• Mon, 10 August 2026

Liar gets lawyer for Jamaica court, do I need one too

QUESTION: Greetings, Dear Legal Wiz, I love your column, and I did meet you once in Jamaica and thought you are a terrific person. I have learnt a lot from you. Now I am writing to you. I added two rooms to the house on family land and soon after I left Jamaica. The house […]

Jamaican Honored by NYC Council for Work in Journalism, Community Development

Jamaican, Patrick Maitland Honored by NYC

Jamaican, Patrick Maitland, journalist and Caribbean community leader, was honored by the New York City Council for his exceptional work. Also honored at a ceremony in Manhattan’s City Hall were Councilmen Humane Williams, Andy King Robert Cornegy, Herman Hall, and Bharati Kemraj. In bestowing the honors, the Council noted the “great pleasure” it had celebrating […]

“The Good Food!!!! ” – SMILE JAMAICA PHOTOS

Our feature “Smile Jamaica” highlights some positives about Jamaica and Jamaicans. We asked the question “what is one thing you miss about Jamaica?” at the South Florida Jerk Festival. – Photo by X. Murphy “The one thing I miss about Jamaica is the good food.” The “Smile Jamaica” series is open to anyone who loves Jamaica and/or […]

She’s Sharing Her Chinese-Jamaican Heritage Through Film – An Interview With Filmmaker, Jeanette Kong

Jeanette Kong

Jeanette Kong is a Jamaican-Chinese-Canadian documentary filmmaker based in Toronto, Canada.  Her feature directorial debut Finding Samuel Lowe won the Audience Choice Award at the ReelWorld Film Festival in Toronto and was shortlisted for Best Diaspora Documentary at the 2014 Africa Movie Academy Awards. Her short documentaries The Chiney Shop and Half: The Story of a Chinese-Jamaican Son both premiered in the Caribbean […]

Top 7 Jamaican & Caribbean News Stories for the week ending July 1st, 2016

Jamaican and Caribbean News

—————————————- THIS WEEK’S TOP NEWS   STORIES —————————————- JAMAICA TO DENY ENTRY TO TRAVELERS FROM YELLOW FEVER COUNTRIES—06/25/16 Jamaica’s Health Ministry has decided to deny entry to travelers coming from countries designated by the World Health Organization as “Yellow Fever Active” unless these individuals can prove they have been vaccinated against the disease at least ten […]

WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL – “Hast Thou Considered My Servant Job?”

Satan was probably minding his own business.  As a matter of fact, when asked by the LORD “Whence comest thou?” he replied, “From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it” (Job 1:7, KJV). But the LORD did not stop there. His next question to Satan was one […]

Will Tourists to Jamaica Be Issued Medical Marijuana Cards Via Ganja ATMs?

Medical Marijuana

Jamaica’s Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) wants to outfit the airports and seaports on the island with dedicated desks or kiosks that would provide tourists with licenses to buy marijuana during their visit. The agency is investigating the framework of such an operation and believes an appropriate policy can be devised in a few weeks, said […]

Food For The Poor Celebrates 25 Years of Love and Loyalty in Guyana

Food For The Poor is celebrating 25 years of dedicated service in Guyana, which began with the delivery of food and basic items in June of 1991. Since then, the international relief and development organization has become the leading provider of aid to the people of Guyana, shipping 171 tractor-trailer loads of food, medicine, health […]