KINGSTON, Jamaica — Eight people accused of defrauding U.S. citizens through a multinational lottery scam were arrested during raids of several ...
Posted 05.04.2012
James Bond may be her majesty's most frequent flier. Over the last six decades, the debonair agent has explored every corner of the globe, leaving beh...
HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 04.25.2012
Human remains found in Massachusetts have been identified as those of a missing Nantucket pregnant woman whose mysterious disappearance captured natio...
HuffingtonPost.com | Brennan Williams | Posted 05.22.2012
With 4/20 upon us, today marks the release of the first-ever family authorized documentary, "Marley," chronicling the life and times of legendary musi...
Jonathan Kim | Posted 04.20.2012
If 4/20 is the international day for celebrating marijuana, songs by Bob Marley and the Wailers would be the day's equivalent of carols on Christmas. But Marley was much more than a pot smoker and a purveyor of music for barbecues and pool parties.
Rabbi Dana Kaplan | Posted 04.20.2012
Making any transition is difficult. But moving to a new country to become the only rabbi for an entire island is a huge leap. If that wasn't enough, I became the first ordained rabbi to lead the Jamaican Jewish community in 33 years.
Marshall Fine | Posted 04.20.2012
Marley is a welcome documentary, one that celebrates Bob Marley's spirit, his genius and his influence. If it errs on the side of hagiography, well, at least it gives us glimpses of previously unseen Marley performances.
Posted 04.20.2012
In "The Last Wailer," John Jeremiah Sullivan writes, "Consider that in Kingston, in one decade, you had the emergence of Bob Marley and the Wailers, T...
Laurence Watts | Posted 04.18.2012
Tablet Magazine | Posted 04.17.2012
By Ross Kenneth Urken Tablet Magazine How did a Jewish boy from New Jersey end up speaking with a Jamaican accent? It’s an enduring inheritance ...
AP | DAVID MCFADDEN | Posted 04.17.2012
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica -- The 88-year-old retired Coast Guard officer hadn't been outside the U.S. in decades. Yet phone calls started pouring in from J...
Luis Perez-Simon | Posted 04.09.2012
Policing is not easy. It is also dangerous. Besides more education and counseling, direct accountability and permanent oversight are needed in order to change a one-size-fits-all type of police mentality when it comes to people.
The Huffington Post | Kathleen Massara | Posted 04.08.2012
Nari Ward is an artist concerned with how materials can give an object adding meaning. In his piece, “We the People,” Ward uses old shoelaces to m...
The Huffington Post | Laura Steiner | Posted 03.30.2012
While we've seen that Spring Break in Mexico does not necessarily mean you need to be trapped in the all-inclusive drunken world of Cancun, perhaps a ...
Oyster | Posted 05.22.2012
These nine hotels, from a cliff-side sanctuary to an uber-luxe mountaintop retreat, will test travelers who are even a little scared of heights.
Elizabeth Thorp | Posted 05.15.2012
As part of Prince Henry's recent tour of Jamaica to mark Her Majesty the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, His Royal Highness stayed at the Royal Family's favorite resort.
AP | By TOM HAYS | Posted 03.13.2012
NEW YORK -- U.S. authorities say Jamaican drug kingpin Christopher "Dudus" Coke was so ruthless that he once ordered a rival killed with a chainsaw. ...
The Huffington Post | Caitlin Brown | Posted 03.06.2012
This year's Spring Break "Top 10" list starts and ends with, oh-so-appropriately, MTV. College students may remember MTV's The Real World: Cancun, a p...
AP | DAVID McFADDEN | Posted 05.02.2012
BRANDON HILL, Jamaica — A few years ago in this mist-shrouded mountain town, steep slopes were quilted with some of the world's most valuable co...
Oyster | Posted 04.30.2012
Check out our favorite ways to get a rush.
AP | Posted 01.19.2012
KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Jamaica's government says that about 500 Cuban health workers will work on the island for the next two years to bolster understaf...
Ryan J. Bell | Posted 03.18.2012
To be openly gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender in Jamaica is to take your life in your hands. I had no idea about this reality until I spoke to Leslie Foster, director of a documentary about violent homophobia in Jamaica.
Madeleine Bair | Posted 03.11.2012
Jamaica's biggest drug don may be locked up, but for those who were killed during his manhunt, justice is far from served.
AP | By DAVID McFADDEN | Posted 01.04.2012
KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Jamaica's first female prime minister has officially led her party to a landslide victory in general elections with final results...
AP | By DAVID McFADDEN | Posted 12.30.2011
KINGSTON, Jamaica -- The emphatic drubbing of Jamaica's governing party in fiercely contested national elections even astonished the triumphant opposi...
AP | DAVID McFADDEN | Posted 05.17.2012