It took 2 YRS to get this project funded; ergo, I'm proud to share that EDUCATOURS JA 🌞 is 1 of 6 awarded via the US Embassy Jamaica’s Public Diplomacy Federal Awards Pgrm. LinkUp if you're interested in our game-based approach to financial literacy. Article: jamaica.loopnews.com/content/us-emb…

On this day in 1960, four black college students staged a sit-in at a whites-only lunch counter at Woolworth's in Greensboro, NC. They sparked a national movement across the country. Instructions were simple: sit quietly and wait to be served. #BlackHistoryMonth

Prime Minister Mia Mottley - telling it like it is.

Update your firmware! And uninstall those apps you haven't used in a year or more! C'mon people. Don't you check the windows, doors and locks on your house regularly? 😄

Many university degree holders are in jobs where LLMs can reduce their workload by 50% or more. Fixed mindset: Chat-GPT is coming for my job! Growth mindset: With Chat-GPT I can supercharge my productivity and creativity! Which are you?

In 1989 the GOJ raised MP's salaries. The Jamaicans protested and a Commission was established to make recommendations to improve MP performance and accountability. 33 years later little was implemented. What would Ja be today if we had honoured these initiatives. 🇯🇲Thoughts?

Sam Altman and Greg Brockman on AI and the Future (Full Audio) youtube.com/clip/UgkxDNJNZ… via YouTube. Particularly relevant to our Caribbean blue and orange economies? competecarib Kingston Creative

Word! I haven't verified the claims in the video below, but even if the specific claims are not true, I've been surprised in the past by how wonderfully multicultural Jamaica is, and hope you're provoked to learn more.

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Earlier this evening, I seemed to misjudge the location of a cup of tea resulting in a small but surprising spill. Moments later I saw that the iPad Youtube app update included "repairs to the space-time continuum". Thanks TeamYouTube!

...so we're going to instruct NEPA not to approve any more coastal developments which take out the mangroves that are ultimately preserving the beaches? Great!

In the next DDS forum our host and moderator Matthew McNaughton will be joined by a diverse panel of practitioners with wide-ranging expertise and perspectives: See the lineup below and click here to RSVP slashroots.org/news/universal…

In collaboration with the #LACIR network, we launched a podcast series on inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean, a persistent challenge in our region. We need to continue working to address these disparities using evidence-based approaches, and partnerships to formulate

In 1968, at the Grosse Pointe High School, Martin Luther King Jr said, "And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard."

This tweet has Queen Elizabeth II rolling in her grave. Imagine, Great Britain, which once ruled an empire on which the sun never set, now being told to emulate one of its tiniest former colonies 😂.

I keep hearing that San Francisco's centrality in global tech is over, and yet according to Andrew Côté, promoter of sf-deep-tech-week.com, that city of 800,000 people accounted for 41% of all VC dollars deployed in the USA in 2023.

In speed & scale, the war in Gaza is the deadliest conflict in my time as Secretary-General – for civilians, aid workers, journalists & United Nations colleagues. Yet the toll on civilians continues to escalate. Any assault on Rafah is unacceptable. It would inflict another surge of

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Elaine Thompson-Herah, Legendary #Jamaican sprinter, born 32 years ago today on 28 Jun 1992 in Banana Ground, Manchester. Only woman ever to win "sprint double" at consecutive Olympics. Five-time Olympic champion; fastest woman alive; second-fastest ever over 100m. Elaine Thompson-Herah

I continue to be keen to share new evidence-based policy perspectives on JA’s developmental challenges based on the data synthesis & knowledge translation work we’re doing at CAPRI, as with the most recent thread on informality & the housing supply. 🧵/1