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JAMAICA (Feb. 17, 2022) “Charitable organisation Food For The Poor (FFP) Jamaica donated 30 tablet devices to the National Education Trust (NET) in support of the Jamaican Government’s ‘One Laptop or Tablet Per Child’ initiative.” To read more, click here.

BOCA GRANDE, Fla. (Feb. 22, 2022) “When asked where she sleeps, Iltica points to the ground in Perigny, Haiti, not far from the dilapidated home that was destroyed by a devastating earthquake last August.” To read more, click here.

JAMAICA (Feb. 10, 2022) “Carlton Francis and his common-law-wife Petrolina Blair found it “more convenient” to sleep at Coronation Market in downtown Kingston than their home at Lucky Valley district, Linstead, St Catherine.” To read more, click here.

JAMAICA (Feb. 10, 2022) “Carlton Francis and Petrolin Blair’s heart-warming love story has moved donors to give the vulnerable couple a place to call home as an early Valentine’s Day gift.” To read more, click here.

JAMAICA (Feb. 8, 2022) “After what others would have considered an unpleasant encounter when chased and stung by a bee, the then 16-year-old Raphael Foster was instead attracted and enthralled by the occasionally aggressive and brightly coloured insect, falling in love despite its painful sting.” To read more, click here.

FREMONT, Ohio (Feb. 1, 2022) “St. Ann’s Scout Troop 339 will hold a magazine and newspaper drive Saturday and Sunday, at St. Ann’s Church parking lot, West State Street at Rawson Avenue. Twenty percent of the proceeds from all their paper drives this year will again be donated to Food For The Poor.” To read […]

JAMAICA (Jan. 29, 2022) “When Keonie White was just a few days old, she contracted pneumonia after her release from hospital.” To read more, click here.

JAMAICA (Jan. 24, 2022) “In an effort to continue empowering rural women in the parish, the non-profit organisation Women of Manchester (WOM) is seeking to expand its operations and help those it serves become more self-sufficient.” To read more, click here.

WASHINGTON (Jan. 21, 2022) “Renderings of bustling markets, lush forests and incongruous fauna dominate “The Color of Haiti,” Watergate Gallery’s more-or-less annual survey of paintings from the impoverished Caribbean nation. The styles, from realist to childlike, are familiar from previous such shows, as are the characteristic imagery and a few of the individual pictures. One […]

JAMAICA (Jan. 19, 2022) “Garfield Robinson’s excellent piece on Patrick Patterson in the Jamaica Observer on January 6, 2022 left me nostalgic as I recalled the halcyon days of West Indies cricket.” To read more, click here.