Former deputy police chief Peter Sloly – three months after his retirement – has moved to Deloitte Canada as an executive director. Sloly, who often sat during Toronto Police Board meetings just listening, will be advising clients at Deloitte on cybersecurity. In addition, Sloly will focus on crisis response and digital media and work on […]
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Prince Ermias Sahle-Selassie, grandson of the man at the heart of Jamaica’s Rastafarian movement, is on a nine-day trip to the Caribbean island, half a decade after the state visit of his late grandfather, emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie. The prince, accompanied by his wife Princess Saba Kebede, will stay in Jamaica […]
As thousands of refugees reach Canada’s shores, a Jamaican-born man is begging Canada to help him return here. “If I don’t get home, I’m going to die,” said former Toronto Argonaut Andrew Stewart who is fighting to return to Canada for life-saving treatment. Stewart who has been told he has three to five months to […]
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Prime Minister Andrew Holness has undertaken to have cabinet review the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People for its implications for the Jamaican Rastafari community. Holness gave the undertaking at a Jamaica House meeting with a delegation from the Rastafari Millennium Council (RMC), who visited him last week on […]
Reggae legend Leroy Sibbles backed by the Hard Core Band rolled into Lula Lounge this past Sunday, playing his vast repertoire of Heptone and Studio 1 hits, including the monster Heptone hit Book of Rules. Also on the bill were Jay Douglas, Ossie D., Chester Miller and Elaine ‘Lil’ Bit’ Shepherd. The evening was hosted […]
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Olympic champion Usain Bolt is one of the most influential people in the world, according to TIME magazine. The Jamaican has been named among world leaders, activists, artists and athletes, scientists, moguls and U.S. presidential hopefuls, in the list of the 100 Most Influential People of 2016. Writing about Bolt, who was […]
BOSTON, Massachusetts – Following his indictment and arrest on charges of running a $10 million Jamaica “bridge loan” Ponzi scheme, Mark Jones, part owner and former director of a business-process outsourcing entity in Jamaica, is reportedly negotiating with U.S. authorities, possibly in an attempted plea bargain. Meanwhile, Caroline Hay, the attorney for the business, Global […]
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Though it may not have had the numbers as in previous years, Jamaica Carnival’s Road March made a comeback to the streets of the Corporate Area last Sunday. Julianne Lee, a director of Jamaica Carnival, said she was however pleased with its staging. “It was a great dry run and we had […]
MIAMI, Florida – The U.S. government and the Securities Exchange Commission on March 15 indicted Mark A. Jones, former chairman and VP of Global Gateway Solutions Inc., with defrauding retirees in a “bridge loan fund” Ponzi scheme. Jones was arrested in Miami on March 13 and on March 15 was bound over to Judge […]
ANDREW, Jamaica – This week, the Shaggy Make a Difference Foundation handed over a cheque valued at $55 million to the Bustamante Hospital for Children in St Andrew. The money represents proceeds from the Shaggy and Friends Concert held on the lawns of Kings House in January. Businessman Kenneth Benjamin, chairman of the hospital, said […]
