Tag Archives: Jamaica

HW Picks: Pop-Culture Present

Posted on November 12, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Fat Boys’ Fat Boys Pizza Box LP
Lurking behind those elastic waistlines is a stone-cold classic, immortalized in an actual pizza box by the hip-hop historians over at reissues label Get On Down ($32 at Turntable Lab). Continue reading →

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HW Pick: By Love Possessed, By Lorna Goodison At Studio Museum

Posted on September 5, 2012 by | Leave a comment

With this highly praised collection of short fiction, Lorna Goodison demonstrates why she may be one of literature’s best-kept secrets. Continue reading →

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World Music’s David M Tours WBLS-FM With DJ Kevin Hedge

Posted on September 4, 2012 by | Leave a comment

 

World music singer and songwriter David M (right) from Kingston, Jamaica dropped in at Club Cielo, where DJ Kevin Hedge (left) of WBLS-FM spun his single and introduced him to the crowd. Continue reading →

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HW Props: Prince Harry’s Blue Seude Shoes

Posted on March 8, 2012 by | 2 Comments

An international cult classic, the Desert Boot is inspired by the crepe-soled boots worn by British officers in World War II, and that just might be why Prince Harry wore them in Jamaica to celebrate his grandmother Queen Elizabeth II’s 60 years on the throne. Continue reading →

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HW Pick: The Goat Woman of Largo Bay: a novel by Gillian Royes

Posted on February 8, 2012 by | Leave a comment
A recommend by Malaika Adero

The Goat Woman of Largo Bay begins the detective series featuring Shad, a bartender in a fishing village in Jamaica, who is the community problem solver and right hand of Eric, an American who owns the bar and a hotel left in ruins by a hurricane.

When Shad sees movement on the island offshore, he thinks it’s just a goat.  But it turns out to be Simone, an American who has run away from her professional and personal life in the U.S., an intriguing woman who captures Eric’s heart.  Continue reading →

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Christopher Coke Escapes…for a while

Posted on June 25, 2010 by | Leave a comment

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As 2,000 police officers sparked deadly riots in Kingston, Jamaica last month looking for the drug lord Christopher Coke, theories about his whereabouts abounded. Authorities began to think he was hiding out on the other side of the island, then that he had left the island altogether. In the end, it turned out that Coke, who is wanted in the U.S. on gun and drug charges, Continue reading →

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Guns From America Fuel Jamaica’s Gang Wars

Posted on June 22, 2009 by | 1 Comment

Crime

Jamaica Gun Smuggling

“Eighty percent of the weapons seized in the Caribbean island are traced back to the United States…”

Ships from Miami steam into Jamaica‘s main harbor loaded with TV sets and blue jeans. But some of the most popular U.S. imports never appear on the manifests: handguns, rifles and bullets that stoke one of the world’s highest murder rates.

The volume is much less than the flow of U.S. guns into Mexico that end up in the hands of drug cartels — Jamaican authorities recover fewer than 1,000 firearms a year. But of those whose origin can be traced, 80 percent come from the U.S., Jamaican law enforcement officials have said in interviews with The Associated Press.

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