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Jamaican Hospitality Professional Sherrita Savage Wins Forbes Employee Of The Year

Jamaican Hospitality Professional Sherrita Savage Wins Forbes Employee Of The Year

Jamaican hospitality professional Sherrita Savage is the 2020 Forbes Employee of the Year. Ms. Savage, Group Reservations Agent at Half Moon, a luxury resort nestled in heart of Montego Bay, was selected from among hundreds of nominations worldwide. Recently, she was presented with her award at a star-studded black-tie gala dinner at the Forbes Travel […]

Florida 12-Year-Old of Jamaican Descent Receives NASA Rocket, Space Center Robotics Scholarship

Florida 12-Year-Old of Jamaican Descent Receives NASA Rocket, Space Center Robotics Scholarship

Jayda Washington-Boothe, 12, who is of Jamaican & Bahamian descent, has received the 2020 NASA Rocket and Space Center Scholarship for Robotics. The scholarship covers tuition and room and board in Huntsville, Alabama. Jayda won the scholarship after completing a rigorous application process, which included providing a resume and references, completing a research project, and […]

Work By Jamaican Artist Featured In Cayman Islands At Caribbean’s Largest Hotel Suite

Jamaican Born Artist Shane Aquart Dready,

The Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman, has the biggest hotel suite available in the Caribbean. Known as “Seven South,” the suite comprises a penthouse and adjoining bedrooms. In total, the accommodation occupies 18,000 square feet on top of the hotel’s Ocean Tower. The three-bedroom penthouse costs $25,000 per night. There is an option to add three adjoining […]

Forbes Magazine Lists Jamaican Chef among Top 5 Female Chefs Changing Food Scene

Forbes Magazine Lists Jamaican Chef

Jamaican chef Patrice Harris-Henry has been included among the Top 5 female chefs listed by Forbes Magazine. Chef Harris-Henry, who was dubbed a “Caribbean indigenous food savant” in the Forbes feature, holds a degree in Food Service Production and Management, and she focuses her attention on transforming indigenous foods of the Caribbean into creative dishes […]

Top 7 Jamaican & Caribbean News Stories You Missed The Week Ending February 21st, 2020

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THIS WEEK’S TOP NEWS  STORIES MATTHEW SAMUDA BECOMES NEW CABINET MINISTER IN JAMAICA Jamaican Senator Matthew Samuda was sworn in as a cabinet minister at King’s House on February 17, 2020. Governor General Sire Patrick Allen did the honors upon advice from Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness.  Samuda will take the role left vacant following […]

WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL – “Do You Want to Get Well?”

Jesus’ encounter with the man at the pool of Bethesda, as recorded in John 5: 1-9, is a fascinating story. Here was a man afflicted with infirmities for thirty-eight years whose excuse for his prolonged condition was, “Sir, I have no one to put me in the pool when the water is stirred up, and […]

Kwame MA McPherson becomes the First Jamaican to win The Bridport Prize writing bursary

Kwame MA McPherson Jamaican Writer

Jamaican-raised writer, authorpreneur, poet, mentor and orator, Kwame MA McPherson has become the first person from the island to win a bursary award for the Kit de Waal Bursary for Flash Fiction with The Bridport Prize: International Creative Writing Competition. Kwame, who temporarily resides in London, England, won one of three individuals out of 14 […]

Jamaican-Canadian Family Appears On “Family Feud Canada”

Jamaican-Canadian Family Appears On “Family Feud Canada”

The popular reality television program “Family Feud Canada,” which is broadcasted on the CBC network, expects to feature some 70 families from across the country by the end of its current season. An episode scheduled for March 15,2020, included the Reid family of Brampton, a group of proud Jamaican-Canadians. The captain of the team, Wayne […]