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www.playbill.com/news/ar... - The North American premiere of The Harder They Come, the new reggae music musical based on the film of the same name, about an obscure Jamaican performer hoping for stardom, opens July 23 after previews from July 21 in Toronto. more...()
www.kansas.com/news/worl... - Even now, about three years after a near-fatal gay bashing, Sherman gets jittery at dusk. On bad days, his blood quickens, his eyes dart, and he seeks refuge indoors. more...()
www.etaiwannews.com/etn/... - An increase in fatal shootings by police is setting back efforts to curb violence and build faith in the Caribbean nation's justice system, Amnesty International said Tuesday. A report by the London-based group said the killings reflect a disregard for human rights in the island's inner cities, where residents are cut off from many basic services and violent gang leaders often hold more influence than government authorities. more...()
www.dailymail.co.uk/spor... - Usain Bolt says Tyson Gay has no chance of beating him at next month's World Championships in Berlin despite the American being the fastest man over 100 metres this year. more...()
www.muzikspace.com - A collection of slavery records newly available over the Internet may help thousands of people trace their families back to Africa through St. Croix, a former slave-trading hub in the Caribbean. more...()
www.muzikspace.com - Telecoms group Cable & Wireless reiterated its guidance for full-year core earnings on Friday, in spite of pressure in the Caribbean, where it will cut costs as fewer tourists are using its services. more...()
www.muzikspace.com - The West Indies players who declined to play in the first Test against Bangladesh are unlikely to back down and apologise to the West Indies board, raising the likelihood of a weakened side for the second Test against Bangladesh even though they lost the first by 95 runs in St. Vincent. more...()
www.muzikspace.com - The Jamaican press were happy about the national team win on Friday in Miami, yet they will still have to be watching the games on Saturday in order to give closure to their fate in the Gold Cup. more...()
www.muzikspace.com - Jamaican reggae and dance hall star Bounty Killa was arrested on assault and other charges on Thursday for an altercation with an off-duty policeman nearly two years ago. Police said Bounty Killa, whose real name is Rodney Pryce, could face a sentence of 15 years in prison if convicted. more...()
www.muzikspace.com - Talks between the West Indies Cricket Board and the players' union ended after just 23 minutes when the board refused to negotiate while the players remained on strike. more...()
www.muzikspace.com - Playing in its second consecutive CONCACAF Gold Cup, Guadeloupe is out to prove the last time was no fluke. That its semifinal finish at the 2007 edition was merely a warning shot. That the Gwada Boys mean business. So far, so good. more...()
www.miamiherald.com/spor... - The specifics might be fuzzy more than 12 years later, but there's a moment that those in attendance -- and anyone associated with FIU soccer -- will never forget: Tyrone Marshall, in the 57th minute, unleashing a bicycle kick from 15 yards out. The acrobatic shot connected, put FIU up 2-0 and guaranteed the Golden Panthers a place in the title match against St. John's. more...()
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/ne... - Tiki Hunia, 27, and Nickie-Jean Hunia, who live in Hong Kong, were approached by a gunman in the yard of the guest house in which they were holidaying on Upper Montrose Rd - an expensive area known as the "Golden Triangle" in the Kingston suburb of St Andrew. more...()
www.muzikspace.com - PAUL HESSION last night officially finished third to Jamaica’s world 200 metres record holder Usain Bolt at the Lausanne Grand Prix in Switzerland – the only problem being it was in a separate race. Hession clocked his fastest 200 metres of the season in the B race as his 20.50 seconds was enough to hold off the top American Kelly Willie – although that only went some way towards not making the A-race, where Bolt ran a stunning 19.59 seconds. more...()
www.jamaicaobserver.com/... - JAMAICA yesterday recorded its first death from the Influenza A H1N1 virus, commonly called Swine Flu, prompting the health minister to ask a team of doctors to probe the incident and report to him Friday when he returns to the island. more...()
www.abcnews.go.com/Inter... - When Micheline Leon was diagnosed with HIV, her parents told her they would fit her for a coffin. Fifteen years later, she walks around her two-room concrete house on Haiti's central plateau, watching her four children play under the plantain trees. She looks healthy, her belly amply filling a gray, secondhand T-shirt. Her three sons and one daughter were born after she was diagnosed. None has the virus. more...()
www.bloomberg.com/apps/n... - Stanford International Bank’s Antiguan receiver said he may be able to repay depositors more than the projected 10 cents on the dollar if he can persuade developers to build a Caribbean island resort and get a U.S. receiver to stop fighting him for control of overseas assets. more...()
www.reuters.com/article/... - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton visited the mud-stained streets of the Haitian city of Gonaives on Tuesday on his first trip as United Nations special envoy to the poor Caribbean nation. Touring with Haitian President Rene Preval, Clinton said his priority was to marshal pledges from donor nations to build road networks, education and health care systems and help the government create 150,000 to 200,000 jobs within two years more...()
www.miamiherald.com/457/... - GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Amid the lush beauty and black, sandy beaches of the cash-strapped island of Dominica, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is providing free cooking gas to the poor, financing a coffee treatment plant and constructing an oil-storage facility. more...()
www.muzikspace.com - eam Jamaica topped hosts British Virgin Islands (BVI) 65-61 to win the gold medal in the Caribbean Basketball Championships of 2009. more...()
www.muzikspace.com - Supporters of Mr. Zelaya carried the body of a man said to have been shot dead by Honduran soldiers outside the airport.
Vowing to return home to recover his presidency, Mr. Zelaya boarded a plane in Washington for Honduras on Sunday afternoon with the United Nations General Assembly president, Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann, and a small group of advisers and others. more...()
www.muzikspace.com - Air Jamaica in its second privatization attempt is likely to be operated as a discount carrier with an uncertain future. The Spirit Airline is likely to operate the Jamaican national carrier as a low cost airline that will focus on American tourists and Jamaicans living on the East coast. more...()
www.thewestindiannews.co... - Jamaican students have been urged to reject alien cultures so that the country can return to the days when neighbours looked out for each other and children felt protected, former Senior Director at the Jamaica Library Service (JLS), Patricia Cuff, has said. more...()
guardian.co.tt/business/... - The T&T Coalition of Services Industries (TTCSI) joins with the Caribbean Community in its strong objection to the United Kingdom (UK) government’s plans to increase the air passenger departure tax (APD) on persons travelling to the Caribbean. “We view the APD as unnecessary and discriminatory. It is a particularly stinging slap in the face when one considers that the recently signed Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) is supposed to expand trade and result in developmental benefits for the Caribbean,” said TTCSI president Lawrence Placide in a statement. more...()
www.cbc.ca/sports/story/... - Canada and Jamaica will get that opportunity when they square off at Home Depot Center Friday night to open the CONCACAF Gold Cup. more...()
www.reuters.com/article/... - The Caribbean's small island states ride out hurricanes year after year, but they are fighting to stay afloat in a global economic storm that is battering rich and poor nations alike. Tiny nations like twin-island St. Kitts and Nevis, a short chain of lush green volcanic cones set in an azure sea, have felt the shocks of the downturn and credit crunch as keenly as the winds and seas that lash them every summer. more...()
www.caribpr.com/details.... - KINGSTON, Jamaica, Thurs. July 2, 2009: This year`s `world greatest show case` of reggae music will be dedicated to the memory of the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, Reggae Sumfest officials said this week. more...()
www.miamiherald.com/news... - After years of struggling to meet the requirements for cancellation of most of its $1.7 billion in foreign debt, the country has finally achieved $1.2 billion in debt forgiveness from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. more...()
uk.reuters.com/article/i... - To record his next hit El Micha, one of the rising stars of Cuba's reggaeton music blending reggae, Latin and electronic rhythms, just has to knock on his neighbour's door. A microphone plugged into an old computer in an apartment in Havana's working-class suburb of Reparto Electrico serves as the studio where some of Cuba's most successful reggaeton songs are recorded. more...()
www.thisisnottingham.co.... - Lovers of such delicacies as jerk chicken and fried plantains won't want for food options, while shoppers will be able to pick through all sorts of wares.But it's that parade that grabs the attention at any Caribbean carnival.This year, Nottingham organisers brought in members of one of Britain's most popular touring carnival bands to help with the prep work.The Luton-based Rampage Mas Band has participated in the last few Nottingham Carnivals. more...()
www.marketwatch.com/stor... - Scotiabank today launched Scotia Private Client Group in Miami, Florida, the tenth in a series of announcements. The Miami center is a hub for the Bank's expanding wealth management services in the Caribbean and Latin America. Scotiabank is expanding its wealth management services platform to include US-based private banking solutions for high net worth clientele. The center will provide private banking services to non-US residents and non-US citizens only. more...()
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