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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 […]

Port Antonio Bistro, New Jamaican Restaurant, Opens In Atlanta, Georgia

Port Antonio Bistro New Jamaican Restaurant Opens In Atlanta Georgia Rice and peas and jerk chicken

A new Jamaican restaurant in Atlanta, Georgia, is giving locals an authentic taste of the island. The Port Antonio Bistro opened for business on January 13, 2020. The opening followed a long period of consideration and thought by its owner and executive chef Winston A. Gordon. For some two decades. Gordon, a Portland, Jamaica, native, […]

Jamaica Wins Big At the 2020 Travvys Awards Honoring Excellence in the Travel Industry

Jamaica Wins Big At the 2020 Travvys Awards Honoring Excellence in the Travel Industry

Jamaica captured three gold awards at the 2020 Travvy Awards in New York City including Best Culinary Destination, Caribbean/Bahamas; Best Tourism Board Overall and Best Tourism Board, Caribbean/Bahamas. The destination also walked away with three silver awards: Best Destination Overall, Best Honeymoon Destination, Caribbean/Bahamas and Best Wedding Destination, Caribbean/Bahamas. On hand to collect the awards were the Jamaica Tourist Board’s (JTB) Philip Rose, Regional Director, Northeast USA […]