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Earthquake in Cayman Islands

There are reports surfacing that there was an earthquake in the Cayman Islands a short while ago.

The quake was reportedly felt in Montego Bay, Jamaica, Cuba and Miami.

A Jamaican living in Grand Cayman said it lasted a few seconds but nothing appeared to have been damaged. He said residents are quite shaken.

Reports circulating on Twitter suggest that the earthquake measured 5.8 on the Richter Scale.

Last Tuesday a 7.0 earthquake rocked Port-au-Prince, Haiti killing thousands and causing massive destruction.

Last Friday there was also an earthquake in Venezuela and yesterday there was earthquake in Guatemala.

More details will be added shortly.

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Ky-Mani Marley gets personal in autobiography

Howard Campbell, Gleaner Writer

Although he is the son of music royalty, Ky-Mani Marley says life has not always been a bed of roses. The 33-year-old singer/actor tells his story in Dear Dad, his autobiography to be released February 6.

Marley is best known for minor hit songs like Dear Dad and Warriors and roles in movies such asOne Love, as well as starring in a hit reality show on Black Entertainment Television (BET). But he says his childhood was difficult, even though his father was reggae superstar Bob Marley.

“I’ve lived a life many cannot imagine. Many people don’t even know half the things I’ve been through,” Marley told The Sunday Gleaner from his south Florida base.

In Dear Dad, he revisits those years of strife. He said he lived with his mother Anita Belnavis in a two-bedroom board house in her hometown of Falmouth, Trelawny, where he was born. Read the rest of this entry »

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