IN JAMAICA: LIME pumps $20 million into back-to-school fair

TE:ECOMS firm LIME will be providing back-to-school assistance valued at $20 million to parents and students attending its fourth annual LIME Skool Aid fair, scheduled for August 24 and 25 at the Jamworld showground in Portmore, St Catherine.

Returned to its original two-day event format, the company said yesterday that it is preparing to host more than 60,000 students and parents who will be seeking assistance with expenses in preparation for the new school year, which starts next month. "This is going to be the biggest and most far-reaching charity project we have ever undertaken at LIME," says Carlo Redwood, vice-president for marketing, who pointed out that the company made the decision to return to the original two day concept of the event after overwhelming response to the past two annual stagings of the event

Highlighting that a special effort is being made to expand and enhance the offerings at the events this year, Redwood pointed out that the company is aiming to provide twice the assistance it did last year, which includes scholarships, health and dental checks, immunizations, barbering service for boys, discounts on back-to-school items as well as family entertainment. Read more: 

Bolt photo worth 'millions' to marketers

AN eye-catching photograph of Usain Bolt moments after the 100-metre finals at the World Championships in Moscow could be worth millions of dollars to advertisers, according to local experts.

Who said lightning doesn't strike twice

The shot, which has been described by some as "career defining" for both Bolt and the AFP photographer behind the image, features the Jamaican sprinter slowing down to a jog in the Moscow rain amid a 'bolt' of lightning. The legendary runner's surname and speed have made the lightning befitting of him. "The photo is priceless, especially if the individual endorses a product that you make," said Andrew Price, former marketing manager at local rum manufacturer J Wray and Nephew.

"A picture like that speaks volumes and if a Digicel or a Nissan, two products that Bolt endorses in Jamaica, were to use that photo, I'm sure they would get a lot of attention from the general public," Price said. Read more: 

IN JAMAICA: Tang scholarships for top GSAT math students

ASMAHANI-AZA COOKE, Roman Hinds and Yashima Peart, the top three mathematics students by county in the recent Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT), have been awarded scholarships from Tang.

Hinds with his parents Julius
and Brenda at his graduation
ceremony recently.

 

Cooke, 11, of St Richards Primary (Surrey); Hinds, 11, from Catherine Hall Primary and Infant (Cornwall); and Peart, 12, from St Catherine Primary (Middlesex), each scored 100 per cent in mathematics this year, the highest averages among the 42,268 students who sat GSAT. Their scholarships are valued each at $50,000.

The students were awarded by Tang at the company's annual GSAT Scholarship Luncheon Awards Ceremony on July 30 at the Medallion Hall Hotel in Kingston."I am overjoyed. I am happy. Scoring the highest in mathematics for my county took late nights at school and I barely got any sleep when studying," said Cooke.

Cooke had also placed fifth in the All-Island Seprod/Butterkist National Primary School Mathematics Competition in June. Read more: 

IN JAMAICA: Top students awarded Petrojam Scholarships based on GSAT results

TWO students of the Greenwich All-Age School in Kingston — Romario Rowe and Chanel McGregor — who performed outstandingly in this year's Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT), have been awarded five-year scholarships valued $600,000 each towards their secondary education by Petrojam Limited.

Top Male and Female GSAT
Scholars of the Greenwich All-Age
 School in Kingston — Romario Rowe
and Chanel McGregor — proudly
hold the Petrojam GSAT Award, which
 bears the name of all
the previous awardees since 2006

 

Both youngsters, whose results topped their school's list of GSAT candidates, will each receive $60,000 per year to cover tuition, books, and other associated expenses. In addition to the scholarships, Romario also received special awards for being adjudged the Most Outstanding, and Most Disciplined Student, while Chanel was deemed the Most Congenial Student during the 2012/13 academic year. 

Other awards were also presented to youngsters at the institution for the period. These included: Most Improved Male Student Richard Heslop; Most Improved Female Student Carlene Dixon; Best Attendance, David Johnson; Outstanding Achiever Nicola Nelson; and Top Mathematics Student Sashell Clarke. Read More....

A mother’s love - ‘She held on to the baby even after the car hit her’

MONTEGO BAY, St James—- Twenty-four-year-old Khadeen Headley remains in serious condition in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at a Montego Bay hospital, almost two weeks after she placed her life in harm's way to save her three-month-old son, Naeshawn, in a motor crash on a section the Montpelier main road in St James.

Meanwhile, family members and relatives are heaping praises on her for what they described as her act of "bravery and love" for the infant. "She deserves a medal. How many of us would risk death to save someone's life?" one of Headley's relatives asked.

Reports are that Headley, her son, and a relative, seven-year-old Rossani Stone, were at a bus stop in Montpelier at about 7:45 am on August 3 awaiting a taxi to transport them to church, when they were hit by a Toyota Corolla motor car. Additionally, two other persons, a 56-year-old shopkeeper Jennifer Vassell of a Mount Carey address in St James, and her 14-year-old grandson, Cavan Campbell, who were also at the bus shed, sustained injuries inthe accident. Read more: 

MOSCOW: (VIDEO) Jamaica's Shelly Ann regains World Champs 100m title......outclassing the field in a world leading 10.71 secs.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce reclaimed the 100 metre World Championship title in Russia Monday outclassing the field in a world leading 10.71.

The threat from Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare never materialised as Fraser Pryce ran Muriella Ahoure of the Ivory Coast (10.93) into second and defending champion Carmelita Jeter(10.94) into third . American English Gardner was fourth in 10.97 seconds, followed by Jamaican Kerron Stewart who ran 10.97. Read more: 

Messiah Baby Name: Citing Jesus Christ, Judge Changes Infant's Moniker To Martin

NEWPORT, Tenn. -- A judge in Tennessee changed a 7-month-old boy's name to Martin from Messiah, saying the religious name was earned by one person and "that one person is Jesus Christ."

Baby Messiah

Child Support Magistrate Lu Ann Ballew ordered the name change last week, according to WBIR-TV (http://on.wbir.com/1cDOeTY). The boy's parents were in court because they could not agree on the child's last name, but when the judge heard the boy's first name, she ordered it changed, too. "It could put him at odds with a lot of people and at this point he has had no choice in what his name is," Ballew said.

It was the first time she ordered a first name change, the judge said. Messiah was No. 4 among the fastest-rising baby names in 2012, according to the Social Security Administration's annual list of popular baby names.

The judge in eastern Tennessee said the baby was to be named Martin DeShawn McCullough, which includes both parents' last name. Read More...

IN JAMAICA: Pan chicken man 'Ruddy' Bent — shining example of hard work

With the right attitude and determination to achieve success, 17-year-old Rodney Bent left his Clarendon home for Kingston with the belief of obtaining a job, only to experience life at world's end.

Upon arriving in Kingston with the intention of being employed at a sawmill, Bent, also known as Ruddy, learned that he was duped when his promise of securing a job proved to be just a castle in the sky. "I travelled from Alston, Clarendon, with the intention to get a work from a gentleman. When I come now, the man never give me the work, mi just box around, box around, fight me way through," he said.

His refusal to return home jobless saw him enduring the wonders of the night, as he was left to call the root of a tree, home."The way how me grow, me sleep under tree," he said while recounting the rueful events. "Night after night I sleep under it ... house that is a mango tree."

Despite a dusty and rocky bed in an open lot beside the Grant's Pen Clinic, Bent remained there, determined to find a job in the area. "The insect dem a night-time dem no bodda trouble me again because me just say dem nah bite me, because me no have nowhere to live," he said. Read more: 

(VIDEO) USAIN BOLT TAKES GOLD Jamaica's Usain Bolt celebrates after winning the100 metres final at the 2013 IAAF World Championships at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow.

This was a result to celebrate. This was a win to hold your breath and hope it is never taken away. This was a win that denied victory to a man who had been banned previously.

Usain Bolt won. Again. He is the fastest man in the world. Still. He is a world champion. For the sixth time. He was not to be stopped.

In these drug-muddied championships it was pleasingly poetic that a light summer rain drizzled heaviest as the men's 100 metre field stood at the blocks.

Fittingly, Usain Bolt was greeted with a lightning bolt after his win. Photo: AFP

In these drug-muddied championships it was not so much poetic, but pleasing still, that Justin Gatlin did not win. The man previously banned for a lengthy period for drugs ran to second. He was stopped by Bolt. He is now deemed clean, but his record is not. The times are the better for him not having won. Not now. Not when the man who was once the fastest man in the world – Bolt's Jamaican teammate Asafa Powell - tests positive to drugs on the eve of the championships.  Read more:

ODDAH NEWS: Orlando man steals puppies from pet store by stuffing them down pants

ORLANDO, Fla. (WESH) -- A man in Orlando was caught on camera stuffing a puppy down his pants and leaving a pet store. Not once, but twice. It happened at the Puppy Shop near Fashion Square Mall in Orlando Saturday.

The store owner says the suspect came in, and appeared to scope out the place before leaving. The video shows the man returning, and that's when he makes off with one of the puppies, down his pants.Then he comes back a third time. Officials say the male suspect walked out of the store with the puppies, all while in the presence of a 3-year-old girl.

A $250 reward is being offered, to anyone who may know the suspect's identity. Read More... 

Jamaica and the pressures of our athletes in Moscow

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Jamaica and the pressures of our athletes in Moscow

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Usain Bolt 100m Men Final IAAF Moscow World Championships.....Won in 9.77 secs.... JAMAICA won GOLD & BRONZE.

FOOD: Jamaican Cuisine

Buy Jamaican, Build Jamaica

Thursday, August 08, 2013

It's not difficult to spot imported products on the shelves of Jamaican shops. We know the difference between our brands and those of other countries. If it is something we don't recognise, we may also assume (wrongly in some instances) that the clas ...more

Supporting Our Farmers

Thursday, August 08, 2013

As the cost of importing food soars, Jamaica turns to the earth... screamed the headlines of the venerable New York Times. Writer Damien Cave went on to explain how "Jamaica has taken on a bold new strategy: making farming Read more: 

Vybz Kartel's Book Offered At University - 'Voice Of The Ghetto' Gets Princeton Endorsement

Vybz Kartel's Book Offered At University - 'Voice Of The Ghetto' Gets Princeton Endorsement

The Voice Of The Jamaican Ghetto, a book authored by controversial dancehall artiste Vybz Kartel and his business associate Michael Dawson, is still going places despite receiving some amount of resistance locally. Read More...

Jamaica’s Usain Bolt blazed the Moscow tracks a short while ago to a season best 9.77 to claim Jamaica’s first gold medal at the 2013 IAAF World Championships in the Russian capital.

Usain Bolt

Usain Bolt Leads Jamaican 1-3 In 100m Final

Jamaica's Usain Bolt blazed the Moscow tracks a short while ago to a season best 9.77 to claim Jamaica's first gold medal at the 2013 IAAF World Championships in the Russian capital. Read More...