Photo: Danita Delimont / Shutterstock.com The Jamaican American International Chamber of Commerce (JAICC) of Atlanta, in partnership with Mango Errands, is excited to announce that we have created a Sponsor a Student project. This project is for the school year, September 2021-2022. Our ultimate goal is to sponsor at least 40 students across Jamaica […]
Master Artist, Author, Poet, National Icon, Dr of Letters
Chief Ifa’ Oje’ Won Yomi Abiodun. Master Artist, Author, Poet, National Icon, Dr of Letters 1938-2021 Photo: leroyclarke.com LeRoy Clarke, Chief Ifa’ Oje’ Won Yomi Abiodun, transitioned at age 82 after decades of creating epic works of art and writings. As a Master Artist, Author, Poet, National Icon, Doctor of Letters and University Fellow – […]
My Mary Campbell, Special to CAW
By Mary Campbell, Special to CAW CASTRIES, St. Lucia: Saint Lucians voted for a change of government in General Elections on Monday, 26 July 2021. According to the preliminary results issued by the Saint Lucia Electoral Department, the opposition Saint Lucia Labor Party (SLP), led for the first time by Philip J. Pierre, captured 13 […]
Prime Minister Ariel Henry, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. | Photo: Twitter/ @MiQuiquella By BBC Ariel Henry has been sworn in as Haiti’s new prime minister, nearly two weeks after the assassination of the country’s President Jovenel Moïse. The late president asked Mr Henry to take the job, days before he was gunned down in the capital, Port-au-Prince. […]
Following the appointment of a senior Caribbean diplomat to the cabinet of the new World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Director-General, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, CARICOM Chairman Prime Minister Gaston Browne has commended the Director-General for living up to promises she made to both the OECS and CARICOM Heads of Governments. Ambassador Stephen Fevrier, who heads the OECS […]
Haitian President Jovenel Moïse on stage at the Miramar Cultural Center. He spoke to a capacity audience about Haiti’s progress during his first year in office. – Miramar, Florida/USA – April 15, 2018 (Shutterstock) By BBC The widow of Haiti’s assassinated president has returned to the Caribbean nation after being treated in Florida for wounds […]
By WiredJA News Team, WiredJA BRIDGETOWN, Barbados July 18, 2021 -The Government of Barbados has called on the United States Government to show moral leadership and end the sixty year old economic embargo imposed on the the People of Cuba, as the embargo has achieved nothing but an unjustified punishment of Cuba and unleashed a […]
By Tamanisha John, The Conversation Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in the early morning hours of July 7, 2021, in a brazen attack on his private home outside Port-au-Prince, the capital. Moïse’s wife was also shot in the assault that killed her husband. The assailants have not been identified, and Haiti’s prime minister reports […]
Demonstrators marching along Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House to encourage the Biden administration in ending its support of Haitian dictator Jovenel Moise. – Washington, DC – May 18, 2021 (Shutterstock) By BBC A group of 28 foreign mercenaries, including retired Colombian soldiers, assassinated Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse earlier this week, police say. After a […]
Haitian President Jovenel Moïse on stage at the Miramar Cultural Center. He spoke to a capacity audience about Haiti’s progress during his first year in office. – Miramar, Florida/USA – April 15, 2018 (Shutterstock) By Atlantic Council JUST IN It’s a shock to a reeling nation. Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was killed in his home […]