Taíno, African, Indian, Spanish, Chinese, German, Portuguese, Syrian, Lebanese, English, Irish, French, and Welsh roots all inspire Jamaican art, music, folklore, language — and cuisine. Here food is ...

BOOKS by 15 authors, with roots in eight territories, have been shortlisted for the 2026 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, sponsored by One Caribbean Media, owner of the Trinidad ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Jamaica Book Festival is working to build a literary bridge between the Caribbean and Africa. An exchange between the regions ...

Moving is nerve-racking, even for young children. In The Last Last by Wendy J. Whittingham (Groundwood, 32 pages, hardcover, $22), written for children ages 3-6, a little girl tries to memorize every ...

The Jamaican bobsled team always garners a bit of extra attention at the Winter Olympics. That's the case as usual in 2026 in Italy, when they were even interviewed by Snoop Dogg during the Opening ...

MANCHESTER, Jamaica — A schoolgirl is among five people who sustained injuries in a multi-vehicle crash on the Winston Jones Highway in Manchester on ...

Miss Jamaica Gabrielle Henry gave fans an update Friday on her recovery, nearly three months after her devastating fall at the Miss Universe pageant. In November, the beauty queen was carried off on a ...

It’s “Cool Runnings” revisited, as Jamaica’s bobsledders return to a second consecutive Winter Olympics. The tropical island nation qualified three bobsled spots at the Milan Cortina Olympic games, ...

In April of 2023, when I was fresh out of a Ph.D. program in philosophy, I was hired as the nonfiction critic at the newly revived books section of the Washington Post. The shock to my system was ...

Jamaica measures 146 miles from end to end and 51 miles at its widest point — slightly smaller than the State of Connecticut. To the average American, this may seem small in terms of land, but the ...