KINGSTON, Jamaica — Amnesty International on Monday urged Jamaica’s government to seriously investigate human rights abuses allegedly committed during last year’s bloody operation to catch a reputed underworld boss. The London-based human rights group asserted that no one has been punished despite many claims of unlawful killings and arbitrary arrests by security forces. Neither the […]

JAMAICA-Footage has surfaced of Jamaican police executing an unarmed man after a fight. RELATED STORIES

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Lloyd Knibb, an influential Jamaican drummer who played with The Skatalites and helped develop the ska beat, has died, his wife said Friday. He was 80. Enid Knibb said her husband died from liver cancer late Thursday. He had been receiving treatment in the U.S. but returned to Jamaica this week, she […]

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Mikeisha Simpson covers her body in greasy white cream and bundles up in a track suit to avoid the fierce sun of her native Jamaica, but she’s not worried about skin cancer. RELATED: Woman who blamed acid attack on a Black woman apologizes The 23-year-old resident of a Kingston ghetto hopes to […]

TAMPA-Reggae star, Buju Banton has been found guilty of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and attempted possession with the intent to distribute cocaine. RELATED: 25 reasons we love “Love Jones” Top 9 Black reality TV professionals The Huffington Post reports: Banton was found guilty of conspiracy to possess with the intent to […]

JAMAICA-28 homosexual Jamaicans were granted political asylum in he U.S.A. for being persecuted due to their sexual orientation. The Jamaican Observer reports: Immigration Equality, an organisation which works to secure asylum for individuals persecuted in their home country based on their sexual orientation, gender identity or HIV-status, said it won dozens of cases for clients […]

JAMAICA-A new movie, “Better Mus Come” is coming out shortly and the movie highlights the problems that led to the high level of political violence from Jamaica’s rival political parties, the People’s National Party and The Jamaican Labour Party, and the politically supported systems of Dons (gang) and Garrisons (residential areas). The movie stars Roger […]

Last week CNN international had a poll to determine the coolest nationalities in the world. Brazilians were voted #1 and Singaporeans were voted #2 and Jamaicans were voted #3. There’s more to Jamaicans than reggae, including Rastafarian (the most kick-back religion ever invented), an accent that’s the envy of the English-speaking world and the planet’s […]

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — A U.S. diplomatic cable leaked Wednesday says the mayor of Jamaica’s biggest city acknowledged forging an alliance of convenience with an alleged drug baron to reduce crime in a sprawling patchwork of gritty slums. The September 2009 cable says that Kingston Mayor Desmond McKenzie told a U.S. Embassy officer that his […]

An 11-year-old boy in Spanish Town, Jamaica claims that he is being contacted by a “duppy” as Jamaicans call ghosts, who pushes him at times. More Video RELATED STORIES NC Man Waits For ‘Ghost Train,’ Killed By Real One VIDEO: Mysterious Beast “Chupacabras” Found In Texas Share this post on Facebook! CLICK HERE: http://widgets.fbshare.me/files/fbshare.js Five […]

Buju Banton, real name Mark Myrie is a free man after serving almost a year in prison while awaiting drug charges. After his September mistrial he was granted bail and can not leave the USA and will have to wear and electronic monitoring device. Stephen Marley, the son of reggae legend Bob Marley, bailed him […]

After a speech by Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, about giving assistance to other nations during the upcoming storm, Hurricane Tomas, only if it benefited Trinidad and Tobago, many West Indians have started a campaign to boycott Trinidad. Go-Jamaica reports: “We will have to look at ways in which we would be […]