Photo Highlights: Chinese New Year Festival Year of the Monkey Celebrations 2016
The Chinese New Year of the Monkey Celebrations 2016 took place at Miami Dade College, Kendall campus on February 14th. Many of the attendees were from the Jamaican Chinese community. The festival was jointly hosted by the Confucius Institute and the Chinese Cultural Foundation in Miami. The colorful celebrations featured food, Lion Dances, tai chi […]
WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL – The Company We Keep
As a child growing up, my mother would constantly remind me and my siblings to be careful of the company we keep. As youngsters, we were very aware of the influence that friends and acquaintances could have on the things we do primarily because we had seen how other kids had adopted bad habits and […]
Top 7 Jamaican & Caribbean News Stories for the week ending March 4th, 2016
—————————————- THIS WEEK’S TOP NEWS STORIES —————————————- OUTCOME OF JAMAICAN ELECTION PLEASES CARICOM—02/27/16 A team from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) charged with observing Jamaica’s general election reported that the nation’s voters were able to cast their ballots “without intimidation” and stated that the election’s results displayed the “will of the people” there. The CARICOM observers […]
Listen to the Podcast of the Jamaica & Caribbean Weekly News Summary for the week ending March 4th, 2016
This is a Podcast of the Jamaica & Caribbean Weekly News Summary for the week ending March 4th, 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.
Photo Highlights: Miss Lou Festival 2016 featuring Owen “Blakka” Ellis
The ninth annual Louise Bennett-Coverley/Miss Lou Reading Festival was held on Saturday, February 6th, 2016, at the Broward College Performing Cultural Arts Theater in Pembroke Pines, Florida. Headlining the festival was Jamaica’s renowned comedian, writer, educator and performing artist, Owen “Blakka” Ellis. He shared perspectives on his relationship with the late Louise Bennett Coverley. Affectionately […]
On to the Semi-Finals: Jamaicans Advance in 2016 World Table Tennis Championships
Jamaica’s table tennis team is moving to the semi-finals of the 2016 World Table Tennis Championships. Leading the way was Kane Watson who had a 3-0 win, Mark Phillips who hada 3-2 win, and an exciting comeback of 3-2 by the team’s captain, Michael Hyatt. Jamaica defeated Asian Team Laos, which represents a nation of […]
5 Reasons You Must Move To Jamaica Before Trump Gets Elected As President
Republican candidate Donald Trump just won big on Super Tuesday in the U.S. presidential primary elections. Are you freaked out about this? Well, you are not alone. It turns out people everywhere in the U.S. are. They are so freaked out that Google searches for “How To Move To Canada” are at a sky high. But […]
Jesse Owens Film Biography Features Jamaican-Canadian Brothers
Stephan James will star as American athletic icon Jesse Owens in a new biographical film entitled “Race.” Also starring in the film as a compatriot and rival of Owens, Eulace Peacock, is Stephan’s brother Shamier Anderson. The parents of the brothers who are based in Canada are from Spanish Town in Jamaica. The film “Race” […]
Assassin A.K.A Agent Sasco’s New Album the Theory of Reggaetivity Debuts at #3 on U.S. Billboard Reggae Album Chart
Assassin a.k.a Agent Sasco’s brand new album The Theory of Reggaetivity debuts this week at #3 on the highly-coveted U.S. Billboard Reggae Chart. He is the only Jamaican artist to land in the Top 5 this week – in between the ranks of the Southern Californian band Stick Figure (who hit #1) and the Grammy-winning […]
“Portland makes me smile!!!! ” – SMILE JAMAICA PHOTOS
Our feature “Smile Jamaica” highlights some positives about Jamaica and Jamaicans. At the Jamaica Diaspora Conference in Montego Bay we asked Patri-Kaye Aarons “What about Jamaica or Jamaicans make you smile?” – Photo by X. Murphy “Portland makes me smile. Nothing better than walking on the beach…hard work with a jelly coconut , a pound of pork and […]