Celebrating the Season with Jerk Turkey and Christmas Pudding
It’s the most wonderful time of the year for most. For workaholics like myself, we’ve probably just looked up and realized that the big day has actually come upon us because we’ve been inundated with holiday hullabaloo for the past two or three months already and it’s all become a blur. I won’t grinch up […]
Toronto Musicians Julian Taylor and Jeremy Elliott Remember guitarist Bruce Adamson
It is with great sadness that we say good-bye to our dear friend and guitarist extraordinaire, Bruce Adamson. Bruce was a member of the Canadian rock band Staggered Crossing and remained a very close personal and music friend of the Julian Taylor Band until his untimely death on Thursday, December 17, 2015. Friends and former […]
New Kids Book Offers an Educational Story with a Twist
Jacqueline Smartt, an English as a Second Language Teacher in Queens, New York has just published a children’s book titled The Navigators Travel to Guyana that is geared to kids from ages six and up. The Navigators Travel to Guyana is an educational story with a twist. The book gives a taste of what Guyana […]
Bad Boy of Radio Captain Kirk on 96.1fm/97.5fm in South Florida
After brief sojourn, Captain Kirk, the renown Bad Boy of Radio returned to the radio airwave in South Florida last Sunday night. Kirk’s radio show broadcast on Sunday nights from 8pm to 9pm in West Palm Beach, Port St Lucie, Boyton Beach and Ft Lauderdale in South Florida on WPBR, 96.1 FM; 97.5 FM and […]
Jamaican Photographer Dwayne Watkins Wins Essence Magazine Award
Photographer, Dwayne Watkins Dwayne Watkins, a Jamaican photographer who has covered over 400 weddings and commercial shoots in the Caribbean and the United States, has been chosen the top wedding photographer for 2015 by Essence Magazine. Previously named MACO magazine’s Best Photographer in Jamaica in 2012, Watkins focuses on telling the story of every wedding […]
WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL – Who Is to Be “Blamed”? – Part I
It was a battle they should have won. Coming off the conquest of Jericho (Joshua 6), taking Ai should have been like the proverbial walk in the park. The men who had spied out the region had returned confidently and told Joshua, “Not all the army will have to go up against Ai. Send two […]
Top 7 Jamaican & Caribbean News Stories for the week ending December 18th, 2015
—————————————- THIS WEEK’S TOP NEWS STORIES —————————————- JAMAICA’S HEALTH MINISTRY ISSUES WARNING ABOUT ZIKA VIRUS—12/12/15 Horace Dalley, Jamaican Minister of Health, has called upon Jamaicans to protect themselves from the zika virus (ZIKV) and other diseases spread by mosquitoes. The Health Ministry is taking a stronger posture against the spread of the illness in the […]
Listen to the Podcast of the Jamaica & Caribbean Weekly News Summary for the week ending December 18th, 2015
This is a Podcast of the Jamaica & Caribbean Weekly News Summary for the week ending December 18th, 2015. The JAMAICA WEEKLY News Summary Podcast is brought to you by Jamaicans.com. For past Jamaica & Caribbean Weekly News Podcasts please visit our archives.
Nonstop Airline Service from Los Angeles to Montego Bay Launched by American Airlines
As of December 18, 2015, travelers will be able to take a direct, nonstop flight from Los Angeles, California, to Montego Bay in Jamaica. American Airlines has announced its new route, which will fly from L.A,’s International Airport (LAX) to Jamaica’s Sangster International (MBJ). This makes American Airlines the only carrier to offer the nonstop […]
Jamaican Brings Island Flavors to New Zealand
Dave Phillips, a third-generation Jamaican, has taken his passion for island flavors with him to his current home in New Zealand. Together with his sister Carolyn, who came to New Zealand in 1996, Phillips toured the country in a trailer looking for somewhere to settle before ultimately deciding on the town of Nelson. After their […]