The GraceKennedy Foundation (GKF) has opened applications for the 2022 GraceKennedy Jamaican Birthright Programme to candidates from the Northeast USA. Through the annual programme, university students with Jamaican heritage participate in a month...
The GraceKennedy Foundation (GKF) is challenging Jamaican youth to Be The Change in a new competition which highlights the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The GKF Be The Change Challenge was launched on social media on, September 9, 2020 and...
GraceKennedy Limited (GKL) has announced that it has started accepting applications from second and third generation Jamaican students for its 2020 Jamaican Birthright Programme. The cultural immersion programme allows university students of...
Two undergraduate students, 20-year-old Kayla Jessup, and 19-year-old Tarik Graham, will travel to the Caribbean island, Jamaica, this summer to participate in a five-week professional and cultural internship program, hosted by GraceKennedy Limited...
GraceKennedy Limited will host four university students from the Diaspora for a five-week professional and cultural internship that is designed to immerse them in Jamaica’s rich culture as well as provide them with hands on training in their chosen...
As part of an ongoing commitment to the communities they serve, Western Union, a leader in cross-border, cross-currency money movement, and GraceKennedy Money Services (GKMS), Western Union’s Agent in many Caribbean markets, announced the 2018 Town...
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Staff Writer![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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