Top 7 Jamaican & Caribbean News Stories You Missed The Week Ending November 27th, 2020

weekly news stories you missed this week

THIS WEEK’S TOP NEWS STORIES TUFTON ANNOUNCES COVID-19 VACCINES SECURED FOR 10 PERCENT OF POPULATION Dr. Christopher Tufton, Jamaica’s Minister of Health and Wellness, has announced that more than 270,000 Jamaicans will benefit from a plan to secure COVID-19 vaccines entering the market through the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO). Jamaica is on […]

WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL – Our Final Appointment

The news story was about two inmates on death row who would be put to death the following day. Men who had committed heinous crimes for which they were given the ultimate punishment as determined by the state. I read the story with much interest and wondered what it was like to know when one […]

Jamaica’s Reggae Sunsplash Festival Honors Musical Icon Dennis Brown on Friday, November 27

Dennis Brown

Jamaica’s ground-breaking Reggae Sunsplash festival returns this weekend for the first-ever virtual staging of the event featuring a special tribute honoring the late reggae icon, Dennis Emmanuel Brown. The Dennis Brown tribute will air during the first night of the online festival, which begins ​streaming on the official Reggae Sunsplash YouTube channel on Friday, November 27 starting at […]

10 Questions for Jamaican Author and Activist Yohan S.R. Lee

10 questions for Jamaican author and activist Yohan S R Lee

Yohan Lee is a trained Journalist with international experience. He published a two-part collection of his own poetry. He also studied in Europe. Hamburg University. Yohan’s poem from musings and poems from Lee talk about violence, infant abuse, human rights, deviant and antisocial behavior. Now 180 plus poems published since May 2019. He published his […]

Jamaican, Nichole McIntosh, Appointed as Regional Head of Nursing in England

Jamaican Nurse Nichole McIntosh - England

Jamaican-born Nichole McIntosh has been named the new regional head of nursing at Health Education England (HEE). While she acknowledges the many challenges facing the health care system in England arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, McIntosh has been battle-tested and is well prepared to take on her new role. With her appointment, she becomes the […]