The Jamaican Olympic bobsled team might be ranked dead last after today's heats, but this 8-bit video from Jamaica's tourism board deserves a gold medal.

Ted Cruz, the Tea Party Texas Senator and self-styled populist Superman, is just a common man. Except for how he apparently omitted from required financial disclosure reports his connection to a Jamaican private equity firm he founded with his college roommate in 1998, since which his initial $6,000 investment turned…

Two years ago, the New Yorker's Mattathias Schwartz documented the brutal massacre Jamaican security forces undertook when they entered the notorious slum Tivoli Gardens to arrest—at the insistence of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency—drug kingpin and local hero Christopher "Dudus" Coke in 2010. They didn't find Coke,…

The New Yorker has just posted Mattathias Schwartz's excellent piece in last week's magazine on the disastrous raid to arrest Jamaican druglord Christopher "Dudus" Coke. At the DEA's insistence, Jamaican authorities reluctantly raided Tivoli Gardens, the West Kingston slum Coke ran as a de facto governor, two years…

Legendary cross-dressing Jamaican drug lord Christopher "Dudus" Coke, who was extradited to New York after setting off a bloody neighborhood drug war in Jamaica, yesterday pleaded guilty to racketeering charges and now faces just 23 years in jail instead of a possible life sentence for a lifetime's worth of scumbaggery

So that's why the show is the way it is. There's a bunch of Rastafarian bros at the helm!

Jamaican drug Christopher "Dudus" Coke was arrested Tuesday, after a manhunt that left 70 dead in Kingston. He'll face charges today in Manhattan. Oh, and he had a pink wig and women's glasses in his car when he was arrested.

Legendary Jamaican drug lord Christopher "Dudus" Coke will appear before the federal court in Manhattan today on drug and weapons charges, after being extradited to the US yesterday. The search for Coke in Jamaica claimed over 70 lives.

Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, the Jamaican gang leader whose Kingston neighborhood was put under siege by authorities last month, resulting in 70 deaths, was arrested on Tuesday. Jamaican police will reportedly turn him over to the U.S. for extradition. [ABC]

The manhunt continues for Christopher "Dudus" Coke in Jamaica, where at least 73 people have been killed in gun battles between security forces and Coke's "Shower Posse" since last weekend. Coke's brother is out on bail in Manhattan awaiting trial.

Over 60 people have died in gun battles between supporters of drug lord Christopher "Dudus" Coke and Jamaican security forces. The has US demanded Coke's extradition, but authorities still can't find him. Meanwhile, Fox News is concerned about tourism. [Telegraph]

Security forces stormed drug lord Christopher "Dudus" Coke's hideout in Kingston today as violence spreads, with the BBC reporting at least one solider dead and "bodies lying in the streets." The US wants him extradited on drug and weapons charges.

Jamaica agreed to extradite drug boss Christopher 'Dudus' Coke to the US last week. His supporters said they'd fight to protect him, and barricaded themselves in a housing project. Now they've attacked police and set fire to a police station.

"Slavery was good for the black man." This real column comes not from a neo-nazi pamphlet or the editors of the National Review, but from The Jamaica Observer, which is apparently less like our own Observer and more like a really contrarian Jamaican Slate. You will not see a finer example of conventional…

The image on the left is a portrait by UK artist Mister Aitch (which we brought you last week along with several awesome action photos), showing semi-anonymous street artist-to-the-stars Banksy in profile, dressed as the Queen of England. The image on the right is the actual photo of Banksy from which the portrait was…