“You never meet a stranger!!!!” – SMILE JAMAICA PHOTOS
Our feature “Smile Jamaica” highlights some positives about Jamaica and Jamaicans. This week we asked Wessilee Holgate “What about Jamaica makes you smile?” “What I love about Jamaica is that you never meet a stranger when you meet another Jamaican.” The “Smile Jamaica” series is open to anyone who loves Jamaica and/or Jamaicans. If you would like […]
Jamaican Rugby Team Wins Final in South Florida
Jamaica’s Under-19 team was victorious over the Bahamas in the Rugby Final at Vizcaya Park in Miramar, South Florida. The Jamaican Rugby Team dominated the match, beating the Bahamas’ team 50 to 0. The final was part of the year 2016 RAN Superweek scheduled for July 9 to July 16, 2016, which features 23 matches and […]
Jamaican Olympic Champion Usain Bolt Featured on Cover of Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated magazine has featured Jamaica’s Usain Bolt, six-time Olympic champion and fastest man in the world, on its cover just weeks before he competes at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Although Bolt withdrew from the Jamaican Olympic trials on July 1 due to a tear injury to his left hamstring, he […]
Facts on Jamaica: The first breadfruit tree
The first breadfruit tree in Jamaica was planted in St. Thomas at the Bath Botanical Garden. The British Captain Cook discovered breadfruit on Tahiti, and his description of the fruit caught the public’s imagination back home in England. The first tree in Jamaica was brought to the island from Tahiti by Captain William Bligh in […]
Yashika Graham Returns From Venezuela’s World Festival of Poetry Inspired
Emerging Jamaican poet Yashika Graham recently returned from the 13th annual World Festival of Poetry in Venezuela, in which she participated with fellow Jamaican poet, Mel Cooke. During the weeklong festival Graham read throughout the capital of Caracas as well as in the states of Cojedes, Sucre and Aragua, where she was also part of […]
Yashika Graham’s Directions From The Border Video For Release
Westmoreland born poet Yashika Graham, fresh from participating in the World Festival of Poetry in Venezuela, is poised to release a video for the title poem of her forthcoming first collection, Directions From The Border. The poem, which documents what she calls ‘a literal and spiritual journey,’ takes the reader through often impossible terrain, charting […]
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. […]