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  • Internet cable from Cuba to Jamaica comes online

    HAVANA -- A company that monitors global Internet traffic says another branch of the Venezuela-to-Cuba undersea fiber-optic cable has come online, connecting the island to nearby Jamaica.Internet analysis firm Renesys says it detected the new traffic between Cuban state telecom monopoly Etecsa and Cable & Wireless Jamaica beginning May 13.Renesys analyst Doug Madory announced the new ...

  • Jamaica Selectboard provides sidewalk update

    Tuesday May 21, 2013 JAMAICA -- The underground wiring near the Jamaica Community Church will now be funded by the Lady Benefit Society instead of the town, according to an announcement at the May 13 Selectboard meeting. "They saw that we were going to dig up a trench," said Selectboard member Lou Bruso, who suggested the idea of burying the wires while replacing the sidewalks in that ...

  • Moodys warns of debt default relapse for Jamaica Belize

    Ratings agency Moody's Investor Service said Monday that there is a high probability that Jamaica and Belize will relapse into default."At the moment, we see a high probability that Belize and Jamaica will relapse into default," Moody's said in a statement as it singled out Trinidad and Tobago and Suriname as two of the few Caribbean countries that had stable ...

  • UNC runners steps benefit Jamaican charity

    POST Children in Jamaica are the unexpected beneficiaries with every stride of University of North Carolina runner O'Neal Wanliss.Wanliss, a UNC sophomore and All-American, is ranked among the nation's best in the 800 meters.His charitable bent began when he was in high school. Wanliss, who had friends and family in Jamaica, had the idea to donate his used track and soccer gear to ...

  • Download Then See Jamaican Queens

    ye olde choose your own price model ; so you can either throw the band a few bucks, or download the LP and then spend a couple bucks on a t-shirt or casette or some other physical knickknack at the show tonight. And if you're too lazy to even download the album, then just stream it ...


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Movie Review

The Blind Side

The Blind Side

Is this a white liberal guilt thing? That question, posed by one of the wealthy white socialite friends of Leigh Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock) during an overpriced-salad lunch near the middle of John Lee Hancocks The Blind Side, could very well be directed at the entire subgenre of ... ...

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