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Google Doodle: Who is the Jamaican Poet Louise Bennett-Coverley?

The storyteller helped establish Jamaican Patois and Creole as its own “nation language” and not just an English dialect.

Evening Standard

Who is Louise 'Miss Lou' Bennett Coverley? Google Doodle celebrates life of icon

September 7 marks the birthday of the late Louise Bennett-Coverley, a Jamaican poet that inspired a generation. There is a new Google Doodle to commemorate her life and here is everything you need to know about her

Daily Mirror

A moment that changed me: As my parents argued, I watched reggae on TV and felt transported

Seeing people in Jamaica dancing in the street made me want to join them, and began a lifelong love that led me to become a DJ

The Guardian - UK

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Etta Khwaja obituary

Other lives: Deputy headteacher and long-serving community leader in Haringey, north London

The Guardian - UK

Inside the former debauched pirate city that's slowly disappearing into the sea

Port Royal in Jamaica was the centre of the English world in the Caribbean during the 17th century, but now lies under the sea's surface slowly disintegrating in the waves

Daily Mirror

Jamaica sending team to Canada to probe work conditions on farms

Fact-finding team will travel to Canada to speak with Jamaican farmworkers after recent allegations of exploitation.

Al Jazeera

Nurse accused of killing 5 might have lost consciousness, suffered mental collapse before crash

LOS ANGELES — The nurse facing murder charges for allegedly slamming her Mercedes-Benz into traffic this month in Windsor Hills was in the throes of a “frightening” mental health crisis in the days, hours and minutes before the crash, new court records filed by her attorneys show.

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Reggae pioneer Jimmy Cliff: ‘In England we had to fight to get any kind of recognition’

The musician on his early struggles in London, his enduring appeal and auditioning Bob Marley, and the problem with Jamaican independence

The Guardian - UK

Arsenal reveal new kit ahead of Fulham clash with Jamaica theme before Notting Hill Carnival

Arsenal are set for a new look before their match against Fulham on Saturday, with the release of a new pre-match kit

Football London

Jamaican minister rejects workers’ abuse claims on Canadian farms

Jamaican farm workers in Canada who raised abuse allegations say labour minister’s comments are a ‘slap in the face’.

Al Jazeera

Post-Euro 2022 boost can lift Championship as well as WSL – Paige Bailey-Gayle

The Jamaica international is a new signing at second-tier Crystal Palace.

The Independent UK

Jamaica, Ecotourism & Psilocybin Microdosing: Silo Wellness Offers Psychedelic Holidays

Toronto-based psychedelics company Silo Wellness Inc. (OTCQB: SILFF) has launched its first ecotourism microdosing psilocybin resort and retreat center at Go Natural Jamaica in Long Bay, Portland, Jamaica.

Benzinga

Jamaican farmworkers decry ‘seismic-level exploitation’ in Canada

Temporary foreign workers renew calls for Canada to grant them permanent residency amid fresh abuse allegations.

Al Jazeera

On a Connecticut farm, 100 migrant workers spend months living, cooking and harvesting tobacco together

ENFIELD, Connecticut — Gerald Gray wakes up at 5:30 a.m. to prepare his meals for the long day in the fields as one of the 100 Jamaican workers employed by the Jarmoc family on the Jarmoc Farms tobacco fields.

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Daily Mirror

Boy, 4, dies after being hit by car while returning from his older brother’s funeral

Domantea McDonald, four, was outside his uncle's home in Jamaica, Queen's in New York City, when he broke away from his mum and ran out into the middle of the road

The Independent UK

The destinations that have scrapped all Covid travel restrictions

More than 40 destinations worldwide have ended all Covid-related travel rules

The Guardian - UK

‘My mum used to cook for the Wailers!’: Leeds puts its West Indian history on display

With illegal blues parties in basements and impassioned activism across the city, Windrush was more than just a London story – as this new string of events proves

Daily Mirror

Teacher fakes brother's death to skive work before probe finds she not even qualified

The school set up an investigation after some of her claims about why she was away were revealed as untrue, as dialing codes when she sent messages showed she was in Kingston, Jamaica

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The Times of India

Mitchell Santner stars as New Zealand beat West Indies in T20 series opener

KINGSTON (Jamaica): West Indies' season of white-ball woe continued on Wednesday when New Zealand completed a 13-run win in the first T20 International of a three-match series at Sabina Park in Jamaica.

The Independent UK

Monaco Diamond League live stream: How to watch online and on TV

Jamaica’s world champions Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Shericka Jackson battle it out in the women’s 100m with Great Britain’s Jake Wightman in action again after bronze at Birmingham 2022

The Guardian - UK

Tom Daley: Illegal to Be Me review – a beautiful, moving protest against homophobia

What starts as a documentary trying to ban countries with anti-LGBTQ+ laws from hosting the Commonwealth Games blossoms into something deeper – and far more touching

Evening Standard

MPs go on sponsored cricket tour of Jamaica as cost of living crisis looms

A group of MPs and Lords have headed on a sponsored cricket tour to Jamaica during the building cost of living crisis.

Evening Standard

Londoner’s Diary: Touring politicians on sticky wicket as crisis looms

In today’s Diary: MPs and Lords on Jamaican cricket tour / Labour MP teams up with unions in campaign / In defence of intimacy coordinators / Ibiza party / Olivia Newton-John tribute

ABC News

Diamonds return to the top at Commonwealth Games, their first major tournament victory in seven years

Diamonds coach Stacey Marinkovich was criticised for her tactics in Birmingham, but it was her insistence on depth and using her bench that saved Australia in the gold medal match against Jamaica, writes Brittany Carter.

ABC News

Commonwealth Games 2022 medal tally: Australia beats Jamaica in the netball, Peter Bol second in 800m and road race gold

Impressive team victories at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham see Australia maintain its lead at the top of the medal standings. See the latest medal tally here.

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