Jamaican History
On Thursday night, Earth’s shadow will swallow almost the entire Moon above Jamaica. The spectacle recalls a darker night in 1504, when Christopher Columbus turned an eclipse into a weapon of fear.
KINGSTON, Jamaica August 6, 2026 — Sixty-four years after the Union Jack came down at the National Stadium, Jamaica is…
There is something wonderfully revealing about land. Long after governments change, flags are replaced and constitutions are rewritten, the land…
As Jamaica marks Emancipation Day 2026, the country stands between the sacrifices that built it and a new age of…
As the world emerged from the spectacle of its own survival into the first morning of the year 2000, it carried with it two freshly minted global honours — TIME Magazine’s Album of the Century and the BBC’s Song of the Millennium — both bestowed upon a man who had been dead for nearly two decades. What followed across the twelve months of that inaugural millennial year was not nostalgia. It was something far more alive.
Welcome to the land of wood and water — known to the Taíno as Zika, and later, to the English,…
In 2025, eight decades after a child was born in the red hills of Saint Ann, the world paused to take stock of what that birth had set in motion. The year tested a proposition that few artists could survive: that a legacy, properly tended, grows rather than fades — and that a man whose voice was silenced forty-four years ago could still speak to the present with undiminished urgency.
Some places whisper their stories through stone and song. Jamaica sings them loudly. Drive across this island and you’ll see…
There are moments when a song doesn’t just fill the air — it fills the story of a nation. Oh…
“I met a girl this morning, and she was love at first sight… she told me that her name is…
THIS ARTICLE IS HYPOTHETICAL AND INTENDED FOR INFORMATIONAL AND DISCUSSION PURPOSES ONLY. WHILE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS HAVE HIGHLIGHTED BLACK RIVER’S POTENTIAL…
On May 23rd each year, the island of Jamaica resonates with the clang of hammers, the hum of paint rollers,…
In a single February week in 2024, a Grammy fell to a Marley, a film opened in cinemas across six continents, and a dead man’s birthday stopped the internet. What the extraordinary convergence of that month — and the year that surrounded it — revealed about Bob Marley, Jamaica, and a world still hungry for his message.
Kingston, Jamaica – Jamaica Homes, the island’s leading online real estate platform, is excited to announce the launch of its…
Jamaican Patois, or Patwa, is a dynamic and evolving language that tells the story of Jamaica’s past, shapes its present,…