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ST MARY, Jamaica: 31-year-old police constable Fabian Henry among 3 charged for death of missing man.... The police say Hudson, who was a musician, was reported missing on January 25
Wednesday, March 26, 2014 | 12:30 PM
ST MARY, Jamaica — A police constable is among three men remanded in custody for the murder of 25-year-old Anthony Hudson of Mount Zion district in St Mary.
Hudson’s decomposing body was found buried in a ditch in Esher district, Highgate in the parish on Tuesday, days after the trio first appeared in court.
OBSERVER ONLINE learnt that 31-year-old police constable Fabian Henry, who is assigned to the St Mary Division, 51-year-old mason Franklyn Anderson and 25-year mechanic Neville Anderson were remanded when they appeared in the Annotto Bay Resident Magistrate’s Court on Friday, March 21. They are to reappear on April 3. Both Neville and Franklyn are from Esher district.
Investigators say that the evidence led to the accused being arrested and charged before Hudson’s body was found.
Reports are that about 10:20 am, residents discovered Hudson’s body in the ditch and summoned the police. When the lawmen got to the location they reportedly observed that the body was in a decomposing state with multiple wounds. The police say Hudson, who was a musician, was reported missing on January 25. more
CHAD THOMAS (18 y-o) , FLORIDA STUDENT RECEIVED 150 OFFER OF SCHOLARSHIPS.
Chad Thomas, a senior football player at Miami’s Booker T. Washington High School, has received 150 scholarship offers for his talent both on and off the gridiron.
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The 18-year-old phenom plays not one, not two, but nine instruments and has been sought after by colleges around the country for his diverse skills. Ultimately decided to go with the home team — Thomas will play football for the University of Miami and also hone his musical talents at the University’s Frost School of Music — the multi-talented teen credits his grandmother with his love of music.
Read more below from 10 News:
Thomas helped lead the Booker T. Tornadoes to back-to-back state championships and win a national title this season. But it’s not only being on the field that he loves—Thomas says he fell in love with music at the age of three while listening to his late grandmother’s gospel CDS.Thomas said his grandmother bought him a guitar and also signed him up for piano lessons. By the time he was five, Thomas was performing.“My plans…I’m going to UM for music technology and I’m going to play football,” said Thomas.So play for the NFL or a career in music production—for Thomas his focus in in both.“So if I make it to the NFL that would be a blessing for me,” said Thomas. But his love for music remains a strong passion. “I have love for music and took it upon myself to learn and play the instruments I hear in the songs.”Thomas plays the piano, trombone, euphonium (a small tuba), base guitar, regular guitar, snare, tuba, trumpet and drums.
Read more at 10 News.
Congratulations Chad! We’re rooting for you! more
IMPORTANT US IMMIGRATION INFO: Everyone immigrating to the US must have their own visa, except..The one exception is if an expecting mother gives birth after she is issued an immigrant visa, but before she has the chance to move to the US...
Q: My son recently had a child with a woman who was being filed for. The baby was born in November 2013 and I now understand that her papers have come through. The baby was not filed for. The mother does not want to leave her baby, and I don't know how to advise them. What is the best way to proceed?
A: Generally, everyone immigrating to the US must have their own visa. The one exception is if an expecting mother gives birth after she is issued an immigrant visa, but before she has the chance to move to the US. In this case, the infant does not require a visa. For example, if your grandchild's mother was issued her visa on November 1, 2013, and her child was born November 5, 2013, the child will not need a visa, and can immigrate together with mom...
If the child was born before she was issued a visa, the child will need his or her own visa. If the visa category of the mother allows for derivatives to be added to the case (for example, an F11, the unmarried son or daughter of a US citizen over 21), the child can be added as a derivative to the mother's petition as long as the mother has not yet naturalised.
Immediate relative visa categories (such as IR1, spouse of an American citizen, or IR2, child of American citizen under 21), do not allow for derivatives, so a separate petition must be filed for the child. If the mother was filed for by her husband, the husband could file a separate petition for the child as a stepchild, for example.
Because the answer will depend on the type of visa the mother was issued and when the child was born, the next best step would be to send an e-mail explaining the circumstances and a copy of the child's birth certificate to kingstoniv@state.gov....
Reminder for US citizens
All US citizens who live outside of the United States and want to vote by absentee ballot must complete a new Federal Post Card Application (FPCA) every year if they wish to vote from abroad. For more information, please visit the www.fvap.gov. You may drop off your voting materials with postage affixed at the US Embassy in Kingston or at the US consular agencies in Montego Bay and the Cayman Islands for delivery to the United States. more
KINGSTON, JAMAICA: Arsonists torch house while man, 41-year-old Michael Rose slept Evil Death....at the hands of evil arsonists who reportedly crept up to his home while he was asleep and torched the building,... For mom, Carlene McLeod, it was a familiar experience, as Rose was her fourth son to die tragically.
BY KARYL WALKER Editor - Crime/Court Desk walkrk@jamaicaobserver.com Wednesday, March 26, 2014
CARLENE McLeod could do nothing but 'speak in tongues' as she stood metres from the spot where the charred body of her son lay covered by a white sheet in what was once his one-room dwelling at Upper Somerset Avenue in Franklyn Town, East Kingston, yesterday.
CARLENE McLeod could do nothing but 'speak in tongues' as she stood metres from the spot where the charred body of her son lay covered by a white sheet in what was once his one-room dwelling at Upper Somerset Avenue in Franklyn Town, East Kingston, yesterday.
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| A grieving Carlene McLeod (left) is escorted from her son’s death scene by one of his daughters, Tyshona Rose, at 55 Upper Somerset Avenue in Franklyn Town as police secure the area, yesterday. (PHOTO: LIONEL ROOKWOOD) |
Her son, 41-year-old Michael Rose, also called 'Bear', died at the hands of evil arsonists who reportedly crept up to his home while he was asleep and torched the building, police at the scene of the tragedy told the Jamaica Observer. The incident happened around 3:00 am.
For McLeod it was a familiar experience, as Rose was her fourth son to die tragically.
Years ago, her young son perished after being hit by a train. Another was killed by gunmen at Stony Hill, St Andrew, while yet another died at the hands of gunmen in downtown Kingston a few years ago.
The tragedy was too much for the elderly woman to bear, and as her grandchildren urged her not to look at the burnt remains of her son, she wailed uncontrollably, speaking in an unfamiliar language. One of Rose's grieving daughters, Tadesha, tried her best to comfort her.
With tears rolling down her cheeks, the daughter of the dead man said that she was unaware of any rancour between her father and anybody, and was puzzled by her father's terrible demise.
"Is Sunday I see him, you know. Him was riding past my house and me run out and ask him, 'Daddy, how you a pass my yard and don't stop and talk to me?" the younger Rose said before breaking into tears.
Like in other inner-city communities, residents who gathered behind the police yellow tape said they were unaware of what could have led to Rose's death and stared blankly when asked if there was any tension in the community.
One resident was overheard saying that the grille to Rose's house was padlocked and it appeared that he had no chance of escaping the fire, which spread quickly. The police, meanwhile, reported that a feud has been ongoing between men from Upper Somerset Avenue and York Street. Both streets run parallel.
"There has been tension in that section of Franklyn Town recently as rivals feud over 'God He knows' [what]. It is tragic, as we have no information that this man was involved in any gang activity," one policeman said. more
Business in Jamaica worst at innovation, credit? among nearly 60 developing nations, according to a recently released World Bank study on entrepreneurship.....Less than 10 per cent of Jamaican firms under five years old have "actual and benchmarked access to credit", compared to 50 per cent in Trinidad & Tobago
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
JAMAICA scored worst in terms of access to credit and third worst in terms of innovation among nearly 60 developing nations, according to a recently released World Bank study on entrepreneurship.
The island under-performed the rest of the Caribbean, Latin America, Eastern Europe and Central Asia in the study entitled "Latin American Entrepreneurs, Many Firms Little Innovation".
"The Latin American economies... tend to be above the median and in most cases near or above their predicted shares," stated the report. "Some notable exceptions are several small Caribbean economies plus Jamaica and Mexico."
Less than 10 per cent of Jamaican firms under five years old have "actual and benchmarked access to credit", compared to 50 per cent in Trinidad & Tobago, according to the study's tables.
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The region, however, still under-performs that of Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
"Much of the gap appears to be explained by Latin America and the Caribbean's (LAC) turbulent macro and financial history and by a shortage of promising productive projects (that is, a shortage of innovation) rather than by credit rationing and credit supply-side constraint per se," said the report.
Less than 20 per cent of Jamaican firms "introduced a new product to the market over a five-year period", according to the study. Only St Lucia and Dominica earned lower scores among a group of 57 nations within and outside the region. more
Business in JAMAICA: Phillip Paulwell nudges Digicel towards building outsourcing office space, a Digi City inside Montego Bay.....to now look outside to see if they can establish their own Digi City to create a million square feet of office space that will employ thousands of Jamaicans in business process outsourcing activities
BY HORACE HINES Observer staff reporter MONTEGO BAY, St James Wednesday, March 26, 2014
PHILLIP Paulwell gave Digicel a nudge to establish a Digi City inside Montego Bay to bolster the number call centre and other office space.
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Digicel Business's Jason Corrigan told the Jamaica Observer that "it's certainly something that we will look at and possibly deliver".
Paulwell explained that research has shown that North American investors are now rethinking their strategy of growth in India, Phillippines and Indonesia and have their sights set on the Caribbean, especially Jamaica because of "our close proximity".
"I think that Digicel, along with the others, would have a good business case as they have reached saturation point for voice telephone service in Jamaica, to now look to see how they will grow their business and their revenues by going into creating plug and play facilities," said Paulwell. "The investor who comes to Jamaica wouldn't have to deal with real estate development, wouldn't have to be dealing with telecommunications issues. They will have ready-made facilities, which is what they are seeking and which is one of the reasons why we have lost so many opportunities."
Both Paulwell and Corrigan made their comments following Digicel Business' ground -breaking of a $600-million next generation underground fibre network in Montego Bay last week. more
Business in JAMAICA: Private investor plans $40-m packaging house for St Thomas agro park...."We want to do the storage and packaging in a fashion that will make the goods suitable for exports, it is to be at a standard that is superior to the system that we are accustomed to,"
BY SHAMILLE SCOTT Business reporter scotts@jamaicaobserver.com Wednesday, March 26, 2014
A local company plans to build a $40-million packaging house at the Plantain Garden River (PGR) Agro Park in St Thomas.
The unnamed entity was identified by Agro Invest Corporation (AIC), the managing agency of the island's agro parks, while the the procurement process has started for the construction of a $33-million packaging house at New Forest/Duff House, by the government at the border of Manchester and St Elizabeth.
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| The Yallahs Agro Park in St Thomas is currently benefiting from an irrigation system which is expected to assist in boosting onion production. |
Two more agro parks, in addition to the current seven locations, will be rolled out in the new financial year.
One will be set up at Meylersfield, Westmoreland, featuring fish harvesting and the agro processing of ackee and callaloo--invariably, that agro park will eventually include a packaging house. The other park is to be established in Eddington, Trelawny, and it will include livestock production.
Indeed, the development of agro parks — dedicated to the production of crops that includes all facets along the agriculture value chain — is moving ahead steadily.
The agro-park model being employed requires the Government to identify lands in its portfolio and put in place requisite infrastructure to ensure consistent production as well as assist with marketing, while the farmers are responsible for investing in the production. Construction of the packaging house at PGR will begin soon, Everton Spencer, CEO of AIC told the Business Observer.
"We want to do the storage and packaging in a fashion that will make the goods suitable for exports, it is to be at a standard that is superior to the system that we are accustomed to," said Spencer. more
Toxic Lead Widespread In World's Largest Paint Market....Bright yellows, reds, blues and greens coat a day care center's walls, fence, slide and swing. More colorful paints peel from tables inside a kindergarten classroom.
Posted: 03/25/2014 5:54 pm EDT Updated: 03/25/2014 6:59 pm EDT Bright yellows, reds, blues and greens coat a day care center's walls, fence, slide and swing. More colorful paints peel from tables inside a kindergarten classroom.
"Unfortunately, it's a common sight," said Yuyun Ismawati, coordinator of the Indonesia Toxics-Free Network, referencing the prolific use of potentially toxic paint in schools and other kid-friendly facilities throughout Indonesia.
Lead poisoning may be a risk at this brightly painted day care in Indonesia. (Balifokus Foundation, Indonesia)
Relative latecomers in the use of decorative and household paints, Indonesia and its neighbors throughout the developing Asia-Pacific are making up for lost time: The region is now the largest market in the world for paint. But this rapid growth for the industry may come with some serious costs to children's health and the nations' economies, according to a new European Union-sponsored study released on Monday.
A team of international researchers tested 803 paints purchased from stores in seven Asia-Pacific countries and found that 76 percent contained more lead than the U.S. regulatory standard of 90 parts per million. At least a quarter, generally with the most vibrant pigments, consisted of more than 10,000 ppm of the neurotoxic heavy metal, which is added as an inexpensive way to brighten color, speed drying and prevent corrosion. more
AMAAAZIIING RESCUE FROM INFERNO! Construction Worker Rescued From Massive Apartment Fire In Houston (VIDEO)
In a dramatic scene from Tuesday's massive fire in Houston, a construction worker on the fifth floor appears trapped by the rapidly advancing flames. At one point, he's forced to leap from the balcony to one below. "When we saw his foot slip, it was just like uhhh, oh God he's going to fall," Karen Jones, who recorded the scene from a nearby building, told local ABC station KTRK. "We thought he was going to be gone."
The fire, at an apartment building under construction, was brought under control with no reports of injuries and one very close call. The cause of the blaze is under investigation. more
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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS: Doctor Accused Of Sexually Assaulting Multiple Elderly, Disabled Patients....Dr. Charles Dehaan of the Rockford, Ill. suburb of Belvidere is charged with aggravated criminal sexual assault and aggravated criminal sexual abuse against a physically handicapped person.
Posted: 03/24/2014 10:46 am EDT Updated: 03/24/2014 1:59 pm EDT
An Illinois doctor is accused of sexually assaulting a bedridden patient as more allegations emerge that as many as 11 other patients -- many of them elderly and disabled -- endured years of similar abuse while under his care.
Dr. Charles Dehaan of the Rockford, Ill. suburb of Belvidere is charged with aggravated criminal sexual assault and aggravated criminal sexual abuse against a physically handicapped person -- both felonies -- and was ordered held on $250,000 bond in court Sunday, according to NBC Chicago. Prosecutors said Dehaan sexaully assaulted a bedridden, 61-year-old suburban Chicago woman and abused her over a span of three years when he made doctor's visits to her home, the Sun-Times reports...
During visits spanning from 2009 until 2012, the Tribune reports the 59-year-old doctor is accused of fondling the disabled patient and forcing her to touch his genitalsduring closed-door exams with her. According to the Sun-Times, prosecutors said the woman cried and pleaded with Dehaan to stop during the alleged acts, but that Dehaan said no one would believe her since he was a doctor and she had psychiatric “issues."
Pursuit of glory @ Boys' & Girls' Champs run off today: CALABAR High and Edwin Allen girls are highly favoured to win the 104th staging of the five-day Inter-secondary Schools Sports Association Championships which starts today at the National Stadium. FREE LIVESTREAM at http://www.facebook.com/SportsMax, http://www.facebook.com/CEENTV
BY HOWARD WALKER Observer senior reporter walkerh@jamaicaobserver.com Tuesday, March 25, 2014
CALABAR High and Edwin Allen girls are highly favoured to win the 104th staging of the five-day Inter-secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA)/GraceKennedy Boys' and Girls' Athletics Championships which starts today at the National Stadium.
Defending champions Calabar are expected to turn back what is expected to be another spirited effort from fierce rivals Kingston College (KC) and secure their 24th lien on the Mortimer Geddes Trophy, while last year's girls' runners-up, Edwin Allen, look a good bet to dethrone champions Holmwood Technical High School and secure only their second title and avenge last year's painful five-point loss.
The prestigious track and field championships, which started in 1910, will see 205 schools and approximately 2,500 athletes participating in what is arguably the greatest high school event in the world.
Calabar, who won by 41 points last year, are touted to retain their title easily, but it will be much, much closer with KC breathing down their necks and quietly confident of capturing their first title since 2009.
Calabar's head coach Michael Clarke is happy that people are predicting an easy win for his school and he hopes that is so. But he believes his team is well-prepared and raring to go and he is "cautiously confident".
Calabar, formed in 1912, first won the title in 1930 and have since won it 23 times and based on the results at early season development meets, they should secure win number 24.
"It should be an interesting Champs as usual and should be exciting and adventurous," Clarke told the Jamaica Observer. more
IN JAMAICA: PUBLIC Defender Earl Witter says 2010 Tivoli Gardens enquiry must await ballistics report....700+ people arrested, 73+ civilians killed (including the estimates for the gunmen and policemen killed) 35+ civilians injured...."If the hearings proceed in the absence of the completed ballistics report, what pertains is a sham, a charade, some kind of a whitewash that must be avoided at all costs,"
BY BALFORD HENRY Senior staff reporter balfordh@jamaicaobserver.com Tuesday, March 25, 2014
PUBLIC Defender Earl Witter wants the Government to delay the start of hearings by the proposed Commission of Enquiry into the 2010 Tivoli Gardens security forces operation, pending completion of ballistics examinations by the police forensic laboratory.
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"If the hearings proceed in the absence of the completed ballistics report, what pertains is a sham, a charade, some kind of a whitewash that must be avoided at all costs," Witter told a press conference at his office in downtown Kingston yesterday.
He said that the ballistics investigations were still "incomplete, unfinished, under way", and would remain so until the process started under the watch of forensic scientist, firearms examiner and ballistics expert Matthew Noedel is completed.
Noedel, whose expertise was facilitated by USAID and the UNDP, is carrying out investigations into the deaths of more than 70 people, including a policeman, during the operation.
The public defender said that the Government had agreed to a "firearms protocol", drafted by Noedel in 2010, which would have provided the evidence to prove "who shoot who". However, the process has been delayed primarily by lack of co-operation from the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF).
"Only through the ballistic sciences would the commission be able to determine who shoot who, therefore, we should know from the barrel of which firearms were any lethal bullets fired," Witter insisted. more
This Day in History Tuesday, March 25, 1965: Rev Martin Luther King Jr leads 25,000 marchers to the state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks & more.....
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
1965: Rev Martin Luther King Jr leads 25,000 marchers to the state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks.
TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT
1965: Rev Martin Luther King Jr leads 25,000 marchers to the state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks.
OTHER EVENTS
1815: Austria, Britain, Prussia and Russia form new alliance against Napoleon Bonaparte after he escapes from confinement on Elba.
1911: A fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Co factory in New York City kills 146 immigrant workers; the tragedy galvanises America's labour movement.
1941: Yugoslavia joins Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Alliance in World War II.
1971: Pakistani troops are deployed in East Pakistan -- now Bangladesh -- to quell rebels demanding an independent state.
1975: Saudi Arabia's King Faisal is assassinated in Riyadh by nephew with history of mental illness. Faisal's brother, Crown Prince Khaled, succeeds to throne.
1982: The Canada Act is signed; ratifying the Canadian constitution and making the country wholly independent of Great Britain.
1990: Arson fire in illegal nightclub kills 87 in Bronx, New York; most of them Honduran and Dominican immigrants. more
First black man, let alone Jamaican man, in the 147-year history of Canada, to head a police division in the North American country.....Jamaican is Winnipeg's top cop It was never my goal to reach so far, I just wanted to be a good policeman, says Devon Clunis
BY KIMONE THOMPSON Associate editor — features thompsonk@jamaicaobserver.com Tuesday, March 25, 2014
HE is the first black man, let alone Jamaican man, in the 147-year history of Canada, to head a police division in the North American country.
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| Devon Clunis (left) took his Oath of Office in 2012, becoming Winnipeg’s 17th Chief of Police. |
That kind of reality would put pressure on anybody, but not Superintendent Devon Clunis, chief of the Winnipeg Police Service. He appears calm, relaxed, level-headed, humble and without the proverbial chip on the shoulder that lofty elevations have the potential to conjure.
In a recent conversation with the Jamaica Observer, the Harmony Vale, St Ann native said when he enlisted in the police force in Winnipeg 29 years ago, there were no other black people in the service. Things have changed dramatically over the years, with the force now having representation from all races and nationalities.
The 50-year-old said that while he didn't feel pressured by his new post and its historical significance, he was seized with the weight of the responsibility it brings. He admitted that he never consciously aspired to the top job. He always knew he wanted to be a policeman, and has done nothing else his entire professional life, but his desire to be a "good police-man" and an example to young boys propelled him beyond his dreams.
Fate might have had a hand in it too, as, when he contemplated retirement in the winter of 2011, the sitting commissioner at the time announced his own retirement. more
IN JAMAICA: Veteran Producer Shares His Pain - Unanswered Questions Surround Daughter's Murder - Specialist......Anuska Dillon, 25, was murdered on Thursday by her 26-year-old boyfriend, Clifson Cerve, who later killed himself.
Published: Monday | March 24, 2014 0 Comment
When they spoke a week ago, producer Clifton 'Specialist' Dillon had no idea that would be his last conversation with his 25-year-old daughter Anuska Dillon.
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| Veteran producer Clifton 'Specialist' Dillon. - FILE |
Following her gruesome murder on Thursday, Specialist says he is still trying to come to terms with what happened.
"I am coping. The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. I wish it didn't have to happen, but there is nothing I can do," said Specialist, who is the former manager of dancehall superstars Shabba and Patra, and who currently manages OMI.
Anuska Dillon, 25, was murdered on Thursday by her 26-year-old boyfriend, Clifson Cerve, who later killed himself.
Reports are that Anuska, who was five months pregnant, was shot in the head by her boyfriend in the presence of her five-year-old daughter at her apartment in Pembroke Pines, Florida. Later in the afternoon, Cerve also killed himself after he was cornered by police.
EDUCATED LADY
Specialist described his daughter as a "very educated, beautiful person".
"Any challenge I give her she conquered them. She makes things happen, she's a go-getter," he told The Gleaner. more
IN JAMAICA: Parents Seek Help For Teen Girl Dons...."What do you do if your 15 y-o daughter looks at you and tells you that she wants to kill you?"...."My daughter is the leader of a gang of six boys. Dem even call her 'Tommy Lee' (after the dancehall deejay)
Published: Monday | March 24, 2014
"What do you do if your daughter looks at you and tells you that she wants to kill you?" asked 34-year-old Kerry-Ann Ford, who was seeking help for her 15-year-old daughter at a Re-Birth Project session that was held on Saturday at the Caenwood Centre in St Andrew.
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| Melody Cammock-Gayle, founder, Rebirth Project, addresses parents and their children attending of the Re-Birth Project at Caenwood Centre |
Ford, who is from the Maxfield Avenue community in St Andrew, said it has been a rocky journey in providing a stable environment for her child.
"My daughter is the leader of a gang of six boys. Dem even call her 'Tommy Lee' (after the dancehall deejay) because she takes on the role of a don. She's not attending classes and it really pains my heart," she said with tears streaming down her face.
"I try to be her friend. Mi even tek up $10,000 buy a shoes for her the other day because I don't want her to feel left out, and I'm trying to please her. She has been to several counselling sessions. I don't know what I haven't done for this girl. I reached my boiling point recently when she told somebody that she is anxious to become a soldier because she wants to kill me," Ford revealed.
The single mother stressed, however, that she will remain persistent and rise above the challenges.
"It's not easy, but I will not point fingers and blame anybody. I will continue to fight and get all the help I can," Ford told The Gleaner. more
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A Guyanese drug mule, Jonathan Fontanelle hit with a J$800,000 fine or 18 months in a local prison after he was caught trafficking cocaine into Jamaica....."Him know it's not ‘Phensic’. He wasn't stupid to what he was doing,"
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A Guyanese drug mule was hit with a J$800,000 fine or 18 months in a local prison after he was caught trafficking cocaine into Jamaica.
Jonathan Fontanelle, whose attorney described him as a “simpleton”, was slapped with the hefty fine by Senior Corporate Area Magistrate Judith Pusey on Friday (March 21).
Fontanelle, the court was informed, passed out 93 pellets of cocaine at the Kingston Public Hospital weighing a total of two pounds and three ounces, after being held at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston on March 4.
He pleaded guilty on Friday and was fined $200,000 or six months on a charge of possession of cocaine, $250,000 or six months for dealing in cocaine and $350,000 or six months for importing the illegal substance.
Prior to sentencing Fontanelle's attorney said that his client didn't understand what he was getting into.
But Pusey wasn't buying it. "You have some people who never see a stop light before, apart from when they going to the airport take up themselves and reach a England a export drugs. I consider them brave, not a simpleton," Pusey said. "Him know it's not ‘Phensic’. He wasn't stupid to what he was doing," Pusey added.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica CRICKET LOVELY CRICKET: Carlton Baugh’s 89 anchors Jamaica on third day vs Windwards....Scores: Jamaica 194 (68 overs) & 275 (93.1 overs); Windward Islands 216-9 (98.3 overs) & 31-0 (9 overs).
By Sanjay Myers Observer staff reporter Sunday, March 23, 2014 | 11:28 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica -- A mature 89 not out from wicketkeeper/batsman Carlton Baugh gave Jamaica the upper hand against the Windward Islands heading into the final day of the fourth-round Regional Four-day game at Sabina Park.
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At the close of play on Sunday, the Windwards were 31 without loss, in search of 254 runs off a possible 90 overs to win the match.
Tyrone Theophile and his left-handed opening partner Devon Smith are both not out on 15.
Earlier, 31-year-old Baugh, who also top scored with 56 not out in the first innings, mixed crunching blows with smooth drives on both sides of the wicket in his second outing. He and Jermaine Blackwood (67) were the mainstay, as Jamaica were bowled out for 275.
Scores: Jamaica 194 (68 overs) & 275 (93.1 overs); Windward Islands 216-9 (98.3 overs) & 31-0 (9 overs).
Off-spinner Shane Shillingford, who took 7-116 off 33 overs and a ball, ended with 11 wickets in the match.
Shillingford, just returning to competitive cricket after being suspended for an illegal bowling action while on West Indies duty late last year, also reached 300 wickets in Regional Four-day cricket for the Windwards. Play begins on Monday at 10:00 am. more
Russian Troops Seize Ukrainian Marine Base In Crimea, Says Ukrainian Serviceman....."The invading troops were using stun grenades and also firing automatic weapons. The interior of the compound is full of Russian troops,"
Russian troops forced their way into a Ukrainian marine base in the Crimean port city of Feodosia early on Monday, overrunning one of the few symbols of resistance left after Moscow wrestled the peninsula away from Kiev, defending soldiers inside said.
The Russians used stun grenades and fired automatic weapons as they charged in, a Ukrainian military official said. Ukrainian flags had been taken down from flagpoles inside the base.
Ukrainian army officer, First Lieutenant Anatoly Mozgovoy, told Reuters by phone from inside the compound that the Russians had fired shots and the Ukrainian soldiers were unarmed. Asked if the base had been taken over, he said: "Yes".
"The invading troops were using stun grenades and also firing automatic weapons. The interior of the compound is full of Russian troops," said Vladislav Seleznyov, a Ukrainian military spokesman in Crimea. Russian forces had already captured part of the base, used by the 1st Separate Marine Battalion, Ukraine's top military unit, earlier this month. more
Nate Silver Projects Big GOP Win in upcoming SENATE election: Republicans have great opportunities in a number of states, but only in West Virginia, South Dakota, Montana and Arkansas do we rate the races as clearly leaning their way
When FiveThirtyEight last issued a U.S. Senate forecast — way back in July — we concluded the race for Senate control was a toss-up. That was a little ahead of the conventional wisdom at the time, which characterized the Democrats as vulnerable but more likely than not to retain the chamber.
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Our new forecast goes a half-step further: We think the Republicans are now slight favorites to win at least six seats and capture the chamber. The Democrats’ position has deteriorated somewhat since last summer, with President Obama’s approval ratings down to 42 or 43 percent from an average of about 45 percent before. Furthermore, as compared with 2010 or 2012, the GOP has done a better job of recruiting credible candidates, with some exceptions.
As always, we encourage you to read this analysis with some caution. Republicans have great opportunities in a number of states, but only in West Virginia, South Dakota, Montana and Arkansas do we rate the races as clearly leaning their way. Republicans will also have to win at least two toss-up races, perhaps in Alaska, North Carolina or Michigan, or to convert states such as New Hampshire into that category. And they’ll have to avoid taking losses of their own in Georgia and Kentucky, where the fundamentals favor them but recent polls show extremely competitive races. more
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IN JAMAICA: Duped & Discarded! Teens Tricked Into Running Away From Home Return Silent With Signs Of Sexual Abuse......With close to 300 children reported missing to the police in the first two months of this year. Human trafficking ?
Published: Sunday | March 23, 2014
With close to 300 children reported missing to the police in the first two months of this year, there are growing fears that some of these teenagers are victims of human trafficking and have been forced into the illicit sex trade.
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| Founder of advocacy group, Hear the Children's Cry, Betty Ann Blaine. |
He was responding to growing concerns that several teenagers, mainly girls, who have been reported missing in recent times are victims of a robust and illicit sex trade that lure them with gifts and affection.
These perverts use and abuse the girls and then spit them out, leaving many fearful, pregnant and silenced by threats.
Official figures show 134 children were reported missing in January and 158 in February. Of that number, 86 returned home after a couple of weeks in January and 105 in February.
Neither social workers nor the police have managed to convince most of these children to share their accounts of what happened during the period they were away from home.
Scars of carnal abuse
But the children return with visible scars of carnal abuse, including sexually transmitted infections and pregnancy. In a recent case in the Corporate Area, a 15-year-old who went missing for two weeks, returned home pregnant. more
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