Recently, the Rhodes Trust announced the 32 American winners of Rhodes Scholarships for graduate study at Oxford University in England. Being …
December 2016
JA Small businesses benefit from Diaspora investments
One year into the multi-year partnership between the MSME Alliance and the Caribbean Enterprise Network (CEN-UK), a UK-based diaspora group, some 13 …
Compton Teen Elijah Christopher DeVaughn Earns Early Acceptance to Harvard
“I think that struggle – it ignites a fire under you to want to work hard and to want to do more.” …
Grandmother of 12 earns bachelor’s degree from Norfolk State University
The bachelor’s degree didn’t just fall in Darlene Pitts’ lap. After The Virginian-Pilot chronicled the Norfolk grandmother’s pursuit of a …
Jamaican Scientist Makes The List of Top 100 Global Thinkers-Congrats
Dr Gavin Jones, a young Jamaican Scientist was just named among Foreign Policy Magazine’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers. This remarkable achievement was …
NHS Blood & Transplant donate bloodmobile to Antigua
On Wednesday 23 November NHS Blood and Transplant donated a decommissioned bloodmobile to Antigua and Barbuda. This bloodmobile will be used to …
Students remove Shakespeare portrait in English dept., aiming for inclusivity
Penn English professor and Department Chair Jed Esty was surprised to find a large portrait of William Shakespeare waiting in his office. …
Desmond fought racial segregation in the 1940’s after refusing to give up a seat in a “whites only” section of a cinema. …
CaribDirect partners with Guyana’s popular HGPTV news channel
In the interest of providing greater news coverage from Guyana for our global Caribbean audience, CaribDirect Multi-Media have partnered with the popular …
Exceptionalism and failure: Caribbean lessons from Britain
The Brexit chickens are coming home to roost in a troubled British economy, however much British government ministers and other English nationalistic …