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Lauryn Hill To Headline New Zealand Festival

Posted by CaribShout on December 5, 2009 at 7:24pm

Lauryn Hill is scheduled to perform at the Raggamuffin Festival held in Rotorua, New Zealand next month. It'll be her first show since canceling a string of scheduled performances this past summer. The show's other high profile headliner is former F

Homeless brothers in line to inherit billions

Posted by Troy Porter on December 4, 2009 at 12:40pm

Hungarian cave-dwellers could split grandmother's $6.6 billion fortune BUDAPEST, Hungary - Talk about a reversal of fortunes. Two brothers who are so poor they live in a cave on the outskirts of Budapest and get by selling scavenged junk are in li

Cubans Hope, And Wait, For Flood Of U.S. Tourists

Posted by CaribShout on December 4, 2009 at 9:39am

Tourists ride along Havana's Malecon in April 2009 Cuba is the only country the U.S. government restricts Americans from visiting. A new bill in Congress is trying to change that. Opponents to the legislation say U.S. tourism dollars would help the

Soufriere captures under-16 schools netball title

Posted by CaribShout on December 3, 2009 at 10:59pm

How sweet it is! The Soufriere Secondary School Under-16 Netball team celebrating their finals victory over Micoud Secondary on Friday at the Vigie Multi-Purpose Complex. Winning definitely means Soufriere is very capable. Like we said from the beg

Two more records for St. Lucia's Runako

Posted by CaribShout on December 3, 2009 at 10:54pm

National swimmer Runako Daniel set two age group records at Sunday’s Developmental Meet at the Rodney Heights Aquatic Centre. On Sunday the St Lucia Amateur Swimming Association hosted its November developmental meet at the Rodney Heights Aquatic Ce

Cops: Woman makes threat to delay flight

Posted by Troy Porter on December 2, 2009 at 2:20am

MIAMI - A South Florida woman has been charged with calling in a bomb threat to keep her boss from missing a flight. An arrest report said a 31-year-old woman was charged Thursday with making a false report of planting a bomb. Miami International Ai

Crazy Fed Up

Posted by CaribShout on November 30, 2009 at 11:00pm

The lovable lunatic of calypso, Crazy has finally had enough of being denied the National Calypso Monarch title of Trinidad aTobago. He has declared that he is sitting out Carnival 2010, staying away from everything to do with the festival next year

Rohan Marley to 'stir up' Reggae Marathon

Posted by CaribShout on November 30, 2009 at 10:48pm

As plans are finalized for the ninth staging of the Reggae Marathon, Half Marathon and 10K in Negril on December 5, the Jamdammers Running Club of Kingston, organizers of the event has announced that Rohan Marley, son of the iconic Bob Marley will b

Commonwealth targets climate change

Posted by CaribShout on November 29, 2009 at 11:15pm

UK PM Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have proposed a multi-billion-dollar fund to help developing nations deal with climate change. Mr Brown said the $10bn (£6bn) fund should also be used to help developing nations cut greenhouse

TT builds on British heritage

Posted by CaribShout on November 28, 2009 at 10:43pm

TRINIDAD and Tobago has built solidly on “the British heritage that history has bequeathed to us,” President George Maxwell Richards said on Thursday evening as he hosted a banquet in honour of Queen Elizabeth II. “Out of that heritage there has dev

Venezuelans borrow for plastic surgery in hard times

Posted by CaribShout on November 28, 2009 at 10:30pm

Miss Universe 2009 Stefania Fernandez of Venezuela. CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) -- Unfazed by a recession and rampant inflation, image-conscious Venezuelans show no signs of cutting back on the facelifts, liposuction, and breast augmentation that

St Lucia courts Asian-American market

Posted by CaribShout on November 28, 2009 at 12:11am

CASTRIES, Saint Lucia -- Saint Lucia's tourism authorities are ramping up efforts targeting the burgeoning Asian American market and are extending special welcomes for Taiwanese Americans. Louis Lewis, St Lucia's director of tourism, said that on th

Russian bauxite company in Guyana threatens to close if industrial actions continue

Posted by CaribShout on November 28, 2009 at 12:09am

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Management of the Russian Aluminum (RUSAL) Aroaima Bauxite Company in Guyana has threatened to close down its operations if an industrial action by several hundred of its workers continues. The problem is over pay increases for

JetBlue and Barbados partner for exclusive Rihanna concert

Posted by CaribShout on November 28, 2009 at 12:06am

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- In celebration of its new nonstop service to Barbados, JetBlue Airways and the Barbados Tourism Authority (BTA) will present a private concert by Rihanna on Dec. 3, 2009 at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City, where the

Negril, Jamaica

Posted by CaribShout on November 26, 2009 at 7:07pm

Jamaica's shrine to permissive indulgence, NEGRIL has metamorphosed from deserted fishing beach to full-blown resort town in little over two decades. American hippies first started visiting what was then a virgin paradise in the 1970s, setting the t

Caribbean Full-figure models ready for TV debut

Posted by CaribShout on November 26, 2009 at 6:55pm

Pulse made history at this year's Caribbean Model Search (CMS) when it named 24-year-old University of the West Indies student Tka Briscoe as its first Full Figure Fashion model winner. Full figured songstress, Timberlee, introduced the full figure

The Dream added to the line-up for Usain Bolt's 9.58 Super Party.

Posted by CaribShout on November 26, 2009 at 6:30pm

International R&B Artiste and Producer, The Dream has been added to the line-up for the December 5 Usain Bolt 9.58 Super Party. The event, which is to take place at Richmond Estate in St Ann, will also have a slew of Jamaica's most popular artistes

Top Holiday Spending Mistakes

Posted by CaribShout on November 26, 2009 at 6:30pm

The annual holiday gauntlet run is upon us. People all over will be scouring shopping malls, websites and catalogs for that perfect gift. This year, take advantage of some useful tools and a little pre-thought that may help you avoid some of these c

Yendi Turns Up The Heat

Posted by CaribShout on November 26, 2009 at 6:30pm

The shores of Cape Town South Africa will be graced with the beauty of the dynamic Jamaican, Yendi Phillipps. Miss Jamaica World 2007 and Digicel Rising Stars host will be following her dream and pursuing a career in modeling, at the prestigious Bas

My Sportsman of the year: Usain Bolt

Posted by CaribShout on November 25, 2009 at 10:30am

Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Nov. 30. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. Encores happen in sport, this we know. Michael Jordan kept winning NBA titles. Joe Montana kept winning S

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