Month: August 2024

On August 16, jazz vocalist and trumpeter Jumaane Smith, a native of Seattle, Washington, will be celebrating the release of his new album, Come on Home. “This album is my life experience put into music, all of the ups and downs, peaks and valleys, trials and tribulations,” Smith says.  When Smith was a kid he went through a lot of tough things at home, and in the midst of all […]

Sri Lanka beat India for the first time in 27 years in a bilateral one-day international series when it cascaded to a 110-run win in the third and final match, winning the series 2-0 in Colombo. They pulled off a thrilling tie in the first ODI before winning the second by 32 runs. India hadn’t lost an ODI series to Sri Lanka since 1997. They were bowled out for 138 […]

Prime Minister Andrew Holness called an early Monday meeting of his security advisers after eight people were killed in overnight violence in the central-southern District of Clarendon just weeks after 24 people were killed in gun violence in a single week late last month. Facing a general election next year with his governing Jamaica Labor Party (JLP) trailing in the polls, Holness urged police and soldiers to relentlessly pursue those […]

Antigua and Barbuda  The newly formed LIAT 2020 made its inaugural flight to St. Lucia last Tuesday, returning to the skies of the inter-regional airline, whose previous owners, LIAT (1974) Ltd went bankrupt in January this year.  LIAT 1974 Ltd has been under administration since July 24, 2020, and the new entity has been formed in partnership with Air Peace, a private Nigerian airline, founded in 2013 would be putting […]

Jamaican Kishane Thompson was beaten out for gold by the slimmest of margins on a perfectly timed lean from American Noah Lyles on August 4, for the 100-meter race at the 2024 Paris Olympics.  Their times of 9.79 seconds needed to be calculated farther out to determine the winner with Lyles winning 9.784 to 9.789. Thompson was five-thousandths of a second away from joining the company of fellow Jamaican Usain […]

Top-order batsman Alick Athanaze missed out on his first Test century as West Indies salvaged a draw against South Africa in the opening Test match at the Queen’s Park Oval in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. The left-handed batsman scored 92 runs of the 298 needed for victory. The West Indies reached 201/5 on the last day of the Test match which was affected by rain. Athanaze faced 116 balls smacking nine boundaries, […]

In reflecting on the 190th anniversary of emancipation from slavery on August 1,1834 and Jamaica’s anniversary of political independence 62 years ago on August 6, 1962, Jamaica Prime Minister Andrew Holness says these two significant and pivotal milestones have shaped modern Jamaica and the country’s realities today. “On August 1st, 1834, the shackles of slavery were legally broken, marking the end of an era of brutal oppression that spanned centuries,” […]

New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli is urging the state’s Department of Health (DOH) to do more to ensure maternal deaths and morbidity rates decline. In releasing an audit on August 6, DiNapoli said while DOH has made progress in improving maternal health, “federal and state health data shows pregnancy-related health conditions and death rates have increased since a taskforce was established in 2018 to address maternal health and […]