New York: The Official People’s Ball in New York City was created to celebrate Jamaica’s independence. This year the event commemorates Jamaica’s 63rd anniversary with a grand black-tie gala at the elegant Terrace On The Park in Queens on Saturday...
The honour and the glory of being selected head boy or head girl at any Jamaican high school is an enviable mark of distinction. Typically, one has to rise above hundreds of peers to demonstrate an aptitude and a track record for leadership, with...
It was the mother of all recent New York City reggae parties. Last week was Caribbean Week in New York, a time of the year when the spotlight is placed on Caribbean travel. Scores of regional executives were in town to promote their respective...
It was many years ago since I drove to Portland via Newcastle, traversing Holywell National Park, remote forests in the Blue and John Crow Mountains, quaint welcoming communities, dramatically eye-popping vistas, rippling highland streams and...
Seven top-tier United States (US) travel specialists who recently visited Kingston and Port Antonio, Portland, for an immersive destination experience, on the invitation of the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB), have affirmed their commitment to selling...
Heather Dillon, 67, a Jamaican missionary on a tour of duty in Ghana, was among three people killed in a bus accident in rural Ghana last week. Dillon, who is from Ocho Rios in St Ann, had been doing missionary work in Ghana as a training...
Jamaica last week joined 67 other nations in participating in the 2025 Foreign Exchange Reserve Portfolio Management Conference which took place in New York City. The four-day, in-person programme was organised jointly by the Federal Reserve Bank...
This week, Jamaica joined 67 other nations in participating in the 2025 Foreign Exchange Reserve Portfolio Management Conference in New York City. The four-day in-person programme was organised jointly by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and...
A posh Atlantic City seaside residence, the Ocean Club Condominiums, is making attempts to block the staging of parts of BRT Weekend, one of reggae’s biggest festivals in North America. Scheduled to take place from July 11 to 13, the three-day...
Warmer weather over this past weekend was the perfect backdrop for the staging of New York’s biggest travel expo, Adventures In Travel, that took place at the Jacob Javits Convention Centre on Saturday and Sunday. The expo is designed for both...
Donald Bogle at 95 is now happily retired, living in Toronto, Canada. At the height of his professional career in education, he rose to become a Rhodes Scholar, and Jamaica’s first past student to have become principal of Wolmer’s Boys’ School. He...
The cultural group Braata Singers has been in existence in New York City for 15 years and, during that time, they have delivered excellent choral folk performances nationally and internationally to consistent rave reviews. The group’s initial...
The days were dreary for sure after Monday, September 12. But those nights in 1988 were straight from a hellish horror movie with families enveloped in clouds of blackness, barely able to see each other after sunset because the nights were so dark...
ROTA is Reggae on the Avenue, and it is arguably the best representative of an authentic dancehall party in Brooklyn, New York City. It mimics Jamaica as a sort of outdoor/indoor street location and due to its summertime set-up, the ROTA party...
COMING ON the heels of his gold medal win in the 4x100-metre men’s relay at the Paris Olympics for Canada, Jamaican-Canadian sprinter Brendon Rodney has joined the athletics division of the GC Foster College of Sport in Spanish Town, Jamaica....
Labour Day Weekend in the United States, which falls just before the first Monday in September, is the biggest party season for Caribbean Americans. More than one million people watch the Caribbean floats each year, and the entertainment spotlight...
It was the perfect New York City night out! After consecutive days of pouring rain, some of it brought on by the remnants of Hurricane Debby, the New York City skies suddenly cleared and a shimmering Saturday evening sunset formed the backdrop for...
NEW YORK: Clive Blackwood, executive vice president and general auditor at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York, is the keynote speaker for this year’s Jamaica People’s Ball in New York in celebration of Jamaica’s 62nd anniversary of Independence...
Passionate and high-energy tourism events and social media/PR director Steven Pottinger has died. He was 56. Steven’s mother, Norma Thomas, confirmed that her beloved son died at Medical Associates in Kingston on Sunday night after a prolonged...
CORAL SPRING, Trelawny: Ten top-tier travel advisers from the northeastern United States (US) were in Jamaica last week on a familiarisation tour called ‘Come Back to Breathtaking’. The travel specialists were in the island learning about new...
CORAL SPRING, TRELAWNY: Ten top-tier travel advisers from the northeastern United States are in Jamaica this week on a familiarisation tour called ‘Come Back to Breathtaking’. The travel specialists are learning about new properties and updating...
A new wave of economic development has been unfolding in Guyana as a result of the discovery of oil and natural gas in that CARICOM nation. The find is estimated to be worth at least US$150 billion and signs of the new wealth are everywhere:...
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has declared Saturday, May 11, Issa Trust Foundation Day in New York. The special honour is in recognition of the foundation’s ongoing efforts to raise funds for the construction of the Mary Issa Paediatric and...
Gramps Morgan, one of the founding members of iconic Grammy winning reggae group, Morgan Heritage, is currently in Asia, making brave attempts to heal and clear his mind after the death of his brother Peetah Morgan, who died in Florida at age 47. “...
