A SCENE FROM THE DISASTER HIT PETITE SAVANNE. (PHOTO FROM DEBRA FRANCIS’ FACEBOOK PAGE)
ROSEAU, Dominica, Monday August 31, 2015 – Government has ordered the evacuation of Petite Savanne, a village on the southeast of the island that was the worst
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BEIJING, China — Usain Bolt won his third gold medal of the World Championship as Jamaica swept both 4x100m relays in another display of dominant sprinting at the Bird's Nest stadium here yesterday.
Bolt, who now has a record 11 gold, helping Jamai
BEIJING (AP)
For Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce in the 100 meters, this was no big deal. There was so much daylight between Fraser-Pryce and the runner-up, the Jamaican could have walked the last few steps and still taken gold.
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By: Tom Fordyce - BBC Sports
From a man who has delighted in pulling off the impossible, this was perhaps the greatest miracle of all.
We often compare Usain Bolt to Muhammad Ali - not for his political convictions but his charisma, for the effect h
Shelly Ann & Usain Bolt Go For The Win At World Champs #TeamJamaica
Native Jamaican runners Shelly-Ann Fraser and Usain Bolt are doing great things. Like Bolt, Fraser-Pryce came into the event with two Olympic and two world titles in the 100. And afte
Usain Bolt produced perhaps his greatest miracle of all as he put a troubled build-up behind him to beat two-time doper and clear favourite Justin Gatlin to retain his world 100m title. The controversial Gatlin came into the final on a 28-race u
BEIJING (AFP) - Usain Bolt comes to the world championships in Beijing caught in the crosshairs of controversial rival Justin Gatlin in what promises to be one of the closest fought sprint rivalries seen in a long time.
Bolt has dominated sprinting
U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry called for a “genuine democracy” in Cuba on Friday as the American flag was raised here for the first time in more than half a century, formally reopening the U.S. Embassy and beginning what the Obama administrat
WATER for Your Soul, the seventh album by British soul singer Joss Stone, has topped the Billboard Reggae Album Chart. The 14-track set was co-produced by Stone, Damian Marley, Steve Greenwell, Conner Reeves and Jonathan Shorten.
Stone met Marley w
In this July 25, 2015 photo, a woman in costume prepares for the carnival parade to start in Santiago, Cuba. Low visitor numbers to Santiago are raising concerns that a rising tide of tourist dollars will leave some areas of Cuba booming and others
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, Monday August 10, 2015, IPS – Award-winning St. Lucian poet and playwright Kendel Hippolyte thinks that Caribbean nationals should view the Earth as their mother.
“For me, the whole thing is so basic: the earth that we are livi
A couple of youths cycle past the U.S yacht Still Waters, moored at the Hemingway Marina in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015. “The elimination of restrictions on nautical tourism by the U.S. government appears as if it will happen over the short
Wishing all of Jamaica, Jamaicans far and wide a Happy 53rd Independence Day!!!
Yoni Epstein (centre), chief executive officer of ItelBPO, addressing this week’s Jamaica Observer Monday Exchange. Also photographed are (from left) Councillor Suzette Brown (PNP, Montego Bay South Division); Patrick Prendergast, acting director UW
ROSEAU, Dominica, Tuesday August 4, 2015 –Dominica is nearing the end of negotiations with French investors to start building the islands much talked about geothermal plant.
Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit made the disclosure as he indicated that
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This house plan will enable you to build your Caribbean dream as your own private resort, this home provides the flexibility for a pool and also provide great ocean views if you build on a property near
BY RICHARD JOHNSON Observer senior reporter johnsonr@jamaicaobserver.com
SIZZLA is working to bring cultural and historical awareness within his August Town community through his Sizzla Youth Foundation.
The artiste is spearheading month-long cele
NASSAU, Bahamas, Thursday July 23, 2015 – Bahamas’ Harbour Island has won top honors in the prestigious Travel + Leisure’s World’s Best Awards 2015.
It was voted “Best Island in the Caribbean” by the publication’s most discerning travelers, who rat
ATLANTA, Georgia — This will take some getting used to. But it's real. Jamaica's Reggae Boyz have created two pieces of history in one fell swoop.
In a dramatic showdown in the semi-final of the CONCACAF Gold Cup at the Georgia Dome last evening, J
