Jamaica
My mother loves Christmas and any other kind of fairy tale. The one she told herself to keep moving forward was that obsessive organization could ward off life's heartbreaks.
In the 17th century, Port Royal in Jamaica was a thriving port for the buccaneers who were sanctioned to plunder on behalf of the British empire. Then an earthquake did its worst.
Filmmaker Perry Henzell’s follow-up to his seminal 1972 Jamaican crime saga “The Harder They Come” was thought lost for nearly 30 years. But it’s now seeing the light of day.
The reggae star’s return to the stage after eight years in a Florida prison was one of the biggest music events in Jamaica’s history.
Every so often an Olympic team captures the the public imagination not because of their stellar performance, but because of the sheer audacity it takes for them to perform at all.
A locally initiated Change.org petition apparently convinced the government that Steven Anderson was too extreme even for the socially conservative country.
It’s no longer owned by Donald Trump, but Miss Universe remains the epitome of female objectification.