A six-day search for eight-year-old Tamera Laing ended in grief yesterday when her decomposed body was pulled from a pit latrine near her home in a community called Africa, in the old capital of Spanish Town, St Catherine.
Miami Heat Win Game 7 99-76, Rout Indiana Pacers To Reach NBA Finals (VIDEO/PHOTOS)
LeBron James of the Miami Heat reacts in the first half against the Indiana Pacers during Game Seven of the Eastern Conference Finals of the 2013 NBA Playoffs at AmericanAirlines Arena on June 3, 2013 in Miami, Florida.
MIAMI — Their season, their legacy, their reign atop the NBA was all at stake, and the Miami Heat responded in a manner befitting defending champions – with a blowout.
LeBron James scored 32 points and grabbed eight rebounds, ailing Dwyane Wade matched his postseason high with 21 points, and the Heat ran away from the Indiana Pacers 99-76 in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals on Monday night.
The Heat will play the San Antonio Spurs for the NBA title in a series that starts Thursday in Miami. READ More...
IN JAMAICA: SIZZLA Relative Killed in Car Crash.... Man Dies, Judge's Wife Injured In Mona Crash
One man is dead and four other persons injured after a two-car collision at the corner of Mona Road and College Commons in Kingston.
The Constabulary Communication Network (CCN) confirmed that four occupants were in a Honda motor car and one person in a Volkswagen.
Yesterday afternoon, CCN identified the driver of the Volkswagen as Yvette Brown, chief legal counsel at the Urban Development Corporation and wife of Supreme Court judge Glen Brown. READ More...
CCN later identified the dead man as 20-year-old Kevin Williams, labourer of August Town Road, St Andrew. The Gleaner understands he is believed to be a relative of dancehall artiste Sizzla.
SPARE BY GOD: John Boehner Was Allowed To Remain House Speaker Because God Spoke To Republicans, They Claim
The U.S. government was spared from going over the fiscal cliff earlier this year because God spoke to a group of Republicans and told them not to turn against House Speaker John Boehner -- at least, that's what they've told the Washington Post.
Barely 36 hours after the caustic New Year’s Day vote, Boehner faced a coup attempt from a clutch of renegade conservatives. The cabal quickly fell apart when several Republicans, after a night of prayer, said God told them to spare the speaker. Still, Boehner came within a few votes of failing to secure his speakership on the initial vote, an outcome that would have forced a second ballot for the first time in nearly a century.
REPUBLICAN, Marsha Blackburn: Women 'Don't Want' Equal Pay Laws (VIDEO)
Republican congresswoman Marsha Blackburn said on Sunday that women "don't want" equal pay laws.
During a roundtable discussion on NBC's Meet The Press, former White House advisor David Axelrod asked if the Tennessee lawmaker would support a law promoting workplace gender equality. Blackburn responded:
"I think that more important than that is making certain that women are recognized by those companies. You know, I’ve always said that I didn’t want to be given a job because I was a female, I wanted it because I was the most well-qualified person for the job. And making certain that companies are going to move forward in that vein, that is what women want. They don’t want the decisions made in Washington. They want to be able to have the power and the control and the ability to make those decisions for themselves." READ More...
United States Embassy in Kingston has stressed that a majority of American tourists who visit Jamaica normally return home without incident,
The United States Embassy in Kingston has stressed that a majority of American tourists who visit Jamaica normally return home without incident, despite the killing of one of its citizens during a robbery in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, on the weekend.
A Jamaican man identified only as 'Bigga', who investigators believe was behind the robbery, was later shot and killed by the police.
According to the Savanna-la-Mar police, he was wanted for several crimes, including murder, rape and armed robbery.
The name of the American citizen has not been released, but the US Embassy said his family has been notified.
In addition, the embassy said it was still awaiting the official police report on the incident. READ More...
Bolt Blasted For Posing With Weed T-Shirts... READ More at www.RulaBrownNetwork.com (RBN)
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The World's fastest man Usain Bolt has come in for criticism in some quarters, after posing with gear made by United States firm The Pothead Diaries.
The world record holder over both the 100m and 200m distances reportedly posted the photo, seated with the shirts on the bed, via his Instagram account, drawing condemnation from followers and anti-drug groups alike.
Lucy Rowe, a representative of Skunk Sense, a charity for people affected by the drug, criticised the sprinter for using his influence to send the wrong message.
ROLE MODEL
"I would hope that such a charismatic young man who is very much a role model for young people would have more common sense than to give free publicity to a company which so blatantly promotes cannabis use," Rowe told UK publication The Sun. READ More...
Women Honour Rita Marley - Accepts Leading Light Award From Int'l Women's Forum
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Famed artiste and humanitarian Rita Marley has been honoured with the International Women's Forum (IWF) Leading Light Award for 2013.
The honour was bestowed on Marley last Friday night during the IWF Cornerstone Conference's closing celebration held at the Seawind Beach Club in Montego Bay, St James. The 5,000-member, women-only organisation recognised Marley for her role in alleviating poverty and hunger among African youth, through the Rita Marley Foundation.
The conference's theme was 'Music - An Instrument of Change'.
"She has made it her mission to combat hunger and poverty by promoting youth empowerment, economic investment and health-care education on the African continent," said IWF President Deedee Corradini.
In a glowing tribute to the widow of reggae legend Bob Marley, Corradini said the IWF has another definition of Rita Marley. READ More...
Bruno Mars' Mother Dead At 55 of Heart Attack, According To Source
Bruno Mars' mother dead at 55, according to an AP source.
NEW YORK — The mother of Grammy-winning pop star Bruno Mars has died in Hawaii.
Bernadette Hernandez died Saturday of a brain aneurysm, according to a publicist for Mars' label, Atlantic Records, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to speak on the record.
Hernandez was 55 years old. She died in Honolulu at Queens Medical Center; no other information was given.
Mars is one of pop's top acts with several No. 1 hits including his most recent, "When I Was Your Man." His mother, a hula dancer and a singer who immigrated from the Philippines, nurtured her son's interest in music at an early age. READ More...
Michael Douglas' Throat Cancer Caused By Oral Sex, Not Smoking Or Drinking
Michael Douglas has opened up about his past diagnosis, revealing that oral sex, not smoking or drinking, caused his type of throat cancer.
In a candid new interview with U.K.'s The Guardian, Douglas admits that his illness was caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV).
"Without wanting to get too specific, this particular cancer is caused by HPV, which actually comes about from cunnilingus," the "Behind the Candelabra" star, 68, explains.
Douglas, who fought a six-month battle with the disease from August 2010 until January 2011, also confesses that he thought that his battle with cancer would be a fatal one. He says at first he assumed the stress from his son Cameron's legal troubles played a big factor in his sickness. READ More...
Roy Hibbert Says 'No Homo,' Calls Media 'Motherf---ers During Bizarre Press Conference (NSFW VIDEO)
Roy Hibbert #55 and Paul George #24 of the Indiana Pacers address the media after Game Six of the Eastern Conference Finals against the Miami Heat during the 2013 NBA Playoffs on June 1, 2013 at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Roy Hibbert used a gay slur in one answer and a curse to refer to the media in another during his news conference following Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals, putting himself in line for being disciplined by the NBA.
Hibbert ended a response to a question about his defense on LeBron James with "no homo." Hibbert had drawn a key charge on James in Indiana's 91-77 victory over Miami on Saturday and lamented not providing enough help to teammate Paul George on James in Game 3. READ More...
LAUREL BROWN: Fashion show Saturday to spotlight Jamaica Collections in bid to turn southeast Queens neighborhood into a shopping destination
A southeast Queens neighborhood known for its discount shopping is attempting to go high fashion.
The Jamaica Collections will showcase the area’s urban designs in a fashion show on Saturday in an effort to transform downtown Jamaica into a mainstream shopping destination.“People might not realize this is really an urban fashion mecca,” said Laurel
Brown, executive director of the Jamaica Center Business Improvement District, which is organizing the event.
“You always hear about Manhattan, you always hear about Brooklyn,” she said. “Jamaica can be at that same level.”She’s hoping that events like these can change negative perceptions of the neighborhood. Jamaica has been known as low-income community for years — despite having an average annual family income of $62,000 within a mile of downtown Jamaica. Read more:
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Brown, executive director of the Jamaica Center Business Improvement District, which is organizing the event.
“You always hear about Manhattan, you always hear about Brooklyn,” she said. “Jamaica can be at that same level.”She’s hoping that events like these can change negative perceptions of the neighborhood. Jamaica has been known as low-income community for years — despite having an average annual family income of $62,000 within a mile of downtown Jamaica. Read more:
SPANISH TOWN, ST. CATHERINE: Body of 8-y-o missing girl pulled from pit latrine
A six-day search for eight-year-old Tamera Laing ended in grief yesterday when her decomposed body was pulled from a pit latrine near her home in a community called Africa, in the old capital of Spanish Town, St Catherine.
Family members said Laing, a student of McCauley's Primary School in the parish, had been missing since Saturday.
"Reports we received is that the child went missing over the weekend and following a search, a body believed to be hers, was found in a pit metres away from her home," said one police from Spanish Town Police station. more news....
The incident has triggered shock and anger among residents in the community. Read more:
KINGSTON, JAMAICA: Onlookers view the body of 83-year-old Sylvia Smellie, beheaded and chopped to death 'Downtown'; suspect held.
EIGHTY-three-year-old newspaper vendor Sylvia Sewell was yesterday chopped to death by a man at the intersection of Orange and Beckford streets, downtown Kingston, from where she operated for many years.
An alleged eyewitness told the Jamaica Observer that the incident happened about 7:30 am and sent other traumatized witnesses scampering in fear. The alleged attacker has since been taken into police custody. "In all my life I never see anything so cruel. The woman was tending to her business when this man come there and a talk to her, then all of a sudden me hear she say 'mi nuh have it'," said witness, who vends in the area.
The man said what would follow next left him rooted to the spot in fear. "The woman start walking away from him (the attacker) and him just start chop her from back way enuh!" he said.
"All when the woman drop the man go over her and a still a chop her," said the obviously shaken man. Read more:
(UPDATE) : 4 year old , NATASHA BROWN murdered in Trelawny, Jamaica....EXTRA : Body of 8 year old child found dead in SPANISH TOWN, St. Catherine.
DUANVALE, Trelawny — The Trelawny police have confirmed that a woman in her early 40s has confessed to Monday's murder of her estranged common-law husband's four-year-old daughter, who was beheaded and her body dumped in a sinkhole in Duanvale, ironically as the world celebrates Childs Month.
"She has admitted knowledge of it," a high-ranking police officer told the Observer West last night, refusing to give details.
  Onlookers gather outside the crime scene where four-year-old Natasha Brown was dumped in a sinkhole in her Duanvale community after she was reportedly beheaded. 1/4  |
The deceased has been identified as Natasha Brown, a student of the Duanvale Basic School.
The entire community was plunged into shock and anxiety later Monday after it was discovered that little Natasha did not report for school that day, even though she had left home for the institution. Read more:
IN KINGSTON, JAMAICA : 80 year old woman vendor beheaded in downtown Kingston
KINGSTON, Jamaica – An elderly female vendor was beheaded in downtown Kingston this morning.
Reports reaching the Observer are that the woman said to be in her 80s was attacked by a man apparently of unsound mind on Orange Street in the busy commercial district. Information is sketchy at this time but reports are that the woman, a newspaper vendor, was operating her business under a tree at the intersection of Beckford and Orange Streets.
"The man just attack the woman and no stop chop har," a man who claimed to be an eyewitness told the Observer. The police could give no further details when contacted.
More details to come. Read more:
IN JAMAICA: Girl's body found naked in front of church
RESIDENTS of 89 Maxfield Avenue were in shock yesterday morning as they woke up to find the body of a naked teenaged girl at the gates of the St Phillips Anglican Church.
The body was not identified up to press time yesterday but a police officer on the scene told the Jamaica Observer that the deceased appeared to be between the ages of 16 and 19.
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IN TRELAWNY, JAMAICA: No Charges Yet In BRUTAL Murder Of Trelawny 4-Y-O, NATASHA BROWN whose body was dumped in sinkhole
The police in Trelawny are yet to lay charges against the woman taken into custody in connection with the death of a 4-year-old girl in the parish. The woman, whose name is being withheld, is being questioned by investigators.
The body of Natasha Brown was recovered from a sinkhole in the Duanvale community this morning.
It’s reported that the woman was seen in the company of the child in an area of the parish called Shirley Hill. Residents say they saw her carrying a crocus bag with suspicious content. Read More...
JAMAICA vs MEXICO (6/4) & JAMAICA vs. USA (6/7): Maximum Security! JFF Strengthens Safety Measures For World Cup Matches
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The Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) has put in place some strict security and safety measures to make it more efficient to enter the National Stadium for Jamaica's two upcoming CONCACAF World Cup Qualification matches next month.
Jamaica will oppose Mexico in a return game in the Hexagonal series on June 4, then face the United States of America (USA) on June 7, with both games set to kick off at 8:30 p.m.
"We have come up with measures to make it easier for spectators to access the stadium in an orderly and very rapid fashion," Robert 'Bobby' Finzi-Smith, JFF Security Committee chairman, disclosed at a special press briefing at the JFF's offices in New Kingston yesterday.
"The grandstand main entrance is for pedestrians only. That's the gate across from the Bob Marley statue. It will be closed to prevent vehicular access to that point onwards. READ More...
TRELAWNY, JAMAICA: Body of missing 4-y-o girl removed from sink hole
DUANVALE, Trelawny— A dismembered body confirmed as that of four-year-old Natasha Brown of Duanvale district in Trelawny, was removed from a sinkhole in the community a short while ago.
The police and firefighters were assisted by a community member, known as Hunter, who wormed his way down the narrow, 25-foot hole to retrieve the body. Reports are that the little girl was beheaded.
The police and firefighters were assisted by a community member, known as Hunter, who wormed his way down the narrow, 25-foot hole to retrieve the body. Reports are that the little girl was beheaded.
The child went missing early Tuesday morning and a subsequent search led to the sink hole in the community Tuesday evening.
Relatives said that they last saw Natasha at about 8:30 am Tuesday when she left for school wearing a red and white plaid tunic, black socks and black shoes.
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A Look At Jamaica's Brain Drain....Is it necessary to reduce the quantity of tertiary-level graduates who migrate from Jamaica on an annual basis?
By Dr André HaughtonIN LIGHT of Jamaica's current economic stagnation, many ponder whether the country would have been more developed if most of its youngest and brightest minds did not migrate.
With this in mind, is it necessary to reduce the quantity of tertiary-level graduates who migrate from Jamaica on an annual basis? Today'sBriefing explores the issue.
What is brain drain?
Brain drain is the process by which one country (home country) loses intelligent and technically skilled labour through migration to another country (host country), where the economic, geographic or professional environment is more favourable.
Brain drain basically occurs when people acquire university or college education or specialised skills and relocate to apply these knowledge and skills in a country they weren't born. READ More...
in CALIFORNIA 5 KILLED : Car Crash In Orange County Kills 5 Teens After Vehicle Splits In Half
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Five Southern California high school students who died in a fiery car wreck on their way to the beach included a pair of sisters and best friends who bonded over their immigrant experiences, friends said Tuesday.
The victims – three girls and two boys – were students at two high schools in the Irvine Unified School District, said Orange County Sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino.
"There are simply no words to convey the sorrow felt by our students and staff, nor are there sufficient answers to explain the loss of five vibrant teenagers from our schools and this community," Irvine Unified School District Superintendent Terry Walker said in a statement.
The driver was identified as 17-year-old Abdulrahman Alyahyan, a senior at University High School. READ More....
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