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Before Jamaicans associated the JPS with the devil…

There was ‘Reddy’, the lightning-bolt legs, lightbulb-nose, wall-socket ears man.

Jamaican tales of expatriate life and death

Expats really live a nice life. Nice house uptown, nice SUV and lots of girls looking for visas. But were you reading Harper’s Magazine in 1861, things would’ve seemed a lot worse…

Haiti for sale

Photography: David Levene
Well, it’s for charity still. Haiti 12:01:10, an exhibition of still and moving work by David Levene goes on show and sale at the Draw Walk Gallery at the Old Truman Brewery in London today.
Proceeds from the signed, limited edition prints of photographs taken in 2010 and in 2008 will going to the [...]

A golden generation remembered

Cy Grant RIP
During World War II a remarkable generation of Jamaicans – think future prime minister Michael Manley, Olympian Arthur Wint and Pan-African activist Dudley Thompson – donned the uniforms of the Royal Air Force (RAF), served, and sometimes died, defending the British Empire. And little thanks they got.

Jamaicans fight fairer than the English

When Jamaicans fall afoul of the law overseas, and it happens… often, each of us goes a little quiet. It confirms the worst that we’ve been trying to deny, a lot.
Englishman and trash can: ready to kill
Buju Banton after all his troubles faces guns and drugs charges. Now Ricardo Fuller, star of the national team [...]

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