On a warm, breezy afternoon in late May, sprinters clogged the faded orange surface of a training track adjacent to the National Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica. World-class athletes mixed with young children wearing tiny racing spikes, a culture worshipping a sport that struggles elsewhere. Coaches shouted instructions and punched stopwatches. Music drifted across from a nearby neighborhood called Nannyville. And all eyes found Usain Bolt, a majestic, 6' 5" 21-year-old poised on the cusp of history.
NEW YORK -- By the time the night sky cleared over Icahn Stadium on Randall's Island and the 43-minute-long thunderstorm rolled eastward Saturday night, Jamaican Usain Bolt stepped into his starting blocks, weathered a false start and added a dash of lightning.
Sprinter Tyson Gay was expected to chase three gold medals at the Olympic Games in Beijing. A year ago at the World Track and Field Championships in Osaka, Japan, Gay rushed to the first page of history by winning the 100 meters, (humbling world record holder Asafa Powell of Jamaica) 200 meters and anchoring Team USA's gold medal-winning 4x100-meter relay.
The man accused of trying to sneak bomb-making materials onto a flight from Orlando, Florida, to Jamaica recently returned from a contract job in Iraq, a spokesman for his former employer said Thursday.
The man accused of trying to sneak bomb-making materials on a flight from Orlando to Jamaica admitted he planned to build a bomb after he landed, according to an FBI agent.
My first experience with an all-inclusive resort was a decade ago during a freezing February in New York City. I was easy prey for this promise: a startlingly low price for a trip to Cancún, which included airfare, four nights in a double room and meals at any of three "exciting, international" restaurants.
Stephen Johnston, a 6-foot-8, 37-year-old social worker who had captained four Jamaican National basketball teams, could not take his eyes off the bobble-headed beanpole.
Haiti posted tropical storm warnings along its entire coastline and Cuba placed much of its eastern end under similar advisories Sunday as Tropical Storm Noel gained strength in the Caribbean Sea, forecasters reported.
Adrian McHargh grew up active and skinny in Kingston, Jamaica. An enthusiastic swimmer, he had the pristine waters of the Caribbean for a playground until two years ago, when he and his family moved to America.
Jamaica's leader has conceded defeat in a tight election, though she said her party might still challenge the results of some parliamentary races.
On a warm, breezy afternoon in late May, sprinters clogged the faded orange surface of a training track adjacent to the National Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica. World-class athletes mixed with young children wearing tiny racing spikes, a culture worshipping a sport that struggles elsewhere. Coaches shouted instructions and punched stopwatches. Music drifted across from a nearby neighborhood called Nannyville. And all eyes found Usain Bolt, a majestic, 6' 5" 21-year-old poised on the cusp of history.
NEW YORK -- By the time the night sky cleared over Icahn Stadium on Randall's Island and the 43-minute-long thunderstorm rolled eastward Saturday night, Jamaican Usain Bolt stepped into his starting blocks, weathered a false start and added a dash of lightning.
Sprinter Tyson Gay was expected to chase three gold medals at the Olympic Games in Beijing. A year ago at the World Track and Field Championships in Osaka, Japan, Gay rushed to the first page of history by winning the 100 meters, (humbling world record holder Asafa Powell of Jamaica) 200 meters and anchoring Team USA's gold medal-winning 4x100-meter relay.
The man accused of trying to sneak bomb-making materials onto a flight from Orlando, Florida, to Jamaica recently returned from a contract job in Iraq, a spokesman for his former employer said Thursday.
The man accused of trying to sneak bomb-making materials on a flight from Orlando to Jamaica admitted he planned to build a bomb after he landed, according to an FBI agent.
My first experience with an all-inclusive resort was a decade ago during a freezing February in New York City. I was easy prey for this promise: a startlingly low price for a trip to Cancún, which included airfare, four nights in a double room and meals at any of three "exciting, international" restaurants.
Stephen Johnston, a 6-foot-8, 37-year-old social worker who had captained four Jamaican National basketball teams, could not take his eyes off the bobble-headed beanpole.
Haiti posted tropical storm warnings along its entire coastline and Cuba placed much of its eastern end under similar advisories Sunday as Tropical Storm Noel gained strength in the Caribbean Sea, forecasters reported.
Adrian McHargh grew up active and skinny in Kingston, Jamaica. An enthusiastic swimmer, he had the pristine waters of the Caribbean for a playground until two years ago, when he and his family moved to America.
Jamaica's leader has conceded defeat in a tight election, though she said her party might still challenge the results of some parliamentary races.
Hurricane Felix has grown to a "potentially catastrophic" Category 5 storm packing winds up to 165 mph (270 kph), the National Hurricane Center said late Sunday.
Felix strengthened into a hurricane over the Caribbean on Saturday, setting its sights on Aruba and prompting Jamaica to issue a tropical storm watch, forecasters said.
Hurricane Dean burgeoned into a Category 5 storm -- capable of inflicting catastrophic damage when it makes landfall early Tuesday.
Hurricane Dean battered the southern coast of Jamaica with heavy rains and surf as its eye passed offshore late Sunday, apparently sparing the Caribbean island the worst of its 145 mph winds.
Massive Hurricane Dean roared through the open waters of the western Caribbean on Saturday, prompting the National Hurricane Center to call it an "extremely dangerous" storm as it hovered precariously close to Category 5 intensity.
Dean strengthened yet again Friday, with dangerous 145-mph winds officially making it a Category 4 hurricane -- the first of the 2007 Atlantic season.
Thanks to a gay rights veteran, artists whose lyrics advocate gay bashing are pledging respect to homosexuals
Pakistan World Cup cricket coach Bob Woolmer died from natural causes and was not strangled as police earlier concluded, the Jamaican police commissioner said
Standing barefoot on the asphalt after his race, 17-year-old Yohan Blake, a junior sprinter from St. Jago (Spanish Town, Jamaica), was simmering down last Saturday. After burning up the track with a 45.40 personal split in the anchor leg of the 4x400 meter relay team, Blake was left to critique his performance in the 113th running of the Penn Relays.
A senior Jamaican police official gave two Pakistani diplomats a tour Sunday of the 12th-floor hotel room where the body of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer was found last week.
The announcement by Jamaican police that Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer's death is being treated as murder has shocked the cricketing world during one of its biggest events.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- A story about models and rock stars needs to be written here. After all, long before Sports Illustrated brought the two groups together for this year's Swimsuit Issue, the Chateau Marmont helped facilitate their rendezvous inside the various suites, cottages and bungalows nestled alongside this hill overlooking Sunset Blvd.
With golden beaches, misty mountains and russet sunsets, Jamaica is a postcard perfect paradise born out of the blood, sweat and tears of slavery and colonialism. Thousands of holidaymakers flock to the Caribbean island every year to soak up a laid back lifestyle sold on the seductive beats of dread locked reggae legend Bob Marley. But behind the rumbling bass lines and the scented smoke of ever-present marijuana reefers, Jamaica is still a country coming to terms with its difficult past. Gun and knife-wielding gangs make parts of the capital Kingston a no-go area, with high poverty levels creating a desperate underworld of hustlers and criminals who often target tourists. These troubles, however, nurture a vibrant music scene that allows Jamaica to punch way beyond its weight, exporting fresh new hip-hop and dance hall sounds - alongside regular reggae - to a world thirsty for its tropical beats. Mobile sound systems carry the rhythms of Kingston's newest artists onto the streets, where those visitors wh
Cuba, Jamaica and the Cayman Islands were under hurricane watches Saturday night as Tropical Storm Ernesto gained power in the Caribbean.
The Scene meets dancehall star Sean Paul in Kingston, Jamaica and hears about Bob Marley's enduring musical influence on the Caribbean island.
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A fire broke out Thursday on the Jamaica-bound Star Princess cruise ship, and one person died of a heart attack, according to cruise line officials.
Workers at a pair of private New York bus lines went on strike early Monday -- the first steps in what could be the shutdown of the nation's largest public transportation system.
Rainbands of Hurricane Emily -- an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 storm with winds nearing 155 mph -- spread over Jamaica and the Cayman Islands Saturday evening as the storm's eye passed southwest of Jamaica and headed toward Mexico's Yucatan peninsula.
Hurricane Emily regained Category 3 status Friday evening, packing 115 mile per hour winds as it hurtled across the Caribbean toward Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, which are under a hurricane warning.
Hurricane Dennis reached Category 4 strength Thursday night as it churned just off the coast of Cuba, while Florida officials ordered a mandatory evacuation of the lower Florida Keys.
People in Jamaica, Cuba and Haiti braced late Wednesday for the menace of Dennis, which strengthened earlier in the day to become the first full-fledged hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic season.
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Four American allies in the Persian Gulf are among the countries criticized for not doing enough to combat human trafficking in a U.S. State Department report released Friday.
In a devastating six-week period, Hurricanes Charley, Ivan, Frances and Jeanne wreaked havoc across parts of the Atlantic Ocean and killed thousands living in the Caribbean.
Hurricane Ivan, blamed for at least 42 deaths in the Caribbean, pounded the Cayman Islands on Sunday and regained strength as it headed toward the western tip of Cuba.
Hurricane Ivan has strengthened to a Category 5 storm after battering the island of Jamaica with heavy rain and strong winds, killing 11 people.
Lethal Hurricane Ivan, an intense Category 4 storm, gained strength as it began to batter the Caribbean island of Jamaica on Friday night.
Jamaicans are preparing for Hurricane Ivan as the powerful storm heads towards the island's southeastern coast.
Florida residents Wednesday prepared for a potential double-punch of tropical storms.
The Cayman Islands and Jamaica were bracing Wednesday for Tropical Storm Charley, which continues to strengthen in the Caribbean.
South Africa's main opposition party has called the decision to grant Haiti's ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide temporary asylum a "mistake" and questioned the cost to South African taxpayers.
Deposed Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide has been given permission to stay in South Africa until the situation in his own volatile country returns to stability.
Two years ago in the pages of FSB, I described my discovery that I was not a cruise person. I had been assigned to sail the Caribbean aboard a big, popular ship and report my findings. While everyo...
Haiti's interim government Monday recalled its ambassador to Jamaica, shortly before ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide arrived there, the Haitian prime minister's office said.
Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide left the Central African Republic early Monday, presumably for Jamaica.
Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is to travel to Jamaica early next week, Jamaican Prime Minister P.J. Patterson has said.
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Super-low cruise prices, which were the norm in the post-9/11 travel lull, have sailed off into the sunset. Among other reasons: Travelers started taking notice of the growing number of ships departing port cities that were previously unassociated with cruising, like Baltimore and Seattle.
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