Singer and Entrepreneur Rihanna Named First National Hero of Barbados in 20 Years
Superstar singer and entrepreneur Barbadian Rihanna, 33, was named the 11th National Hero of Barbados by Prime Minister Mia Mottley at a ceremony on November 29, 2021, to celebrate the nation removing British Queen Elizabeth II as the nation’s head of state and its new status as a republic. This is the first time in […]
Jamaican Olympian Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce Honored In Florida
Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce was honored at a fundraiser for her Pocket Rocket Foundation in South Florida at the Miramar Cultural Center. The event, “An Evening with an Olympian,” successfully raise thousands of dollars for the foundation with an auction of a pair of Fraser Pryce’s running spikes, wig, competition gear, a painting of the […]
12 Things the Queen of England Still Does for Jamaica
Jamaica and Britain’s monarchy has had a turbulent history throughout the years, but when Jamaica gained its independence from British rule on Aug. 6, 1962, Jamaicans chose to retain Queen Elizabeth II as its sovereign. However, that role is much different than the one she holds in Britain. The island has a Constitutional monarchy and […]
Buju Banton Creates His First NFT Artwork on The First and Largest NFT Platform
Buju Banton teams up with CrimsonTide Ltd. to continue his legendary work by entering the NFT space with an Artwork titled “Indigenous” listed at 7 ETH. With this pioneering move Grammy winner, multiple Billboard Hot 100 chart-topping artist, and international reggae icon Buju Banton continues to make history by becoming the first Grammy Award-winning reggae […]
Jamaican American Woman Hired as Vice President, Executive Producer of ESPN Films
Jamaican American Marsha Cooke has been selected to serve as the vice president and executive producer of ESPN Films. Based in New York, Cook will report to ESPN Films and Original Content senior vice president Brian Lockhart and will be in charge of development, production, distribution, branding, and strategy for all the projects undertaken by […]
Barbados to Be First Country to Establish an Embassy in the Metaverse
The Caribbean nation of Barbados has joined with several metaverse firms to establish digital sovereign land, a historic move that signals legitimizing the metaverse. Barbados plans to declare, legally, digital real estate sovereign land by establishing a metaverse embassy. To this end, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade in Barbados signed an agreement […]
Jamaican, Dr. Michelle Richards, Receives 2021 US Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award
Jamaican Dr. Michelle Richards has received the highest award presented through the United States President’s Office in recognition of her volunteer work in the service of others. The President’s Lifetime Achievement Award was established in 2003, and Dr. Richards is among the few Americans who qualified for the award by having accumulated at least 4,000 […]
UCLA Appoints Jamaican-Born Dr. E. Dale Abel Chair of Department of Medicine
Dr. E. Dale Abel, who was born in Jamaica, has been appointed the new chair of the Department of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). Abel currently works as the chair and executive officer of the University of Iowa’s Department of Internal Medicine and is […]
Top 7 Jamaican & Caribbean News Stories You Missed The Week Ending November 26th, 2021
THIS WEEK’S TOP NEWS STORIES PORT ROYAL, JAMAICA’S “WICKEDEST CITY,” MAY RECEIVE UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE DESIGNATION Jamaica is moving ahead in trying to obtain World Heritage Site recognition from UNESCO for Port Royal, which was a major shipping and trade center in the 17th century and the country’s largest city. Once labeled Jamaica’s “wickedest city,” […]
Listen to the Podcast of the Jamaica & Caribbean Weekly News Summary for the week ending November 26, 2021
Listen to the 7 Jamaica & Caribbean News items you may have missed for the week ending November 26, 2021. 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