Media WriterRegistration for the 2021 Virtual Reggae Marathon, Half Marathon, 10K & 5K race is open and runners from 17 different countries have already shown interest in participating. Each participant has been charged to recreate the Reggae Marathon...
After establishing itself as an avenue of support for creatives, Kingston Creative was approved by the Charities Authority, Department of Cooperative and Friendly Societies (DCFS) to officially operate as a charity as of November 4, 2021. Official...
The Lionel Town Hospital (LTH) in Clarendon has received a high-flow nasal cannula machine valued at J$1.4 million, which will support COVID-19 patients who need oxygen. The life-saving machine was donated by non-profit organization Striving...
They once declared that “The World Needs Love”, and that sentiment still echoes and resonates in their music, as The Lambsbread (vocalists Kaya & Nadia and their children 21 years old Samuel Levi, and 17 years old Jacob...
In 2020 the music industry was hit hard by coronavirus with live performance the biggest casualty. The global coronavirus pandemic is still an ongoing health crisis, but 2021 acts have gradually jumpstarted the live industry with dates across the...
As Jamaica, the jewel in the Caribbean crown tentatively seeks to open up to the world in 2022 and beyond, British-born businessman, Toussaint Davy, has sought to capitalise on the island’s international embrace of quality food and will launch the...
Music maverick Shinehead swept music lovers away with his Reggae Soul hit “Never Had a Dream Come True” on the Peckings label in 2020. To celebrate the song’s 1st Anniversary, particularly since restrictions loosened to allow...
Trojan Jamaica/BMG is proud to share a new remix of U-Roy feat. Jesse Royal’s “Small Axe,” originally found on the late reggae icon’s acclaimed new album, SOLID GOLD U-ROY. Remixed by Trojan Jamaica co-founders Zak Starkey and Sharna “Sshh” Liguz...
Toronto-based Soul Survival Records has tapped Reggae icon Luciano as well as genre heavyweights Yami Bolo, Jr. Cat, Blessed, Urban, Polly Famous and Yellowbird for performances on the Silent Murdah Riddim. Co-produced by Pablo from Soul Survival...
Five Steez and São Paulo producer SonoTWS have released Just Vibe, the first single from their upcoming album Quietude. The song features Five Steez gliding over a boom bap beat from SonoTWS laced with an intoxicating saxophone to put listeners at...
![UCLA Appoints Jamaican-Born Dr. E. Dale Abel Chair of Department of Medicine
Dr. E. Dale Abel, who was born in Jamaica, has been appointed the new chair of the Department of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). [Read the full story on Jamaicans.com]
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![This Jamaican Man Went from Selling Onions to Being the Youngest Professor at a US College
Daren Johnson, 28, has followed a unique path to his current position of being the youngest full-time professor at Howard Community College in Colombia, Maryland. At the start of his journey, Johnson was an onion and sweets seller working to earn lunch money and to keep himself in school in the relatively unknown district of Bun Hill. [Read the full story on Jamaicans.com]
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![British-Born Weightlifting Sensation Chloe Whylie Joins Team Jamaica
Chloe Whylie, who was born in Britain to a Jamaican mother, has joined Jamaica’s weightlifting team. Whylie will represent Jamaica at the next International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championship competition and at the 2021 Commonwealth Senior Championship in December in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. [Read the full story on Jamaicans.com]
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