For almost 40 years, I have been involved in community service; first as a high school volunteer adult literacy teacher, then as an event planner for various charitable causes and now as a manager of …
Band Members Celebrate 90th Birthday of Civil Rights Activist and Performer Harry Belafonte with Musical Tribute
NEW YORK, NEW YORK— Family and friends gathered at Club Bonafide on the East Side of Midtown Manhattan to recognize and pay tribute to the Humanitarian, Activist and Calypso King, Harry Belafont…
USF Grad Receives Bronze Star After Afghan Attack
By Ed Carpenter If Jophiel Philips JD ’11 had been five yards closer, he wouldn’t have lived to tell the tale. The U.S. Air Force JAG captain was blown into the air, when insurgents detonated a car bo…
A Hometown Hero: Honor, Duty, And Being A Lifelong Mets Fan
By Chris the Teacher Webster Dictionary defines a hero as a person who is admired for great, brave acts and/or fine qualities. Synonyms include idol, luminary, demigod, and paragon. For me, I have a …
Impact of a Trump Presidency on the Real Estate Market
What can we expect when a property industry tycoon becomes the leader of the free world for the first time in history? There was volatility in financial markets in the immediate aftermath of Trump’s v…
Renowned Scholar addresses Jamaica’s corruption at CIN’s 12th Annual Lecture Series
By: L. Mckenzie One of Jamaica’s renowned scholars Prof. Trevor Munroe was the keynote speaker for CIN’s 12th annual lecture series at the Schomburg Centre for Research and Black Cu…
Laugh Out Loud Humor
A doctor that had been seeing an 80-year-old woman for most of her life finally retired. At her next checkup, the new doctor told her to bring a list of all the medicines that had been prescribed for…
Manhattan Study crushes cholesterol myth
The next time your doctor says you need to lower your LDL cholesterol so you don’t have a heart attack or stroke, show him the results of the Northern Manhattan Study. The researchers that condu…
Sophia Greene Bio
Sophia Lorraine Greene was born in Kingston, Jamaica in the sixties. However most of her childhood was spent in Spanish Town, St. Catherine. Because both her parents were living abroad, Sophia was rai…
NEW YORK LAUNCH OF SKA & ROCKSTEADY MUSIC FESTIVAL IN KINGSTON, JAMAICA
Many turned out at the New York media launch of the 1st Annual One World Ska & Rocksteady Music Festival, to be held at The Ranny Williams Entertainment Centre in Kingston, Jamaica on Saturday and…
LETTER TO THE EDITOR – What is Community?
Community: a group of people who live in the same area (such as a city, town, or neighborhood); a group of people who have the same interests, religion, race, etc. Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. …
8 Jokes to Brighten Your Day
When a man opens the door of his car for his wife, you can be sure of one thing; Either the car is new or the wife. What’s the difference between stress, tension and panic? Stress is when…
