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Sandra Fatmi-Hall is known by the communities she serves, as a Community Activist, Advocate, Leader and Ambassador with a passion for young people. She is selfless about helping to bring solutions to all problems presented to her, and has made it her life's mission to leave the world better than she saw [...]

Andrew Smalling was born in Jamaica and immigrated to the United States at the age of 8. He grew up with loving, working-class parents in the Bronx, NY where he attended public middle school and high school. After attending college at the Florida Institute of [...]

Adrienne “Addy” Chin-Ogilvie was born in Portsmouth, England to her Chinese-Jamaican parents. They returned to Jamaica when Addy was an infant and lived in Vineyard Town in Kingston.  Addy attended Blake’s Prep. School, Alpha Academy and Alpha Commercial College and she went on to work [...]

Lloyd Cohen was born in a tiny country village, Orange River, close to Richmond in St. Mary. He, along with his sister Carmen were raised by their maternal grandparents. Their mother migrated to England as a member of the Windrush Generation. Despite the presence of [...]

Dr. Kijana Nix is from Kingston, Jamaica and is a General Pediatrician and Hospitalist who is Board Certified by the American Board of Pediatrics. She is licensed to practice medicine in Washington DC, Maryland, Virginia, Georgia, Antigua and Barbuda (for medical mission), Trinidad and Tobago [...]

Malachi Smith is originally from Westmoreland, Jamaica and grew up in Central Village, Spanish Town, St. Catherine.  A determined man who charted a unique course for his life as a police officer, a poet, a playwright and a philanthropist.  Malachi is an accomplished Jamaican writer [...]

Lorna Owens is from Georges Valley in Manchester, Jamaica where she was the eldest of four children. She studied nursing at the University of the West Indies and worked as a nurse in Kingston before going to England to study Midwifery. After returning to Jamaica [...]

Hugh Sinclair, a.k.a. Chef Irie, the Global Culinary Architect, is the CEO and Executive Chef of Chef Irie Spice, Inc. – Private Chef and Catering Services, providing food services to the tri-county area of South Florida. Chef Irie hails from St. Catherine, Jamaica, where he [...]

Captain Janice G. Smith is a Native of St. Catherine, Jamaica and enlisted in the United States Navy in 1989.  She migrated to Miami, Florida after completing Bog Walk High School. She attended Miami-Dade Community College and enlisted in the United States Navy to see [...]

Jermaine “Ryan” Haughton hails from humble beginnings in Water Cress, Clarendon, where he was primarily raised by his maternal grandmother. His childhood in Jamaica was filled with love and satisfaction although he was not afforded many material trappings. He moved to the United States as [...]