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  • Triumphant comeback seals victory over Puerto Rico

    Guangdong province, May 23, 2013. The Chinese women's volleyball team overcame a late start Thursday night and fought back to defeat Puerto Rico 3-2 during a ...

  • The Bahamas Journal – Jones Communications Network

    Hours of heavy rain throughout the night continued into the early morning leaving many Bahamians with no electricity and sweeping residual flood water out of their homes. Children diving into rain water lakes, residents walking the streets barefoot and cars submerged were just a few of the sites the Bahama Journal saw yesterday. Marva Knowles, ...

  • lindbergh smith The Bahamas Ministry of Tourism SuperBowl Add was...

    If you were watching the Super Bowl on CBS on Sunday, chances are you saw the primetime debut of a $4.5 million advertisement by the Ministry of Tourism. But since then, the 61-second commercial, intended to encourage visitors to come to The Bahamas, has received both good and bad reviews from Bahamian citizens. Viral comments flooded both Facebook and Twitter as some locals reveled in the ...

  • RFK Center Releases Documents Outlining US Actions to Block Life-saving Funds to Haiti

    RFK Memorial Center for Human Rights and 2002 RFK Award recipient, Loune Viaud of Zamni Lasante, release U.S. Department of Treasury documents revealing that the U.S. and the Inter-American Development Bank deliberately obstructed $146 million in approved IDB financing. WASHINGTON - August 4 - The Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights and Zamni Lasante released internal U.S. ...

  • Prime Minister of Saint Lucia With Busy Agenda in Cuba

    Havana, May 25 (Prensa Latina) The Prime Minister of Saint Lucia, Kenny Davis Anthony, will arrive on Monday to Cuba, where he will have a very busy agenda that includes dialogues with authorities and visits to places of scientific, medical and educational interest. According to the program released to the press, the president will remain on the island until June 1, to strengthen the bilateral ...

Movie Review

Ashes of Time Redux (Dung che sai duk) [DVD]

Ashes of Time Redux (Dung che sai duk) [DVD]

Ashes of Time Redux is a brooding, melancholic twist on the wuxia, the genre of historical martial arts films that typically focus on swordplay and action. Writer/director Wong Kar Wai delivers swordplay from time to time, but in radical fragments that refuse ... ...

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  • Cuba With Three Athletes in New York City

    Havana, May 25 (Prensa Latina) Cuba will take part in the 3rd stage of the Diamond League in the city of New York with three athletes, as confirmed by Daniel Osorio, technical coach of the Cuban track and field team Friday. Olympic female pole vault jumper and runner-up Yarisley Silva is heading the Cuban trio, said Osorio to Radio Habana Cuba. The other athletes will be Orlando Ortega (110 ...

  • LPGA Bowie Young Cavalleri tied in the Bahamas

    Silvia Cavalleri was hitting the ball so well Friday she was sorry the Bahamas Classic was held on only 12 holes. The slogan for the LPGA Tour is, "See why it's different out here." Was it ever. Bowie Young and Cavalleri were tied for the lead at 6-under 39, which by numbers alone broke the LPGA scoring record by 20 shots. Not to worry. Annika Sorenstam's 59 in Phoenix in ...

  • After the flood From Haiti to Britain one man has captured the devastation of our increasingly deluged lands

    He has, however, been absorbed with an ongoing photographic project, zooming in on one aspect of climate change: flooding. Mendel's series, Drowning World, not only shows the effect of flooding on communities, but also encompasses traditional portraiture, and explores the often striking visuals such huge influxes of water produce.The floods in Yorkshire in 2007 started him off down this ...

  • Puerto Rico approves anti-discrimination bill

    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -; Legislators in Puerto Rico on Friday approved a heavily debated bill that outlaws employment discrimination based on gender or sexual ...

  • Gift of theater leads to birth of Cuba

    Director David Ellenstein (far left) works with actors Aaron Acosta, David Michael Coffey and Maritxell Crrero (left to right) during a rehearsal of "Becoming Cuba" at North Coast Repertory ...

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