Last year, gay rights groups in the United States chose this as one of the Jamaican products to boycott. Meantime, we don’t know anybody who drinks this local product, locally. Everyone drinks Appleton Special but getting advanced in years means we can appreciate that overproof rum, which, while it may be a lot stronger, still [...]

First Magazine was started in Kingston, Jamaica in December 2004 as a 7×7-inch print magazine.
Thanks to the the vision and assistance of Lithographic Printers in Kingston, First published four issues and 40,000 copies of the 7×7 inch magazine. The magazine was critically acclaimed and impossible to duplicate since it was structure-less; dependent on the unique [...]

For those who might get bored sharing the same square feet of beach with the same lardy sunbathers day-in, day-out: Kingston and surrounding area > Portland > Treasure Beach. It’s idiot proof and you’ll leave feeling like you actually experienced the country, lying on the beach included.

Kingston: Place to be
Kingston is the capital of the [...]

Open source software is gradually taking off in Jamaica, with the government having integrated it into their IT strategy. One inspiration of that shift would be Mark Shuttleworth, whose open source Ubuntu operating system, can be found on the computers of more discerning local techies.
Shuttleworth was already worth US$500 million when he took a shuttle [...]

Back in March Esquire magazine ran this great food feature, which had you almost sniffing the page. Something all men need: Encylopedia of Sandwiches.
They were good enough to put a selection online: Tuna melt, chicken-parm hero with sausage, steak sandwich, catfish sloppy joe, rich boy and our favourite, the Italian breakfast sandwich (see below).
Mac’s deli [...]