Our Lives | BLACK EYE Dec 17, 2014
Japan and others gain from Jamaican brain drain
by Baye McNeil
In the last part of this series on Jamaicans in Japan, Baye McNeil speaks to a teacher, author and poet in Yokohama and an attorney in Tokyo.
Our Lives | BLACK EYE Nov 19, 2014
Jamaican sisters come bearing victuals and vibes
by Baye McNeil
Baye McNeil profiles two Jamaican women who have built thriving careers for themselves in the Land of the Rising Sun, half a planet away from the Land of Wood and Water.
Our Lives | BLACK EYE Oct 22, 2014
Another island nation, idolized and imitated: Jamaica and I
by Baye McNeil
Only in my 30s did I learn that I, too, had roots, or at least branches aside from my mother's, which only extended to some cotton plantation south of the Mason-Dixon line.
National Jul 29, 2014
Japan to set up new economic aid programs for Caribbean Community
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday pledged to launch new economic aid programs for the 14 member states of the Caribbean Community to continue support for the countries even after Japan's official development assistance ends. At the first summit meeting between Japan and the community ...
World / Social Issues May 14, 2014
A 12-year-old orphan boy handicapped from birth became the first recipient of a prosthesis made with a 3-D printer in Haiti last month, thanks to a British software engineer in California and a South African amputee. Born without fingers on either hand, Stevenson Joseph had ...