Back by popular demand, Rhythms of Africa held a pair of spectacular shows in March at the Cultural Center located in Miramar, Florida.  Launched by the Embrace Music Foundation, the Rhythms of Africa presentations were dedicated to the restoration, preservation, and fortification where the impact of music from around the world is concerned.  In that spirit, […]

Hosted by Miramar Vice Mayor Alexandra P. Davis, the 4th staging of the Annual Reggae Icon Awards was held last month at the Miramar Cultural center as part of the City’s month-long celebration of Reggae Month in South Florida.  This marquis event had its genesis in a partnership that was forged between the City of […]

Jamaican triple jump champion, Jaydon Hibbert, has ended his NCAA career at the University of Arkansas and signed a professional contact. He was at the university for just one year, but dominated all competitions he participated in during that time. The athlete announced his signing on Instagram on January 25, 2024, but did not reveal […]

The 2024 episode of Reggae Month South Florida celebrated a half century of reggae music from Miami to Fort Lauderdale with the iconic group, Inner Circle, supporting a number of events aiming to spotlight Jamaican artists, businesses and entrepreneurs in Fort Lauderdale, Miramar, Plantation and Miami Dade County and just about everywhere in between.  A […]

The 4th Annual West Indies Cricket Legends Weekend and Celebrity Gala honoring the 50th Anniversary of Lawrence ‘Yagga’ Rowe’s epic 302 runs in Barbados and his 75th birthday took place last weekend in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. To celebrate Yagga’s remarkable cricket legacy and philanthropy, a number of West Indies Cricket legends and icons descended on […]

Presented Commissioner Maxwell B. Chambers, the 3rd annual Miramar International Art and Fashion Weekend was nothing short of spectacular.  The event—which was presented in partnership with the Jeffrey Lubin Group—coincided with the Art Week happenings in South Florida, including the world famous Art Basel in Miami.  The International Art & Fashion Weekend showcased both art […]

Christmas Eve ’23 in Fort Lauderdale had some Jamaican musical flavor all courtesy of Walshy Fire, DJ GQ, and a live performance from Visions Band.  Dubbed ‘Visions Christmas Eve’, the event took place at a venue called Blue Martini—regarded as a premier cocktail lounge, restaurant, and nightclub in the city.   The Christmas Eve event also […]

Located inside the Broward Mall in South Florida, the Island Space Caribbean Museum is the first and only brick and mortar pan-Caribbean heritage museum in the USA. This one-of-a-kind Caribbean-centric museum features an archive and exhibition space that holds artifacts, cultural relics and historical data representative of South Florida’s Caribbean population. What’s more, the museum […]

Jamaican Jaydon Hibbert, a freshman at the University of Arkansas, has received the highest collegiate athletic award in the United States. He is the youngest recipient of the award and the first Jamaican winner. The Bowerman was established in 2009 and is presented annually to the year’s best student-athlete. It is named for Oregon track […]

In July 2022, Antiguan soca singer Ricardo Drue asked Trinidadian soca singer Patrice Roberts to marry him. It was the perfect next step in a love story that began years before and the beginning of what would be the second marriage of popular artists in the soca world. On Again, Off Again The couple’s on-again-off-again […]