SYDNEY/KUALA LUMPUR,: Australian Prime Minister: Malaysia Airlines Search Finds 2 Objects....."Following specialist analysis of this satellite imagery, two possible objects related to the search have been identified,"

By Jane Wardell and Tim Hepher

SYDNEY/KUALA LUMPUR, March 20 (Reuters) - Australia has sent aircraft to investigate two objects spotted by satellite floating in the southern Indian Ocean that could be debris from a Malaysian jetliner missing with 239 people on board, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Thursday.

No confirmed wreckage from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has been found since it vanished from air traffic control screens off Malaysia's east coast early on March 8, less than an hour after taking off.

"New and credible information has come to light in relation to the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean," Abbott told the Australian parliament. "The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has received information based on satellite imagery of objects possibly related to the search."

"Following specialist analysis of this satellite imagery, two possible objects related to the search have been identified," he said. Abbott said he had already spoken with his Malaysian counterpart Najib Razak and cautioned that the objects had yet to be identified. more

{AUDIO} Dahved Levy INTERVIEWS VYBZ KARTEL'S lawer, Plays interview with Kartel and people called his RADIO SHOW to give their opinion on GUILTY verdict March 19, 2014

A corrupt juror in Vybz Kartel murder trial has officially been charged and his identity revealed.

Jamaican law enforcement officials charged 50-year-old football coach Livingston Cain of Stony Hill, St Andrew with several counts of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and attempting to pervert the course of justice.Cain is scheduled to appear in the Half Way Tree Resident Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.

Police officers arrested Livingston Cain shortly after the verdict was read out in court on Thursday evening.Cops say he attempted to bribe several jurors including the foreman who reported the matter to the judge.Vybz Kartel, real name Adidja Palmer, and three of his co-accused Shawn “Storm” Campbell, Kahira Jones, André St John were found guilty for the murder of Clive “Lizard” Williams.Another co-accused, Shane Williams, was acquitted of the murder charge. more

Manchester, JAMAICA: Mandeville Primary and Junior High School, Byron Farquharson, was recently honoured for his 44 years of service to education.

Tuesday, March 18, 2014 

Retired principal of the Mandeville Primary
 and Junior High School, Byron Farquharson,
receives a plaque from vice-chairman of the
school board, Macelle Fenton, for his
 22 years as headmaster of the school.

RETIRED principal of the Manchester-based Mandeville Primary and Junior High School, Byron Farquharson, was recently honoured for his 44 years of service to education.

At an appreciation function held at the Kendal Conference Centre in Manchester, Farquharson was lauded for his work to transform the former Mandeville All-Age to its current status of being a choice school where parents queue to enrol their children.

Representatives from the civic groups, the

school, Ministry of Education, Jamaica Teachers' Association and the Caribbean Union of Teachers — two organisations where Farquharson served as president — were among persons in attendance at the ceremony.

Leading the tributes, Custos of Manchester Sally Porteous said education is a vehicle against social ills, and for prosperity, and that Farquharson's 44 years "were spent for the betterment of our young people and for that, we are truly grateful

Students of the Mandeville Primary
 and Junior High School perform at the
 recent ceremony to honour retired
principal Byron Farquharson.
 (PHOTOS: JIS)

to him.

"It is he who has dedicated his life to ensuring that our young people learn all of these things (values of education), so that they can become the Jamaicans that we can all be proud of. You can look back and be proud of the role that you played in shaping the lives of so many," the custos said. more

BANKRUPTCY: Dionne Warwick She Knows the Way To Hose the Tax Man......you get a pass on more than $10 MILLION in debts.

Dionne Warwick

3/19/2014 12:50 AM PDT BY TMZ STAFF    
What do you get when you file for bankruptcy ... in Dionne Warwick's case, you get a pass on more than $10 MILLION in debts.

A bankruptcy trustee filed legal docs Tuesday ... recommending to the judge that Dionne be excused from paying $10,727.429.91 in debts ... almost all of it in delinquent taxes.

The tax bills are as old as hills ... dating back as far as 1991.  Under the recommendation -- which is almost always rubber stamped by the judge -- Dionne will have a fresh start.

The trustee is even letting Dionne keep all her personal stuff, including:

-- 2 fur coats and 2 sets of diamond earrings, valued at $13K
-- Various gowns and everyday clothing -- $5K
-- Art work and paintings -- $5K
-- Living room furniture, dining set, bedroom sets, 2-year-old lap top -- $1,500
-- Cash in her pocket -- $1K

The judge should make his final decision soon, so say a little prayer for Dionne. more 

KARTEL JUROR: LIVINGSTON Cain, 'Unnu mus' let them go'.....Court told Kartel juror promised to take care of colleagues if they acquit entertainer, co-accused ......alleged proposal to the foreman for a payment of $500,000 for a not-guilty verdict.

BY PAUL HENRY Co-ordinator -- Crime/Court Desk henryp@jamaicaobserver.com  Wednesday, March 19, 2014

LIVINGSTON Cain, the juror accused of attempting to bribe the foreman to return a not-guilty verdict in the Vybz Kartel trial, is said to have approached other jurors.

This was revealed in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court where Cain was yesterday offered $750,000 bail and told to return to court next week Friday.

Cain has been slapped with five counts of attempting to pervert the course of justice and a count of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.

According to a statement from one of the jurors that was read in court, Cain had told him that he could take care of him if he returned a not-guilty verdict in the matter.

"I will take care of you as long as you seh weh me a say. These men are promising entertainers and unnu mus' let them go," Cain reportedly told his colleague juror.

As the allegations were being read out, Cain sat looking on attentively. Moments earlier, Valerie Neita-Robertson, who along with Dian Watson appear for Cain, told the court, "Our client denies the allegations".

Neita-Robertson had earlier asked Senior Magistrate Lorna Shelly-Williams to forego the reading of the allegation, saying that she wanted the matter to "settle down" and "avoid the media attack".

Cain was arrested last week Thursday following the guilty verdict of Vybz Kartel, Shawn 'Shawn Storm' Campbell, Kahira Jones, Andre St John and the acquittal of Shane Williams in the Home Circuit Court in downtown Kingston.

Cain's arrest came after a report was made to Justice Lennox Campbell of his alleged proposal to the foreman for a payment of $500,000 for a not-guilty verdict.

Cain is said to be the only juror of the 11-member panel who voted not guilty.

In outlining the allegations in court yesterday, Director of Public Prosecutions Paula Llewellyn said that most of the other jurors recounted having conversations with Cain, who told them to find the men not guilty.

According to the allegations, the foreman used her BlackBerry telephone to record the conversation with Cain, which took place at the Supreme Court library. She had been reportedly informed by other jurors prior to the conversation that Cain had approached them.

It is further reported that Cain told the foreman that he realised that she had some influence over the other jurors and wanted her to convince them to return a verdict of not guilty. more

World Bank approves US$42 million to help fight crime in JAMAICA....says more than 80,000 Jamaican citizens will benefit from improved services, basic infrastructure and targeted crime and violence interventions in 18 vulnerable inner-city communities

Wednesday, March 19, 2014    

WASHINGTON, DC, USA (CMC) — The World Bank says more than 80,000 Jamaican citizens will benefit from improved services, basic infrastructure and targeted crime and violence interventions in 18 vulnerable inner-city communities as a result of a US$42-million project for integrated community development.

SIRTAINE… the project aims to foster
 a more inclusive society in Jamaica

The Washington-based financial institution said the new project is a continuation of the partnership between the Jamaica Government and the World Bank on upgrading some of the country's most vulnerable and volatile communities.

It said the project builds on the success of the "Inner City Basic Services for the Poor Project" to address accelerating urban decay and declining citizen security.

"The project aims to foster a more inclusive society in Jamaica by improving the quality of life of marginalised city dwellers," said Sophie Sirtaine, World Bank country director for the Caribbean.

"It also aims to prevent crime and violence by engaging youth in public safety initiatives and providing them with job skills training," she added.

As a result of the funding, Sirtaine said more than 50,000 people will benefit from improved solid waste management services, street lighting, paved roads and drainage. She said residents in the 18 communities would "feel safer" and that 1,200 families will have their piped water connection repaired and 4,500 residents receiving educational and skills training.

"As we strive to advance the targets of the Vision 2030, where access to reliable services and adequate infrastructure is the norm, enhancing community safety and security is a priority," said Scarlette Gillings, managing director of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund. more

WARNING! WARNING : There's A New Scam To Steal Your Gmail Info, And It's Hard To Catch....If you receive an email with the subject "Documents," and it directs you to a webpage that looks like a Google Drive sign-in page, do not enter your information.

The Huffington Post  | by  Alexis Kleinman   Posted: 03/18/2014 3:14 pm EDT 

Warning: If you receive an email with the subject "Documents," and it directs you to a webpage that looks like a Google Drive sign-in page, do not enter your information.

It's likely a new phishing scam, in which a thief creates a fake portal that asks for people's private information and then steals it. (Netflix recently faced a similar issue.)

This one uses a fake Google Drive landing page to get your Gmail address and password, cyber security company Symantec's official blog reported last Thursday. You're meant to think that the documents you'll be viewing are on Google Docs and that you need to sign in to see them. Remember, though, it's all a scam.

"We've removed the fake pages and our abuse team is working to prevent this kind of spoofing from happening again," a representative from Google tells The Huffington Post. "If you think you may have accidentally given out your account information, please reset your password."

Think you're smart enough to tell the difference between a fake Google Drive sign-in page and the real one? OK, which one of these two photos is of the real one? more

Choice #1:

Feds Bust Online Child Exploitation Network; 14 Men Arrested......BUSTED: Child Porn Ring Lured 250 Victims Around The World....Some Victims Under 3-Years-Old, most were boys between 13 and 15.

  | by  ERIC TUCKER

Posted: 03/18/2014 6:06 pm EDT Updated: 03/18/2014 7:59 pm EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fourteen men were charged with operating an online child exploitation network that investigators said preyed upon hundreds of boys across the United States and overseas, authorities announced Tuesday. 

Law enforcement officials said the arrests were part of a worrisome trend in which children are being enticed by adults to post sexually explicit images of themselves that are then shared online. In this case, authorities said, users of an underground network posed online as girls to coerce boys into sharing with them child pornography images.

"These alleged perpetrators preyed upon the most innocent, most vulnerable members of our society with no regard to the immediate or lasting harm they caused to their victims and their families," Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said at a news conference.

The investigation, called "Operation Round Table," was led by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Postal Inspection Service and federal authorities in Louisiana, where the alleged leader of the operation lives.

The roughly 250 victims were spread across 39 states and five other countries — Australia, Belgium, Britain, Canada and New Zealand. Most were boys between 13 and 15. Two victims were 3 or younger, authorities said.

The pornographic images were shared on an underground website on the Tor network, an online anonymity network that masks the location of servers and conceals an Internet user's location. The subscription-based website operated from about June 2012 until June 2013, had more than 27,000 members and shared more than 2,000 webcam-captured videos, mostly of young boys, authorities said. Eleven of the 14 men, including the man authorities say was the administrator of the network, are being prosecuted in Louisiana. The other three are being charged in New York, Colorado and Wisconsin. more

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KINGSTON, Jamaica : Police seek information in murders of Joel Chin and Patrick ‘Roach’ Samuels......Chin, a music producer and the grandson of VP Records founder, was shot dead at his home in Stony Hill, St Andrew

Tuesday, March 18, 2014 | 5:51 PM

KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Detectives from the Major Investigations Task Force (MIT) on Tuesday issued an appeal for people with information on two murders involving members of the music production fraternity to come forward.

According the the Corporate Communications Unit (CCU) the appeal comes "as detectives... continue to intensify investigations into criminal activities being perpetrated by and against persons from the musical fraternity".

Joel Chin

The detectives are appealing to anyone who may have witnessed, or has any pertinent information relating to the shooting deaths of Joel Chin and Patrick ‘Roach’ Samuels.

Samuels, a popular figure in the entertainment industry, was gunned down at the intersection of Mannings Hill Road and Constant Spring Road in St Andrew on September 16, 2013. Meanwhile, Chin, a music producer and the grandson of VP Records founder, was shot dead at his home in Stony Hill, St Andrew in August 2011, the police say.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the MIT at 948-9181, Crime stop at 311, 811 or www.tipsubmit.com, police 119 emergency number or the nearest police station. more

PUTIN: CRIMEA IS OURS!....ANNEXED... Lashes Out At West... JOKESTER: Claims Russia Did Not Invade... Gets Standing Ovation... Says Russia Doesn't Want Any More Of Ukraine... Biden Lands In Poland... LATEST UPDATES...

MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday fiercely defended Russia's move to annex Crimea, saying the rights of ethnic Russians have been abused by the new Ukrainian government.

In a televised address to the nation, he said Crimea's vote Sunday to join Russia was in line with international law, reflecting its right for self-determination.

To back the claim, he pointed to Kosovo's independence bid from Serbia — supported by the West and opposed by Russia — and said that Crimea's secession from Ukraine repeats Ukraine's own secession from the Soviet Union in 1991.

He denied Western accusations that Russia invaded Crimea prior to the referendum, saying Russian troops were sent there in line with a treaty with Ukraine that allows Russia to have up to 25,000 troops at its Black Sea Fleet base in Crimea.

Earlier, Putin approved a draft bill for the annexation of Crimea, a key move in a flurry of steps to formally take over the Black Sea peninsula. Russia's Constitutional Court and the Kremlin-controlled parliament are expected to quickly endorse the move. Some lawmakers said that Crimea could be made part of Russia by the end of the week. more 

St. Andrew, JAMAICA: Mas Camp brings out the soca faithful.....THOUSANDS of soca fans turned up for their weekly dose of high-energy music at Bacchanal Fridays

Brian Bonitto  Monday, March 17, 2014

THOUSANDS of soca fans turned up for their weekly dose of high-energy music at Bacchanal Fridays held at the newly transformed Mas Camp in St Andrew, on Friday.

A section of the crowd at Bacchanal Fridays

From an elevated position in the centre of the venue, Toronto-based DJ D'Bandit and DJ Smoke from Renaissance provided the evening's soundtrack much the delight of the audience, who showed their appreciation in dance.

"We don't want it to be the same. We set it up like a club with the deejay in the middle," said Michael Ammar, a director of Bacchanal Jamaica, the event organiser. Ammar said word about the weekly fete was getting out and that was reflected in the patronage.

"This is a very good crowd for week two. What I notice is that there are different people from last year... The more new people come, they will come back," he said. The revamped Appleton-branded VIP area, outfitted with a dance floor, was the newest hot spot.

"We decided this year to enhance the VIP experience and were sold-out every week. We've improved on the entire experience," said Gary Dixon, marketing director at J Wray & Nephew. more

Yohan Blake among big names for UWI track meet..... THE 12th UWI Invitational Track & Field Meet runs off this Saturday at the UWI Usain Bolt Track at Mona in Kingston starting at 10:00 am.

Tuesday, March 18, 2014    

THE 12th UWI Invitational Track & Field Meet runs off this Saturday at the UWI Usain Bolt Track at Mona in Kingston starting at 10:00 am.

According to Grace Jackson, chairman of the organising committee and the meet director, "The meet will have several top-class athletes competing on the track this year. It will be high-class competition on the track, starting with field events at 10:00 in the morning, while the track events are scheduled for a 1:00 pm start."

Yohan Blake.

Based on the entry list, the bulk of the athletes are drawn from the local clubs and institutions, including Racers, MVP, Akan, Cameron Blazers, UWI, and UTech, among others. Athletes from the UWI St Augustine campus will also be on the track as the only overseas-based team...

Kim Collins of St Kitts & Nevis, who has been training and living in Jamaica for some time now, will be competing at the meet for the first time.

Racers athletes include Yohan Blake, Warren Weir, Jason Young, Delano Williams, Kemar Bailey-Cole, Ricardo Chambers, Allodin Fothergill, Ristananna Tracey, Bobby Gaye Wilkins and Schillonie Calvert. more

Two The Hard Way - Calabar-KC Battle To Decide Champs

TOP SPRINTERS Zharnell Barnes of Kingston College (KC) and Calabar High's Michael O'Hara are expected to be key combatants as they and their teams vie for individual 100 and 200 metres awards, as well as the overall title, at next week's Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association GraceKennedy Boys' and Girls Athletics Championships.

Michael O'Hara

Both have been running well all season and their form suggest they could run close to the records established by Yohan Blake (10.21 for 100m) while running for St Jago High in 2007; and Usain Bolt (20.25 for 200m) while representing William Knibb in 2003.

In the lead-up to Champs, O'Hara is number one over 100m with a 10.29 clocking at Camperdown Classics, while Hughes did 10.36 at the Western Relays.

NOT ONLY STANDOUTS

However, they are not the only schoolboys with pedigree, as Bog Walk's Jevaughn Minzie logged 10.31 at the Douglas Forrest meet.

For the 200m, the competition gets sharper with the expected inclusion of Javon Francis, also of Calabar.

Hughes, of Anguilla, is number one this season, clocking 20.80 at a Development Meet at the National Stadium the week after the GibsonRelays. O'Hara follows with 21.29, when himself and Francis were joking around as they approached the finish at the Douglas Forrest meet. The latter timed 21.31. Minzie's best so far is 22.08. more

Federal Government Signs Off On Study Using Marijuana To Treat Veterans' with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).....a development that drug researchers are hailing as a major shift in U.S. policy.

BY MATTHEW PERRONE, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The federal government has signed off on a long-delayed study looking at marijuana as a treatment for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, a development that drug researchers are hailing as a major shift in U.S. policy.

Ganja Plant

The Department of Health and Human Services' decision surprised marijuana advocates who have struggled for decades to secure federal approval for research into the drug's medical uses.

The proposal from the University of Arizona was long ago cleared by the Food and Drug Administration, but researchers had been unable to purchase marijuana from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The agency's Mississippi research farm is the only federally-sanctioned source of the drug.

In a letter last week, HHS cleared the purchase of medical marijuana by the studies' chief financial backer, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, which supports medical research and legalization of marijuana and other drugs.

"MAPS has been working for over 22 years to start marijuana drug development research, and this is the first time we've been granted permission to purchase marijuana from NIDA," the Boston-based group said in a statement. The federal government has never before approved medical research involving smoked or vaporized marijuana, according to MAPS. more

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad : Trinidad records 100th murder for 2014.....Police said that Jeffon ‘Boatie’ Jordan was shot as he walked near his home in Santa Cruz .....He was one of six people killed during the last 72 hours.

Monday, March 17, 2014 | 3:07 PM    

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – Trinidad and Tobago recorded its 100th murder for the year after a 29-year-old father of three was shot and killed on Monday.

Police said that Jeffon ‘Boatie’ Jordan was shot as he walked near his home in Santa Cruz, north east of Port of Spain. He was one of six people killed during the last 72 hours.

The first murder for this year occurred on January 2, when Pastor Casimir Khan, 52, was shot after bandits stormed his Arima home seeking a large gold chain that Khan’s son, Ezra Khan, was wearing at the time.

Last year 407 people were murdered in Trinidad and Tobago.

L'Wren Scott, designer and Mick Jagger's girlfriend, found dead in New York City

(Photo: Carl Court, AFP/Getty Images)

Fashion designer L'Wren Scott and longtime girlfriend of Mick Jagger has been found dead of an apparent suicide, reports the AP, ABC News and the New York Daily News.

Scott's body was found hanging from a scarf on a doorknob by her assistant at her New York apartment around 10 a.m. Monday, reports the Daily News. The AP reports an official as saying no note was found and there was no sign of foul play. The medical examiner's office will determine the cause of death.

Fran Curtis, a spokesperson for Jagger, tells USA TODAY that the singer is "completely shocked and devastated by the news." Scott had been in a relationship with the Rolling Stones frontman for more than a decade. Jagger is currently on tour with his band and recently arrived in Australia. more 

Los Angeles Wakes Up To St. Patrick's Day Earthquake.....The quake's magnitude was 4.4 and it was centered 15 miles west-northwest of the downtown civic center,

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A pre-dawn earthquake rolled across the Los Angeles basin on Monday, rattling residents from the San Fernando Valley to Long Beach.

The quake's magnitude was 4.4 and it was centered 15 miles west-northwest of the downtown civic center, according to the U.S. Geological Survey..

Los Angeles police and fire officials said there were no immediate reports of damage. "It felt like a bomb going off underneath our house," said George McQuade, a West Hills resident. "Nothing was damaged, but it sure woke everyone up. It was an eye-opener."

The 6:25 a.m. quake occurred at a depth of about 5 miles. The epicenter was 6 miles from Beverly Hills, 7 miles from Universal City and 7 miles from Santa Monica, the USGS said. more

KINGSTON, Jamaica : Bag juice vendors turn to scrap-metal robbery.....Doneal Gunter and Richard Graham pleaded guilty to charges of simple larceny and carrying an offensive weapon on Friday March 14

Monday, March 17, 2014 | 11:26 AM    

KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Two bag juice vendors who admitted that they were going to sell wires belonging to telecoms company LIME in the scrap metal trade are to be sentenced on March 31.

Doneal Gunter and Richard Graham pleaded guilty to charges of simple larceny and carrying an offensive weapon on Friday March 14 when they appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court.

However, both young accused who said they were selling bag juice in the vicinity of the Kingston Wharves at about 6 o'clock in the afternoon, denied cutting the wires.

"We saw the wire on the ground it was already cut," one explained when quizzed by Senior Magistrate Judith Pusey. "Did you sell any of the bag juice?" Pusey asked.

"No," one of the accused men answered. "They [the customers] wanted Cal's bag juice; we were selling Tropical." "What time of day was it?" Pusey asked. "About after 6:00pm," both men answered.

"After 6 in these cool evenings persons buying bag juice?" Pusey asked to no response.

"What were you going to do with it? Sell scrap metal?" Pusey asked.

They both answered yes. A social inquiry report was ordered into both men's background for sentencing.

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New mom, Jenna Hinman, 26, left fighting for life after being diagnosed with rare pregnancy-related CANCER just minutes after she delivers twins.....Doctors initially thought she had pneumonia, but she was later diagnosed with a rare cancer called choriocarcinoma, which has filled her body with tumors and lesions

An Upstate New York mom is fighting for her life after she was diagnosed with a rare pregnancy-related cancer following the premature birth of her twins daughters.

Jenna Hinman, 26, was rushed to hospital on March 3 when all of a sudden she couldn't breathe and her husband, US Army Sgt. Brandon Hinman, called 911.

Doctors quickly decided she needed an emergency C-section to deliver the girls, Kinleigh and Azlynn, who were nine weeks early and weighed just 3 pounds each.

Because of their health, Jenna was able to get just a quick glimpse of her newborns before they were whisked away to NICU at Crouse Hospital in Syracuse where they'd all been transferred. But that was the only time she saw them.

 

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Soon after delivery, the young mom began coughing up blood and her breathing troubles got worse.

Doctors initially thought she had pneumonia, but she was later diagnosed with a rare cancer called choriocarcinoma, which has filled her body with tumors and lesions.

On March 6, she was placed in a medically induced coma and Brandon, who is based at Fort Drum, is supporting her tirelessly as a team of local and international doctors try to save her life. more

The Pain Proof Man, Jim Stilianos, Withstands Brutal Feat On Broken Glass (VIDEO)

This guy has no time for a pain in the glass.

Sideshow star Jim Stilianos -- also known as The Pain Proof Man -- sat down with HuffPost Live to show off some of his incredible stunts using real broken glass. Whether he's swallowing swords, juggling bowling balls while standing on glass shards, or letting a grown man stand on his face, Stilianos can tolerate anything.

Though he wouldn't tell us his trade secrets, he did offer up some helpful hints: "Learn some physics," Stilianos said. "A lot of this is science based." Watch the video above to learn more.

Educators Want Schools To Embrace More Christian Values.....calling for a revolution in the education sector, which would promote lessons in morals and sound Christian values to the top of the academic agenda.

Published: Monday | March 17, 2014 I  Rhoma Tomlinson, Contributor

A number of prominent educators are calling for a revolution in the education sector, which would promote lessons in morals and sound Christian values to the top of the academic agenda.

Ruel Reid

The educators believe that while Jamaica has been doing well in expanding the knowledge base of students, not enough attention is being paid to the spiritual side.

The chairman of the National Council on Education, Dr Simon Clarke, who has served the local and international education sectors in a number of capacities, traced the history of the nation's school system since the 1960s. He says there has been great effort to expand knowledge and improve skills, "but where I think some degree of slippage happened is in the area of personal and social development. These were left behind".

He cited the 2001 terrorist attack in the United States, noting that "the men who flew the plane into the towers were all well-educated, but something was lacking - that humane element … ".

Clarke believes schools should be deliberate in exposing students to the "whole persona".

"We're made up of different components - the physical, the mind, and the spiritual component. The spiritual is that which links the person to a wider source of knowledge. We're doing well with the physical, but it's that third dimension, the spiritual, that we need to focus on. I'm not saying that schools must indoctrinate or push any particular kind of denomination, but they must accommodate and make them (students) sensitive that life does not stop with what we can see." 

CONTROVERSIAL CRUSADE.....more

Things you (probably) didn’t know about Marcia Griffiths......She is nicknamed ‘Mother Teresa’......Her ‘Young, Gifted and Black’ with Bob Andy hit number five on the UK chart in 1970

Sunday, March 16, 2014 | 6:25 PM  

KINGSTON, Jamaica – In a career spanning 50 years, the soulful recording artiste Marcia Llyneth Griffiths OD has done well locally and internationally as a soloist, part of a duo, and also a trio.

She is known for her Billboard hit ‘Electric Boogie’ which is synonymous with the well known dance electric slide. Griffiths has toured worldwide with Bob Andy as Bob and Marcia, then as a member of the I-Threes with Judy Mowatt and Rita Marley, back-up singers for Bob Marley and the Wailers.

Marcia Griffiths

Her ‘Young, Gifted and Black’ with Bob Andy hit number five on the UK chart in 1970 before she joined her colleagues to form the I Threes.

The affable Griffiths recently shared a few things with OBSERVER ONLINE that you probably may not know about her.

She is very shy, although being in the spotlight all these years. She loves to cook, and the few people who know this keep coming back for her meals.

Her favourite place is anywhere is the open countryside where she can be one with nature. According to Griffiths, “Just give me that any day.” She is nicknamed ‘Mother Teresa’ which sometimes she considers to be a compliment and other times not so much. more

IN JAMAICA: Careers & Education Terry-Ann Virtue is HEART's top quality rep.....Virtue was selected winner from a pool of hundreds employed by HEART...."I feel very excited. My hard work has paid off and I am very thankful,"

BY AINSWORTH MORRIS Career & Education writer  Sunday, March 16, 2014    

AFTER serving the HEART Trust/NTA for 21 months, Terry-Ann Virtue has managed to win the highest award the vocational training institution offers.

The award —Top Quality Representative of the Year — is given annually to the staff member of the trust who has, within the year prior to the award ceremony, displayed excellence and best quality service.

Virtue was selected winner from a pool of hundreds employed by HEART. It was a surprise to her especially as individuals with more years of service had competed.

"I feel very excited. My hard work has paid off and I am very thankful," Virtue, 26, told Career & Education after the Quality Awards ceremony held at the Knutsford Court Hotel on February 28. "I didn't expect that I would have been selected, but I was hopeful [when I was shortlisted]," Virtue added. She said since she joined HEART on May 2, 2012, she has tried her utmost to offer quality service. more