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New York / Lausanne. Dear tpinews.com visitor, thank you! Everybody at the.point.is. news agency would like to thank our media partners and our visitors for their trust. We launched the agency and the website in May 2007 to offer a different kind of news in the press, on the radio, on television and on the web. You have proved to us it was the right way to go. Thanks to you all, we are growing rapidly. tpinews.com is now an established news provider and we plan to offer you more exciting stories. Negril. Alan Lyons is a proud young man. The 29-year old Jamaican works as a lifeguard in a resort in Negril. He earns a decent living. But he needs more money to finish the house he has been building for the past three and a half years in New Hope. He therefore hustles to get another income. “Nothing illegal”, he says. No marijuana, no sex. He explains he works on construction sites, sells fruit and vegetables. He speaks about the “cycle of life” in Jamaica. “It is all about opportunities”, he says. “When you come from the ghetto, you have to make the most out of what you have or of what you can get”. Kingston. Janice has been beaten up for being a lesbian. Sitting in the small windowless room in an anonymous house in uptown Kingston, the 31-year old Jamaican shows a scar above her left eye. She says she never leaves her house without her knife nowadays. She claims she used it “a couple of times for self-defense”. When she speaks about her life as a lesbian in Jamaica, one can feel the pain in her angry eyes. She left home as a teenager because her family never approved her sexuality. : « I was 14, she says. My sisters had boyfriends, and I didn’t want any. So, I told my mom I was not going to have any boyfriend and any kids because I was different. She did not accept it ». Kingston / New York. What is happening in Jamaica? Every day, the crime rate is skyrocketing on the Caribbean island. On December, a cop was murdered in Montego Bay. He is the second killed there in a week. According to estimates published by the Jamaican Gleaner, 51 people were killed in the last week. Earlier this week, the death toll reached 1446 people killed. By the end of the year, the country could have beaten the infamous 2005 record, when more than 1500 people were murdered in Jamaica. New York. With the Iowa caucuses less than 30 days away, U.S. candidates are starting to hit each other where it really hurts. After clearly leading in the polls for months, Hillary Clinton now finds herself in a tight race with Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, and John Edwards. A new poll by the Des Moines Register shows Mr Obama surging in Iowa. The only African-American candidate to the White House is leading Hillary Clinton by 27 percent to 25 percent, with former North Carolina senator John Edwards close behind in third place at 23 percent. |
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