‘Lonely Soldier’ Gregory Isaacs Dead at 59

Gregory Isaacs — a legend in his own time, one of the most popular and versatile reggae singers of the late-Seventies, and the smooth-voiced dancehall crooner behind the genre’s landmark 1982 LP Night Nurse — passed away this morning at his London home following a year-long battle with lung cancer, the BBC reports. Isaacs was 59. ” Isaacs’ […]

Jamaican in China! You sent my passport WHERE????? American Samoa????

So, it’s Thursday, August 26, 2010. I am on the island of Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Marian Islands.  I’m scheduled to leave from Saipan to China on Sunday night…August the 29th. I sent my passport to the US to get my China visa issued about two weeks ago. However, my passport mysteriously hasn’t arrived […]