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11-Year-Old Jamaican Wins Coding Competition Beating 70 International Rivals

11-Year-Old Jamaican Wins Coding Competition Beating 70 International Rivals

When 11-year-old Dominic Darby entered the XPRIZE Connect Code Games: A Global Game-Making Challenge, he never really expected to win – which made his victory all the sweeter. Darby created a video game that vanquished the competition using MIT’s Scratch coding software. His reward was being named “Best in Class” and a $1,000 cash prize […]

Usain Bolt Listed among Most Influential Black Athletes in 2010’S

Usain Bolt Listed Among Most Influential Black Athletes in 2010s

Jamaica’s eight-time Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt was selected by The Medium as one of the most influential Black athletes of the 2010s. In choosing Bolt, The Medium called him “the most commanding force in short distance running” in the past two decades and arguably for all time. Bolt holds world records in the 100-meter, […]

Spotify Expands to Jamaica

Spotify Expands to Jamaica

The music streaming service Spotify is expanding its service to Jamaican and 84 other new markets. It will also launch 36 new languages on the platform. The combined population impacted by the expansion totals over 1 billion people. Spotify said that now “sounds and stories that once remained local” will be available to an international […]

11-Year-Old Gives Back to Jamaican Frontline Health Care Workers Fighting COVID-19

11-Year-Old Gives Back to Frontline Health Care Workers Fighting COVID-19

At age 11, Tajana Gardner is already writing and recording her own music, and giving back from the sale of her music. The Ardenne Preparatory School student donated cases of juice and water to the staff at the isolation ward at the Mandeville Regional Hospital in Manchester on Friday, February 12. “Donating to the hospital […]

Jamaican Food Ranks in Top 20 Cuisines on Instagram; Number 1 in the Caribbean

Jamaican Food Ranks in Top 20 Cuisines on Instagram

Chef’s Pencil conducted an analysis of Instagram data for February 2021 and determined the top 20 cuisines in the world as identified by the social media platform’s users. National cuisines have been ranked according to the number of tags they gained, with the number rounded down to the nearest thousand. According to the research by […]

My Jamaican Grandparents Fueled My Passion for Becoming a Nurse Practitioner

My Jamaican Grandparents Fueled My Passion for Becoming a Nurse Practitioner

My father is an immigrant who grew up in impoverished, rural Jamaica. The stories of his childhood were a huge part of my upbringing and inspired my path into nursing. Health is the most fundamental human necessity and the health disparities that exist are unethical and preventable. Due to a lack of access and resources, […]