Last year, we shared the sad truth that Jamaica’s coral reefs—due to overfishing, coastal pollution and climate change—may disappear within the next 20 years, and the story of one organization working to prevent that outcome. The Oracabessa Fish Sanctuary partnered with a local fishing cooperative to create a no-fishing zone and replenish the coral reefs of Oracabessa Bay. The sanctuary paid off, with over 2,000 […]
In the Kitchen with Jamaica’s Top Culinary Duo
Rousseau sisters with Johnny Iuzzini at NyamJam We’re back in the kitchen with Suzanne and Michelle Rousseau, the chefs behind the island’s popular cooking series Two Sisters and a meal. The duo’s cookbook, Caribbean Potluck, came out in 2014, and last year they participated in Island Outpost’s innaugural NyamJam Festival.. They recently dished about the lessons they’ve learned over the years being food entrepreneurs on Outpostings, […]
How a Study Abroad in Cape Verde Led to a New Life in Jamaica
Photo via Ashley Hyde Travel has a way of changing your life in an impactful way. That’s what happened to Ashley Hyde, who runs one of Jamaica’s most promising new travel companies, Touch the Road Jamaica. In 2011, Connecticut-raised Hyde visited Cape Verde with her college for a program on migrant workers who’d been deported back to the island nation. During her senior year, Hyde […]
“Dream World” Jamaica: Vintage Ads from the 1960s
“It’s real life, even though it’s a dream world. That’s Jamaica,” says a voice over an advertorial video produced by the Jamaican Tourism Board in the early 1960s. The island gained independence in 1962, and for the first time in centuries, was able to decide on its own how to run its “dream world” in real life. As the newly independent country worked to establish […]