Street vendor face-off coming to Jamaica?

FROM Trinidad: sky cone vs doubles vs coconut vs Chinese. Winner of the 2009 Anime Caribe prize:



Meantime a genuine brewing trade war was featured in today's Observer, about local coffee shops squaring off against two soon to open franchises from Rituals – T&T's answer to Starbucks.

Jamaica has a few small chains – Café Blue, Coffee Mills and Cannonball – but is dwarfed by Rituals which has more than 90 outlets across the Caribbean.

However, despite the reputation of Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee, 'Starbucks culture' is relatively new to Jamaica. The Observer counted 15 cafés in Kingston, most of which it said were opened in the past five years.

So don't expect the nice coffee shop owners and their new friends from Trinidad to take to the streets with cutlasses. Thanks to Annie Paul for the heads up on the video by Trinitoons.