Photo: Jamaica PM Andrew Holness (Stabroek News) As Prime Minister acting in accordance with the advice of the National Security Council, and having received the written agreement of the Commissioner of Police and the Chief of Defense Staff, I have declared a Zone of Special Operations under the Law Reform (Zones of Special Operations) (Special […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: The Caribbean Court of Justice, having found that it did indeed have jurisdiction to hear the appeal in the Guyana Election case, in a unanimous verdict, threw out the decision of the Guyana Appeal Court that inserted the word “valid” into the consideration of votes for the election of a president. […]
BY Calvin G. Brown, WiredJA.com PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad: People’s National Movement MP Ancil Antoine has been dropped as the party’s D’Abadie O’Meara candidate in the upcoming August 10 elections, due to insensitive and objectionable statements he made about the United States during a political meeting on Saturday. In a Facebook post on Sunday, Prime Minister Dr […]
Photo source: YouTube By StephanieK, Jamaicans.com Linton Kwesi Johnson, a Jamaican-born pioneer dub poet, has won the PEN Pinter Prize for 2020. The prize is named in honor of the Nobel Laureate playwright and human rights activist Harold Pinter and was established in 2009 by the English PEN charity to recognize artists who have an […]
By Denise Lee, Jamaicans.com The fight for safer schools in New York by Jamaican-American, Alliyah Logan, is definitely being noticed. She was featured in the June issue of “Teen Vogue” magazine and in a Yahoo! Life story. “I was featured in this Teen Vogue article, which is long overdue. The article covered Black Youth advocating to remove […]
Monday, July 6, 2020 — “The Caribbean should not be invisible for many and disposable for some,” said Prime Minister of Barbados and Chairman of CARICOM, Hon. Mia Mottley, at a recent online event hosted by the Organisation of the Eastern Caribbean States (OECS Commission). In her discourse, Prime Minister Mottley pointed out that: “The Region should not […]
The iconic Bob Marley song One Love is to be re-released with the blessing of the musician’s family to support children whose lives have been upended by COVID-19, the UN said on Thursday.
Photo: UNICEF/Nicole Toutounji – Jamaican reggae artist and musician Ziggy Marley pledges his support for ‘Say Yes for Children’ while visiting UN Headquarters, in July 2001. By UN News The fundraising initiative comes as the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned that an additional 6,000 children could die every day from preventable causes in the next […]