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7,563 people have climbed Mt. Everest. Twelve men have walked on the moon. Only three men have run 100m in under 9.70 seconds.
🇯🇲Usain Bolt (9.58)
🇺🇸Tyson Gay (9.69)
🇯🇲Yohan Blake (9.69)
#UsainBolt #YohanBlake #Jamaica #Jamaican
Alma Mock-Yen (14 Nov 1928 - 31 Dec 2025), journalist, broadcaster, educator, mentor, born 98 years ago today. “The Doyenne of contemporary media” regarded as a pioneer of #Jamaican radio and of broadcast journalism training in the Caribbean.
She attended Wolmer's Girls' School from 1941 to 1946, and later taught for ten years at Merl Grove.
Mock-Yen worked at Radio Jamaica. With Ranny Williams, she pioneered the radio drama Life With The Morgan-Henrys and later hosted the talk show Hotline. She helped move Jamaican radio away from imitating British networks and toward programming that reflected local life. She was also a dancer, actress and poet, and led her own dance troupe.
At the University of the West Indies, she was a lecturer and long headed the Mona Campus Radio Unit. She was among the pioneers of distance education at the university. She trained many of the region's broadcast journalists, and former students remembered her for her insistence on diction, discipline and respect for the craft.
She was a member of Jamaica's Order of Distinction and a Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) Veteran Journalist in 2011. She served as PAJ secretary for 17 years.
In their eulogies Prime Minister Andrew Holness said her life had quietly helped shape the national consciousness, and the PAJ called her a trailblazer whose influence on Jamaican media would continue for years.
#Jamaica #Caribbean
Leford Green, #Jamaican athlete, born 40 years ago today on 14 Nov 1986, in Port Maria, St. Mary. Greater Portmore Primary, #Kingston College, Johnson C. Smith University alumnus. Won World Champs 4x400m Bronze 2011 Daegu. #Jamaica #Caribbean
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Herbert Macaulay (14 Nov 1864 – 7 May 1946), Nigerian nationalist, politician, surveyor, engineer, architect, journalist, and musician, born 162 years ago today. Considered by many as the founder of Nigerian nationalism.
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Judy Simpson, #Jamaican-British heptathlete, born 66 years ago today on 14 Nov 1960, in #Kingston. Won Commonwealth Games heptathlon Gold 1986 Edinburgh, Silver 1982 Brisbane, Bronze 1990 Aukland. Went on to appear as Nightshade in British TV show Gladiators 1993-96. #Jamaica #Caribbean
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The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
Jawaharlal Nehru (14 Nov 1889 – 27 May 1964), born 137 years ago today.
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Prejudice and bigotry are brought down...by the sheer force of determination of individuals to succeed and the refusal of a human being to let prejudice define the parameters of the possible.
Condoleezza Rice, 66th United States Secretary of State, born 72 years ago today on 14 Nov 1954, in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Deta Hedman, #Jamaican-British professional darts player, born 67 years ago on 14 Nov 1959, in #Kingston. Grew up in Castleton, St. Mary; moved to UK aged 13. Won Women’s World Masters in 1994; ranked World Number 1 until her first retirement in 1997. Reigning World Darts Federation (WDF) women’s world champion, having won 2025 WDF World Championship. #Jamaica #Caribbean
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Business expenses: Informal Payments to Public Officials in the #Caribbean (%)
🇬🇩#Grenada: 78.7
🇩🇲#Dominica: 77.6
🇹🇹#TrinidadandTobago: 73.7
🇧🇸#TheBahamas: 73.4
🇦🇬#AntiguaandBarbuda: 73.2
🇧🇧#Barbados: 68.2
🇯🇲#Jamaica: 65.7
🇸🇷#Suriname: 60.9
🇱🇨#StaintLucia: 60.3
🇰🇳#SKN: 54.8
🇧🇿#Belize: 47.4
🇬🇾#Guyana: 43.5
🇻🇨#SVG: 42.3
Source: IDB “Are We There Yet? The Path Towards Sustained Economic Growth in the Caribbean” (October 2024)
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Arnold Rampersad, celebrated #Trinbagonian-American biographer, literary critic, academic, born 85 years ago today on 13 Nov 1941, in #TrinidadandTobago #Caribbean
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45 years ago, in late 1981, state-owned Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation (JBC) began colour TV test broadcasts. #Jamaica last country in the world to fully convert from Black & White. Years of little capital investment, resultant inability to maintain ageing equipment had forced progress on us. The US NTSC standard was selected over European PAL. #Jamaicans had already chosen by importing numerous sets from America. #Caribbean
Errol Lee, #Jamaican singer, musician, bandleader, entrepreneur, radio personality, born 13 Nov not so long ago, in Clarendon. Founded Bare Essentials in 1971 with former members of Knox College’s school band, the Jaywalkers. #Jamaica #Caribbean #Reggae
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Rumeal Robinson, #Jamaican-American basketball player, born 60 years ago today on 13 Nov 1966, in #Mandeville. Played college ball at University of Michigan (1989 NCAA Champion); NBA for Atlanta Hawks (1990-92), New Jersey Nets (1992-93), Charlotte Hornets (1993-94), Los Angeles Lakers (1996-97), Phoenix Suns (1997). His life has been a movie that needs to be made. #Jamaica #Caribbean
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Basil Dawkins, prolific #Jamaican playwright, stage director, producer, and entrepreneur, born 72 years ago today on 13 Nov 1954, in Portland. A reminder that #Jamaica has the latent talent and sufficient material to build a robust film industry; our own Hollywood, Bollywood, Nollywood. Jollywood (dream with me here people)? #Jamaica #Caribbean
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Vivian Virtue (13 Nov 1911 – 17 Dec 1998), #Jamaican poet, translator, broadcaster, born 115 years ago today, in #Kingston. An important early voice. Work appeared in various journals, anthologies, collection Wings of the Morning (1938). Frequently appeared on BBC's Caribbean Voices radio programme. Poem ‘Landscape Painter’ has been used in CSEC English curriculum. #Jamaica #Caribbean
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Howard Cooke (13 Nov 1915 - 11 Jul 2014), fourth Governor-General of #Jamaica, born 111 years ago today, in Goodwill, St. James. Served from 1 Aug 1991 to 15 Feb 2006. Schoolteacher, life underwriter; founding member of the PNP, parliamentarian, government minister before his appointment. #Jamaica #Caribbean
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard…
#Caribbean destinations of abducted Africans - Map of slave-trade voyages across the Atlantic (Emory Center for Digital Scholarship, Mellon Foundation):
🇯🇲#Jamaica: 1,020,000
🇨🇺#Cuba: 779,000
🇭🇹🇩🇴St. Domingue: 774,000
🇧🇧#Barbados: 493,000
🇸🇷🇬🇾Dutch Guianas: 294,000
🇫🇷#Martinique: 217,000
🇦🇼🇨🇼Dutch Caribbean: 150,000
🇦🇬#Antigua: 138,000
🇰🇳#SaintKitts: 134,000
🇬🇩#Grenada: 129,000
🇩🇲#Dominica: 110,000
🇻🇮Danish West Indies: 109,000
🇫🇷#Guadeloupe: 73,000
🇬🇾British Guiana: 73,000
🇱🇨🇧🇸🇭🇳🇻🇬Other British Caribbean - #SaintLucia, #TheBahamas, #Honduras, #Tortola: 72,000
🇻🇨#SaintVincent: 59,000
🇳🇿🇰🇳#Montserrat & #Nevis: 47,000
🇹🇹#TrinidadandTobago: 44,000
🇫🇷French Guiana: 31,000
🇵🇷#PuertoRico: 27,000
🇧🇷Brazil: 2,525,000
🇨🇴🇻🇪Spanish Caribbean Mainland: 390,000
🇺🇸USA: 389,000
#Guyana #Aruba #Curacao #Suriname
Hedley Jones (12 Nov 1917–1 Sep 2017) Legendary #Jamaican inventor, engineer, musician, born 109 years ago near Linstead. Designed and built Jamaica's first sound systems; designed one of the world’s first solid-bodied electric guitars; designed and built #Jamaica’s first traffic lights. #Caribbean
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Lennie Hibbert (12 Nov 1928 - 8 Sep 1984), Legendary #Jamaican musician, teacher, Alpha School bandmaster, born Leonard Aloysius Hibbert, 98 years ago today in Mavis Bank, Saint Andrew. An “unsung hero” of Jamaican music. #Jamaica #Caribbean #Ska #RockSteady #Reggae
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