Yohan Blake anchors team to time of 1min 18.63sec Great Britain make solid start to championships Jamaicas men broke the 4x200m world record, set 20 years ago by the USA, on the opening night of the inaugural IAAF World Relays in the Bahamas. Great Britain made a solid if unspectacular start to the championships, qualifying from each of their respective heats ahead of Sundays finals and finishing...
The rude boy has come a long way from his origins in Jamaican subculture, as shown in a new photography exhibition celebrating the movement's distinctive style It was towards the end of 1963 that the Wailers released their first single, Simmer Down , on the legendary Studio One label in Jamaica. The song was written and sung by an 18-year-old Bob Marley , the lyrics intended to placate his mother,...
The Portland Bight protected area is home to the iconic Jamaican iguana and 20 other endangered species. Its fragile coastal ecosystem and wildlife faces the risk of being lost for ever as Jamaica approves a Chinese company to build a port Continue reading... ...
Development will destroy Jamaica's biggest nature reserve and fragile coastal areas, conservationists warn The Jamaican government is pursuing a $1.5bn Chinese port development inside the island's biggest nature reserve, threatening the famous Jamaican iguana ( Cyclura collei ) and putting fragile coastal areas at risk, environmental groups say. Continue reading... ...
Tony Wilkinson, partner of Guardian journalist Decca Aitkenhead, was caught in a strong current A youth worker has drowned after swimming out to sea to rescue one of his sons while they were on a family holiday in Jamaica. Tony Wilkinson, the partner of the Guardian journalist Decca Aitkenhead, was caught in a strong current and was unable to reach the shore again after going to the aid of the boy,...
Shed; Theatre Royal, both London; Tobacco Factory, Bristol Poor lives make for rich drama at the Shed, while Goldie excels as a Jamaican gang leader at Stratford East Some of the most striking episodes in Nadia Fall's remarkable play Home have no words. The champion beatboxer Grace Savage , who plays a heavily pregnant and homeless young woman, provides an insistent rhythmic commentary to the action...
Convicted of the 2011 murder of Clive 'Lizard' William, the Jamaican musician won't be eligible for parole for 35 year Jamaican dancehall and reggae star Vybz Kartel has been sentenced to life in prison for the 2011 murder of Clive "Lizard" Williams. Following his conviction last month , Kartel received the harshest sentence of any of his co-defendants: he will serve 35 years in jail before...
31 March - 4 April: Read up on the week's winners, losers, controversies and reports Satinah , an Indonesian maid who has been spared from execution in Saudi Arabia after being convicted of murdering her employer. Satinah said she hit her employer, Nura al-Garib, in self-defence . Multimedia Global development reading list It's World Health Day on Monday, and this year's theme is vector-borne diseases....
Women at immigration removal centre plan memorial service for Christine Case, who collapsed and died last Sunday The white daffodils in the yard at Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre in Bedfordshire are in full bloom. On Sunday, exactly one week after the death of 40-year-old Christine Case at the centre , female detainees plan to cut them and take them along to a special memorial service they...
The DJ's stage debut as a Jamaican gang leader calls for a Caribbean feast with playwright Roy Williams Roy Williams and Goldie have a shared love: the Caribbean food at Theatre Royal Stratford East's bar. "The beef patty here is the best I've ever tasted," says Goldie, DJ, TV personality and actor in films such as Guy Ritchie's Snatch . "Yeah, that jerk chicken is better than even mine,"...
Musician and actor Goldie makes his stage debut playing Jamaican gangster Joker in Kingston 14, the new play by Roy Williams at Theatre Royal Stratford East in London. Playwright and star discuss independence, corruption and the state of the island today and why they feel it is a story that needs to be told WARNING: strong language ...
Singer, dancer and actor whose Hollywood career was overshadowed by her marriage to Errol Flynn The gifted singer, dancer and actor Patrice Wymore, who has died aged 87, had the misfortune to be typecast in secondary roles at Warner Bros studios in the 1950s, and to be known as the third wife of the Hollywood star Errol Flynn . The 23-year-old Wymore and the 41-year-old Flynn got married after co-starring...
Dancehall reggae star and three co-defendants were found guilty of killing an associate, Clive Lizard Williams, in a row over guns ...
s Community Programmes Unit on the issues raised in different black communities by the formation of Labour party black sections. When the original key-note speaker dropped out at very short notice I turned to Stuart almost in desperation, knowing he couldn...
s digital dancehall smash Under Mi Sleng Teng changed the face of Jamaican music, conquered the world and is a rough and rugged epitaph to its singer In the history of Jamaican popular music, Wayne Smith's Under Mi Sleng Teng is a true milestone. The song's release in 1985 kick-started a new genre and changed the island's culture almost overnight. And it was not only Jamaica that was shaken by...
s National party (PNP). He was also a troublemaking journalist and a key trade union organiser. After qualifying as a solicitor in 1941 he served as president of the Jamaica Government Railway Employees' Union (1942-48). The colonial government detained him twice as a subversive during the second world war. In 1945 he helped found the Caribbean Labour Congress. As its general secretary (1947-53), he...
s fantastic, they're good lads," said Deen. The Jamaican pair didn't seem very angry afterwards, although they weren't entirely satisfied with their performance. Despite finishing dead last, they were far from disgraced and sat just 0.36 seconds behind the Serbian sled going into the third heat. More than two decades on and despite being odds on to finish 30th out of 30 sleds, the gregarious and engaging...
s Running with the Kenyans describes the enthusiasm on show in the Rift Valley and at the Lewa marathon in Kenya, while that other distance-running powerhouse, Ethiopia, boasts the Great Ethiopian Run, where 38,000 runners pound the streets of the capital , hoping to follow in the footsteps of the great Haile Gebrselassie. Not many would suggest Jamaica, home of Usain Bolt, Shelly-Ann Fraser–Pryce...
Enthusiastic fundraisers have raised more than 26 million in Dogecoin, a joke alternative currency, which could help propel the Jamaican bobsleigh team to the 2014 Winter Olympics. By Alex Hern Alex Hern ...
s games • Pilot Watts keen to secure additional funding With a little bit of perseverance, Jamaica's Winston Watts qualified to pilot a bobsled at next month's Olympics as the driver of a two-man team. Without additional funding, however, the island's latest bobsleigh team might not actually appear in the Sochi Games. Jamaica's official Olympics Twitter account posted a message in apparent homage to...