SBQ Ruth
Ms Ruth Robinson Ms Ruth Robinson She is introducing Ms Ruth Robinson of Birmingham, who holds the secrets to hearts in how she caters to the bellies. Ms Ruth’s life started on the island of Jamaica. She was influenced by her aunt before joining her parents, who migrated to the UK in the 1960s. It […]
SBQ Palorine
Introducing Ms Palorine Williams. Palorine was born to St Vincentian parents who travelled to the UK in the mid 1950’s to work. In 1962, at a young age of 7 1⁄2, Palorine, a sibling and their grandmother travelled to the UK from St Vincent to join her parents in London. At the age of 18, […]
SBQ Aba
Introducing Aba GrahamAba’s ancestral roots are in Sierra Leone, where she spent her younger years, she joined her parents in the Uk in 1979. Aba then spent a few of her formative years in Scotland where she endured some of the challenges of the immigrant child of aspirational, work-focussed parents. Transitioning through young adulthood presented […]
SBQ Elizabeth
Ms Elizabeth Drysdale Introducing Ms Elizabeth Drysdale Elizabeth was created from the combined love of a lady from Glasgow in Scotland and a man from Kingston in Jamaica. She was born in Liverpool. Ms Elizabeth packed a lot in her teenage years, leaving school, embracing love, relocating to London, marriage, as well as working as […]
SBQ Feature – Rameri
Introducing Ms Rameri Moukam Rameri aged (Six decades and brawta) Reclaimed her ancestral roots name, giving up Sonia Francis, and the links to the colonisers in the late 1990’s. Rumour has it, that a significant number of females born between the 1950’s to 1970’s were called Sonia. Birmingham born and raised, of St Kitts heritage, […]
SBQ Feature – Loretta
Mrs Loretta Mordi In St Andrews, in Scotland, you will meet a lady whose journey to there is an incredible one. Her name, Mrs Loretta Mordi, she was born in Lagos 9 Nigeria, one of nine to parents who were village folk who moved out of the village and did well. She describes her father […]
SBQ Feature – Mia
Introducing Ms Mia Morris OBE – Seasoned UK Black Queen Ms. Mia was born in the UK in the late 1950s and lived in Hackney for most of her youth. Now for people living in the UK, October is when we celebrate Black History Month, (BHM) and yes, we will all have views on BHM […]
SBQ Feature : Joyce
From Kenya to Scotland Interviewing Joyce from Scotland Joyce – Seasoned UK Black Queen Joyce was born in Kisii in Kenya where she lived until the age of 19 when she started university in Nairobi. She got married to her husband and 40 years on, they are still going strong. The couple have two sons […]
SBQ Series Intro – Loreen
Dearest Sistren, Loreen Lawson – Seasoned UK Black Queen May I take this opportunity to extend thanks and appreciation from a very grateful heart. Special thanks to Ms Yvonne Christie and Ms Peggy Warren for making Valentine’s Day 2024 a day that I would be honoured to live all over again. Thank you for cheering […]
SBQ Feature – Deanne
Introducing Deanne Heron Deanne Heron – Seasoned UK Black Queen – Now, here’s your first lesson. The name Deanne is French, you know, so it is! Deanne is proud to represent the Jamaican motto: ‘Out of many, one people.’ She’s just over six decades years young. Life for her started in Kingston, the capital of […]
Reigniting a Nation for Greatness: Further to Go Moving Beyond Celebration to Legacy Building
By Tishauna Mullings Jamaicans represented the largest Black Caribbean group in Britain with a total of 160,000 people according to the 2011 Office for National Statistics Census. While there are other growing populations of diasporic Black groups in the UK, Jamaicans continue to move for work, to unite with family and for other reasons. Jamaica’s […]
Embarking on the Black & Minoritised Communities ‘Enterprise Development Programme’ (EDP) 2022
By Yvonne Witter Following the launch of this year’s BMC Enterprise Development Programme and welcoming our new Cohort in January 2022, it was a joy for us to deliver on our support package of Finance and Business, Advice and Coaching as well as the six weekly Peer Action Learning sessions in smaller groups. This was […]
