• Mon, 17 August 2026

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 […]

Top 7 Jamaican & Caribbean News Stories You Missed The Week Ending May 10th, 2019

Jamaican and Caribbean weekly news stories you missed this week

THIS WEEK’S TOP NEWS  STORIES FORMER JAMAICAN PRIME MINISTER HOSPITALIZED IN FLORIDA Edward Seaga, former Prime Minister of Jamaica, has been hospitalized in Miami, Florida, after becoming ill. Seaga, 88, had been in the United States seeking medical attention for about two weeks in regard to two chronic illnesses and complications associated with these illnesses. […]

WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL – “Come…and rest a while”

In his book The Life You’ve Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People, John Ortberg observes, “We suffer from what has come to be known as ‘hurry sickness’,” a condition Meyer Friedman defines as “above all, a continuous struggle and unremitting attempt to accomplish or achieve more and more things or participate in more and more […]

Dress Worn by Meghan Markle to Introduce Baby Designed by British Jamaican

Megan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, and Britain’s Prince Harry made history when introducing their new son Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor to the public on May 8, 2019, but the choice of the dress worn by Markle also made an important statement. While most people focused on the new royal baby and the revealing of his name, fashionistas paid close attention to what the Duchess of Sussex was wearing. Her sleeveless white dress was designed by Jamaican-British designer Grace Wales Bonner, who is known chiefly for her award-winning men’s and women’s wear. The London runway show of Wales Bonner was favored by fashion fans last season, and she is considered one of the most important rising designers of recent times. Designer Grace Wales Bonner was a student at London’s Central Saint Martins, an institution considered the “Harvard” of design. Her menswear collections have won numerous awards, including the Emerging Menswear Designer at the British Fashion Awards, the LVMH Prize, and the L’Oréal Professional Talent Award, which she received for her graduate collection. Wales Bonner is known for tailoring and her relaxed women's line inspired by menswear. Observers considered Markle’s choice of the Wales Bonner dress as a smart decision. The Duchess of Sussex has a reputation as the most fashion-forward member of the royal family, but the choice of designer was particularly significant for Markle, however, as the work of Wales Bonner often makes reference to her bi-racial heritage and the politics of race: Her father is Jamaican, and her mother is English In wearing a dress by Wales Bonner when introducing her first child to the world, Meghan Markle made a point of acknowledging, in a subtle way, both her own and her son’s heritage.

Megan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, and Britain’s Prince Harry made history when introducing their new son Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor to the public on May 8, 2019, but the choice of the dress worn by Markle also made an important statement. While most people focused on the new royal baby and the revealing of his […]

Jamaican Restaurant among Four Best in Greenville, South Carolina

Jamaican Restaurant among Four Best in Greenville South Carolina

Hoodline Food critics have identified the top four Caribbean restaurants in Greenville, South Carolina, and coming in at Number 3 is an eatery called Jamaica Me Irie on south Main Street Foodies on Yelp have given the restaurant four stars. Jamaica Mi Irie calls itself “the only 100% authentic Jamaican restaurant in Greenville.” Diners can […]