thornton, a physician, inventor, and architect, was the designer of the US Capitol building. He was born on Jost van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands in 1759 in a Quaker community. In 1784, he received a medical degree from the University of Aberdeen. Upon returning to his Caribbean home in 1786, he […]
Lester Holt , Jamaica – Caribbean-American Man of Influence
American journalist and television new anchor Lester Holt was born in 1959 in California. He traces his Jamaican heritage through his grandparents: his maternal grandparents were born in Jamaica. His mother was born in Harlem, and his father was an African American from Michigan. Holt is the first African American to serve as lead anchor […]
This Jamaican-American Teacher Uses Art & Storytelling To Restore Hope To Former Blighted Redline Communities
Historic Black communities were subject to “redlining”, an FHA policy that devalued property and prevented mortgages in those communities from being insured. The lack of investment produced “food deserts” and prevented homeowners from benefiting from the equity in their homes, and that becomes blight. “That blight that you see in your neighborhood becomes a story […]
Jamaica Makes History Competing at World Lacrosse Women’s World Championship
Jamaica is set to make history when it becomes the first country from the Caribbean to compete at the World Lacrosse Women’s World Championship in Maryland in the United States. The competition is scheduled for June 29 to July 9, 2022. According to Calbert Hutchinson, the president of the Jamaica Lacrosse Association, he expects the […]