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In this Feb. 27, 2015 photo, Jamaican Jewish community leader Ainsley Henriques poses for a photo on the sand covered floor of Sha’are Shalom, Jamaica's last synagogue, in Kingston. The dwindling congregation of the historic Kingston temple is trying to preserve their history and attract tourists who can appreciate it. In Jamaica in the 1800s, there were as many as eight synagogues and roughly 2,500 Jews, including quite a few who had a notable influence on civic life. (AP Photo/David McFadden)

Jamaica hopes Jewish tourism can help fading community

By DAVID McFADDEN - Associated Press

In this, April 4, 2014, photo, homeless youths hang out at the entrance of a sewer pipe along a trash-strewn canal where they live beneath a busy road in Kingston, Jamaica. They are part of a small group of young, gay and transgender Jamaicans who mostly sell sex to make money. In much of the world, giving out condoms and guidance to gay, bisexual and transgender sex workers is routine. But reaching out to men who have sex with men is practically revolutionary in parts of the English-speaking Caribbean, where homophobia and laws criminalizing gay sex have long driven people underground. (AP Photo/David McFadden) - JAMAICA OUT

New effort to halt spread of HIV in the Caribbean

By DAVID McFADDEN - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 24, 2010, file photo, DEA agents bring Jamaican gang leader Christopher &quot;Dudus&quot; Coke From Westchester County Airport to a waiting vehicle in White Plains, New York. Investigators in Jamaica have traced a relatively paltry sum of dirty money to a convicted gang kingpin who profited from government contracts while he oversaw an international crime syndicate, a senior official said Tuesday, April 29, 2014. (AP Photo/David Karp, File)

Jamaica traces just $300,000 to gang kingpin

By DAVID McFADDEN - Associated Press

NY man charged with killing his 86-year-old mother

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Pot growers association launched in Jamaica

By DAVID McFADDEN - Associated Press

Stefani squeezes in fashion, music around her sons

By SAMANTHA CRITCHELL - Associated Press