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Travelers seeking refuge from the cold spell can visit places like Belize and Barbados that were not devastated by hurricanes last season.

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The 26-year-old was found beaten with her throat slit in a remote area near Montego Bay, Jamaica.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Lowell Hawthorne, the founder and CEO of Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery and Grill, has died in New York City. He was 57. The city’s medical examiner’s said Hawthorne shot himself in the head at his Bronx factory on Saturday. Hawthorne started the successful Caribbean fast food chain in 1989 by selling […]

The oldest person in the world has died at the age 117. Violet Mosse Brown was born in Jamaica in the year 1900 on Friday, September 15, 2017. She became the oldest person living after the death of Emma Moreno in April this year. Moreno was from Italy and born in 1899. Brown credits her […]

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — An extremely dangerous Hurricane Matthew moved slowly over the Caribbean on Sunday, following a track that authorities warned could trigger devastating floods in parts of Haiti. The powerful Category 4 hurricane had winds of 145 mph (230 kph) on Sunday evening. Its center was expected to pass to the east of […]

Samuel Sharpe was a Jamaican preacher who led a 10-day slave revolt on the island nation that moved the British Empire to end slavery in 1833. The so-called “Baptist War” because of the denomination of many involved, or the “Christmas Rebellion of 1831,” left over several hundred slaves dead. Sharpe was born around 1801, according […]

Marlon James achieved international fame after he became the first Jamaican author to win the prestigious Man Booker Prize for Fiction. James, who currently is a professor in the United States, won the award for his 2014 book, “A Brief History of Seven Killings.” James was born in 1970 to police officer parents, who worked […]

  Reggae icon Bob Marley would have turned 70 on February 6. Instead, his destiny was to live a short but eventful life not just as a musician but as an activist who hoped to bring nations and people together. To celebrate the enduring legacy of Robert Nesta “Bob” Marley, his family is releasing a […]

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KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaican lawmakers on Tuesday night passed an act to decriminalize small amounts of pot and establish a licensing agency to regulate a lawful medical marijuana industry on the Caribbean island. After several hours of debate, legislators in the lower House on Tuesday gave final passage to drug law amendments that make […]

John Holt (pictured), one of Jamaica’s most-beloved and smoothest sounding vocalists, passed away at age 69 on Sunday morning in London.  The cause of death…

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KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia (AP) — Jamaica’s beloved bobsled team had to raise money just to get to Russia. Now they’ve arrived at the Sochi Games — but without their equipment. The carefree Jamaicans were unable to make their first practice runs Wednesday because their luggage, with the runners for their two-man sled as well as […]