Jamaica

After a raucous win over rivals Mexico last week, the U.S. Men’s National Team traveled to Jamaica to play the “Reggae Boyz” in their second World Cup Qualifier of the international break. The final score was 1-1 after a physical game where the Jamaicans continuously frustrated the Americans at National Stadium Independence Park. Rising youngster Timothy Weah put the...

A man in Queens is crying fowl after an animal attack on his way to work left him bloodied and concerned for his neighbors’ safety — but it wasn’t a dog, cat or even a New York City rat that went after him. His aggressor was a rooster.

Unvaccinated travelers are gravitating to Caribbean islands that will let them in, while the vaccinated want places that keep the unimmunized out.

Jamaica has consistently swept Olympic sprinting events. President of the island’s Track and Field Coaches Association tells us why and how.

Jamaican Track & Field Coaches Association President David Riley told us that mentorship plays a key role.

Italy ended Jamaica’s consecutive streak of 4x100m final victories at the Olympics with a first-place finish in Tokyo.

Grant Holloway of Team USA finished second in the men’s 110-meter hurdles in a race that saw Jamaica’s Hansle Parchment stun the world champion. Hansle won the race with a time of 13.04, and Holloway finished in 13:09. Ronald Levy of Jamaica took home the bronze and American Devon Allen came 4th. Holloway, the overwhelming favorite, led the race for…

Jamaica knows a thing or two about producing the world’s fastest athletes. Usain Bolt is the first name to come to mind, but Elaine Thompson-Herah is continuing her dominance in the first Olympics without Bolt since 2000. Thompson-Herah arrived at the 2016 Rio Olympics and won gold at the women’s 100m and 200m finals, the first Jamaican woman to do…

Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson-Herah won the women’s 100m final Saturday, breaking at 33-year old record in the process.

Eight-time Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt on how he gets into the right mindset for a race.

Travelers often unknowingly violate local protocols. Experts say these are the worst tourist offenses they see on their home turfs.

Philly Live’s Aunyea Lachelle talks to the people behind the food of Careda’s Caribbean Cuisine and Carib Grill Caribbean Restaurant about how Caribbean Restaurant Week is helping bring awareness to the the people behind the food while satisfying tastes.

President Donald Trump and Joe Biden are entering the final stretch of the campaign in a fierce battle for Latino voters who could sway the results in Florida and determine who wins the White House. But in this ultimate battleground state where nearly 10 million voters participate in elections often decided by a mere percentage point, other communities could suddenly…

A 7.7 magnitude earthquake originating 70 miles off the coast of Jamaica was felt in the Caribbean nation and also in Miami on Tuesday. 

For decades, the message to women in track and field was crystal clear: get pregnant, lose sponsorship money. A rebellion led by some of the sport’s top runners, Allyson Felix, Kara Goucher and Alysia Montano, is helping to change that. Two months after the U.S. women’s soccer players stated their case for equal pay, women in track and field come...

Everton Simpson squints at the Caribbean from his motorboat, scanning the dazzling bands of color for hints of what lies beneath. Emerald green indicates sandy bottoms. Sapphire blue lies above seagrass meadows. And deep indigo marks coral reefs. That’s where he’s headed. He steers the boat to an unmarked spot that he knows as the “coral nursery.” ”It’s like a...

The son of reggae legend Bob Marley and a Colorado firm have applied to open a medical marijuana dispensary in New Jersey.

A woman who killed her aunt with a meat cleaver in the New York City home they shared has been sentenced to 23 years in prison

‘Sprinter’ is about a Jamaican boy who goes after his dreams and his journey to compete in the United States. Award-winning director Storm Saulter talks about the story, which he filmed in his native Jamaica and even in Philadelphia.

Lincoln Boehm wanted to know how a pristine In-N-Out burger ended up on a New York City street and he got his answer Wednesday from a 16-year-old girl in Queens.