Jamaican Barrington Irving, First Black Person to Fly Solo around the World, Opens STEM School
Barrington Irving, Jamaican pilot and the first black person to fly solo around the globe, is opening a vocational programming and training school for young people and college students in The pilot will oversee vocational programming and training for area youth and college students at new facilities to be constructed at The Concourse Club inside […]
Jamaican Descent NBA Star Kyle Anderson Meets Long-Lost Chinese Family, Rediscovers Heritage
NBA Memphis Grizzlies star player Kyle Anderson (“Slow Mo”), whose Jamaican heritage stems from his great-grandmother, also has Chinese ancestry. Anderson, 24, is one-eighth Chinese, and he recently travelled to Shenzhen in China to meet with long-lost family members for the first time. His mother Suzanne Anderson and his girlfriend Crystal Marie Oquendo accompanied him […]
Oliver Mair Appointed Consul General to Miami
Oliver Mair, a former sales and marketing manager with Jamaica Broilers, has been named Jamaica’s new Consul General to Miami, Florida. Senator Kamina Johnson Smith, Portfolio Minister in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, stated that Mair’s extensive experience in marketing, sales, business, and the arts, make him the perfect choice for the […]
Primary Exit Profile (PEP) is seemingly creating and encouraging a balanced offering to students entering high school across the island.
The most devastating things that can happen to a child is having a teacher who does not recognize and nurture his or her inherent abilities and talents, and an education system that limits their potential by shutting them out. Many other obstacles can prevent a child from achieving optimum performance but it should not be […]
Listen to the Podcast of 7 Jamaican & Caribbean News Stories You May Have missed for the week ending September 7, 2018.
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Top 7 Jamaican & Caribbean News Stories You Missed The Week Ending September 7th, 2018
THIS WEEK’S TOP NEWS STORIES COURT RULES HOSPITALS MUST PROVIDE DEATH CERTIFICATES The Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) organization welcomed a decision from the nation’s Supreme Court stating that hospitals cannot refuse to issue death certificates and hold deceased persons’ bodies as ransom until consent for a “secret, unsupervised post-mortem” is conducted. The ruling was handed […]
WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL – Addition By Subtraction
We know the story well. Five thousand men, beside women and children, all hungry and seated on the grass. There were no shops anywhere in the desert place and even if there were, there was not enough money to feed such a multitude (John 6:7). All they had by way of food was the lunch […]
US Peace Corps Volunteer in Jamaica goes Viral with Donation Message to Nike Boycotters
As a way of protesting Nike’s decision to make Colin Kaepernick, former quarterback with the San Francisco 49ers, the latest face of the company’s “Just Do It” advertising campaign, people are destroying the Nike branded gear they’ve already purchased. American Don Holly, who is working as an environmental and agro-forestry promoter with the US Peace […]
More Women than Men Employed as Air Traffic Controllers at Sangster International in Jamaica
There are more women than men working as air traffic controllers at Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay. The number of women air-traffic controllers has been increasing steadily for several years. One of these women is Shanique Malcolm. who has been an air traffic controller since October of 2013. In an interview with JIS News, […]
Khadijah Robinson Wins Miss Jamaica World 2018 Title
Khadijah Robinson, 23, is the new Miss Jamaica World. She received her crown on September 1, 2018, at the Grand Coronational Spectacular held at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in Kingston from Solange Sinclair, who had served as Miss Jamaica World 2017. Her victory was no surprise to the crowd at the event, as Robinson had […]