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Joseph John Issa, known as Joe or Joey Issa (born 1 December 1965), is a Jamaican businessman and philanthropist. He is best known as the founder of Cool Group, which comprises over 50 companies. [1] At age 30, Issa's first business venture was a petrol station named Cool Oasis, which was the catalyst for the Group becoming the largest Jamaican ...
Davy qualified for the 2004 Jamaican Olympic team after a first-place finish in the 400 meter (50.76 seconds) at the JAAA/Supreme Ventures National Senior Championships in Kingston, Jamaica. Olympics. Davy ran two events in Athens, the 400 meter individual and the 4x400 meter relay. In the 400 meter, she ran a time of 52.04 seconds and did not ...
Sandra Palmer. Sandra Marie Palmer (born on 4 August 1969) is a Jamaican entrepreneur known for her notable ventures. In 1997, she founded SSP APTEC, an information technology company, which later expanded with the opening of a branch in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in 2002. [1] In 2014, Palmer initiated two additional enterprises, Soulmates, a ...
Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff (born September 19, 1959) is an American convicted former drug lord and gangster from New York City. Background [ edit ] McGriff rose to prominence in early 1981 when he formed his own crack cocaine distribution and manufacturing organization which he called The Supreme Team based in the Baisley Park Houses in the ...
The Supreme Team was a street gang organized in the early 1980s in the vicinity of the Baisley Park Houses in Jamaica, Queens, New York, by a group of teenagers who were members of the Five-Percent Nation. Under the leadership of Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff, with Miller, his nephew, as second-in-command, the gang concentrated its criminal efforts ...
Veronica Campbell Brown Order of Distinction (born 15 May 1982) is a retired Jamaican track and field sprinter, who specialized in the 100 and 200 meters. [2] An eight-time Olympic medalist, she is the second of three women in history to win two consecutive Olympic 200 m events, after Bärbel Wöckel of Germany at the 1976 and 1980 Olympics and ...
The Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League ( UNIA-ACL) is a black nationalist fraternal organization founded by Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican immigrant to the United States, and his then-wife Amy Ashwood Garvey. The Pan-African organization enjoyed its greatest strength in the 1920s, and was influential prior to ...
Green Bay Massacre. / 17.9403; -76.8780. The Green Bay Massacre was a covert operation on 5 January 1978, in which five Jamaica Labour Party supporters were shot dead after being lured into an ambush at the Green Bay Firing Range by members of the Jamaica Defence Force .