Ask a Jamaican what makes someone Jamaican and you are likely to get plenty of answers. Maybe it is where you were born. Maybe it is who your parents are. Maybe it is…
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A Jamaican Rom-Com Set in Jamaica? Why Not?
Jamaica is no stranger to the romantic comedy. The island has provided the backdrop for several love stories on screen, perhaps most famously How Stella Got Her Groove Back, which sent its American…
Travel Journalist With Jamaican Roots Named 2026 CMEx Leadership Laureate
For more than three decades, travel journalist Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon has built a career sharing the Caribbean with the world, from writing for some of the biggest names in travel media to championing the…
Trevor Hamilton | Myths about the Jamaican education policy imperatives
The newly installed president of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), in her annual address to educators, parents, policymakers, and other stakeholders in the sector, used Singapore as a benchmark and implied that the…
Mickel Jackson | When Parliament sentences instead of the judge
Illegal firearms remain the principal instrument of murder, robbery and intimidation. That is not in dispute. What is in dispute is whether a 15-year mandatory minimum, applied indiscriminately to possession of a prohibited…
WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL: Grace for the Road Ahead
Grace did not merely cancel Paul’s past; it empowered his future. Few lives demonstrate this truth more dramatically than his. Before encountering Christ, Paul, then Saul, was “breathing out threatenings and slaughter against…
Jamaican Insurance Executive Dwight Geddes Named 2026 Alonzo Herndon Award Winner
Jamaican-born insurance executive Dwight Geddes has been named the 2026 recipient of the Alonzo Herndon Award by Business Insurance, recognising his contributions to the insurance industry and his work to expand opportunities for…
Remembering Trevor ‘Jumpy’ Harris, Jamaican Schoolboy Football Great
Trevor “Jumpy” Harris, one of the standout footballers of Kingston College’s celebrated 1960s teams who later became a two-time All-American and national champion at Michigan State University, has died. Harris passed away on…
Jamaican Keisha Blair Named Among Canada’s 100 Most Powerful Women
Jamaican-born economist, author and entrepreneur Keisha Blair has been named one of WXN’s Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 for 2026, adding another milestone to a career that has taken her from St…
From Crime Noir to Duppies: Jamaican Stories Are Having a Moment on Screen
Something interesting has been happening on our screens over the past two years. Across television series, feature films, pilots and shorts, Jamaican stories are showing up in greater variety and in unexpected places….