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  • KC wins Boys and Edwin-Allen re-gains hold of Girls Champs 2024

    Congratulations to many-time winners, Kingston College (KC) and Edwin-Allen High School who won this year’s (2024) ISSA Boys and Girls Championships (#Champs2024) respectively. Edwin Allen defeated rivals and 2023 champions, Hydel High, in a close race. Kingston College won this one early on the final day and just held on, winning the 4x400m race to…

  • Reggae Boyz beat CAN 3-2, qualifies for Copa America

    Looking for something positive since taking over as Technical Director of Jamaica’s Reggae Boyz team a year ago, Heimir Hallgrimsson found it in a bold half time change last night, leading to a 3-2 win over Canada in Toronto, Canada, and cementing their spot into the Nations League semi-finals and Copa America. The Canadians were…

  • Cable TV or “Skinny Bundles” or neither?

    Yow! In a recent tweet, a person going by River Ave. Blues (@RiverAveBlues) stated the following: CableTV is expensive, very expensive! “Skinny bundles” are expensive, some very expensive, they are definitely not “skinny” though they may not have all the channels that are available via CableTV, as you see from the tweet. Antenna plus free…

  • What would you do?

    Here’s the situation. You live in Jamaica. A not-so-close friend comes to you to borrow $1,000 JMD to buy food for his family for a week. You don’t really want to lend him because you have debts of your own but he’s quite persistent and assures you that he will pay you back in a…

  • Hydel finally dethrones Edwin Allen; Kingston College wins 2 in a row

    Girls Championships Hydel, with great performances from captain Anieka McAnuff and 100M record-breaking runner Alana Reid, and aided by the disqualification of Edwin Allen in the sprint medley that erased 12 points, helped Hydel hang on to a 2 point win. In the girls class one (1) 100M event, after semi-final runs of 11.16 and…

  • Did the marriage I predicted come true?

    Way back in 2001, 3 years before Ubuntu [Linux] distribution based on Debian Linux was released, I wrote an article entitled Let’s Marry Linux to Windows and got mixed reaction. Some people thought it was a good idea. Others thought it was a terrible idea that would never happen. Well, fast forward 15 years and not…