New Jersey’s Only Vegan Friendly Jamaican Restaurant Vital Celebrates One Year Anniversary
First of its kind VITAL Restaurant, a family-owned Jamaican restaurant in Northern New Jersey specializing in vegan-friendly cuisine, is celebrating its one-year anniversary. Sibling operators Kwame, Nataki and Kanika Williams, introduced an expanded menu that infuses the freshest ingredients with unique flavor and are building upon their success in the competitive Montclair dining scene. Inspired […]
Akon and Nico & Vinz Join One Love Music Festival Fundraiser
Internationally acclaimed multi-genre star Akon and platinum selling musical duo Niko & Vinz join the fundraising efforts by performing at the One Love Music Festival, which takes place at Rose Hall, in Montego Bay, Jamaica, on February 4 – 5, 2016. “This festival is a way to continue to spread Dad’s message and help empower […]
Top 7 Jamaican & Caribbean News Stories for the week ending January 22nd, 2016
—————————————- THIS WEEK’S TOP NEWS STORIES —————————————- NEW NORTH CLARENDON BRIDGE TO TRANSFORM LIVES—01/17/16 Residents in North Clarendon can look forward to a $700 million project that will build a new bridge in the community. The two-lane reinforced concrete bridge will be located at Kupuis, Pennants, and be 67 meters long, spanning the Rio Minho, […]
WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL – Gifted For Service
When we think of ministry gifts in the church, we usually think of the “five-fold” gifts of apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor and teacher (Ephesians 4:12). Most Christians would not readily claim any of those gifts, and quite rightly so, but that does not mean each believer has not been blessed with at least one spiritual […]
Oshin Miller Awarded Tyrone Mcarthur Hill Memorial Scholarship at University of Technology in Jamaica
Oshin Miller, 20, of Top Hill District in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica, has been awarded the inaugural Tyrone McArthur Hill Memorial Scholarship for the 2016-17 year to support her studies in civil engineering at the University of Technology. Oshin, a member of a family of three, hails from a small farming community in south-western Jamaican parish […]
Double Treble Makes Jamaica Debut at Kingston Parish Church Fundraiser
Double Treble, a dynamic and electrifying duo comprising Jamaican Karl Van Richards, concert pianist and African-American Roderick Demmings, Jr., concert organist/pianist will headline the month-end fundraising concert for the Kingston Parish Church on Sunday, January 31, 2016 at 4:00 pm. Admission: $1,500 for adults and $500 for children under 12 and students with ID. The […]
Listen to the Podcast of the Jamaica & Caribbean Weekly News Summary for the week ending January 22nd, 2016
This is a Podcast of the Jamaica & Caribbean Weekly News Summary for the week ending January 22nd, 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.
Columbia University Professor Emeritus of Surgey Dr. Harold Freeman and Soca King Machel Montano among Afuwi 2016 Honorees
Dr. Harold Freeman, CEO, President and Founder of the Harold P. Freeman Patient Navigation Institute in New York and Professor Emeritus of Surgery at Columbia University is this year’s recipient of the 2016 American Foundation for The University of the West Indies (AFUWI) Lifetime Achievement Award. Freeman, the preeminent authority on the subject of poverty […]
Images Media Reception for Jamaican Rhodes Scholar Kamille Morgan a Smashing Success
Last night’s Images Media reception in New York for Jamaican Rhodes Scholar and Winter Williams Prize Winner at University of Oxford Kamille Adair Morgan was a smashing success. Presentations were made to Kamille by the American Foundation for the University of the West Indies, NBI All Natural Skin & Hair Products and the Jamaica Tourist […]
Columbia University Professor Emeritus of Surgey Dr. Harold Freeman and Soca King Machel Montano among Afuwi 2016 Honorees
Dr. Harold Freeman, CEO, President and Founder of the Harold P. Freeman Patient Navigation Institute in New York and Professor Emeritus of Surgery at Columbia University is this year’s recipient of the 2016 American Foundation for The University of the West Indies (AFUWI) Lifetime Achievement Award. Freeman, the preeminent authority on the subject of poverty […]