The Search is On for 2016 Jamaica Gospel Song
The Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) an agency of the Ministry of Youth & Culture is on the hunt for Gospel Stars. The search will kick off with the first audition/elimination round of the Jamaica Gospel Song Competition in Central Jamaica on Tuesday, January 26 at the St. Mark’s Anglican Church Hall in Mandeville, Manchester […]
Money Lessons from the Mango Tree
There’s no time quite as enjoyable for the typical Jamaican as mango season. Every sense is stimulated as the sight, smell, feel and taste of a delicious mango will herald an enjoyable experience. Even hearing the words, ‘would you like a mango?’ can bring a heady anticipation of coming delights. It may not be immediately […]
Five Jamaicans on News America List of Top Ten Richest Caribbean-Born Sports Stars
News America Now has compiled a list of the 10 richest sports stars born in the Caribbean region. At the top of the list is Tim Duncan of the Virgin Islands who plays basketball for the San Antonio Spurs and has a net worth totaling US$150 million. He receives US$10 million per year and US$2 […]
Legal Wiz: A man swindled me – Is his company still in operation in Jamaica?
QUESTION: Dear Legal Wiz, A man swindled me out of over one million dollars. I loan him the money, and he said he would have repaid me when his company was more stable. When I went into the hospital it turned out there was no bank account as he claimed. Some woman answered his phone […]
Acclaimed Triple Threat, Billboard Producer, Song-Writer and Artist, Ricky Blaze “Conquers The Moment”
Acclaimed triple threat, producer, song writer and artist, Ricky Blaze has achieved tremendous success with hit music charting worldwide while blazing the airwaves. Renowned for his fusion of his Jamaican Reggae and Dancehall roots meshed with the urban sounds of Hip Hop and R&B from the Brooklyn streets where he made his name, Ricky has […]
Giving Up Your Privacy for Your Property
The next time you contract with a Realtor or real estate agent to purchase or sell a property, be prepared to answer myriad questions about your identity and your source of funds. This interrogative exercise is a mandatory obligation of real estate dealers under the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering Prevention) Regulations 2007 and POCA Amendments 2013. All this is a part of the government’s […]
“Christmas and Grand Market!!!! ” – SMILE JAMAICA PHOTOS
Our feature “Smile Jamaica” highlights some positives about Jamaica and Jamaicans. We asked the question “what is the one thing you miss about Jamaica?” at the South Florida Jerk Festival. – Photo by X. Murphy “The one thing I miss about Jamaica is Christmas and Grand Market.” The “Smile Jamaica” series is open to anyone who loves […]
Friendship with Jamaican Connected Ted Cruz to Island Business and Politics
Jamaican David Panton invited his Princeton and Harvard Law School roommate with Cuban ties, Ted Cruz, to join a business venture on the island. Although the business dissolved in 2003, the connection represents a digression from Cruz’s movement from Ivy League colleges to a clerkship at the United States Supreme Court to the U.S. Senate […]
Skedaddle leading after first day in Round Jamaica Yacht Race
At 8:30PM on Saturday, January 23, the sailboat Skedaddle, with skipper by Peter Harper, was leading the fleet of sailboats racing around the West end of Jamaica, seeking to be the first winners of the Round Jamaica Yacht Race. Trailing at Hopewell, Hanover were Breakaway with skipper Mark Shields, and very close by in third […]
Jamaicans in Business: MedMobile Founder, Lascelles “Butch” Chen
There is an e-finance revolution taking place in Africa. It is called e-money or mobile money and it makes use of cell phone technology thereby bypassing brick and mortar banks. In the middle of this revolution you will find a Jamaican, Lascelles Chen, who has lived in East Africa for over 25 years. In 2013, […]