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Jamaican-Born Nurse Awarded Honorary Visiting Professorship at University of London

Jamaican-Born Nurse Awarded Honorary Visiting Professorship at University of London - Nichole McIntosh

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

Kristina Newman-Scott Jamaican

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

Jamaican Bobsled Team

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

Jamaican-Born Lawyer Tremaine Hemans Honored for Public Service 2

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

Courtenay Rattray

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

Sorrel Listed among 2022s 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 […]

Top 7 Jamaican & Caribbean News Stories You Missed The Week Ending January 14th, 2022

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THIS WEEK’S TOP NEWS STORIES JAMAICAN PRIME MINISTER MAKES CHANGES TO HIS CABINET In a reshuffle of his Cabinet, Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness made major changes at the Transport, Education, and Agriculture Ministries. He also created a new ministry, the Ministry of Legal and Constitutional Affairs, which will be headed by Marlene Malahoo-Forte. She […]