Wha a Gwaan? – World Impact of Jamaican Language
Jamaican Creole has been widely dispersed and had an impact on people all over the world. In our first Abeng News video magazine, we speak…
Television in Jamaica … ha
In 1962, when Jamaica celebrated its Independence, there was no television station to capture it. JBC, the Jamaica Broadcast Corporation was established in 1963. JBC…
Challenging the Myth of Marcus Garvey – Prof Robert Hill Confronts ‘Reality’
Was Jamaican national hero Marcus Garvey’s vision for Africa that of implanting a Western world view onto the continent and its Diasporas for which he…
Britannia Rules
The evil that men do lives after them and so too their laws. This is the case of the British in India. Ironically, I saw…
Jamaican Mother Gets Free Heart Surgery in Cayman Islands
CAYMAN ISLANDS (October 14, 2014) – A young woman from Jamaica returned home on Monday after being the latest beneficiary of life-enhancing surgery and care…
The Price of Memory – Rastafari vs the British Monarchy for Slavery Reparations
Before Pan-Africanism and reparations for the horrors of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, which many social scientists believe remains to haunt the dilapidated socio economic and…
NY School Official’s Comments on Hispanics Spark Rolling Protests
Spring Valley (Abeng News) – A multi-racial coalition of residents of the upstate NY community of Rockland County, have taken to the streets in rolling…
Rockland Community Dialogue to Avoid Replay of Ferguson
Spring Valley, NY. (Abeng News) – The Rockland community of New York state, is using the police killing of 17 year-old Michael Brown, August 9,…
Cricket Below Parr
Jack Parr was the first host of the ground-breaking, late-night television programme known as ‘The Tonight Show’ later made even more popular by Johnny Carson…
Tony and the Rooster Booster
There are twelve signs in the Shēngxiào or Chinese zodiac, each linked to an animal. The Rat is the first animal in the cycle and…
IMF’s Lagarde Calls for Caribbean Partnership for Building the Future
The managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine, Lagarde has identified partnership among Caribbean Countries and with the IMF as the way to tackle…
The King and I
There are many faces to Sparrow- his humour, his women, his travels, his concern for social justice, his politics and his raw sexuality. But they are our faces, our concerns and our interests. He is us.