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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
KINGSTON, Jamaica January 12, 2022 -Former Jamaican prime minister PJ Patterson, has added his voice to the call for the posthumous exoneration of the Rt Honourable Marcus Garvey, National Hero...
KINGSTON, January 9, 2022 - Jamaica's Maroons have historically maintained that they are a sovereign state within the Jamaican State, the result of the 1739 treaties with the British colonial...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana’s governor on Wednesday posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, the Black man whose arrest for refusing to leave a whites-only railroad car in 1892 led to the...
MONTEGO BAY, December 26, 2021 - As we get ready to commemorate the 190th anniversary of the Sam Sharpe War which began just after the Christmas festivities on the 27th...