Walmart and Google recently announced a strategic expansion that may fundamentally change how people shop online: customers will soon be able to use Google’s AI assistant Gemini to discover and buy products directly…
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How Chef Anthony Dacres Opened Suriname’s First Jamaican Restaurant
When COVID hit, private chef Anthony Dacres lost all his clients. Not one to stay down for long, he pivoted into marketing and began running a marketing agency for restaurants. Over time, his…
Jamaican-Born Roger Harriott Named 2025 National Football Coach of the Year
St. Thomas Aquinas head football coach Roger Harriott has been named the 2025 National Football Coach of the Year by the National High School Coaches Association (NHSCA), in partnership with High School Football…
Jamaica Among 11 Caribbean Countries Affected by U.S. Immigrant Visa Processing Suspension
The United States has announced a pause in immigrant visa processing for nationals of 75 countries, including 11 Caribbean nations, alongside countries across Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. The…
Mickel Jackson | Jamaica’s historic crime reduction amid security forces killing surge
As we enter 2026, Jamaica confronts a stark paradox. In 2025, the nation achieved a historic breakthrough: murders fell to a provisional 673, the lowest annual total in over three decades and a…
Jalil Dabdoub | The goat, sheep, and the world order – The fall of principle
Bruce Golding’s recent article in the Jamaica Observer, titled ‘Things fall apart’ in almost every respect, is a truthful and courageous reckoning with the collapse of the post-WWII rules-based international order. The article,…
Mickel Jackson | Jamaica’s historic crime reduction amid extra-judicial killings
As we enter 2026, Jamaica confronts a stark paradox. In 2025, the nation achieved a historic breakthrough: murders fell to a provisional 673, the lowest annual total in over three decades and a…
WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL: Trusting God When the Way Is Unclear
The calendar rolled over to a new year, but for many of us, the challenges of 2025 remain. Facing the unknown, especially, is one of the greatest tests of faith. When the road…
5 Questions with Owen ‘Blakka’ Ellis: A Caribbean Icon on Comedy, Culture and Garvey’s Ghost
Jamaicans.com recently sat down with cultural icon Owen ‘Blakka’ Ellis, the beloved Jamaican actor, comedian, dub poet, writer and educator whose career has spanned more than four decades. Ellis reflected on his extraordinary…
Theresa Rodriguez-Moodie | After Hurricane Melissa, Black River waits
I was warned about what I would see before heading to Black River, but no image of the damage from Hurricane Melissa fully captured the devastation, and nothing prepared me for the horror…