Archive for the ‘Food, Travel & Leisure’ Category

Going cheap in the Caribbean this summer

By First • Jun 20th, 2008 • Category: Food, Travel & Leisure

You don’t think we gave you enough good advice recently? From The New York Times comes a budget guide to holidaying in the Caribbean this summer complete with interactive map.



You can smell this?

By First • Jun 19th, 2008 • Category: Food, Travel & Leisure

Twenty teams of the country’s best BBQ cooks will be competing this Sunday at the All Jamaica Invitational Grill Off in Kingston.



How to make a Brazilian Feijoada - Cuca Brazuca

By First • Jun 17th, 2008 • Category: Food, Travel & Leisure

Like Jamaicans and Cubans, Brazilians know the best way to feed is pork. Feijoada - pork stewed with beef jerky and black beans - is the national dish of Brazil and great to serve when you have a lot of guests.



Air Jamaica offering US$254 return flights from NYC

By First • Jun 16th, 2008 • Category: Food, Travel & Leisure

Please come support our national airline and ease the burden on the poor Jamaican taxpayer. US$254 from NYC JFK is a nice deal.



Passa Passa dance coming to Uganda - Pidson Kareire is vexed

By First • Jun 16th, 2008 • Category: Food, Travel & Leisure

Uganda is a country threatened by Civil War. Yet despite all its woes there is a ‘crazy hype’ from overseas, from Jamaica, that threatens to destabilise that society. Yes, Kingston’s own Passa Passa street dance is worrying right-thinking Ugandans.



Afflicted Yard’s famous cure for work

By First • Jun 12th, 2008 • Category: Food, Travel & Leisure

You’ve reached that point in the week where the weekend is so near, yet so far away. Ganja jello can bring it closer.



Original fastest fast-food joint: Hardcourt & Horn Automat

By First • Jun 10th, 2008 • Category: Food, Travel & Leisure

The novelty of having your food delivered by machine, wrapped in cheap grease paper attracted Americans rich and poor when it opened 106 years ago.



Hotel design we rate: Negril’s Rockhouse

By First • Jun 9th, 2008 • Category: Food, Travel & Leisure

The big hotels shooting up in Jamaica tend to be an eyesore, employing neither local architects or environmental sensitivity.



Seven days in Kenya

By First • Jun 9th, 2008 • Category: Food, Travel & Leisure

Not too long after the political unrest in Kenya, travel writer Jetta ‘Nashipai’ Bates-Vasilatos went there on a visit, and nobody threatened to chop her.



Eat, lounge and dance in San Juan

By First • Jun 7th, 2008 • Category: Food, Travel & Leisure

Andre Bagoo visits San Juan in Puerto Rico, has some of the best food of his life and gets the culture.