• Tue, 15 September 2026

Jamaica’s Jhaniele Fowler-Reid Makes Impression in Australian Netball League

Jhaniele Fowler-Reid

Overcoming a scare in the first quarter of the game, Jamaica’s Sunshine Girls netball team captain Jhaniele Fowler-Reid scored 48 out of 48 attempts, taking the West Coast Fever to a 63-57 semi-final victory over the Giants and securing a place in the Super Netball Grand Finals. This was Fowler-Reid’s first season playing in Australia. […]

Jamaican-Americans Glaja Mayne and Suzan McDowell Launch Unique Line of Fashion Eyewear

If Eye Ever Eyewear

Glaja Mayne and Suzan McDowell have partnered to create a line of fashion eyewear called “If Eye Ever,” and the brand is getting noticed. Celebrities, including Tina Knowles and Van Jones, have been spotted sporting what the founders call “face art”. The totally unique and lens-less frames made available by Mayne and McDowell are hand-crafted […]

New Jamaican Restaurant to Open in Downtown Rocky Mount, North Carolina

New Jamaican Restaurant North Carolina - Real Jamaican Restaurant and Jerk Center

Jamaican Anthony Ewen and his son Rashid Whyte will open their new restaurant Real Jamaican Restaurant and Jerk Center in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, by the end of May 2018. Featured on the menu will be authentic Jamaican cuisines such as oxtail, jerk chicken, brown stew chicken, curry chicken, roast pork, curry goat, brown stew […]

Arsenal’s Arsène Wenger Loves Bob Marley

Arsene Wenger

  Arsène Wenger, the 68 years old former manager of Arsenal Football Club, revealed his love for Jamaican reggae icon Bob Marley during an interview on French television with Christine Kelly, the host of “What If?” on RTL. He discussed the highs and lows of his career, named his biggest guilty pleasure as eating pastries […]

Chinese-Jamaican Running for Judgeship in County Court in Palm Beach, Florida

Allegra Fung Court

There are eight candidates running for two court judgeships in the Palm Beach primary elections scheduled for August 28, 2018. Attorney Allegra Fung is the only candidate who has experience in both civil and criminal parts of the court system. 43 year old Fung, who is of Jamaican and Chinese descent has been an attorney […]

On this day in Jamaican history: Lisa Hanna

Lisa Hanna

On August 20, 1975, Lisa Hanna, Jamaican politician, and beauty queen was born in St. Mary. Jamaica, to a middle-class family. Her father Rene Hanna was a farmer, and her mother Dorothy Hanna was the owner of a hair salon in St. Ann. She has an older sister. The family moved to Kingston where she […]

Obtaining a DNA Test for Siblings in Jamaica

Obtaining a DNA Test for Siblings in Jamaica

The issue of DNA testing in Jamaica can indeed be a vexed one, especially in the context of immigration which usually presents with some amount of embarrassment and consternation for the parties involved. This is primarily because of the sad fact that many applicants only learn of the fact that a child is not their […]