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Paulette Simpson, CBE

Paulette Simpson, CBE

by | 08/08/26 | Blog, Commonwealth, Governance, Media, Money Matters

Paulette Simpson, deputy chief executive officer of JN Bank UK- Britain’s first Caribbean-owned bank- poses with her insignia, denoting her appointment to the Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. She is seen here posing with her insignia at a dinner organised by the JN Group in her honour. Ms Simpson was officially presented with the instrument of her appointment at Windsor Castle by Prince Charles on December 8. Ms Simpson, who has been named for the fourth consecutive year among Britain’s Most Influential People of African and Caribbean Heritage, was born in Britain to Jamaican parents and raised in Walderston, Manchester, Jamaica by her grandmother, Violet Simpson. She is also executive director of Britain’s only national British Afro-Caribbean weekly newspaper, The Voice.

 

Digital Green Guide

Digital Green Guide

by | 09/06/26 | AI, Assets, Automotive, Blog, Commonwealth, DIgital Banking, Ethical AI, Exchange, Money Matters, Navigation, Steering, Ventures

A guide/guidebook has always been a useful thing to have throughout all of history. In the USA for some there became a niche that needed to be served helping citizens getting from Point A to Point B and back again safely. Civically and Culturally speaking a man called Victor Hugo Green introduced a guidebook for Negro travellers to use, for their safety first, and their comfort second.

 

 

WHY

WAS IT A

NECESSITY?

 

 

Introduced by Victor Hugo Green

African American travelers faced discrimination, such as white-owned businesses refusing to serve them or repair their vehicles, being refused accommodation or food by white-owned hotels, and threats of physical violence and forcible expulsion from whites-only "sundown towns". Green founded and published the Green Book to avoid such problems, compiling resources "to give the Negro traveler information that will keep him from running into difficulties, embarrassments and to make his trip more enjoyable". Candacy Taylor, the maker of a 2019 documentary film about the book offered this summary: "Everyone I was interviewing talked about the community that the Green Book created: a kind of parallel universe that was created by the book and this kind of secret road map that the Green Book outlined".

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