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WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL – Small In Your Own Eyes

For some people, success is very difficult to handle. The more successful they become, the more they become strangers to humility. Irving Berlin shone a spotlight on the dilemma of the successful when he observed, “The toughest thing about success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success.” In other words, it comes […]

Jack Radics to Launch New Album with Performance in Virginia on October 23rd, 2018

Platinum selling Jamaican recording artist Jack Radics will launch the tour for his much anticipated new album, The Watershed with a special performance in Woodbridge, Virginia at the Babylon Sports Bar on Sunday October 23. Doors will open at 6pm with showtime set for 7pm. The Babylon Sports Bar is a new venue for the […]

Top 7 Jamaican & Caribbean News Stories for the week ending October 14th, 2016

Jamaican and Caribbean News

—————————————- THIS WEEK’S TOP NEWS   STORIES —————————————- NATIONAL ID SYSTEM TO BE IMPLEMENTED IN JANUARY 2018 Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced that the National Identification System (NIDS), which is currently in development, will be put into operation in January of 2018. According to Holness, who made his remarks at the 5th annual Anti-Money Laundering […]

Food For The Poor in Haiti: Ten Days After Hurricane Matthew

Ten days after Hurricane Matthew slammed the southwest part of Haiti, Food For The Poor has continued to rush lifesaving relief supplies to the country on a daily basis. Based on damage assessments, the coming weeks and months will bring a dangerous food shortage. The storm devastated homes and crops along the southwest coast, damaged […]

Usain Bolt Amongst Four Jamaican Olympians to Be Honored with Statues at National Stadium

Usain Bolt to Get Statue at the Jamaican National Stadium.jpg

Jamaica’s Olympic champion athletes Usain Bolt, Veronica Campbell-Brown, Shelly Ann Fraser-Pryce, and Asafa Powell will be honored with statues at Kingston’s National Stadium Statue Park in 2017. It is expected that the statues of Bolt and Fraser-Pryce will be finished in time for the 55th anniversary of Jamaican Independence in 2017. According to Olivia Grange, […]

Jamaicans Win at Caribbean Tales Film Festival in Toronto

Jamaicans Win at Caribbean Tales Film Festival in Toronto

The Jamaican film “Diary of a Badman” took two prestigious awards at the 11th annual Caribbean Tales Film Festival held in Toronto, Canada. Jacinth Sutphin won in the “Best Actor/Actress” category, while the film itself, directed by Diemiruaya Deniran, won the award for “Best Feature Film.” The Toronto showing was the film’s Canadian premiere. The […]

JCDC, Jamaicans Inspired UK to Sign MOU

The Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC), an agency of the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport will sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Jamaicans Inspired UK, a youth-based diaspora organization in the United Kingdom on Thursday, October 13, at 2:00 pm. The signing will take place in the Boardroom of the JCDC’s Head […]

7 Things You Need to Know When Marketing to Caribbean Americans

Marketing to Caribbean Americans

The last USA census revealed that the number of Caribbean immigrant residents has increased. This increase opens more opportunities for marketers to capitalize on the strong buying power of the Caribbean American community. When addressing the Caribbean American community, many companies employ strategies they use for marketing to African Americans. This is a huge marketing mistake. […]