Jamaica College Wins Boys’ Champs 2021, Edwin Allen High Defend Girls’ title

Jamaica College Wins Boys Champs 2021 Edwin Allen High Defend Girls title

Jamaica College (JC) has won the 2021 Boys’ Champs beating the defending champions Kingston College (KC) at the National Stadium. JC will hold the Mortimer Geddes Trophy for the 22nd time in the history of the event. JC was first with 328.50 points, KC was second with 313 points, and Calabar High third with 241.50. […]

Jamaican East Indian & Julie Mangoes Now Available in South Florida

Jamaican East Indian and Julie Mangoes Now Available in South Florida

The favorite Jamaican mango varieties of East Indian and St. Julian, better known as Julie mangoes, are now available in South Florida at Bravo, Broward Meats & Fish, and Presidente in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach, as well as through South Florida-based Jamaica Place online. Shipments of Jamaican mangoes were renewed after an […]

Jamaican Appointed New Chancellor of Heriot-Watt University in Scotland

Jamaican Appointed New Chancellor of Heriot-Watt University in Scotland

Professor Sir Geoff Palmer, Jamaica’s Honorary Consul to Scotland and an internationally known scientist and human rights activist, has been named to serve as the new Chancellor of Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland. He will be officially inaugurated at a ceremony held during the bicentennial festivities honoring the University in October of 2021. In his […]

Top 7 Jamaican & Caribbean News Stories You Missed The Week Ending May 14th, 2021

weekly news stories you missed this week

THIS WEEK’S TOP NEWS STORIES SHAGGY CALLS FOR JAMAICAN GOVERNMENT AND DIASPORA TO ENHANCE SUPPORT FOR REGGAE AND DANCEHALL MUSIC Grammy award winner reggae artist Shaggy is appealing to the government of Jamaica and to the Jamaican Diaspora to make a greater effort to support and promote Jamaican reggae and dancehall music. He is also […]

WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL – “My Grace is Sufficient for Thee”

In 2 Corinthians 12:7, Paul speaks of his “thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure,” or as another translation puts it, “to keep me from becoming conceited” (ESV). Theologians have long speculated on what that “thorn” might have been, and remain divide on the […]

Jamaican Student Seeks Help to Fight Cancer – Rojea McCook

Jamaican Student Seeks Help to Fight Cancer - Rojea McCook

Tenth-grade Jamaica College student Rojea McCook, 17, has already fought a two-year battle with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, and in April of 2021, he learned that the cancer had returned even more aggressively and had spread from his neck to his stomach. His mother Nadine Morris, who had been optimistic and strong in her faith while Rojea […]

Former Football Star Pete Kennedy Tackles Love & Leadership in His Bestselling Book

Former Football Star Pete Kennedy Tackles Love & Leadership in His Bestselling Book

In his first book, When a Man Loves – A Lifestyle & Leadership Most Men Will Never Experience, bestselling author Pete Kennedy shares his journey into manhood from a broken home to a community leader, striving to help other men acquire the leadership skills he never received. Kennedy will launch his book with a special event on […]

First Jamaican-Owned Restaurant Opens in Abu Dhabi

First Jamaican-Owned Restaurant Opens in Abu Dhabi - Kingston 21

The new Jamaican restaurant “Kingston 21” in Abu Dhabi is the first Jamaican-owned and operated eatery in the city to offer authentic Jamaican dishes. Kingston 21 opened in April of 2021 and features a menu of traditional island favorites, including curry goat, jerk chicken, oxtail, ackee and saltfish, Jamaican beef patties, Jamaican porridge, fresh escovitch […]