Category: Front Page
Good News Of Joy
Every year the lush of the poinsettia plants with their blooms in hues and their sparkling and irresistible colors shoot out like a time clock announcing the soon arrival of […]
Reparations: Long Overdue
By Jim Daniels Beginning in 1989 and every two years after that until his retirement in 2017, former U.S. Congressman John Conyers of Michigan introduced a bill called the “Commission […]
Church Celebrates 26th Annual Community Banquet And Scholarship Awards
By Paulette Blythe Hibbert Recently, St Martin’s Episcopal Church celebrated its 26th Annual Community and Scholarship Awards Banquet, honoring the contributions, work, and teachings of Marcus Mosiah Garvey and founder-pioneer […]
Some Facts For Your Thanksgiving Table
HARTFORD, CT: What are the facts about the immigrant “caravan” heading towards the United States? The Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants provided some facts and responses to frequently asked […]
Letter To The Editor: New Job Training And More!
Dear WIA News, I read with interest your article, “Training in Plumbing, Electricity, And Carpentry: It’s New And Lands You A Job,” in the 2018 October edition of The West […]
Narciso Fernandez Airey Lived A Full Life
Although it is always difficult to put words together to capture the life of one who meant so much to so many, it is fitting to make the attempt. The […]
Political Winners, Don’t Forget Your Inner-City Voters!
“Political posters decked out on inner-city storefront windows where store patrons and passersby do see the posters; they did vote and their votes counted. It is much more than reaching […]
Entrepreneur’s Vision Takes Off
Jamellia ‘Imani’ Blythe is one of eight Jamaican recipients for the 2018 Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI) fellow program. Through the program 250 young entrepreneurs from Latin America […]
A Visit To The Homeland – PART 2
By Leon Fraser Journalists residing in the Diaspora, particularly the United States and Canada were invited to take a trip during August 2018 to their motherland, Jamaica. After spending days […]
The #MeToo Movement – What You Need to Know
by Jim Daniels Twenty-five years ago, when there was no MeToo Movement and women were barely able to see around the door into the spaces occupied by white male […]