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U.S. Report Shows Jamaica Ranks Second on List of Visa Overstays from the Caribbean

U.S. Report Shows Jamaica Ranks Second on List of Visa Overstays from Caribbean

According to a report from the United States Department of Homeland Security, Jamaicans were second only to people from the Dominican Republic among travelers from the Caribbean living in the US on expired visas. The “Fiscal Year 2016 Entry/Exit Overstay Report” found that 9,621 Jamaicans overstayed their visitor, business, or student visas in that year. […]

Jamaican-American Doctor Running to Represent Connecticut in US Senate

Jamaican-American Doctor Running to Represent Connecticut in US Senate Dr An-Marie Adams

Dr. Ann-Marie Adams, a Jamaican-American journalist, has been tapped by the Democratic Party to run for US Senator from the state of Connecticut in 2018. Adams said she was excited to run for this office, noting that no black immigrants hold office “from Canada to Miami,” except in New York or in Florida, and that […]

Grace Jamaican Jerk Festival Kicked Off with ‘A Taste of Jerk’

The organizers of the Grace Jamaican Jerk Festival held their Kick-Off event on Saturday June 3rd, 2017, at the VP Records retail Store in Jamaica Queens. The annual occasion, aptly called “A Taste of Jerk” serves as a way to notify the press of the various features and entertainment they can expect at the festival […]

MBJ Airports to host International Reggae Poster Contest awards and exhibition

Sangster International Airport operator MBJ Airports is pleased to announce it will host an awards ceremony and exhibition for the annual International Reggae Poster Contest on 17 November 2017. The exhibition will feature the top 100 posters from the fifth annual contest, selected from among 1,270 entries submitted by 748 graphic designers representing 75 nations. […]

Busy Signal Featured on New Collab with Major Lazer

In 2013, dancehall heart throb Busy Signal scored a major EDM collaboration with Major Lazer titled ‘Watch Out For This’ (Bumaye) featuring Flexion. The song, which appeared on Major Lazer’s second album ‘Free the Universe,’ was a hit single in several European countries and was selected as the soundtrack to Pepsi’s Lionel Messi ad. Fast […]

Charly Black, Sizzla Collaborate With T&T’s Lawless and There’s More To Come

Jamaican dancehall sensation Charly Black continues to represent well for the Caribbean. He’s earning high praise by international music connoisseurs but amid it all, his Caribbean realness remains untouched. Earlier this year, Trinidad and Tobago music producer, Shane Howell, a young singer and music producer who is best known in entertainment circles by his sobriquet, […]

Award Winning Jamaican Jazz Great For Inaugural San Francisco Jazz Festival Performance

Grammy Nominated Legendary Jamaican Jazz Great Monty Alexander. CaribPR Wire, NEW YORK, NY, Fri. June 2, 2017: Jazz fans in San Francisco are in for a treat next weekend as award-winning, Jamaican jazz maestro, Monty Alexander, makes his debut at the 35th annual San Francisco Jazz Festival. Alexander, fresh from playing sold out concerts in […]

Jamaican Makes Impression on Britain’s Got Talent with Song that Goes Viral

Jamaican Audley Buckle, 68, a star on “Britain’s Got Talent,” captured the audience with his “Chicken and Chips” song, which has been described as “infuriatingly catchy.” As he performed the song, the “Britain’s Got Talent” judges got up and danced and sang along; Buckle even made an impression on the two vegetarian judges. Buckle, who […]