Thursday, April 25, 2024
Our Stories

Our Stories

The inspirational stories of Jamaicans in business. Our Stories is intended to highlight and promote the positive in challenging and life-altering experiences.

In his final year of high school, he sat and successfully passed CSEC Mathematics. At the school leaving ceremony other students boasted passes in multiple CSEC and CAPE subjects, but David proudly graduated with his single distinction (Grade One)...

In this installment of Our Stories, we will take a look at the life of inspiration and upliftment lead by Afifa Aza. For many people, Jamaica is pictured as an island paradise – white sandy beaches, a beautiful and...

The absence of my father plus the effect that it had on my relationship with my mother made me vulnerable. For me, it made me weaker and less...

In this installment of Our Stories, photographer and multi-media entrepreneur, Dean Bartley shares how negative labels helped him to succeed. For many people, Jamaica is pictured as an island paradise – white sandy beaches, a beautiful and vivacious culture,...

In this installment of Our Stories, author Paul Blake explains how his parents' relationship benefitted from their divorce….For many people, Jamaica is pictured as an island paradise – white sandy beaches, a beautiful and vivacious culture, rich and wholesome...

In 2010, his then girlfriend gave birth to a son; an absolute joy for the entertainer who was welcoming his first born into the world. However, pestering heart complications led to the death of the baby three months after....

Because I've had very distressing times where the workload, everything about school has just been-- it has made me feel distraught and stressed and everything that has been bad, while, you know, there have been times when I...

During attending university, I had difficulties paying. However, I was able to get my degree in marketing. My problems were far from over as I was unable to...

In 2014, his younger sister, Kenya died while giving birth to her son. This was possibly a blessing and a curse for Hardio who revealed that he was extremely close to his sister. The reggae artiste admitted that Kenya’s...

I carried the pain of my parents' broken relationship and I just could not shake it. It affected me to my core. I also lost confidence in my ability to do well in the university because of the challenges I faced in completing assignments and also the fact that my family was broken and we were living apart from my dad. In spite of it all, I...