British-Jamaican Nathaniel Peat on Business Insiders Top 21 Most Powerful Black and Ethnic Minority Executives in the UK, USA and Ireland
Business Insider has released its list of most powerful executives across the UK, U.S. and Ireland – and British-Jamaican, Nathaniel Peat, CEO and co-founder of GeNNex Elite ® , has been named as No. 17. “It’s truly an honour to be included on this list,” said Peat. “It’s never about me – I honesty just want […]
Top 7 Jamaican & Caribbean News Stories You Missed The Week Ending July 17th, 2020
THIS WEEK’S TOP NEWS STORIES COMMITMENT TO REPARATIONS REAFFIRMED BY JAMAICAN GOVERNMENT According to Olivia Grange, Jamaican Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sports, the government continues in its commitment to the cause of reparations in the Caribbean as part of CARICOM’s Reparation Commission. The country will continue to lobby for reparatory justice, Grange said, […]
WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL – Let’s Praise the Lord!
One of my favorite portions of the Scriptures is Psalm 34, especially verses 1-3: “I will bless the LORD at all times: His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. O magnify the LORD with me, and let […]
Jamaicans Worldwide to Select 2020 Festival Song Winner Virtually – Watch The Videos
A special Diaspora edition, Festival Song commentary show is planned for Saturday, July 18, 2020, on the Leo Gilling Show on Jamaicans.com. The program will include Diaspora Media and Music professionals: GCole, of Homegrown with Gcole, Stan Evans Smith Senior music writer at Jamaicans.com, and Sophia Elaine Jackson from WZOP radio, reviewing and discussing the […]
Jamaican-Born Dr. Karen Russell Randall Received Morehouse College Faculty Honors
Dr. Karen Russell Randall has been awarded honors by Morehouse College as Outstanding Pharmacology Faculty Member during its 2020 Faculty Gala. The event provides students with the opportunity to recognize faculty members that have had a profound influence on their education. Randall is an assistant professor in the Pharmacology and Toxicology Department of Morehouse School […]
Global Extraction Film Festival 2020 – Curated by Jamaican Environmental Filmmaker, Esther Figueroa
The First Global Extraction Film Festival, streaming online from July 16-20, 2020, is FREE to the public worldwide. Curated by Esther Figueroa, environmental filmmaker based in Jamaica, in collaboration with Caribbean Creativity based in the Netherlands, GEFF 2020 is part of a movement to bring attention to both long-standing and newly evolving threats from global […]
NYC Councilman Calls for Cancellation of West Indian Day Parade Citing Cuts to Police Funding
Republican Councilman Joe Borelli of Staten Island, New York, has called for Brooklyn’s West Indian Day Parade to be cancelled, claiming that the event requires “beefed up” security that the police cannot afford. Borelli sent a letter to Dermot Shea, the Commissioner of the New York Police Department (NYPD), on July 7, 2020, that characterized the […]
5 Reasons Why McDonald’s Didn’t Survive in Jamaica
McDonald’s restaurants are known around the world and while the company has many Jamaican flavor items on the menu, no one will see the golden arches of McDonald’s Corp. in Jamaica. The company first opened there in 1995 and suspended its operations on Oct. 14, 2005. People can find their favorite fries and burgers as […]
Jamaica Sees More than 35,000 Visitors Since Phased Reopening
Edmund Bartlett, Jamaica’s Tourism Minister, announced that the country has welcomed over 35,000 visitors since June 15, 2020, when it’s phased reopening of borders began. According to Bartlett, Jamaica expects to see another 30,000 tourists by the end of July, which would bring in approximately US$80 million in foreign exchange. Jamaica had closed all of […]
World-renowned Jamaican photographer Barry Harley wins photography competition
World-renowned Jamaican photographer Barry Harley, who was commissioned by Hear Congo, is a winner of the 61st annual Communications Arts magazine photography competition. Barry Harley’s five winning photos were selected from the “Out of the Mines” series Hear Congo supported. The Hear Congo organization is dedicated to education, workforce development, and providing safety and security for women and children who have […]