Crisis in Haiti: Food For The Poor Volunteers Respond to Call to Action, Pack...
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (March 20, 2024) – Food For The Poor (FFTP) is mobilizing volunteers to get thousands of relief kits packed and ready to be...
Changing Lives While Celebrating Jamaican Excellence, AFJ Charity Gala Returns in April 2022
New York, NY March 25, 2022 – The American Friends of Jamaica (AFJ) announced the 2022 Jamaica Charity Gala to be held in Miami, FL on Friday, April...
Building Hope in Trouchouchou, Haiti: Join Food For The Poor’s 24th Annual Celebration of...
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (Oct. 27, 2023) – For more than two decades, Orlando-area donors have committed to transforming the lives of some of the most impoverished...
Opinion: What Freedom Means in America
As an outside observer, not exactly new to American history, but certainly well educated about it, it seems like the word Freedom means different things...
An Exclusive Look at Chef Thia’s New Line of Signature Haitian Spices
An accomplished culinary expert and social media influencer known for Haitian-fusion cuisine and a larger-than-life personality, Cynthia Verna is adding a few new elements to...
Celebrating Leaders this Women’s History Month with Ana Calderon Randazzo
March is Women's History Month so Island Origins has decided to profile some truly remarkable women, like the Executive Director of Children’s Diagnostic & Treatment...
Y.A. Novelist Elizabeth Acevedo Celebrates Caribbean-American Teens
Whether set in space, other magical worlds, or just down the street, the books we read as young adults can become valuable explorations and expressions of our...
Caribbean Charity Calls for Support and Donations for COVID-19 mission
As COVID-19 continues to devastate the Caribbean's health systems and economy, supporting the charities serving the region proves more important than ever. Taking advantage of decades of...
31 Trailblazing Women in 31 Days: Janet Jagan, Janelle Penny Commissiong and Kamla Persad-Bissessar
This Women’s History Month, we’re celebrating some fearless, game-changing Caribbean women who have made an indelible mark on history, culture, and society. Every day in...
Filmmaker shares USVI’s survival stories In New Doc “Paradise Discovered”
For a Caribbean island, a direct hit by a category 5 hurricane should only happen once a century. But in 2017, the U.S. Virgin Islands got hit...
