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  • Smith to lead Windies A in T20s against Sri Lanka A

    West Indies batsman Dwayne Smith will lead the West Indies A team against Sri Lanka A in two Twenty20 matches this week at Arnos Vale here. Smith, a prolific scorer in the just ended Indian Premier League (IPL), is one of four members of the West Indies World T20 champion team named in the regional A team for the series, reports CMC. The others are Lendl Simmons, allrounder Andre Russell, and ...

  • Jamaican federation suspends Olympic champion Campbell-Brown

    Veronica Campbell-Brown of Jamaica pulls away from Miki Barber of the U.S. and the rest of the field to win the women's 60 meter dash at the 104th Millrose Games at Madison Square Garden in New York January 28, 2011. (SHANNON ...

  • Athletics-Campbell-Brown suspended by Jamaican federation

    Veronica Campbell-Brown was suspended by her national federation on Tuesday following a positive test for a banned diuretic at a meeting last month. ...

  • Athletics - Jamaican sprinter Campbell-Brown suspended after positive test

    Jamaica's twice Olympic 200m champion Veronica Campbell-Brown has been suspended from competition following a positive test for a banned diuretic at an athletics meeting last ...

  • Officials confirm Campbell-Brown doping probe

    KINGSTON, Jamaica (AFP) - Jamaican sprint star Veronica Campbell-Brown, embroiled in a doping scandal that has rocked her homeland, has accepted a provisional suspension while her case is being investigated.Jamaican Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) president Warren Blake said on Tuesday that a disciplinary panel is being assembled to hear the case of the two-time Olympic 200-meter ...


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Danger: Diabolik [DVD]

Danger: Diabolik [DVD]

Danger: Diabolik is best known now as a candy-colored campfest, particularly after its popularity on Mystery Science Theater 3000. As a fragment of the psychedelic 60s, it is clearly a fascinating historical object, but all the ironic jabs and biting jokes made at its ... ...

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  • Campbell-Brown could avoid maximum doping ban sources

    Jamaica's Veronica Campbell-Brown (L) finishes first in her women's 200m semi-final ahead of Carmelita Jeter of the U.S. during the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium August 7, ...

  • Jamaica travelling along business-friendly path

    In seeking to project Jamaica as a business-friendly destination, Julian Robinson, state minister in the Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining, has indicated that investors could have their operations up and running within four to six months of expressing an interest in investing. "If you come to the table clear about what you want to do and you have your financing already, the ...

  • Storm clouds loom over Jamaica Pond

    "It was mostly sunny with some innocent clouds in Jamaica Plain and then suddenly these dramatic dark storm clouds moved in over Jamaica Pond. They looked like something from the movie "Independence Day" when the alien space ships enter Earth's atmosphere. The rain that followed was pretty intense ...

  • Jamaican lottery scam investigation leads to Gulfport

    GULFPORT, MS (WLOX) - A Jamaican national was arrested in Gulfport Monday for his role in an alleged Jamaican lottery scam. Damion Aljunior Hill, 33, is in America on a work visa, but now faces two counts of wire fraud. Investigators with the Attorney General's Office Consumer Protection Division said the two alleged victims were told that they had won the lottery, but were required to ...

  • Jamaican Diaspora for Greater Role in National Development

    Kingston, Jun 17 (Prensa Latina) To foster the role of the diaspora in the national economic and social development of Jamaica and strengthen its links with the government are objectives of the 5th Biennial Diaspora Conference to be held in the famous resort of Montego Bay. Under the motto "A Nation with a Mission: Jamaica and the Diaspora", more than 500 Jamaicans living abroad are ...

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