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WiredJA News Team Culture & Lifestyle 21 March 2022

BARBADOS | Re-introducing The Ethiopian National Anthem

BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOS, March 20, 2022 - Ambassador David Comissiong, in his capacity of Barbados Ambassador to CARICOM, has launched what has become known as the The Universal Ethiopian Anthem, composed by Barbadian, Rabbi Arnold Josiah Ford for Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association, UNIA.

WiredJA News Team Culture & Lifestyle 21 March 2022

BARBADOS | Re-introducing The Ethiopian National Anthem

JAMAICA | Major Highway to be named in honour of Harry Belafonte says Holness

WASHINGTON DC, March 1, 2022 - One of Jamaica’s highways is to be named in honour of renowned singer and actor of Jamaican parentage as well as civil rights activist,...

WiredJA News Team Culture & Lifestyle 01 March 2022

JAMAICA | The Caribbean demands Exoneration, Not Pardon for Marcus Garvey says PJ Patterson

KINGSTON, Jamaica, February 16, 2022 - Former Jamaican prime minister and Queen's Counsel, P. J. Patterson, says the litany of travesties surrounding the wrongful conviction of Marcus Garvey should be...

WiredJA News Team Culture & Lifestyle 18 February 2022

BRITAIN | David Lammy requests pardon for 1823 slave rebellion convicts

(THE GUARDIAN) LONDON, February 14, 2022 - David Lammy has written to the government asking it to pardon 70 abolitionists convicted for their role in the historic 1823 Demerara rebellion...

WiredJA News Team Culture & Lifestyle 15 February 2022

How American singer, actor and civil rights activist Paul Robeson became a hero in China

China National Radio and various channels of the widely influential China Central TV showcased Robeson on programs in 2021, 2012 and 2009 narrating China’s resistence to foreign military aggressions. This...

WiredJA News Team Culture & Lifestyle 10 February 2022

BRITAIN | Consistory Court hearing ends, Decision soon on slave investor memorial

CAMBRIDGE, England,February 5, 2022 - The Church of England’s Diocese of Ely on Friday ended three days of hearing into whether a monument to a slave trade investor should be...

WiredJA News Team Culture & Lifestyle 06 February 2022

BLACK PEOPLE in Germany were also holocaust victims of the Nazi era

MONTEGO BAY, January 31, 2022 - February is Black History Month, and one of the historical facts not very well known, is that the Jews were not the only people...

WiredJA News Team Culture & Lifestyle 04 February 2022

JAMAICA | New Voter ID Cards Up to International Standard

KINGSTON, Jamaica January 29, 2022 - JIS - The national voter identification (ID) cards have been brought up to international standard, with new design and security features added. The cards,...

WiredJA News Team Culture & Lifestyle 30 January 2022

Why Prince Andrew is losing his military titles, but staying a prince

Following rapid developments in the sexual abuse lawsuit against Prince Andrew, Buckingham Palace issued a statement announcing that Andrew will lose all his remaining patronages and military titles (such as...

Craig Prescott, Bangor University Culture & Lifestyle 27 January 2022

JAMAICA | Antonette Sandra-Lee Wemyss Gorman, First Female Head Of The JDF Takes Office

KINGSTON, Jamaica, January 21, 2022 - (JIS) History was created on Thursday January 20, when Rear Admiral Antonette Sandra-Lee Wemyss Gorman was installed as the Jamaica Defence Force’s (JDF) first...

Jamaica Information Service -JIS Culture & Lifestyle 21 January 2022

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BARBADOS | Re-introducing The Ethiopian National Anthem

JAMAICA | Major Highway to be named in honour of Harry Belafonte says Holness

JAMAICA | The Caribbean demands Exoneration, Not Pardon for Marcus Garvey says PJ Patterson

BRITAIN | David Lammy requests pardon for 1823 slave rebellion convicts

How American singer, actor and civil rights activist Paul Robeson became a hero in China

BRITAIN | Consistory Court hearing ends, Decision soon on slave investor memorial

BLACK PEOPLE in Germany were also holocaust victims of the Nazi era

JAMAICA | New Voter ID Cards Up to International Standard

Why Prince Andrew is losing his military titles, but staying a prince

JAMAICA | Antonette Sandra-Lee Wemyss Gorman, First Female Head Of The JDF Takes Office

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