As a new school year gets underway, The Yaad tells the story of why Jamaica's fame "bulla & pink milk", as we know it, was discontinued in the nation's public schools.

Listen a clip from the latest episode from our Checkmate Political Podcast

Here, one of the host of the podcast, Keenan Falconer, breaks down the history of one of the most historically competitive constituency seats in Jamaica - St. Andrew Eastern

Did you know the first Black woman to wear an afro at a global beauty pageant was Jamaican?

At the 1972 Miss Universe competition, Marilyn Wright, a then physiotherapy student at Howard University, represented Jamaica while wearing the hairstyle

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Before he was 'Sonny T' in Royal Palm Estate, one of Munair Zacca’s first screen role was in the 1973 James Bond film, Live and Let Die which was partially filmed in Jamaica

"The 2002 cult classic starred Jr Gong’s brother, Ky-Mani Marley. Important to this episode however, is that Stephen Marley oversaw the film's music. And it’s in the opening scene of Shottas, an aariel view of Kingston's inner city, that the world first heard a snippet of Welcome to Jamrock"

The First Afro-Wearing Global Beauty Queens