The City of Brotherly Love makes proclamation of Jamaican Independence Week
by Colly FIsher, JA Pennsylvania Assn. The One Love Call to Action and Pledge supports Colly Fisher and her promotion of Pennsylvania’s Proclamation of Jamaica Independence Week to be officially recognize Aug. 5th – 10th as “Jamaica Independence Week”. Below…
Couples Resorts in Jamaica ranked among top Caribbean resorts
Couples Resorts in Jamaica Ranked Among Top Caribbean Resorts in Travel + Leisure’s World’s Best Awards For the fourth consecutive year, all four Couples Resorts in Jamaica are ranked in the top 25 Caribbean resorts in Travel + Leisure’s World’s…
United passenger spends three days in jail following dispute over seat
By Chris Morran From Consumerist For each bad consumer booted from an airplane for bad behavior, we hear about some unhappy passenger being pulled off a plane and questioned by police because of a petty dispute with a flight attendant….
A double-decker bus got stuck under a Manhattan overpass this morning
By Alex Davies From Business Insider A double-decker Megabus snarled traffic in Manhattan during rush hour this morning after getting wedged under an overpass on the ramp to the Port Authority Bus Terminal. The bus, traveling from Pittsburgh, was stuck…
PwC cuts jobs in bid to consolidate services in Caribbean region
By Marina Mello, The Royal Gazette, Bermuda PwC is cutting its workforce in Bermuda and has announced the departure of two partners amid the Island’s continuing economic downturn. A spokesman for the Big Four audit firm said they anticipate a…
Tom Keene: These Are The 9 Charts I’m Watching Right Now
By Matthew Boesler From Business Insider As the host of Bloomberg Surveillance on Bloomberg TV and Radio, Tom Keene gets to talk to a lot of smart people on a daily basis. Naturally, a lot of interesting insights are borne…
Psychoanalyzing Curtly Ambrose’s response
By FREDDIE KISSOON From kaieteurnewsonline What it is about this country that Caribbean people and other nationalities do not like? When we had Cricket World Cup, the fixtures placed New Zealand in Guyana. Yet most amazingly, when their team was…
Brighton wants to be London’s Silicon Valley
By Monty Munford From Mashable The 7:47 a.m. train from Brighton to London is consistently packed full of commuters. And the 10 or so trains that precede it are equally stuffed. The lucky ones score seats, and clack away on…
India Win Dumps Windies From Final
From The Gleaner PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): India, propelled by impressive swing bowling from Bhuvneshwar Kumar, booked a place in the final of the Celkon Mobile Cup ODI series and will oppose Sri Lanka at Queen’s Park Oval tomorrow. Kumar’s timely…
1-228 combs the Caribbean Sea to save the lives of 9 drifters
By Staff Sgt. Jarrod From dvids SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras – On July 2, a U.S. Army Utility Helicopter-60 from the 1-228 Aviation Battalion at Soto Cano Air Base was dispatched to the Caribbean Sea to help locate two…