Errol Kerr lives here in CA and is representing Jamaica in the Winter Olympics

Jamaica will have an athlete competing in an Olympic event beside bobsled for the first time in Vancouver. Ski cross racer Errol Kerr, a Truckee, Calif. native, has dual citizenship thanks to his Jamaican father. At the 2009 World Championships, he placed 10th in ski cross and took fifth at his first X Games in 2008. More info on Errol..

Rex Nettleford - Guardian of our crossroads
Jamaica Gleaner
Published: Wednesday | February 10, 2010

The first time I met Rex Nettleford was when he came to our Kingston high school in 1968, around the time of the Rodney uprising, to speak to our sixth form about black power. I don't remember what he said, because I didn't understand it. Read more..

Icon lost - Golding, Simpson Miller mourn Nettleford
Jamaica Gleaner
Published: Wednesday | February 3, 2010

Jamaica lost one of its most revered cultural figures last night when Professor Rex Nettleford, vice-chancellor emeritus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) and founder of the National Dance Theatre Company (NDTC), died, just hours before he would have celebrated his 77th birthday. Read more..

RIP REX - Cultural icon Prof Nettleford dies in US
Jamaica Observer
Wednesday, February 03, 2010

PROFESSOR Rex Nettleford, one of Jamaica's brightest sons and a cultural icon, died in the George Washington University Intensive Care Unit last night, six days after he collapsed in his hotel room in Washington and four hours before his 77th birthday. Read more..

Albert Huie is dead
Jamaica Observer
Monday, February 01, 2010

JAMAICAN master painter Albert Huie died in Baltimore, Maryland yesterday after a long illness. He was 89. Read more..

Jamaica Music Museum - a sample of what can be
Jamaica Gleaner
Published: Sunday | January 17, 2010

Herbie Miller stands near the middle of Jamaica's musical chronology in words, images and artefacts along the side of a partition at the Institute of Jamaica, downtown Kingston, and said "I like to call this our 22 yards of Jamaican music history." Read more..

Non-exclusionary approach taken to museum, Dermott Hussey donates entire collection
Jamaica Gleaner
Published: Sunday | January 17, 2010

The last and latest Jamaican music genre in the mini-exhibition on Jamaican music is dancehall. It is written that "perhaps the most controversial and polarising genre of Jamaican music, dancehall, currently dominates the island's musical landscape". Read more..

The Story of George Stiebel, Jamaica's first black millionaire

There was every indication at a very early stage that George Stiebel was destined to lead an intriguing life. Read more..

Portland's love story
Jamaica Gleaner
Published: Saturday | November 14, 2009

Patrice Wymore Flynn has two great loves: her late husband, the actor Errol Flynn, and her adopted home, Portland. Read more..

A little walk down Jamaica's Memory Lane (5MB .pdf)

Caribbean/West Indian Youth Club
A JCA | Blazers Learning Center Partnership

======

Frances-Anne Solomon’s dramatic feature film A Winter Tale, starring the legendary Leonie Forbes, heads to theatres in Jamaica

Read Devon Harris's KEEP ON PUSHING ™ e-zine

Subscribe to Devon's Daily Dose of Inspiration

POINTS TO PONDER
America's Jell-O Man shakes things up by arguing that African Americans are betraying the legacy of civil rights victories. more...

*****************************

Jamaica in the News

The Jamaica Observer
The Jamaica Gleaner
The Sunday Herald
and our News page

*****************************

[back to top]