Jamaican Film Wins Award for Best Documentary Short Film at Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival
“Unbroken,” a documentary directed by Jamaica’s Gabrielle Blackwood, is the winner of the Best Documentary Short Film Award at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival (TTFF). The award was presented during a virtual awards ceremony on September 14, 2020, on Facebook Live. Blackwood directed and shot the short documentary for Getty Images UK and New […]
Jamaican Students Make History as First Tackle Football Players to be Offered Scholarships to U.S. Colleges
Tackle football, a traditional American sport, is new to Jamaica but the country’s students are already making history by being the first tackle football players in Jamaica to receive scholarship commitments to colleges in the U.S. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the students will arrive in January or June of 2021to begin their studies, depending […]
Singer Nadine Sutherland Releases Dancehall Dub Plate for Kamala Harris
A newly released dancehall dubplate by Nadine Sutherland is contributing to the historic nature of the Kamala Harris nomination for Vice-President of the United States on the Democratic ticket. Sutherland sings, “Action, not a bag a mouth. She clean when she step inna the White House” on her special of the acknowledged dancehall anthem and […]
Jamaican Ambassador to the USA, Her Excellency, Audrey Marks to Join Caribbean Leaders in COVID-19 Zoom Town Hall
Many Caribbean Leaders will join the Authentic Caribbean Foundation (ACF), Caribbean COVID-19 Update discussion forum, featuring Ambassadors of several Caribbean Countries as well as Diaspora leaders. The town hall will take place on Tuesday, September 15, 2020, at 5.00 pm, and will be streamed live on various platforms including, the Authentic Caribbean Facebook Page as well […]
Former Farmworker from Jamaica Follows His Passion and Opens Own Food Trailer Business
Jamaican Richard Gardner is the proud owner of Cinderella’s Caribbean Pot Jamaican Cuisine, a unique food trailer that is the first step toward having his own restaurant one day. Gardner first arrived in Canada from his home in Jamaica on a farmworker program. Between 2007 and 2014, he traveled back and forth from the island […]
Listen to the Podcast of 7 Jamaican & Caribbean News Stories You May Have missed for the week ending September 11 2020.
This is a Podcast of 7 Jamaican & Caribbean News Stories You May Have missed for the week ending September 11, 2020. The JAMAICA WEEKLY News Summary Podcast is brought to you by Jamaicans.com. For past Jamaican & Caribbean Weekly News Podcasts please visit https://www.youtube.com/outofmanyonline
Michelle Obama’s “VOTE” Necklace Created by Jewelry Designer of Jamaican Descent
One of the big takeaways from the Democratic National Convention held on August 17, 2020 – in addition to the naming of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as the nominees for President and Vice President, respectively, of the Democratic Party for 2020 – was the way the “VOTE” necklace worn by former First Lady Michelle […]
Five Jamaican Drone Photographers You Might Not Know
Jamaica’s landscape is so beautiful it’s hard not to appreciate the amazing drone photographers out there. From where the beach reaches the sea and the mountains meet the sky, the photos can be so breathtaking! 1. Shaquiel Brooks Blue Mountain Peak is a majestic site and it’s makes you realize how truly beautiful Jamaica really […]
Why aren’t men’s bathrooms 100% stalls?—Just Being Funny By Caribbean Comedian Onicia Muller
Why aren’t men’s bathrooms 100% stalls? Like, what is the urinal? Compared to toilets, urinals don’t increase the capacity of the bathroom. What is the cost of dropping some partitions and giving men a lil backdrop? Don’t it get a lil draftee for y’all? I just don’t understand. Well, one night I woke up and […]
Top 7 Jamaican & Caribbean News Stories You Missed The Week Ending September 11th, 2020
THIS WEEK’S TOP NEWS STORIES PRIME MINISTER HOLNESS AND JLP WIN LANDSLIDE IN LOW-TURNOUT EARLY ELECTIONS The Jamaica Labor Party (JLP) won 49 of 63 Parliamentary seats in the general elections, marking a big victory of the opposition People’s National Party (PNP). Following the concession by the PNP after the election on September 3, 2020, […]