Photo Highlights: Protoje at Irving Plaza NYC
Protoje gave a solid performance in New York City last Friday night, July 8th, at Irving Plaza. Allan Kingdom, the Canadian rapper who featured on Kanye West’s track “All Day”, opened up for Protoje at the Manhattan venue. At the start of his set, Protoje took a moment to address the recent bouts of publicized violence in the […]
Karl Thorne, Jamaican Born Architect and Business, Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
Jamaican, Karl Thorne, president of Karl Thorne Associates, Inc., a successful minority-owned architectural firm in Florida, has been honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the University of Florida. Thorne was born in May Pen and was a student at Clarendon College but left Jamaica in 1977 when the island was experiencing a period of […]
WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL – An Attitude of Ingratitude
English novelist and essayist Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) was on point when he said, “Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.” It is not that we purposefully set out to be that way, but it is easy for us to become so accustomed to certain things that we become indifferent […]
Top 7 Jamaican & Caribbean News Stories for the week ending July 15th, 2016
—————————————- THIS WEEK’S TOP NEWS STORIES —————————————- GIFFORD WANTS JAMAICA TO REMOVE QUEEN AS HEAD OF STATE—07/12/16 Lord Anthony Gifford, Queen’s Counsel, believes that Jamaica should remove Britain’s Queen Elizabeth as head of state, saying that Marcus Garvey would be “shocked and disappointed” at the way Jamaica has structured its social, legal, and constitutional environments. […]
Listen to the Podcast of the Jamaica & Caribbean Weekly News Summary for the week ending July 15, 2016
This is a Podcast of the Jamaica & Caribbean Weekly News Summary for the week ending July 15, 2016. The JAMAICA WEEKLY News Summary Podcast is brought to you by Jamaicans.com. For past Jamaica & Caribbean Weekly News Podcasts please visit our archives.
Jamaican Chosen for Prestigious Clerkship at International Court of Justice – Legal Firsts for Jamaica
Jamaica’s Chaka Laguerre has been selected to serve a 10-month clerkship at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague in the Netherlands. She is the first judicial law clerk from Jamaica and one of the firsts from the Caribbean to serve at the court. She is also the first black law student chosen […]
Beenie Man Official Sponsor of Jamaica Amateur Gymnastics Association
Beenie Man, Jamaican dancehall artiste, has become an official sponsor of the Jamaica Amateur Gymnastics Association. He will provide the funding to produce the means for Toni-Ann Williams, Jamaica’s first Olympic gymnast, to compete at Rio. He will also officially sponsor Asasia Malcolm, 14. a junior gymnast, over the next four years. The sponsorship of […]
CaribbeanTales Announces Ten 2016 Incubator Participants
CaribbeanTales and FLOW announced the ten successful participants of the 2016 CaribbeanTales Incubator Program, presented by Flow, at a packed Media Launch on July 6th at the Royal Cinema in Toronto. FLOW’s CEO John Reid was in attendance, and spoke of the importance of the Incubator Program to the development of the region’s filmmakers and […]
Reggae Caribbean Cookout in Birmingham
Reggae Caribbean Cookout 12.00-18.00 7th & 14th August 4th & 18th September Fleet Street, Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham, B3 1JP A brand new event will see a little piece of the Caribbean brought to the courtyard of The Coffin Works in the Jewellery Quarter. 876StreetFood will be running 4 events during August and September. The launch […]
Rupee Replaces Bunji and Fay Ann at Grace Jamaican Jerk Festival NY, July 17th, 2016
Soca stars Bunji Garlin and Fay Ann Lyons, two of the headline acts billed to perform on the Main Stage at the 6th annual Grace Jamaican Jerk Festival slated to take place at Roy Wilkins Park in Queens, New York on Sunday, July 17th will not perform, Eddy Edwards, CEO of Jamaican Jerk Festival USA […]