Posts Tagged ‘first magazine jamaica’

Don’t shoot the blacks with cameras!

By First • Jul 28th, 2008 • Category: Art & Design

First just got back from the United States. Took some photos and no problems, not once…



Jamaica has a new telecomms monopoly - claims MiPhone

By First • Jul 28th, 2008 • Category: Technology & the Web

When Digicel arrived to break-up the lousy Cable & Wireless monopoly we all cheered. And now, “I can badly hear what your saying…my credit just ran out!”



Back when the Caribbean looked classy to tourists

By First • Jul 28th, 2008 • Category: Food, Travel & Leisure

A long, long time before butu tourism. So old they were actually encouraging them to come to Kingston.



Harry Belafonte is one great Jamaican (documentary)

By First • Jul 28th, 2008 • Category: Video & Entertainment

Schooled in Kingston, Harry Belafonte went on to break billboard records in the US while introducing Caribbean music; became a Hollywood star and perhaps above all, his role in the Civil Rights Struggle. A speech he gave here the other week merely reminded us of the stature of the man.



The Man in Black: Unseen photographs

By First • Jul 9th, 2008 • Category: Style

Johnny Cash used to have a home in Jamaica, by the Rose Hall Estate in St James, where he wrote the song about the far, far badder Annie Palmer.



RCA Vehicle Design 2008

By First • Jul 8th, 2008 • Category: Art & Design

Who’d have thunk it? An art school whose graduates don’t end up dead in a crackhouse!



Cox & Kings: Eiffel Tower

By First • Jul 7th, 2008 • Category: Art & Design

Saatchi & Saatchi, Mumbai, India



Greasy Independence on Coney Island

By Peter Dean Rickards • Jul 7th, 2008 • Category: Features

July 4, Coney Island, New York.
It’s a muggy 90 degrees near Rockaway beach when I finally made it to the front of Nathan’s Famous on Surf Avenue. I had just missed the annual hot dog eating contest ( defending champion Joey Chestnut won in overtime) and there was a huge wad purple chewing gum stuck […]



E10 ethanol gasoline coming to Jamaica, finally, really?

By First • Jul 4th, 2008 • Category: Technology & the Web

Jamaica’s energy policy works like this: Say you’re going to do something, take years thinking about it, set a date, miss that deadline, miss the next one, then decide…actually this isn’t appropriate for Jamaica. Long overdue: E10 ethanol gasoline. Proof at the pumps expected mid-2009.



Anti-corruption in Jamaica and Dougie Chamber’s death

By First • Jul 4th, 2008 • Category: The Feed

What is Jamaica doing, asks the Economist magazine. After all corruption has been draining this country. The new government made it a central theme of their election campaign and so Dougie Chambers was given his remit at JUTC: Remove padded staff and stop them stealing fares. He got killed for it.