• Mon, 14 September 2026

Jamaican Born Chef in New Netflix Cooking Competition Show

Jamaican Born Chef in New Netflix Cooking Competition Show

Jamaican-born chef Colin Brown is competing alongside 23 other chefs in the new Netflix competitive cooking show “The Final Table.” The new food competition features two dozen chefs from around the globe cooking in teams of two. The chefs will apply their skills through a series of country-themed challenges, and at the end of the […]

Jamaica Beats US, Qualifies for 2021 Rugby League World Cup

Jamaica Rugby Team In World Cup

Jamaica’s rugby team is ready to making history again, having defeated the United States and qualifying for its first tournament, the Rugby League World Cup. Jamaica’s Reggae Warriors is the 11th team to have achieved a place in the 16-team men’s tournament. The Warriors defeated the USA Hawks by a score of 16 to 10 […]

Alia Atkinson Wins Eighth Gold Medal at FINA World Cup in Singapore

Alia Atkinson

Jamaican Olympic swimmer Alia Atkinson won her eighth gold medal of the 2018 Short Course World Championships, claiming the 50-meter breaststroke title with a time of 28.95 seconds. Atkinson blew away her competitors in the event, a circumstance made easier when her rival Yuliya Efimova of Russia was disqualified for moving her blocks. Her disqualification […]

Oliver Samuels Receives Marcus Garvey Lifetime Achievement Award

Oliver Samuels

Oliver Samuels, Jamaican actor, playwright, and comedian, has received the Marcus Garvey Llifetime Achievement Award from the Institute for Caribbean Studies (ICS). The Institute, which is based in Washington DC, bestowed the award on Samuels on November 16, 2018, during the 25th Caribbean-American Heritage Awards Gala. The Gala’s theme was “A Celebration of Excellence and […]

Jamaican Damion Thomas’s 110-meter hurdles World Record Ratified by IAAF

Jamaican Damion Thomas 110-meter hurdles World Record Ratified by IAAF

Jamaica’s Damion Dushaun Thomas, Jr., 18, won the 110-meter hurdles title event at the National Junior Trials in Kingston in June of 2018. He ran the course with a time of 12.99 seconds, equaling the World Under-20 record set by Wilhem Belocian of France in 2014 at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon. This has now […]