Island Origins Live – Jamaica Leads as a Model for Safe Tourism
Donovan White is the current Director of Tourism for the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB). His job is to oversee the marketing of Jamaica to the...
Three Questions – Entanglements and more
Xavier Murphy (Jamaicans.com), Ian Hamilton (SFLCN.com), Eddy Edwards (Jerk Festival) and Lloyd Stanbury (Majesty Media) give spur of the moment answers to popular questions, like…...
Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick: An Unstoppable Candidate for Congress
Haiti & the Dominican Republic | Attorney, CEO of Trinity Health Care Services, Inc. and Candidate for Congress in the U.S. House of Representatives
My Life As A Gay Jamaican
Writer: Ghenete Wright Muir | Photography: David I. Muir
Ghenete Wright Muir is possibly South Florida’s most outspoken gay, Jamaican woman. As evidenced by her signature crew cut,...
White Caribbean Woman on the Black Lives Matter (BLM) Movement
Verandah Talk - with Sonya Sanchez Arias
As a white Caribbean woman with a strong island accent in a mixed race marriage,...
This Caribbean Queer Activist Gives Voice to an Underrepresented Community
If you’ve read Staceyann Chin’s 2009 coming-of-age memoir, “The Other Side of Paradise,” you know that even as a little girl in rural Jamaica, she...
What Black America Needs to Know About COVID-19 and Vaccines
Government, community, and faith-based leaders join forces to champion the fight against COVID-19
The new year has brought with it more daunting...
Andrew Gillum’s Personal Message to the Caribbean Community
Calibe Thompson, publisher of Island Origins Magazine had a chance to sit and have a robust conversation with Democratic Florida gubernatorial nominee (candidate at the time), Andrew...
From the Frontlines: Caribbean Americans Fighting COVID-19
The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic has quickly changed the world as we know it, throwing our comfortable routines out the window. It tore us apart while bringing us...
Yes, My Caribbean Vote Counts! (And So Should Yours)
You'd be hard pressed to find anyone to disagree with the idea that the 2016 election truly was the most consequential election in our lifetimes. All us...
