The promoter of the Reggae Jam Festival in Germany (which was once more voted to be the best Reggae Festival in Europe) will be supporting the non-profit organisation HELP Jamaica! in the future. HELP Jamaica! is fundraising money in Europe, to establish alternative Education Centers in needy Jamaican communities as well as supporting existing education projects such as the Trenchtown Reading Centre (TRC).
Bernd Lagemann, the main person behind the Reggae Jam Festival, better known as ‚Sheriff’ is supporting the establishing of the first HELP Jamaica!-operated Education Center in the community of Cassava Piece in Kingston 8 with a covenant donation of 5000,- EUR right after the Reggae Jam Festival in August 2010. Continue reading The HELP Jamaica! organisation and the German ‘Reggae Jam’ Festival team up for Jamaica!
Bob Marley may have sung about ‘Coming In From The Cold’, but in the current issue of JamaicanEats magazine readers are chilling out with stories about Team Cool (the Jamaican bobsleigh team); hot Caribbean chefs in Vancouver; and heartwarming recipes for one sizzling Winter Olympics spread.
With spicy jerk cornbread, saucy pepper pot soup, and an exotic cow foot and tripe stew, our scrumptious Caribbean feast takes the chill out of frosty winter days. Plus, meet O’Brien Tingling, a Jamaican-born, Vancouver-based chef, who helped to fuel the likes of the world’s fastest man, Usain Bolt, at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
And the perks don’t stop there. The pages of this edition are buzzing with stories about the famous Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee. Scooting on her behind in the mountain dirt and hanging on for dear life, it finally dawned on writer Kaci Hamilton why this is no regular grind. She tells us about the bean scene in her coffee-picking tale. Continue reading JamaicanEats and Team Cool (the Jamaican bobsleigh team): Cool Runnings
N.Y., N.Y. January 4, 2010 – Sistas of the Soil presents their First Annual Evening of Elegance, Dinner and Dance on Saturday January 30, 2010 at 7:00PM at the Crown Plaza Hotel, 1601 Belvedere Road, West Palm Beach, FL 33415. Featuring World Renown Singer, Songwriter, Producer and Actor Dobby Dobson with music by Bradley Brown and Friends. Come be apart of this prestigious event and witness the unveiling of the much talked about magazine entitled “SISTAS IN BLOOM.” Continue reading Sistas of the Soil Evening of Elegance – Featuring Dobby Dobson
Kingston & New York – 01 December 2009 — Jamaica College (JC), today announced the establishment of a Robotics Program and its entry in the premier Robotics Competition in the US for high school students: the FIRST Competition. The Jamaica College Old Boys Association of New York, Inc will partner with JC in the project and is planning the creation of a fully outfitted Robotics Lab at JC and practical applications of robotics adopted in JC science education. Continue reading Jamaica College launches Robotics Program with historic entry of a Caribbean High School team in prestigious US FIRST Robotics Competition
Unique Caribbean Short Film Program at Rode Loper Festival in Amsterdam
On Saturday September 26 the Caribbean Creativity Foundation will present two unique programs of short films from the Caribbean as part of the Rode Loper Festival in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. From 14.00-15.30 hrs and from 19.30-21.00 hrs a wide range of productions will be screened at the Oosterpark, from documentaries and trailers to animation films and music videos. Together they represent the diversity and quality of the current media landscape of the (Anglophone) Caribbean – a region where a new generation of filmmakers has arrived. Armed with a digital camera they document the rich stories from the Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora. Continue reading Caribbean Creativity Presents ‘Kool Runnings’
