Listen to the Podcast of 7 Jamaican & Caribbean News Stories You May Have missed for the week ending November 27 2020.
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Top 7 Jamaican & Caribbean News Stories You Missed The Week Ending November 27th, 2020
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
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 […]
JAMPRO & Kingston Creative Launch ‘Best Pitch Forward’ Competition For Creative Entrepreneurs
JAMPRO, in partnership with Kingston Creative, will be hosting the “Best Pitch Forward” elevator pitch competition that will give ten creative entrepreneurs the opportunity to pitch their business concepts to potential investors with the hopes of raising much-needed funds to kick-start their projects. This event will be held virtually on Friday, November 27, 2020 at […]
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 […]
Told She Would Never Walk Again, this Jamaican-American Entrepreneur is Striving in Business
Danielle DaCosta, founder, and administrator of Enchanted Living of New Mexico, is an individual winner of the 2020 Diverse Business Leaders Awards. DaCosta launched the assisted living facility located in Rio Rancho, NM, in April 2015 when she was a 24-year-old student at the University of New Mexico. The award spotlights organizations and executives that […]
Jamaican, Nichole McIntosh, Appointed as Regional Head of Nursing in 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 […]
Koffee Named Ambassador for Nike “Jordan Unite” Campaign
Koffee, whose given name is Mikayla Simpson, is a 20-year-old reggae superstar who has been called a “pioneering force” who seeks to modernize the reggae music genre to make it relevant to a new generation and bring a clean energy infused with positive vibrations to the international music scene. The artist used her success to […]
A Conversation with Jamaican Entertainer Benzly Hype
Hemsley Ainsley Coleman Morris, Jr., better known as Benzly Hype!!!, the son of Jamaican musician and balladeer Ainsley Morris, has applied his creative genius and commitment to innovation throughout his career to become a popular musician, hit music producer, performer, screenwriter, actor, entrepreneur, and television program producer. He grew up in the rough and unforgiving […]