Time Magazine Names Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce as an Athlete to Watch at the Tokyo Olympics
With approximately 11,000 participants and no spectators cheering from the stands, the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo will be unlike any Olympic Games previously held. The restrictions imposed by the global COVID-19 pandemic already caused a postponement of the Games from 2020, and now a new state of emergency has been declared in Tokyo. However, the […]
Jamaican Born Dr. Dorothy Francis Presented with Co-Operator of the Year Award by Co-Operatives UK
Dr. Dorothy Francis, who was born in Jamaica, has received the Co-Operatives United Kingdom Co-Operator of the Year Award for 2021. Dr. Francis is the co-director of CASE, a business development agency based in Leicester in the United Kingdom. The award was presented to Dr. Francis for her contributions to the co-operative movement made over […]
Florida Jerk Festival 2021 ‘Spiced Up’ July 4th Celebrations in West Palm Beach
The West Palm Beach edition of Florida’s Jerk Festival held on Sunday July 4th ushered in a breath of fresh air for the thousands who flocked to the South Florida Fairgrounds to revel in Caribbean culture and indulge themselves in Jamaican jerk cuisine that included jerk chicken, jerk pork, jerk fish, jerk lobster, and even […]
Jamaican-Born Lawyer Becomes First Black Woman Elected as President of Broward County Bar Association
Alison F. Smith, Esq., an attorney at Weiss Serota Helfman Cole & Berman, has been elected president of the Broward County Bar Association (BCBA) in Florida. She will be the first woman of color to serve as the organization’s president in its nearly 100-year history. Smith said she was “excited” about her new role and […]
Jamaican Usain Bolt Says He Could Have Run Below 9.5 seconds if He Had Super Spikes
Jamaica’s eight-time Olympic gold medal winner, Usain Bolt believes that if he had worn “super spikes” when he ran the 100 meters in a record-breaking 9.58 seconds he could have run even faster. “Below 9.5 seconds for sure. Without a doubt,” Bolt said in an interview with The Guardian. Bolt is the only man in […]
Marriage At Its Best…The Two Keys
In the recent past my wife and I prepared for our radio program, MARRIAGE IN A MINUTE, and got the biggest chuckle in the middle of a serious preparation. Kids say what’s on their minds no matter what! The question posed to some kids was “how to know who to marry.” Here are some answers […]
Jamaica to Petition Queen Elizabeth II to Pay Billions for Reparations
Jamaica will petition Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom for billions of pounds to compensate the country for the wrongs of slavery during the time Jamaica was a British colony. Beginning in 1701 and lasting until it was abolished in 1833, British merchants made fortunes in the slave trade. Many Jamaicans today are the […]
Ghanaian Jamaican Poet Kwame Dawes a Finalist for International Literature Prize
Kwame Dawes, a Ghanaian Jamaican poet, has been selected as a finalist for the $50,000 Neustadt International Prize for Literature for 2022. The prize is presented by Oklahoma-based World Literature Today to recognize a writer’s “significant contributions to world literature.” The winner of the Neustadt Prize has often gone on to win the Nobel Prize […]
Listen to the Podcast of 7 Jamaican & Caribbean News Stories You May Have missed for the week ending July 9 2021.
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Top 7 Jamaican & Caribbean News Stories You Missed The Week Ending July 9th, 2021
THIS WEEK’S TOP NEWS STORIES JAMAICAN GOVERNMENT DEMANDS REPARATIONS FOR SLAVERY FROM QUEEN ELIZABETH II Stating that the damage done to Jamaica from the effects of slavery continue, Jamaica plans to present a petition for reparations from Queen Elizabeth II or the government of the United Kingdom to compensate the descendants of enslaved people. The […]