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June 5, 2026 by Omar Tomlinson

British-Jamaican Jhané Gibson is 2026 MasterChef UK winner

British-Jamaican Jhané Gibson was announced the winner of the culinary television show ‘MasterChef United Kingdom’ moments ago.
May 21, 2026 by Omar Tomlinson

Darian Bryan is Next Level Chef Season 5 winner

Jamaican-bred, New York-based chef Darian Bryan has won North American culinary reality hit show 'Next Level Chef', which airs on FOX Television.
May 14, 2026 by Omar Tomlinson

EITS Cafe's Mother's Day Brunch signals reopening after six-month closure

"I [felt like a] phoenix rising from the ashes," Robyn Fox reflected on the resilience within her as the reopening of Europe In The Summer (EITS) Café loomed for its Brunch 'n Beats…
Shanice Thompson, a third-year communications, arts, and technology student at the University of Technology, attended a casting call for SAINT International in 2023 and impressed the model agency’s founder, Deiwght Peters.
December 14, 2025 by Omar Tomlinson

Shanice Thompson ready to set her own course in fashion

While the high-fashion market remains a niche space for plus-sized models, Shanice Thompson is practical-minded. “I’m hyper aware of all the sentiments that are around full-sized models, the positive…
Actor, poet and author Sheldon Shepherd lensed by influential British fashion photographer Nick Knight at his SHOWstudio in London last year. The image is also the cover art for Shepherd’s new single, ‘Give Thanks’, which dropped on November 14.
December 9, 2025 by Omar Tomlinson

The many lives of Sheldon Shepherd

Sheldon Shepherd’s life these days demands serious multitasking. With his debut album and a lead role in the hotly anticipated British television miniseries The Inheritance both on the way next year,…
Misgana African Art founder and curator Seble Asfaw is the woman in the middle of Karl Parboosingh’s ‘Jamaican Gothic’ (1968), oil on hard board (at left) and Carl Abrahams’s ‘Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah’ (1965), oil on hard board.
December 9, 2025 by Omar Tomlinson

Embracing her destiny

Familial tragedy nudged Seble Asfaw to turn a passion side-project into a full-time pursuit. “I lost my father, uncle, and nephew all within a three-month span,” the Ethiopian-American recalls of the…