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, […]
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 […]