Listen to the Podcast of the Jamaica & Caribbean Weekly News Summary for the week ending January 21, 2022
Listen to the 7 Jamaica & Caribbean News items you may have missed for the week ending January 21, 2022. The JAMAICA WEEKLY News Summary Podcast is brought to you by Jamaicans.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 January 21st, 2022
THIS WEEK’S TOP NEWS STORIES PUBLIC HOSPITALS IN JAMAICA NOW PROVIDING EMERGENCY CARE ONLY As of January 19, 2022, Jamaica’s public hospitals will be providing only emergency care services. The Health Ministry has decided to restrict the hospitals’ provision of care in response to a rising number of COVID-19 cases. A reduction in hospital staff […]
WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL – A Winning Mindset
The day’s motivational quote was from motivational speaker Zig Ziglar and I thought it was profound: “You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.” What stood out for me was the lack of passivity despite being born to win. In other […]
Forbes Includes Jamaican-American, Brandon Blackwood, Designer Handbags on List of 8 Best Black-Owned Brands
Forbes magazine’s article on fashion accessories, which it describes as an easy way for fashionistas to add their own personal touches to their everyday style, cites the handbag as one of the most practical ways to accessorize and has compiled a list of the best handbag options available from Black-owned brands. Among the eight brands […]
Jamaican-Born Nurse Awarded Honorary Visiting Professorship at University of London
Nichole McIntosh, a nurse, writer, motivational speaker, and podcaster, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in the United Kingdom, and she has been awarded an honorary visiting professorship at the University of London for 2022. McIntosh was born and raised in Jamaica and is immensely proud of her Maroon heritage. In 2019 […]
New York Public Radio Appoints Jamaican-Born Kristina Newman-Scott as Executive Director of The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space
New York Public Radio (NYPR), home of WNYC, WQXR, Gothamist, WNYC Studios, The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space, and New Jersey Public Radio, announced that Jamaican-born Kristina Newman-Scott has been appointed the newly created position of Executive Director of The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space. Newman-Scott brings strong leadership experience, a vast network in the […]
Jamaican Bobsled Team Qualifies for 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing
Jamaica’s bobsled team has officially secured a place at the 2022 Winter Olympics. This is the first time in history that Jamaica will compete in three Olympic bobsled events: the four-man bobsled, the two-man men’s bobsled, and the women’s monobob. It is also the first time in 24 years that Jamaica will field a four-man […]
Jamaican-Born Lawyer Tremaine Hemans Honored for Public Service
Florida lawyer Tremaine Hemans, who was born in Moneague, St. Ann, Jamaica, has received the Florida Bar Young Lawyers Division Pro Bono Service Award. The award is given to a lawyer, aged 35 or younger, or who has practiced law for less than five years, in recognition of their public service or legal aid work. […]
Courtenay Rattray Makes History as First Jamaican Appointed UN Chef De Cabinet
Antonio Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) has appointed Jamaican Courtenay Rattray to serve as his Chef de Cabinet. Rattray will replace Brazil’s Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti. A “Chef de Cabinet,” which means “Head of Office” in French, is a senior civil servant who works as an aide or private secretary for a […]
Sorrel Listed among 2022’s Top 10 Food Trends
Hibiscus sabdariffa, known in the Caribbean as sorrel, the source of the tangy flavor in the traditional Jamaican Christmas beverage, has been named one of the top 10 food trends for 2022 by Forbes magazine and Whole Foods. Sorrel’s red bulbs are the calyx of the hibiscus plant and are an excellent source of vitamin […]