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Air China is interested in buying Air Jamaica
D’Angel says she is not interfering with Beenie’s visitation rights
Mavado’s music will be featured on next Grand Theft Auto release
Prime Minister Bruce Golding to visit South Florida
A Florida nurse who was born in Jamaica wins over $1 million dollars playing the nickel slots

I want to say thanks to Wordpress expert Mahtab Ali, who has helped me SO much this past couple of weeks to get my site up and going. I’d made some coding errors and couldn’t fix them and he stepped right in and fixed them all, plus some. So, if you have a Wordpress site [...]

The Royals recently visited the Caribbean and Jamaica was one of their stops, they visited Falmouth, Kingston, and Montego Bay amongst other Jamaican cities while there.

I started to use this as a “Did You Know They Were Jamaican” post…but I’ll save it for another day. Heavy D was spotted at the RnB Hollywood Live event last night in LA. The girls still love ya Heavy!

Beenie back in court again to answer charges on tax evasion

Mavado arrested again

Producer extraordinaire, Don Corleon featured on CW’s Girlicious

US recruiting Jamaican teachers

Although Rita Marley is the executive producer of the biopic that will highlight her life with Bob Marley, the family is refusing the production company, the Weinstein Company, access to Bob Marley’s catalog of music. Why? It’s reported that a competing documentary on Marley’s life, which will be directed by Martin Scorsese, is the source [...]

Michael Campbell, aka Mikey Dread died on Saturday, March 15th, 2008 in Connecticut. Mikey Dread had been diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2007 and is survived by 6 children.
YawdFromAbroad.com would like to send it’s condolences to the family.

The recent downfall of Audiomaxxx (not familiar with this scandalous site, then click here) brings to the forefront a common issue for all recording artists alike, but especially reggae artists. How can artists “eat a food” when their music is being copied and bootlegged at home and around the world with no credit or profits [...]

Alburn Edward Blake, the suspect who shot five people including himself on last Monday, was born in Jamaica according to reports by several media outlets. 60-year-old Blake walked into a West Palm Beach Wendy’s fast food restaurant, and began to open fire on patrons at random, killing a paramedic and finally himself. Blake was [...]

Rita Marley wants her “daughter-in-law” Lauryn Hill to portray her in the upcoming Bob Marley biopic she is producing next year. Lauryn Hill is married to the son of Bob Marley and Janet Hunt, Rohan Marley, and has 5 children with him. The Weinstein Co has optioned the rights to Rita’s autobiography, “No Woman No [...]

The NY Daily News is reporting that 8 members of a Bronx gang that sold an alleged $1 million in marijuana every week were convicted on Wednesday in federal court. It is reported that the gang used the money from their marijuana sales to fund John Shop Records, a reggae record label that featured artists [...]

The Bronx apartment building where Clive Campbell, aka DJ Kool Herc, moved to in 1973 after immigrating from Jamaica and the official “Birth Place of Hip Hop”, has been saved from being sold to real estate investors. The deal to sell the 100-unit apartment building at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue was rejected by the Department of [...]