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St. Mary & Portland, JAMAICA: Eastern Schools Welcome Food For The Poor Furniture Donations.... Under its School Furniture Campaign, Food For The Poor (FFP) Jamaica aims to distribute no fewer than 15,000 desks and chairs by the end of the academic year in July 2014.
Gleaner Published: Friday | May 2, 2014 0 Comments
It was the same cry that resonated throughout several schools across St Mary and Portland which recently received timely donations of much-needed furniture. "Thank you, Food For The Poor for making a difference!"
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| These students of Jacks River Primary School in St Mary are far more comfortable and happy having received new desks and chairs from Food For The Poor. |
The charity organisation's team has, over the last few weeks, been travelling to schools across the parishes as it seeks to alleviate the discomfort experienced by many students, some of whom have had to stand during lessons or share a desk with a fellow student. Under its School Furniture Campaign, Food For The Poor (FFP) Jamaica aims to distribute no fewer than 15,000 desks and chairs by the end of the academic year in July 2014.
Executive director of FFP Jamaica, Jacqueline Johnson, said the charity organisation has been working since January this year to ensure that as many students as possible are comfortable while learning. "In some of the schools visited by our teams, the conditions under which the students had to learn were appalling. Some of the furniture were termite infested while others were broken. We have a duty to assist our students in their educational development and to fulfil their dreams and aspirations." more
Chikungunya declared an epidemic in the Caribbean....“By definition this is an epidemic since it represents an unusual number of cases of this problem where we would never have it before,” Dr Hospedales told the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC)
ORANJESTAD, Aruba, Thursday May 1, 2014, CMC – The head of the Caribbean Public Health Authority (CARPHA), Dr James Hospedales, has declared the Chikungunya virus has reached epidemic proportions in the Caribbean. “By definition this is an epidemic since it represents an unusual number of cases of this problem where we would never have it before,” Dr Hospedales told the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC).
The mosquito-borne illness was first detected in the Caribbean in December 2013, in St Martin, and last week Antigua and St Vincent and the Grenadines became the latest countries to declare an outbreak.According to Dr Hospedales, as of April 28, there were 4,108 probable cases in 14 countries across the region. He also stated that Caribbean countries have been putting measures in place to address the spread of the virus.
“PAHO (the Pan American Health Organisation) since 2012 had done a preparatory briefing, in July of last year we convened a Caribbean-wide virtual meeting of the chief officers in the countries in the labs, to highlight this emerging threat and to adjust our surveillance protocols and laboratory testing to have early detection.. more
'Cancer, other charities not sexy enough for corporate Jamaica'....So there are a lot of things working against us because of what we are about," she said of the organsiation established in 1955. Dr K'adawame K'nife, a director of the office of social entrepreneurship at the University of the West Indies, Mona,
Friday, May 02, 2014 Jamaica Observer
CORPORATE Jamaica views the support of cancer initiatives as unsexy, which results in reduced project funding, according to the charity group, Jamaica Cancer Society.
"Cancer is not glamorous or fun," declared Yulit Gordon executive director at the Jamaica Cancer Society at the Social Enterprise Boost Initiative (SEBI) discussion held at the Knutsford Court Hotel in Kingston on Wednesday. "So when we go into corporate organisations and ask for support of your programmes (by nature of what we do at the Jamaica Cancer Society and the product that we sell which is the fight against cancer) you find that there are companies out there (but not all) that would not want to align their brand with a cancer-fighting initiative because when they look at it they do not see the returns.
"It's not something that their customers will embrace."
Gordon added that ethical considerations also eliminate some large companies from being approached.
"You may think that it's only the tobacco companies but there is also alcohol, there are certain foods that when you look at the labelling it's a good cause for cancer diagnosis. So there are a lot of things working against us because of what we are about," she said of the organsiation established in 1955.
Dr K'adawame K'nife, a director of the office of social entrepreneurship at the University of the West Indies, Mona, urged the social enterprises to monetise their services by placing a value on their volunteerism.
"When I ask, 'where is your business plan', you hear, 'we do not operate a business'. But you are in the business of life, which is the most important business," said K'nife, who argued that replacing their services would come at a cost.
"People tend to undervalue your own worth. What if you were not doing the things you were doing, what would have been the situation." If you truly apply the counter-factual then you recognise just how much value you have created from the activities you are doing despite the fact that you do not have the resources you need to do it."
K'nife pointed out that monetising services would allow social enterprises to reduce the need for "begging" international donor support.
The discussion entitled 'Lets Talk-Social Economy Matters' was the first in a series of discussions to be hosted by SEBI, which is part of the JN Foundation. SEBI is designed to create an enabling business environment for non-governmental organisations. more
JAMPRO & EWI HOOKUP: Company with Jamaican connection offers to bail out Energy World Inyernationals (EWI) Jamaicans pay 42 US cents per kilowatt hour for electricity, and it is believed that when the project is fully implemented the cost will be reduced by approximately 30 per cent.....The total cost of financing the project is US$737 million
BY HG HELPS Editor-at-Large helpsh@jamaicaobserver.com Friday, May 02, 2014 Jamaica Observer
A Chinese company based here has approached the Government's investment company, Jamaica Promotions Corporation (Jampro), with a view to assist with the fallout arising from Energy World International's (EWI's) failed bid to meet all the requirements to construct a booster energy plant on the island.
A usually reliable source told the Jamaica Observer that officials of the Chinese company met with executives of Jampro in New Kingston yesterday and offered to work with the island to get the project off the ground.
"During the meeting with Jampro, the Chinese suggested that they were willing to work with EWI, and vowed that they could secure the necessary financing from China's Ex-Im Bank to get the 381-megawatt project going," the source said.
"The Chinese have said that they were also willing to meet with the Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy, and Mining as early as tomorrow (today) to get things started," the impeccable source said.
Hong Kong-based EWI missed its deadline to pay a performance bond of US$37 million last Thursday.
The total cost of financing the project is US$737 million, of which one per cent -- US$7.37 million -- had been paid over as part of the bond arrangement.
However, EWI was pushed against the wall after it emerged that the Inter-American Development Bank, upon which EWI was relying to provide non-equity financing for the project, had opted against doing so, citing breaches of Jamaica's procurement procedures in the award of the contract.
EWI was the preferred bidder to build a power plant that would bolster the national grid by supplying it with 381 megawatts of generating capacity. more
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) : Explosion Rocks Nigeria's Capital Abuja....EARLIER: 200 Schoolgirls Kidnapped... At Least 75 Dead In Attack...
AP | by BASHIR ADIGUN and MICHELLE FAUL Posted: 05/01/2014 4:40 pm EDT Updated: 05/01/2014 11:59 pm EDT
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A car bomb exploded on a busy road in Nigeria's capital late Thursday, killing at least 12 people days before the city is to host a major international economic forum.
The bomb exploded near a checkpoint across the road from a busy bus station where a massive explosion on April 14 killed at least 75 people. That blast was claimed by the Islamic extremist Boko Hararm terrorist network.
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Thursday's bomb comes days before Abuja is to host the World Economic Forum on Africa, with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang as an honored guest. The government is deploying 6,000 police to protect the May 7-9 event, which attracts world leaders, policymakers, philanthropists and business leaders to discuss Africa's economic growth prospects.
Civil Defense Corps spokesman Emmanuel Okeh said rescuers with ambulances and fire engines rushed to the scene of the blast on May Day, a public holiday in the West African nation.
Twelve people have been killed and 19 wounded are in the hospitals, according to Superintendent Frank Mba, the national police spokesman. He said six cars were burnt up.
Witnesses said a car laden with explosives drove close to the checkpoint and a man jumped out and ran as it blew up. A deafening explosion was followed by smaller ones as other cars caught fire and fuel ignited, they said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of fears for their safety. Mba said six cars were burnt up.
Lines of traffic are normal at the checkpoint where soldiers and police search vehicles since the bombing two weeks ago. more
KINGSTON, Jamaica : Man sold stones for chicken, water for cooking oil for $5,000.00......How on earth can people be so unkind and wicked ? Is this a sign of more to come?
Thursday, May 01, 2014 | 8:32 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A woman, who thought she was purchasing chicken and cooking oil recently, instead ended up with a box of stones, a bottle of water, and $5,000 out of pocket.
The shifty 'salesman' is to be sentenced on May 21, having entered a guilty pleaded guilty when he appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court this week.
In entering the guilty plea, Leonard Finn admitted to also grabbing the complainant's $5000 after delivering a box containing stones and a five gallon bottle of water. He fled the scene but was subsequently held.
The woman was expecting 50 lbs of chicken and five gallons of cooking oil.
Resident Magistrate Simone Wolfe-Reece ordered the accused remanded into custody for sentencing. more
WAKEFIELD, Trelawny: Grief and Pain Wakefield, Dumfries families mourn brutal killing of loved ones, Terrence Weston and Ralston McLaughlin....A cellular phone and wallets belonging to the men were reportedly taken from them...."My sister had a blood vessel burst in her head five years ago when after the bullet-riddled body of her daughter was found in a car trunk in America,"
BY HORACE HINES Observer West reporter Thursday, May 01, 2014
WAKEFIELD, Trelawny - LAST week's murder of bread salesman Terrence Weston was the latest in a series of tragic incidents that have plagued the Wakefield, Trelawny, family over the last five years.
Weston, 49, and his colleague salesman, Ralston McLaughlin, 69, of Dumfries, St James, were shot dead while making deliveries in Copse, Hanover.
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| (L-R) Terrence Weston and Ralston McLaughlin |
Police said that about 8:15 am on Saturday the usually quiet morning was disturbed by the echoes of gunshots in the vicinity where the two men were selling bread.
Upon their arrival, they found the two bullet-riddled bodies in a bushy, isolated section of the community. Weston was found lying outside the Toyota Hiace panel van in which they were travelling, while McLaughlin was slumped over the steering wheel.
The investigators suspect that robbery was the motive for the killings. A cellular phone and wallets belonging to the men were reportedly taken from them.
On Tuesday, Carlyle Appleton, a distressed brother of Weston, narrated the seemingly endless, stressful period that has beleaguered his family since the death of his niece, five years ago.
The grieving Appleton said he has been suffering from a lingering headache for the past three weeks since his sister was hospitalised for treatment of severe injuries she sustained in a motor vehicle accident in the United States where she lives.
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| Brothers Carlyle Appleton (left) and Keith Bryan are a picture of grief as they are visited by our news team at their Wakefield residence. |
He disclosed that all efforts are now being made to block information of his brother's death from his injured sister, who is scheduled to undergo a surgery later this week, after spending over a week in intensive care.
"Right now my brother die and we can't break the news to our sister. If we were to do that, we would have to wait until she do the surgery this week. Then, based upon her recovery we have to have a doctor in her presence before telling her," Appleton explained, during a visit to his Wakefield residence in Trelawny, on Tuesday.
With a blank stare registered on his face, Appleton recounted that five years ago his sister was also hospitalised after one of her blood vessels burst in the aftermath of the gruesome discovery of the bullet- riddled body of herdaughter in a car trunk in the United States.
"My sister had a blood vessel burst in her head five years ago when after the bullet-riddled body of her daughter was found in a car trunk in America," he recalled. "The good part about it is that the perpetrator fled to Jamaica and was picked up in Spanish Town by federal agents."
He disclosed that from that time, his mother's health started on a downward spiral.
"From those days my mother start breakdown because her granddaughter died from gunshots in the US and her daughter blood vessel burst, so we have been having it," said an obviously distraught Appleton.
But the stress for the family did not end there, as another of Appleton's nieces died after she was diagnosed with "a rare cancer of the thyroid gland". This, he said, has caused his mother's health to decline even further.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: A 40 year-old Woman cop on 100 fraud-related charges of allegedly defrauding the Police Service of nearly $400,000.
Thursday, May 01, 2014
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) -- A 40 year-old police officer will return to court tomorrow to answer to 100 charges of allegedly defrauding the Police Service of nearly $400,000.
The accused, Elizabeth Hope, a 10-year veteran, was released on $350,000 bail when she appeared before a Port of Spain court on Monday.
She was not called upon to plead to the charges that were laid indictably.
The police alleged that Hope, between 2010 and last March, with the assistance of another accused, Cherisse Austin, who is also before the court, allegedly tendered false bills and receipts of medical services done with an official stamp from a doctor.
Hope, it was alleged, billed the Police Service for medication she reportedly received while she was supposedly undergoing treatment for cancer.
The court was told that Hope had informed the police's Finance Branch that she was ill with cancer and forwarded to them a number of receipts for treatment she allegedly received as well as medication, all purported to have been signed off by a doctor named in the charge.
The prosecution had objected to bail, citing Hope as a flight risk. But her defence lawyer, Keith Scotland, disagreed submitting that his client, who was abroad on 21 days sick leave, had immediately returned to the island after finding out about the investigation against her. more
IN JAMAICA: Andrew Holness wants PM to rein in Phillip Paulwell....on the controversy raging around the process of developing a 381 MW energy plant to rationalise energy costs...."Firstly, it is highly improper and irregular that a minister of government would publicly say that he would bring influence to bear"
Thursday, May 01, 2014
OPPOSITION Leader Andrew Holness yesterday urged Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller to step in on the controversy raging around the process of developing a 381 MW energy plant to rationalise energy costs.
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| HOLNESS… the prime minister needs to restore the integrity of the process (right) PAULWELL… under pressure |
Holness told reporters at a brief press briefing inside his office at Gordon House, following the budget debate yesterday, that Simpson Miller must rein in Energy Minister Phillip Paulwell, following the latest disclosures relating to the energy plant.
"I think the PM should look at that very carefully, very seriously and rein in her minister," Holness told reporters.
"Some damage has been done [and], from my perspective, I think the prime minister needs to step in. The prime minister needs to restore the integrity of the process, and the prime minister needs to act decisively and quickly to reassure the nation that we have not lost the project," he added.
Holness explained that the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has been carefully reviewing the events of the past few days relating to the project.
"We have always maintained that this is an important national project. It is an important national goal to have an efficient energy sector and to have cheaper electricity. But what we have seen happened in the past few days is that the way in which the minister is handling the project places this national goal at risk," Holness said.
"Firstly, it is highly improper and irregular that a minister of government would publicly say that he would bring influence to bear, of whatever form, on an independent commission in the form of the Office of the Contractor General. more
Rob Ford Taking Leave Of Absence Amid Reports Of New crack cocaine. Drug Video: Toronto Mayor Rob Ford To Seek Help For Substance Abuse, Lawyer Says...."He acknowledges he has a substance abuse problem and he wants to do something about it,"
AP/ The Huffington Post Posted: 04/30/2014 8:55 pm EDT Updated: 04/30/2014 11:36 pm EDT
TORONTO (AP) — Toronto Mayor Rob Ford will take a leave of absence to seek help for substance abuse, his lawyer said Wednesday, as a report surfaced about a second video of the mayor smoking what appears to be crack cocaine.
The Globe and Mail newspaper reported it has viewed a second video of Ford smoking what appears to be crack cocaine in his sister's basement. The national newspaper reported two Globe reporters viewed the video from a self-professed drug dealer showing Ford taking a drag from a pipe early Saturday morning.
The video is part "of a package of three videos the dealer said was surreptitiously filmed around 1:15 a.m., and which he says he is now selling for 'at least six figures,'" the paper reported.
News reports of the existence of an earlier video of Ford apparently smoking crack first surfaced last May, igniting a media firestorm around Ford.
The latest crack tape report comes as Ford's lawyer, Dennis Morris, said the mayor will take a leave of absence for substance abuse. Ford is seeking re-election in the Oct. 27 vote. Morris said he spoke to Ford earlier Wednesday and said Ford has accepted that he has a problem. "He acknowledges he has a substance abuse problem and he wants to do something about it," Morris told The Associated Press.
Ford, who launched his campaign for re-election earlier this year, acknowledged last year after months of denials that he smoked crack in a "drunken stupor" after police said they obtained a video that appears to show him smoking crack. The video has never been released to the public. more
KINGSTON, Jamaica - Minister of Finance and Planning Dr Peter Phillips a short while ago announced a withdrawal of the bank taxes
Wednesday, April 30, 2014 | 4:08 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica - Minister of Finance and Planning Dr Peter Phillips a short while ago announced a withdrawal of the bank taxes earlier put forward as a part of the revenue package for the 2014/2015 Budget.
"We propose to replace the levy on banks and financial institutions with two measures," Dr Phillips told Parliament Wednesday.
The government proposes to introduce a 15 per cent withholding tax on insurance premiums paid to non-residents by Jamaican residents and more GCT on imported services.
Phillips stressed that his administration listened and wishes to maintain the consensus they have built in relation to the national agenda.
More information later.
JAMAICA CRICKET CHAMPION AGAIN: Rookie leg-spinner Damion Jacobs relishes amazing eight-wicket haul.....turned the Headley/Weekes Trophy Final in Jamaica's favour.
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
GROS ISLET, St Lucia (CMC) — Rookie leg-spinner Damion Jacobs has hailed a "perfect" day in the field, after his astonishing eight-wicket haul turned the Headley/Weekes Trophy Final in Jamaica's favour here on Monday.
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| Jamaica’s Captain Tamar Lambert (right) receives the Headley/Weekes Trophy from WICB Vice-President Emmanuel Nanthan after his team won the Regional Four-Day Touurnament in St Lucia in a draw against Windward Islands, yesterday. |
The 29-year-old, in only his fourth first-class game, finished with eight for 47 as the Windward Islands crashed from 155 without loss, to 217 all out in their first innings on the third day at the Beausejour Cricket Stadium.
It was the fifth-best figures by a Jamaican in the history of the modern West Indies first-class championship.
"Everything came off perfect today. As a leg-spinner, not every ball is going to come out perfectly. Leg-spinners have a lot of bad balls. But today all the variations came out perfectly — the slider, the googly, the leg-spinner came out well," Jacobs said following the day's play.
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| Jermaine Blackwood on-drives on his way to making a century against Windward Islands during yesterday’s final day of the Regional Four-Day final in Gros Islet, St Lucia. (PHOTOS: WICB MEDIA/RANDY BROOKS) |
"So I decided if everything was coming out well I should just take it and get a five or sixer and the team was cheering me on."
"It's a dream come true. Back home you normally get those wickets, you don't expect it at the first-class level, but I thank God for it," he said.
Jacobs only made his first-class debut earlier this month against Trinidad and Tobago in Port of Spain, finishing with unflattering match figures of two for 90 from 28 overs. more
Mississippi Daycare Worker, Ruth Bennett Dies In Tornado, Found Clutching Toddler She Saved.... “It makes you just take a breath now,” said next-door neighbor Kenneth Billingsley,. “It makes you pay attention to life.”
Apr 30, 2014 By Associated Press
LOUISVILLE, Mississippi — Ruth Bennett died clutching the last child left at her day care center as a tornado wiped the building off its foundation. A firefighter who came upon the body gently pulled the toddler from her arms.
“It makes you just take a breath now,” said next-door neighbor Kenneth Billingsley, who witnessed the scene at what was left of Ruth’s Child Care Center in this logging town of 6,600. “It makes you pay attention to life.”
Bennett, 53, was among more than 33 people killed in a two-day outbreak of twisters and other violent weather that pulverized homes in half a dozen states from Iowa to Tennessee. The child’s fate was not immediately known.
MEMA officials just upgraded the death toll to 12 broken down in the following areas:
• Nine in Winston County
• One in Rankin County
• One in Issaquena County
• One in Lee County
As crews in Mississippi and Alabama turned from search-and-rescue efforts to cleanup, the South braced for a third round of potentially deadly weather Tuesday. Tornadoes usually strike in the late afternoon and evening.
One of the hardest-hit areas in Monday evening’s barrage of twisters was Tupelo, Miss., where a gas station looked as if it had been stepped on by a giant.
Children of Jamaica Outreach (COJO) continues to honour outstanding Jamaicans overseas.......the awardees often do some philanthropic work on their own or as part of the professional organisations to which they belong.
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
THERE is no denying that Jamaica has a generally poor reputation abroad, thanks to the criminal actions of a few. Juxtaposed against that reality, however, are thousands of others, both at home and abroad, who continue to contribute positively to society. But balancing the perception of those looking on is nothing if not an uphill battle.
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| CHINQUEE… received Community Service Award (right) LAROCHE… presented with Distinguished Service Award |
That, perhaps, is part of the rationale behind the effort groups like Children of Jamaica Outreach (COJO) make each year to publicly award Jamaicans in the Diaspora who are contributing to community building.
For more than a decade, COJO has supported a number of institutions in Jamaica and the United States, including Alpha Boys' Home, Glenhope Place of Safety, Marigold Child Care Centre, Musgrave Girls' Home, Summerfield Boys' Home, Muirton Boys' Home and Windsor Girls' Home in Jamaica, and in New York, the Jamaica Queens YMCA and Leaf of Life.
During that time, it has awarded its partners, donors, sponsors, and volunteers who, by virtue of their donations of cash, kind and time, have furthered COJO’s work to assist less fortunate children. But more than their partnership with COJO, the awardees often do some philanthropic work on their own or as part of the professional organisations to which they belong.
That list has included the likes of former director of tourism Carrole Guntley, Eric Miller of the Brooklyn Bottling Group, D&G's brand manager and the Caribbean Market Manager of Iberia Foods Colin Barrett; father-daughter team from Caribbean Food Delights Vincent and Sabrina Hosang; and a string of others including Victoria Mitchell, Rev Canon Calvin McIntyre, Winston Wellington and Basil E Higgins. Companies like Western Union, JetBLUE and Finn Partners, public relations agency of record for the Jamaica Tourist Board, are also counted among those COJO has honoured. more
PRIME Minister Portia Simpson Miller promises over 21,000 jobs in 2014/15...... Simpson Miller explained the job numbers as follows: JEEP to employ 12,000; over 5,000 to be employed on the Agro Parks projects; 2,000 direct and indirect jobs.....
BY BALFORD HENRY Senior staff reporter balfordh@jamaicaobserver.com Wednesday, April 30, 2014
PRIME Minister Portia Simpson Miller said yesterday that her Government will create some 21,000 jobs during 2014/15.
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| Portia Simpson-Miller |
The prime minister, who was speaking in the Budget Debate in the House of Representatives, explained that close to 80 per cent of the jobs will be created under the Government's minimum wage emergency works scheme, the Jamaica Emergency Employment Programme (JEEP), and its rural food production-boosting agro parks development programme.
Simpson Miller explained the job numbers as follows: JEEP to employ 12,000; over 5,000 to be employed on the Agro Parks projects; 2,000 direct and indirect jobs generated by the scrap metal trade; and 2,000 more spaces for Jamaicans on the overseas employment programmes in the United States and Canada.
However, the employment figures given by the prime minister are likely to raise some questions, as they did not add up to new jobs.
The Government had originally stated that some US$5 million (J$5 billion) of the US$353 million (J$35.3 billion) which will be spent on the three-year Major Investment Development Programme would be allocated to JEEP this financial year. Minister of transport, works and housing Dr Omar Davies told the contract-signing ceremony at the Jamaica Conference Centre in Kingston on March 18 that the first round of the new phase of JEEP, under a project involving the 63 members of parliament (MPs) each being allocated $10 million, or a total of $630 million, which began in March, would employ a total of 12,000 people. more
IN JAMAICA: Mother, two sons stabbed to death near Porus. Residents gather at the murder scene, yesterday.Police said the three — Nadine Carridice, 42, and her sons Jevaughn Thomas,16, and Roshane Ellis,11, were found killed....The killer, they claimed, may have killed the two children because they witnessed the murder of their mother."It's a sad day. It's a wicked act," said Damion Carridice
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
MANDEVILLE, Manchester — THE police were up to late last night carrying out investigations into yesterday's brutal murder of a woman and her two sons in Ramble District, near Porus in this parish.
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| Residents gather at the murder scene, yesterday. (PHOTOS: GREGORY BENNETT) |
Police said the three — Nadine Carridice, 42, and her sons Jevaughn Thomas,16, and Roshane Ellis,11, — were found about 7:20 am outside of their home with stab wounds all over their bodies. The mother's body was found at the doorway to the house while her children were reportedly found at different places in the open space outside the yard.
"It's a sad day. It's a wicked act," said Damion Carridice, a relative of the deceased.
Several residents from Ramble and adjoining communities who visited the death scene were in shock as they quietly discussed the loss of three community members.
Aboutho Carridice, who said that Nadine was his only child, struggled for words as he questioned the motive for the murder of his daughter and two of his grandchildren.
A man, who was taken in by the police for questioning in connection with the three deaths, was said to be the father of three of the woman's children, including 11-year- old Ellis. However, residents said they did not believe that he was the "real perpetrator of the crime" and wanted the "true criminal" to be found as soon as possible so that justice could be served.
They claimed that the death of the three could be linked to disagreements which the deceased woman had with another man with whom she had a relationship. The killer, they claimed, may have killed the two children because they witnessed the murder of
their mother.
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| Undertakers remove one of the three bodies from the crime scene. |
"The community well shake up. Whether or not is the man (in custody) justice fi done," said Marie Carridice, another relative of the deceased. She said that
she had a close relationship with Nadine and saw her for the last time Saturday afternoon. "She was very nice. No matter what she always a try fi her kids," said Marie Carridice.
Yesterday, councillor for the Porus Division Muriel Swaby said plans were in place to assist persons having domestic problems. more
BREAKING NEWS: A defiant Donald Sterling....Screw You NBA I'm NOT Selling the Clippers (VIDEO)
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4/29/2014 2:17 PM PDT BY TMZ STAFFA defiant Donald Sterling just said he would NOT sell the Los Angeles Clippers.
Sterling told Fox News' Jim Gray the team was NOT for sale. Gray said on Fox News he spoke with Sterling just before NBA Commish Adam Silver banned Sterling for life.
Silver said in his news conference ... if 3/4 of the NBA owners get on board they can force Sterling to sell the team. If that happens it looks like Sterling may well go to legal war.
It sounds like it may come to that. more
MANCHESTER, JAMAICA: TRIPLE MURDER as Police hold two suspects in murder of mother, two sons, ages 12 and 16,
Tuesday, April 29, 2014 | 8:10 PM Donna Hussey-Whyte
MANCHESTER, Jamaica – An angry crowd is now gathered at the Porus Police Station in Manchester after police held two suspects for questioning following a gruesome triple murder in the parish Tuesday morning.
An inspector at the station said that while the two suspects have been held, no further information has been forthcoming regarding the motive for the brutal killing of the mother and her two sons, ages 12 and 16, early Tuesday.
The inspector added that the situation at the police station was under control as the crowd had been addressed and steps are in place should the onlookers get out of control.
The three victims were discovered with multiple stab wounds at their home in the district of Ramble near Porus in Manchester about 7:00 am Tuesday.
BANNED FOR LIFE handed down by NBA Commissioner Adam Silver: NBA Press Conference On Donald Sterling Investigation.....May be asked to sell team (LIVE VIDEO, UPDATES)
BY HASANI GITTENS
The comments, where the owner seemed to say he didn't want his much-younger girlfriend hanging out with Black people on Instagram or bringing them to games, were first by TMZ and then in another recording posted on the website Deadspin.
It is now NBA Commissioner Adam Silver's turn to speak.
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| Donald Sterling, Banned 4 Life |
Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling will be banned for life and fined $2.5 million for racist comments, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver announced Tuesday.
The move comes after days of outrage at ugly words attributed to Sterling from a taped conversation with an ex-girlfriend.
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| Adam Silver, Commissioner |
It is now NBA Commissioner Adam Silver's turn to speak.
After racist remarks attributed to Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling sparked a controversy that spread far beyond the world of sports, the NBA's response is highly anticipated. Silver is set to address the league's investigation into those alleged comments on Tuesday during a press conference at 2 p.m. ET in New York.
“The views expressed by Mr. Sterling are deeply offensive and harmful,” Silver said. “That they came from an NBA owner only heightens the damage and my personal outrage.”
The commissioner said that Sterling had not been fined by the league in the past for other alleged incidents of racism because the investigations that were actually brought to the NBA never bore fruit.
A senior NBA official told NBC News that the league's Board of Governors, the 30 owners of NBA teams, were not consulted on sanctions against Sterling and wasn't even told of the specifics until close to 2 p.m. ET, when the news conference started.
The official said that the commissioner wanted to fine Sterling $5 million, or more, but the league rules allow for only $2.5 million.
"I'm hoping that the actions that we took today will satisfy our players," said Silver.
When asked if the Clippers owner expressed remorse, Silver said, "Mr. Sterling has not expressed those views directly to me."
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Silver initially announced on Saturday that the NBA would be investigating therecording obtained by TMZ of a conversation in which Sterling allegedly told his girlfriend, V. Stiviano, not to bring African-Americans to Clippers games or post photos of herself and African-Americans to her Instagram account. At that time, Silver spoke of "broad powers" for punishment allowed him under NBA bylaws but stressed the need for due process.
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“All members of the NBA family should be afforded due process and a fair opportunity to present their side of any controversy, which is why I’m not yet prepared to discuss any potential sanctions against Donald Sterling,” Silver said in Memphis. “We will, however, move extraordinarily quickly in our investigation.”
After a silent pre-game protest by the Los Angeles Clippers before their game on Sunday, an event Sterling agreed not to attend, the NBA announced on Monday that there would be a press conference on Tuesday to address the findings of that investigation. more
66 y-o Illinois State Rep Keith Farnham, a Democrat Who Abruptly Resigned Last Month Charged With Child Porn....Also bragged that he sexually abused a 6-year-old girl in a web chat.... He also allegedly said in a separate web chat that "12 is about as old as i can handle … i love them at 6 7 8," the Chicago Tribune reports.
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Former Illinois Rep. Keith Farnham, D-Elgin, on the House floor during session at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, Ill., Thursday, May 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman) |
A former Illinois state representative who resigned from office last month is now facing federal child pornography charges.
Keith Farnham, a Democrat who represented suburban Elgin, used a phony email account to send and receive videos and images of children as young as six months old being sexually abused, a criminal complaint filed Monday claims, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
The 66-year-old also bragged that he sexually abused a 6-year-old girl in a web chat, according to the complaint. He also allegedly said in a separate web chat that "12 is about as old as i can handle … i love them at 6 7 8," the Chicago Tribune reports.
He wanted "all the vids and pics ever made" of kids, he allegedly said in another message.
Farnham resigned on March 19 due to what he claimed to be serious health issues, according to the Daily Herald. He has had His resignation came less than a week after federal agents executed a search warrant of Farnham's office and home, removing several computers and electronic storage devices.
One of the computers was state-owned and contained two pornographic videos linked to an email address he allegedly used. The FBI says other devices contained "hundreds of [pornographic] images" as well. more
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