Posts Tagged ‘first magazine jamaica’

FIRST People: Marlon ‘Biggy Bigz’ Reid

First photographer Marlon Reid speaks about A Picture called Death- his photograph depicting the aftermath of a shooting in Kingston, Jamaica in March 2008.
See the still photographs HERE.
Interested in your own print? E-mail Marlon at marlon.reid@first-magazine.net (the print is limited to 25 and only 5 per year will be signed and sold).

Don’t shoot the blacks with cameras!

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

Source: Flickr via Reddit

Jamaica has a new telecomms monopoly – claims MiPhone

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!”
All along MiPhone has been a sleepy third place company. But that was until the world’s second richest man Carlos Slim of America Movil (AMX) – Bill Gates is [...]

Back when the Caribbean looked classy to tourists

A long, long time before butu tourism. So old they were actually encouraging them to come to Kingston.
Art.com has a wide range of vintage tourism posters from here and the Caribbean, especially Cuba.
See more HERE
Source: BNN

Harry Belafonte is one great Jamaican (documentary)

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.
And today we have the deejays…

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