Action Entertainment Launches “CUJ Gosplash 2016 Got Talent” Competition
CUJ GOSPLASH promises to be bigger and better for its forth staging in 2016 with new offerings that are sure to please the audience of thousands that emerge every Emancipation day at Sugarmans beach in St Catherine. Action Entertainment, promoters of the event, has added the CUJ GOSPLASH ‘GOT TALENT’ 2016 C0MPETITION to the already […]
On this day in Jamaican History – Bob Marley performs In Zimbabwe
On April 19, 1980, Bob Marley and the Wailers performed in front of 100,000 fans at the Rufaro Stadium in Harare, Zimbabwe. A day earlier, on April 18th, he sang “Zimbabwe” at Zimbabwe’s 1st independence festivities. The song “Zimbabwe” had been released on the 1979 album Survival, and premiered at the Amandla Festival. Marley wrote […]
Jamaicans Always Shine at Penn Relays, Five to Remember for 2016
Jamaican athletes are always star achievers at the annual Penn Relays, and the ISSA Boys & Girls Champs that just occurred provide a preview of some of the top performers for the 2016 staging of the event. Christopher Taylor of Calabar is the Age 15 World Record holder in the 400 meters and set two […]
Jamaica College Robotics Team Visits OPM Before Leaving for U.S. Competition
The Jamaica College Robotics team made a visit to the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) and displayed their skills to Prime Minister Andrew Holness. In a statement from the Prime Minister, he commented on “their amazing skills,” and said he was “very impressed with their creation!” The Prime Minister went on to say, “They […]
The Sixth Oldest Person in the World Lives in Jamaica
Viola Moss Brown, who still lives in the house in Duanvale, Trelawny, where she was born in 1900, was congratulated by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II for attaining the age of 115 years. Brown has been confirmed as the oldest person in Jamaica by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG), which is based in the United States. […]
Book Review: Jimmy’s Unrequited Love
About the Book Gem was unhappy. But she remembered times when she was happy. Those were times when she had had the man of her dreams. He was everything to her and he had given her love like she had never had it before. She thought this love was going to last forever, but then […]
Jamaican Innovation to Help with Water Shortage in Flint, Michigan
Representatives of Servants Without Borders, a nonprofit based in Washington, DC, plans to visit Kingston to talk about supply chain issue with Jovan Evans, owner of AcquaFlow. They also are hoping to promote the #ShowerFlint campaign. The campaign is a joint effort between Servants Without Borders and Evans, who is a Branson Center of Entrepreneurship-Caribbean […]
Jack Radics Leads Star Studded Lineup for Caribbean Style Mother’s Day Show in South Florida, May 7th, 2016
Platinum selling Jamaican recording artist Jack Radics will lead an all star lineup from across the Caribbean for A Caribbean Style Mother’s Day Show, to be held at the newly opened Lauderhill Performing Arts Center (Lauderhill PAC) on Saturday May 7 beginning at 8pm. Doors will open at 7pm. The production will be dedicated to […]
Jamaican Gordon Swaby’s Edufocal Online Education Platform Featured on BBC
The BBC has featured an online education platform created by Jamaica’s Gordon Swaby. The Edufocal platform turns school examinations into an online game. Swaby’s company hopes to make studying similar to a computer game in which students compete, with test results acting as high game scores. According to Swaby, Edufocal is designed to help children […]
Invisible Mommies – Are Mothers Too Hard on Themselves?
This generation of Mothers will be known as “Invisible Mommies”. The concept being that we to often are hard on ourselves about our looks, our uncolored hair, our baby weight, our clothes and even our wrinkles and grey hairs! For that reason in this technological world where pictures are edited, re-edited, retouched and airbrushed we […]