LONDON: Victims of the 2017 Windrush scandal received some welcome news last week after Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced plans for a fundamental reset in the government’s response to those affected. In a special roundtable meeting at the...
LONDON: Lawson Crawford, a former senior solicitor with Myers Fletcher and Gordon UK law office and later, a director of legal and company secretary at University College London Business Ltd, passed away in London recently after a short illness....
LONDON: A memorial statue of Jamaica-born Nurse Mary Seacole, located on the grounds of the Guys and St Thomas Hospital, central London, was vandalised last week in what some have described as a racially motivated attack. The statue in honour of...
LONDON: As the Caribbean, last week, suffered the effects of Hurricane Beryl’s passage through the region, leaving destruction in its path, many UK-based organisations have made appeals for help and assistance for those affected. The Windward...
LONDON: Jamaican entertainer extraordinaire Michael James, better known as Jimmy James of The Vagabonds fame, passed away in London last week after a short illness. According to his wife of many years, Paula James, Jimmy was admitted to Northwick...
LONDON: Specially curated photographs of legendary reggae superstar Bob Marley during his early years in London taken by Jamaican film-maker and photographer Esther Anderson will be on show at the Muswell Hill Gallery, Hornsey, London N8, from May...
A refurbished memorial space at Hackney Downs Park, east London, dedicated to the memory of the New Cross Fire victims from 1981, was unveiled on March 2 to coincide with the 43rd anniversary of the Black Peoples Day of Action march, which...
LONDON: Senator Aubyn Hill, Jamaica’s minister of industry, investment and commerce, has promoted the island as a good place to do business as “it is the only country in the Western Hemisphere with a post-pandemic positive economic recovery rate”....
LONDON: London is gearing up to host Europe’s biggest street festival with the Notting Hill Caribbean Carnival, set for Bank Holiday weekend, Sunday and Monday, August 27 and 28. Steel bands, costumes, food stalls, sound systems and hundreds of...
LONDON: Former Met police Superintendent Leroy Logan MBE has called for investigations into the 1993 murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence to be reopened after a sixth suspect was named following a BBC TV news probe into the 30-year-old case....
The coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla last weekend was a momentous occasion which was celebrated with four days of activities and involved various communities throughout the UK. The centrepiece of the historic event was the...
LONDON: Two young British-born architects are determined to assist aspiring design students in Jamaica by donating new and reusable materials collected from universities in the UK which would otherwise have been disposed of and contribute to...
LONDON, England: As the countdown to tomorrow’s coronation of King Charles gathers pace, three outstanding women from the Caribbean have been given key roles in the historic British ceremony which will be held for the first time since 1953. The...
LONDON: Jamaica-born poet Linton Kwesi Johnson, who is also a renowned reggae icon, academic and campaigner, has launched his fifth book, titled Time Come: Selected Prose, a collection of his writings over the years, including essays, book...
LONDON: Edinburgh, the Scottish capital, will apologise for its historical links to slavery and colonialism after it adopted a series of recommendations from a review it launched in 2020 and chaired by Jamaican professor and civil rights activist...
Albert Jarrett, a World War II veteran from Hanover, Jamaica, died just one week after he was a Commonwealth Games baton bearer for the international sporting event that was held in his home town of Birmingham, England. Jarrett, who lived in Shard...
LONDON: Jamaica-born Councillor George Cole has been appointed the new Lord Mayor of Leicester, the first African-Caribbean person to hold the post in its centuries-old history. Cllr Cole, who represents Leicester’s Western Park Ward since 2011,...
A new Brexit-era visa scheme launched this week to attract the best graduates from the top 50 non-British universities who would like to work and live in the UK, has been chastised for not including those from African and Caribbean countries. The ‘...
LONDON: A new book, which tells the Windrush story from a different perspective, will be launched later this month when Tony Fairweather publishes his first novel, ‘Twenty-Eight Pounds Ten Shillings - a Windrush Story’ through HopeRoad...
LONDON: A GoFundMe page to raise money to assist with funeral arrangements has been set up by the family of the four persons, including a Jamaican, who were stabbed to death in their home in Bermondsey, southeast London, on April 25. As tributes...
LONDON: Jamaica 60 Independence activities were officially launched in the United Kingdom this week by Jamaica’s Minister of Culture, Entertainment and Sports, Olivia Grange and Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett when the visiting ministers hosted...
LONDON: Brent Council has won a long-standing court battle over the ownership of land housing a leisure centre and business park in northwest London, which was originally developed for use by the African Caribbean community. Last week, a High...
LONDON: Former London Transport bus driver, David Leslie, better known for his partnership with his wife Gloria Leslie in raising funds for the Noel Holmes Hospital in Hanover, Jamaica, has died aged 79. Leslie succumbed to his illness in...
LONDON: A new crowdfunding appeal has been launched in an attempt to stave off closure of the iconic New Beacon Books store in Finsbury Park, north London, which has been in operation since 1966. New Beacon Books is the only remaining independent...
LONDON: Professor Kevin Fenton, the London regional director for Public Health England, has been honoured with a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) by the Queen. He was among a list of over 1,000 persons to be awarded by the monarch when the...
