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Jamaica Ranked 8th on 2019 World Press Freedom Index

Jamaica Ranked 8th on 2019 World Press Freedom Index

Jamaica has been ranked Number 8 on the World Press Freedom Index for 2019 compiled by Reporters Without Borders. While it retains its status as one of the countries that most respect freedom of information and the press in the world, the ranking is two places lower than that attained in 2018. Attacks against journalists […]

Anime-Style Film Set in the Caribbean to Be Released

Anime-Style Film Set in the Caribbean to Be Released

“The Mighty Grand Piton” is a short, anime-style film from the London based animation studio, The Line Animation. It ells the story of Connie, a young British girl who travels to St. Lucia in the Caribbean with her family during her school holidays. While on the island, she accidentally awakens a giant robot that has […]

Rihanna Breaks New Ground by Joining Her Fashion Brand with LVMH

Superstar entertainer Rihanna, 31, has joined her Fenty fashion brand with LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton. Fenty, the luxury fashion line created by Rihanna, will become a part of the largest luxury group in the world. The first products from the new firm will be made public in the next few weeks and are expected […]

World-Famous Jamaican Floating Bar Needs Bartender

World-Famous Jamaican Floating Bar Needs Bartender Floyds Pelican Bar

In what has been called a “dream job” posting, Jamaica’s world-famous Floyd’s Pelican Bar has offered a temporary position as a bartender in conjunction with Virgin Holidays. Floyd, the bar’s usual bartender, needs a break, and Virgin Holidays’ website is issuing the call to “Say ‘Hi’ to Floyd!”  According to the ad, Floyd has been […]

Cannabis Store to Open in Montego Bay

Cannabis Store to Open in Montego Bay

The Green Organic Dutchman Holdings Ltd. (TGOD) is opening its second legal cannabis retail store in Jamaica is in Montego Bay. The store is being opened via a partnership with Epican Medicinals and will be located on the city’s “Hip Strip,” the main tourist shopping area in Montego Bay. It will be opened for business […]

Rohan Marley Expecting Child with New Wife

Rohan Marley Expecting Child with New Wife

Rohan Marley, the son of iconic reggae star Bob Marley, and his new wife Barbara Fialho are expecting their first child. Marley, 46, is a Jamaican businessman, and Fialho, 31, is a model. They announced the impending birth of a baby girl late in April 2019. The couple was married in March in Montes Claros, […]

Did You Know the Very First Bond Girl “Villain” Was Jamaican”?

Did You Know the Very First Bond Girl Villain Was Jamaican Marguerite LeWars

The Jamaican beauty queen Margurite LeWars was the very first Bond girl “villain” in the James Bond film franchise. She played the role of “Annabel Chung,” a photographer assigned to follow Bond, in the first James Bond film” Dr. No” in 1962. LeWars was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1938, Her father was a town […]

Jamaican Joseph Rhoden Inducted into Miami’s FCBF Hall of Fame

Jamaican Joseph Rhoden Inducted into Miami FCBF Hall of Fame

Jamaican Joseph Rhoden has been inducted into the Florida Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association (FCBF) Hall of Fame in Miami, Florida. Rhoden was born in Jamaica, migrating to the United States in 1979. He was educated in Jamaica and attended Jamaica College. He is now a board member of the Jamaica College Old Boys Association […]

Jamaican Native Chevel Powell Named Co-Valedictorian of Dillard University

Jamaican Native Chevel Powell Named Co-Valedictorian of Dillard University

Nineteen-year-old Jamaican native Chevel Powell has been named a co-valedictorian in Dillard University’s class of 2019. Powell and three of her classmates will lead the class of 250 students at the university’s 83rd commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 11, 2019, at the Rosa Freeman Keller Avenue of Oaks in the Gentilly campus. Powell is a […]