Wortley Home to open doors again two years after fire
By Jodi-Ann Gilpin From Jamaica Gleaner In a split second, residents of the Wortley Home for Girls in St Andrew went from living in a stable structure to being homeless, after fire destroyed the building last year. However, Tanya Wildish,…
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The Editor Speaks: Olympics, Dancing, Jamaica, Feeling Alright
Was it divine guidance or just coincidence when Jamaica’s 54th Anniversary of Independence was almost the same day as the opening of the XXXI Olympic Games? Jamaica was one day later. It is Jamaica’s 14th appearance at the Summer Olympics…
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What’s Emancipation Day to the Caribbean working-class?
By Ajamu Nangwaya/teleSUR From Carib Flame While it is great to commemorate Emancipation Day, this day must also be used to reflect, critique, assess, deliberate and plan for the next year of struggle. On 1 August 1838, enslaved Africans in the…
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Jamaica is paying its oil debts to Venezuela with food instead of cash
By Alan Hernández, VICE News From Business Insider Jamaica has announced it is going to pay off oil debts it has with Venezuela with food, medication, and fertilizers, instead of cash. The barter agreement comes at a time when Venezuela…
Give Thanks! – CCJ head says Caribbean justice system far better than inherited at emancipation
From Jamaica Gleaner President of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), Sir Dennis Byron, has urged the peoples of the region now marking 182 years since the reading of the British proclamation, conditionally emancipating thousands from slavery in 1834, to acknowledge…
Cayman Islands now under Tropical Storm Watch. Six die in Dominican Republic due to flooding
From Soualiga Newsday 01 Aug 2016 SINT MAARTEN/CAYMAN ISLANDS – The Cayman Islands National Weather Service has issued a tropical storm watch as of 6.00pm on Monday. The tropical wave is becoming more organized as it moves westward. The system…
Tropical Storm likely to form in Caribbean
By: Bob Henson , 2:00 PM GMT on August 01, 2016 From Weather Underground Figure 1. Enhanced infrared image of Invest 97L as of 1245Z (8:45 am EDT) Monday, August 1, 2016. Image credit: CIRA/RAMMB/CSU. The tropical wave in the…
What’s Emancipation Day to the Caribbean working-class?
By Dr. Ajamu Nangwaya From telesur While it is great to commemorate Emancipation Day, this day must also be used to reflect, critique, assess, deliberate and plan for the next year of struggle. On 1 August 1838, enslaved Africans in…
Report on Jamaica elections presented to OAS Permanent Council
From Caribbean News Now WASHINGTON, USA — Former Bahamas minister of foreign affairs, Janet Bostwick, who headed the Organization of American States (OAS) electoral observation mission (EOM) at the general elections held earlier this year in Jamaica, officially presented the…
Tired of the brush-off, Caribbean women start $1 million loan fund
BY JACQUELINE CHARLES From Miami Herald Commonwealth Women Entrepreneur of the Year Valrie Grant of Jamaica and Cecile Watson, CEO of Pitchandchoose.com are launching a Caribbean wide Commonwealth crowdfunding campaign to help women entrepreneur. Also joining them in this endeavor…
