IN JAMAICA: And The Ban Is On! Teacher Launches Campaign To Boycott T&T Products
AS THE implications of a move seemingly aimed at blockingJamaicans from entering Trinidad and Tobago soak in, a consumer-oriented Facebook campaign urging Jamaicans to boycott products imported from that country has grabbed the support of scores of consumers on local shores.
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| The campaign, initiated by rural primary school teacher, Kesreen Green Dillon |
But not only are the local consumers ready and raring to go, influential segments of the commercial sector, as well as the Parliamentary Opposition, appear eager to come on board.
While the campaign has targeted Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados has not escaped attention.
The campaign, initiated by rural primary school teacher, Kesreen Green Dillon, was launched last week amid mounting allegations that the CARICOM neighbours are flouting the free-movement provisions of the Treaty of Chaguaramas by blocking Jamaicans from entering their shores. read more
NASSAU, BAHAMAS: American dies in Bahamas free diving contest
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| Award-winning diver is thought to have suffered a depth-related injury to his lungs while trying to break a record at the international event. |
NASSAU, Bahamas, Wednesday November 20, 2013 – An accomplished free diver, who won several international tournaments including the Deja Blue competition in Curacao earlier this year, died on Sunday while participating in a tournament in the Bahamas.
Nicholas Mevoli, 32, died around 2 p.m. in the water off the Bahamas' Long Island, about 164 miles southeast of Nassau, according to officials.
Organizer of the tournament William Trubridge said Mevoli was attempting to break a record for the deepest "Constant No Fins" free dive at the nine-day International Free Diving Competition, which reportedly brought together 56 divers from 21 countries. Read more:
Former Puerto Rican police commissioner jailed for possession of child porn
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Thursday November 21, 2013, CMC – The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency says the former commissioner of the San Juan, Puerto Rico Police Department has been sentenced to 10 years in jailed followed by 15 years of supervised release for possession of child pornography.
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| ICE said its Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), working jointly with Puerto Rico Crimes Against Children Task Force, conducted the investigation that led to the arrest, the guilty plea and subsequent sentencing of the former commissioner. (Credit: pr |
On December 8, 2011, Hilton Cordero-Rosario, 52, was arrested by HSI special agents on production and possession of child pornography charges.
According to the 21-count indictment, Cordero-Rosario had digital images and video files of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Read more:
ST. CATHERINE, JAMAICA: Patrick Wright's house of circles Construction worker building his dream house all on his own. Is single-handedly building his seven-bedroom dream house.
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| Patrick ‘Piey’ Wright’s house is still under construction in Wakefield Savannah, St Catherine. |
"Most of the houses you see around are built with square walls, but in this house every room, every column is built in a circular form," said Wright, who is a Rastafarian. Wright said he decided to construct the house — which is now 75 per cent complete — in the unique fashion as he wanted to set himself apart from other players in the construction sector. Read more:
West Indies Cricket Team beat India: Bravo attributes victory to teamwork
VISAKHAPATNAM, India (CMC) — West Indies Captain Dwayne Bravo said yesterday's victory against India in the second One-Day International was as a result of team effort and their hunger to win.
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| West Indies One-Day Captain Dwayne Bravo (right) embraces his Test counterpart after the latter inspired the Caribbean side to victory over India in the second ODI yesterday. (PHOTO: WICB) |
West Indies beat India by two wickets, their first win on tour, and to keep their hopes alive in the three-match ODI series. Chasing 289, West Indies reached the target for eight wickets in 49.3 overs. Earlier, India scored 288 for seven in 50 overs.
Bravo said the aim was for the main batsmen to score runs and, despite losing wickets, they were able to maintain focus. "Great team effort. Holder and Rampaul gave us a good effort, can't forget young Permaul. Once we got the Indians under 300, we backed ourselves to chase," he said. Read more:
Penthouse Records marks 25 years.....The Journey Continues also includes a 45-minute DVD documentary narrated by Germain.
IN the mid-1970s, Donovan Germain donned a jacket and tie and headed to his nine-to-five job on Wall Street where he worked as a junior accountant at a brokerage firm.
It was not long before he got bored. "I never love the corporate world... the jacket and tie thing wasn't for me," he told the Sunday Observer.
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| Penthouse boss Donovan Germain with veteran singer Marcia Griffiths. |
He entered the music business as a producer with Germain's Revolutionary Records, but did not hit his stride until 1988 when he returned to Jamaica and launched Penthouse Records. This year, Germain went into his archives and selected 47 songs which will be released on January 14, 2014 by VP Records as Penthouse Records 25 Years — The Journey Continues.
The set contains many of the songs that made the label a powerhouse during the 1990s, a fruitful period for dancehall music. There are others not as well known. Read more:
IN JAMAICA: 10 Questions For Portia....With public disquiet growing increasingly about the failure of Prime Minister...What question would you ask the PM?
With public disquiet growing increasingly about the failure of Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller to make herself available for media interviews, The Sunday Gleaner invited select persons to send the questions they would like answered by the head of the Government.
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| Portia Simpson-Miller |
We have taken 10 from the loads of questions which were submitted and invite the prime minister to respond to these pressing areas of concern.
1) Did you hold Richard Azan, state minister in the Ministry of Transport, Works and Housing, accountable for any breach of established government procedures in his handling of the Spaldings market issue?
2) Did you consider the outcry from civil society when making your decision to restore Mr Azan to his role of a junior minister?
3) In light of the sacrifices being demanded of all Jamaicans, do you think it is time for you to reduce the number of Cabinet ministers, ministers without portfolio and ministers of state?
4) Are you satisfied with the performance of Peter Bunting as minister of national security? remaining 6
Human rights group calls for resignation of Jamaica's top cop
Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ), called for the resignation of the Police Commissioner Owen Ellingto
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Friday November 22, 2013, CMC – The human rights group, Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ), Friday called for the resignation of the Police Commissioner Owen Ellington, saying he has failed to keep the murder rate in the country under control.
“He has failed to keep the murder rate under control; he has failed to improve the police clear-up rate for murder; he has presided over the highest cumulative rate of police fatal shootings ever seen in Jamaica," the JFJ said in a statement. More than 1,000 people have been murdered here so far this year. Read more:
FOOTBALL: 2013 Manning Cup Final - JC Triumph In Thriller over Wolmers at Stadium in a grueling FINALS.
Jamaica College carved a 25th lien on one of the most coveted schoolboy football trophies at the National Stadium yesterday.
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| Jamaica's College's captain Junior Flemming (centre) lifts the ISSA/LIME Manning Cup trophy following his school's 3-2 extra-time victory over Wolmer's Boys in the final at the National Stadium yesterday . -Gladstone Taylor/Photgrapher |
It took a gruelling, energy-sapping 120 minutes - 90 minutes regulation time and 30 minutes extra time - to decide the winners. And at the end, surrounded by his teammates and students of the Old Hope Road-based school, captain Junior Flemming lifted the coveted trophy after a hard-fought 3-2 victory.
The teams were locked at 2-2 at the end of normal time and it took another nine minutes for substitute Ronald Brown to crash home the winner after being sent clear by Raffique Bryan. read more
More Than 1,000 J'cans Denied Entry Into T&T In 3 Years
Officials in Trinidad and Tobago have revealed that just over 1,000 Jamaican nationals have been denied entry into that country in the last three years. The disclosure comes amid the current row between the two countries over reports this week that immigration officials in the twin island republic denied entry to 13 Jamaicans who were later deported. In a statement released yesterday, Trinidad and Tobago’s National Security Ministry the impression is being given that its immigration officers acted in an arbitrary and inappropriate manner. read more
IN JAMAICA: FOREIGN Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister AJ Nicholson rejects calls to ban imports from Trinidad and Tobago
FOREIGN Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister AJ Nicholson has rejected suggestions that Jamaica ban imports from Trinidad and Tobago as a retaliatory strike against the summary denial of entry to Jamaicans into that country.
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| NICHOLSON… it would be a breach of Jamaica’s obligations under the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas to block the entry of goods from Trinidad and Tobago |
On Tuesday, 13 Jamaicans, including an 11-year-old girl and a man who is married to a Trinidadian woman, were denied entry upon arrival at the Piarco International Airport in Port of Spain and were sent back to Jamaica the following morning.
Immigration officials at the airport seized the Jamaicans’ passports and ordered them to sit on a hard bench all night before shipping them out of the country, despite the fact that the Caricom Single Market and Economy (CSME) allows for free travel between countries by Caribbean Community nationals. Read more:
Jamaica Sets Eyes On Digital Future......Newly named I Believe Initiative Ambassador Roxanne Wanliss is taking the lead.
Jamaica is primed to be another hub, this one of the digital variety.
Representatives from various sponsors, supporters and information and communication technology stakeholders gathered at King's House yesterday to launch Digital Jam 3.0 - Caribbean Edition. The initiative is the follow-up to the highly successful Digital Jam 2.0 mobile-app creation competition, the finals of which were held earlier this year.
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| Newly named I Believe Initiative Ambassador Roxanne Wanliss shares a moment with Governor General Sir Patrick Allen at King's House, St Andrew, yesterday. - Rudolph Brown/Photographer |
Industry Minister Anthony Hylton, a key figure as Jamaica positions itself to be the next global logistics hub, said digital infrastructure was at the heart of developing both hubs, noting the 3.0 theme: 'The Future of Work is Digital'. He added that Jamaica had the ability, leadership and human capital to succeed on both fronts.
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IN JAMAICA: Eleven-year-old Michaela Stephens gave the world's number one female tennis star, Serena Williams, strong competition.
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| Serena Williams |
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| Young tennis player Michaela Stephens. - Photo by Janet Silvera |
Stephens was among 50 youngsters given the privilege to hit balls with the top-seeded player and her sister Venus, at a tennis clinic sponsored by the National Commercial Bank (NCB) and Tryall Club.
Manning Cup Showdown - Wolmer's, JC Hunt 2013 Title At National Stadium
A tense showdown is expected today when Wolmer's Boys
and Jamaica College (JC), two of the oldest high schools in Jamaica,
square off in the final of the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports
Association (ISSA)/Digicel Manning Cup at the National Stadium, starting at 4 p.m.
Caribbean Culture Hits TV - Reality Series About The Region's Women Launched.
United States-based company Tulloch Media Communications, Inc (TMC) recently premiered the first episode of a new reality show, which exposes various aspects of Caribbean family life to the world.
The series, Caribbean Wives of South Florida, features wives in the role of family matriarchs, balancing marriage, career/business, living the American dream (cultural differences and all) and trying to fit in.
The goal of the series seems to be to show the diversity of the Caribbean community and the way that community reacts to different situations based on these cultural differences.
According to Maxine J. Tulloch, executive producer, Caribbean Wives of South Florida is expected to explicitly reveal the Caribbean's cultural wealth. read more
Astro quits BRITISH reggae band UB40
BRITISH reggae band UB40 has lost another of its founding members. Percussionist/trumpeter Astro revealed his departure just days after they announced a 2014 tour.
The birminghammail.com website reports that Astro (real name Terence Wilson) called the band a "rudderless ship" with a lack of direction. He is also quoted as saying UB40 lost focus after lead singer Ali Campbell and Mickey Virtue left.
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| Astro |
"We've merely muddled our way through on a wing and a prayer. There has been a serious lack of communication between the band and management," said Astro. Along with Brian Travers, James Brown, Ali Campbell, Robin Campbell, Earl Falconer, Norman Hassan and Virtue, Astro formed UB40 in 1978. Read more:
Too fat to fly? Stranded Frenchman’s long ordeal......Chenais, who weighs 500 pounds (230 kilograms), says he has been repeatedly refused transport over the past two weeks
LONDON, England (AP) — He's been turned down by planes, trains and even a cruise ship in his quest to return home -- and his family says it's because he has been deemed too fat to travel.
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| LONDON, England — Kevin Chenais sits in his mobility scooter in front of an ambulance at St Pancras in London on Wednesday, November 20, 2013. Chenais, who suffers from a medical condition, travelled by ambulance and ferry back to France |
Now Frenchman Kevin Chenais' long and fitful journey has come to an end. Chenais, who weighs 500 pounds (230 kilograms), says he has been repeatedly refused transport over the past two weeks as he sought to get home to France from the United States. P&O Ferries finally offered to take him in an ambulance across the English Channel on Wednesday, the final hurdle keeping him from his home near the Swiss border.
"It's terrible. It's discrimination. It was very hard, tiring and a big waste of money for my parents," the 22-year-old told RTL Radio on Wednesday. Slumped over in his mobility scooter, he said he was exhausted just before being loaded into the ambulance. Read more:
A Killer In Your Fridge ~ Sweet Poison…A MUST READ.........Could Diet sodas be killing you slowly?
In October of 2001, my sister started getting very sick She had stomach spasms and she was having a hard time getting around. Walking was a major chore. It took everything she had just to get out of bed; she was in so much pain.
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Rhonda GessnerHelping People BecomeALL God Created Them To Be.. |
She put her house, bank accounts, life insurance, etc., in her oldest daughter’s name, and made sure that her younger children were to be taken care of.
She also wanted her last hooray, so she planned a trip to Florida (basically in a wheelchair) for March 22nd. On March 19, I called her to ask how her most recent tests went, and she said they didn’t find anything on the test, but they believe she had MS. read more
Jamaica's Ackee and Saltfish #2 among world's best National Dishes. How 'bout dat?
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Did you know that Jamaica's ackee and saltfish was ranked by the National Geographic as second among the world's best national dishes?
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| (Photo: jamaicamyway.com) |
Albeit citing its origins as slave food, the popular National Geographic says ackee and saltfish is out-ranked only by the United States' hamburgers. According to the Top 10 National Dishes list, which was taken from the National Geographic book Food Journeys of a Lifetime, ackee is a "nutritious fruit with a buttery-nutty" flavour and "resembles scrambled egg when boiled".
NG also said that "Jamaicans sauté the boiled ackee with saltfish (salt-cured cod), onions, and tomatoes" adding that it is sometimes served "atop bammy (deep-fried cassava cakes) with fried plantains". Read more:
Top 10 JAMAICAN deejays. Do you agree with this list?
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| Beenieman, Ninjama, Kartel |
(1) Shabba Ranks
Lyrically, the most dynamic deejay and first to make a serious mark internationally. The two- time Grammy winner lay the foundation for Shaggy and Sean Paul.
(2) Bounty Killer
Despite his controversial personality, without doubt one of the greatest. With his vast catalogue of hardcore hits, 'Killer' is still an explosive live act after 20- odd years in the business.
(3) Buju Banton
His ability to fuse reggae, dancehall and ska produced outstanding albums. Dancehall's renaissance man.
(4) Ninjaman
The 'clash king', hands down the most lethal deejay on stage. His sneer and wit has endeared him to dancehall fans.
(5) Beenie Man
The quintessential showman, his ability to create easy-on-the ear hits have made him one of the genre's most successful acts. Read more:
In Latvia, Supermarket Collapse Leaves At Least 45 Dead
RIGA, Latvia (AP) — Latvian police say the number of dead from a supermarket roof collapse has risen to 45.
Spokesman Toms Sadovskisk says officials expect the death toll at the sprawling Maxima supermarket in Riga to rise further.
He said Friday the number of injured remains at 35 and that nine of the dead are still unidentified.
Rescue workers were keeping up their round-the-clock search for possible survivors Friday. They were periodically turning off all equipment and asking relatives of missing people to call so they could hear ringing cellphones in the rubble. read more
IN JAMAICA: Journalist Shoved As PM, Portia Simpson-Miller Refuses To Answer Questions On Azan's Reinstatement
TVJ reporter Vashan Brown was today shoved by members of the Prime Minister's security detail as he asked her about the reinstatement of Richard Azan as junior transport and works minister.
The Prime Minister had just delivered the keynote address at the dedication of a water and sewer project in Rose Town, Kingston, when she was approached by the reporter.
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She then walked off prompting the intervention of the security detail who shoved the reporter who was continuing to press the Prime Minister for answers. read more
Cops accused of leaking info on Vybz Kartel arrest
DEFENCE lawyers were scathing in their cross-examination of two senior police officers who gave evidence during the trial of Vybz Kartel and four other men in the Supreme Court in downtown, Kingston yesterday.
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| Vybz Kartel (in shades) arrives at the Supreme Court in downtown Kingston on Wednesday. |
Attorney Tom Tavares-Finson, who along with his son Christian is representing Vybz Kartel, accused the police of leaking information to the media when the police had arrested Vybz Kartel and were taking him to his three properties in St Andrew and St Catherine to search for guns and unlawful property.
Vybz Kartel, Shawn 'Shawn Storm' Campbell; Kahira Jones; André St John; and Shane Williams are being tried for the August 16, 2011 murder of Clive 'Lizard' Williams/
During his cross-examination of head of Senior Superintendent Cornwall 'Bigga' Ford — who heads the Flying Squad — Tavares-Finson suggested that the police had intentionally informed the media of the operation in order to prejudice the case against his client. Read more:
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