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Check out this totally cool Vogue spread on Jamaica here: http://www.vogue.com/tag/misc/jamaica/ Not sure what’s going on but Jamaica sure getting a lot of international attention lately, I mean more than the usual lot of attention…

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Good Food

Check out the Jamaica Food & Drink Festival that starts this Wednesday, October 28. Promises to be Yummy!

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Good Food

Check out this article from the New York Times which talks about the New Caribbean Food Movement happening now in NYC. And of course, Jamaican food features prominently among other great Caribbean food spots in the City.  “And then there is the success of the two Miss Lily’s restaurants in

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Books

Huge congrats to Marlon James who has become the first Jamaican writer to win the Man Booker prize.   A Brief History of Seven Killings is Marlon James’ fictional account of an attempt on Bob Marley’s life, described as brimming “with shocking gang violence, swearing, graphic sex, drug crime but also, said

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Sports

PUMA today announced a new endorsement deal with sprinter Asafa Powell. The former 100m world record holder who holds the record for the most sub-10 second 100m sprints having dipped below that mark 93 times, joins the global sports brand’s growing portfolio of athletes preparing for the 2016 Olympic Games

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Worth A Visit

“AT THE moment, it hasn’t quite sunk in yet. It all seems very surreal. This has just been such a long time in coming,” Dr Susan Otuokon, executive director of the Jamaica Conservation Development Trust (JCDT), told The Gleaner via email from Bonn, Germany, on Friday. She was responding to

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Worth A Visit

July 3, 2015 is a historic day for Jamaica and Jamaican people as our renowned Blue and John Crow Mountains was inscribed to UNESCO’s Prestigious World Heritage List. This is Jamaica’s first world heritage site. Today the UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee during its 39th session taking place in Bonn, Germany

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Uncategorized

The Independence Village will see the return of The Aunty Roachy Festival this year on Monday, August 3. Joining the Independence Village roster for the second time, the free literary festival will run from 1:30 – 5:30 pm and promises to be even better the second time around covering a

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Film

When your parents are legendary comedian, actor and broadcaster Charles Hyatt and musicologist and art historian Vera Hyatt it may be fair to assume that the arts are in your blood. Ms. Hyatt will be sharing with Jamaican actors and other industry practitioners on Saturday July 25 at the Dennis

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Worth A Visit

  The Caribbean Coastal Area Management (C-CAM) Foundation is developing a wetlands and wildlife centre in Salt River, Clarendon to be opened in July 2015 for a pilot phase of operation.  The multi million-dollar facility is in its final stages of construction and will promote ecotourism and wildlife conservation in southern Clarendon and

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