Jamaica’s Environment is off balanced so warns Earthbound Company Ltd, the only local company that specializes in 100% biodegradable food containers, utensils and packaging. To promote and spread the need for Eco awareness, Earthbound Company Ltd launched an infomercial aptly titled JAMAICA ENVIRONMENT – OFF BALANCE. This infomercial was the brainchild of Managing Director Yolande Rattray-Wright.
Environmental awareness and protection has always been a strong passion and one of the greatest long term concerns for Ms Rattray-Wright, hence the conception of Earthbound Company Ltd in 2006. Continue reading Earthbound Infomercial Launched
The University Players’ will pay tribute to the late Trevor Rhone with a staging of his award-winning comedy “Two Can Play” which will be presented for just six performances beginning Saturday October 17th and continuing through to Monday October 26 at the Philip Sherlock Centre for the Creative Arts, UWI, Mona.
Two Can Play, a work which won the award for Best Jamaican Play in 1982, features performances by 2008 Actor Boy Award nominees Nadean Rawlins and Alwyn Scott, and is directed by Brian Heap, who also won this year’s award for Best Director. The most recent University Players’ appearance by Nadean Rawlins and Alwyn Scott was in the Players’ memorable production of A. R. Gurney’s Love Letters which was presented earlier this year. Continue reading University Players’ Tribute to Trevor Rhone
NEW YORK, NY. Tuesday, June 30, 2009 — The Jamaican Consulate General, New York announces a Passport Outreach on Wednesday, 15 July 2009 in the community of Hartford, Connecticut. This will be held from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm at the Collin Bennett Agency, Collin Bennett Building, 1229 Albany Avenue, CT 06112. Continue reading VISIT OF JAMAICAN CONSULATE GENERAL, NEW YORK TO CONNECTICUT
Change has come to the White House.
With a president reputed to be a foodie and three of his top advisors who trace their roots to the Caribbean (Attorney-General Eric Holder – Barbados; Susan Rice, U.S. United Nations Ambassador – Jamaica; and Adolfo Carrion, Director of Urban Affairs – Puerto Rico), the current edition of JamaicanEats magazine has laid out a Caribbean-inspired feast fit for a president.
The menu spreads the warmth of the tropics to Washington with a saucy jerk salmon dish that’s been getting rave reviews; jerk chicken salad; a hearty Cuban black bean soup; Bajan (Barbadian) stuffed pork loin; Bahamian conch fritters; Puerto Rican coffee pie; flaming banana and pineapple in sorrel rum syrup, and much more. Continue reading Obama’s Caribbean Kitchen
NEW YORK (JIS) Monday, April 06, 2009 - By sheer coincidence and against tremendous odds, the Thirteenth Annual staging of the Mega Raffle Drawing organized by the Union of Jamaican Alumni Associations (UJAA), proved to be the charm for Immaculate Conception High School Alumni Association – New York chapter.
And it took a rival alumni unit – Wolmer’s Girls Alumni to create the charm. Deputy Consul General of Jamaica in New York, Mrs. Tracey Blackwood, a Wolmer’s Alumna, picked the winning grand prize ticket (R-1539) from the huge (drum) container holding some 36,000 stubs, to hand Immaculate Alumnae Association its first grand prize winner in 13 tries. Continue reading UJAA MEGA RAFFL 13, ANOTHER BIG SUCCESS
