CRICKET IN THE WEST INDIES, Believe it or not : U-15 skipper slams quadruple century, Kirstan Kallicharan made 404 not out, slamming hit 44 fours and 31 sixes
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| Kirstan Kallicharan |
By Roger Seepersad
His coach called it “remarkable” as Kirstan Kallicharan made 404 not out, all yesterday.
Kallicharan, Trinidad and Tobago Under-15 skipper, continued his prolific run of form this season with that quadruple century for his school Vishnu Boys Hindu College in a PowerGen Secondary Schools Cricket League Under-14 playoff quarter-final against Valencia High School at Esmeralda Recreation Ground in Cunupia, yesterday.
Kallicharan, batting at number three, hit 44 fours and 31 sixes—a total of 362 runs in boundaries--bringing up his century off just 35 balls before going on to score a quadruple hundred as he led Vishnu to a massive 548 for one off 35 overs. Valencia were dismissed for 89, Vishnu going on to win by 459 runs.
It is not the first time the T&T youth player has gotten big scores this season. In the BG T&T Under-15 two-day competition, the right-hander scored back to back centuries for East Zone against North East at Honeymoon Park in El Dorado.
According to Vishnu Boys coach Tarandath Sammy, the 14-year-old also scored a double hundred earlier this season, hitting 215 in an Under-16 game for his school.
His appetite for big runs was evident last year when he slammed 194 in the Under-14 competition.
And no matter how astonishing the innings may seem, it was just another day on the field for Kallicharan who said he never had 400 on his mind. more
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Black Men Heath Care : Here’s your wake-up call Opinion by Anton J. Gunn....black men still suffer from higher rates of disease and chronic illness such as prostate cancer, diabetes and heart disease.
Have you received a wake-up call yet?
For too many of us, it takes a sudden wake-up call — in the form of a major or minor health crisis — to make us realize that we’re not invincible. And tragically, for some, that call comes too late.
As black men, we often don’t talk about our health or seek help until something goes wrong. We may exercise and eat right. We may know how our habits today affect how we feel. But what about tomorrow? Are we making the right choices to stay healthy as we grow older? Most importantly, are we having the right conversations about health and well-being with our sons and our fathers, with our brothers, our colleagues, our neighbors, and our friends?
According to the Office of Minority Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, black men are 30 percent more likely to die from heart disease and 60 percent more likely to die from a stroke than white men. And unfortunately, the list goes on — black men still suffer from higher rates of disease and chronic illness such as prostate cancer, diabetes and heart disease. more
IN JAMAICA: Despite $58-m bill, Red Stripe committed to skills programme....“Listening to our graduates, and hearing about their transformation, we are committed to doing this, “ said Managing Director Cedric Blair.
BY INGRID BROWN Associate editor — special assignment browni@jamaicaobserver.com Tuesday, May 13, 2014
RED Stripe said it is committed to funding its Learning for Life programme, despite the $58-million it cost the company last year to train thousands of young Jamaicans to gain meaningful employment in retail, hospitality, bartending, and entrepreneurship.
“Listening to our graduates, and hearing about their transformation, we are committed to doing this, “ said Managing Director Cedric Blair.
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| Red Stripe Managing Director Cedric Blair addressing yesterday’s Jamaica Observer Monday Exchange. |
According to Blair, $58 million is still not enough for the plans the company has to provide training for the many unskilled and unemployed persons ages 18 to 30 from marginalised communities across the island.
The managing director, who along with other Red Stripe representatives and graduates of the programme addressed the weekly Jamaica Observer Monday Exchange at the newspaper’s head offices in Kingston, said the company will be embarking on a major charity to raise funds to finance the programme. This, he said, will be done through the hosting of the Johnnie Walker Golf Classic, which will be held July 18-20 at the Tryall Club in Hanover.
“The golf classic will help raise the overall national awareness of the work we are doing through Learning for Life and allow us to attract the right persons and businesses that are in a position to contribute monies to the programme,” Red Stripe said in a press release.
These well-needed funds, according to the company, will ensure that it can continue transforming lives and inspiring young people through skills training. more
Tessanne Chin returns to The Voice tonight to debut single "Everything Reminds Me Of You.”....Chin will be joined on tonight’s show by her runners-up Jacqui Lee and Will Champlin.
TESSANNE Chin, the local songbird who captured season five of the American televised talent contest, The Voice, is set to make an appearance on the show tonight.
In December last year, Chin became the first non-American to win The Voice and set off a whirlwind of activity for the 28-year-old Jamaican singer.
Chin will be joined on tonight’s show by her runners-up Jacqui Lee and Will Champlin.
She took to Twitter and Instagram stating: “I can’t wait for THIS to happen!!!! This Tuesday 13th !!! Back on @nbcthevoice performing my debut single Everything Reminds Me Of You.”
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| Tessanne Chin |
IN JAMAICA: Peacemaker, 45 y-o Mohan Bunwarrie Killed - Spanish Town Activist, Mediator Shot To Death
Christopher Serju, Gleaner Writer
LESS THAN a week after articulating his vision for empowering residents of Spanish Town through unity, peace facilitator at the St Catherine capital's Peace and Justice Centre, Mohan Bunwarrie, has been gunned down.
According to the Corporate Communications Unit (CCU) of the Jamaica Constabulary Force, Bunwarrie, who was also a member of the Jamaica Defence Force, was shot and killed about 7:30 Saturday night while having a drink at a bar across from his house in Dempshire Pen, Spanish Town.
It was a place where he was a regular domino player. The death of the 45-year-old trained mediator and restorative justice facilitator has been described as a loss for the entire parish of St Catherine.
"My vision is for persons to become community oriented in knowing the value of their community and the value of their voice, because that is what is lacking. People do not know the power of their voice or unity. There is so much disunity in Spanish Town, and if we could get back to where everybody becomes their brother's keeper, it would be such a beautiful country," Bunwarrie told the opening session of a State of the Capital Editors' Forum hosted by The Gleaner at Twickenham Park in the parish on Monday, May 5.
"I have faith in the future of Spanish Town because I've seen persons with vision and also the will to make the change," were Bunwarrie's closing remarks to the forum.
Sharon Young-Palmer, his immediate manager at the Dispute Resolution Foundation at the Peace and Justice Centre who also attended the forum, bemoaned his death when The Gleaner spoke with her yesterday. She struggled to carry on the conversation by phone, and when the words finally came, she just couldn't stop lauding his commitment to Dempshire Pen, where he was born and raised, Spanish Town, and the entire St Catherine.
She lamented the irony of his tragic death so close to home, given the many opportunities Bunwarrie had to leave Dempshire Pen. He was very passionate about the community and insisted on staying to facilitate its development.
"He had many opportunities to leave but never wanted to go anywhere else. He runs a homework centre with the Jamaica Social Investment Fund, and up to the morning (Saturday) he was with the young cricketers and was trying to get them to focus on how to get involved in some of the competitions," she shared.... more
According to the Corporate Communications Unit (CCU) of the Jamaica Constabulary Force, Bunwarrie, who was also a member of the Jamaica Defence Force, was shot and killed about 7:30 Saturday night while having a drink at a bar across from his house in Dempshire Pen, Spanish Town.Michael Jackson resurrected in ‘Xscape’ album Released today.
Tuesday May 12 BY LISA GUTIERREZ The Kansas City Star
Someone missed a great marketing opportunity here. Would it not have been more appropriate to release the new Michael Jackson posthumous album, “Xscape,” on Easter Sunday?
For Michael lives again on Tuesday.
Nearly five years after his death, eight tracks of his vocals recorded from 1983 to 1999 – right after “Thriller” – are coming to fans and dance floors in the form of his second posthumous album of studio recordings.
The studio recordings have been set to new music from Timbaland and Jerome “J-Roc” Harmon, Rodney Jerkins, Stargate and John McClain, the former A&M Records executive now co-executor of Michael’s estate, according to a Billboard cover story that details how producer L.A. Reid brought Michael’s music back to life. The plan got underway a little less than a year ago when Reid met for dinner with John Branca, Michael’s former adviser and lawyer and co-executor of his estate. more
DONAL STERLING STRIKES AGAIN : 'MAGIC JOHNSON, WHAT HAS HE DONE? HE HAS SEX WITH EVERY WOMAN.....HE'S GOT AIDS'....."KIDS SHOULD NOT LOOK UP TO MAGIC" (LISTEN TO FULL INTERVIEW)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — In an interview aired Monday where he expressed sorrow for recorded racist remarks that earned him a lifetime NBA ban, Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling was anything but apologetic toward Magic Johnson, one of the men mentioned in the recording, repeatedly disparaging Johnson's HIV-positive status, dismissing his work in charity and business and saying he's not a proper role model for children.
"He's got AIDS!" Sterling said loudly at one point, cutting off CNN's Anderson Cooper as the interviewer attempted to cite Johnson's accomplishments after Sterling asked, "What has he done, big Magic Johnson, what has he done?"
"He acts so holy," Sterling said. "He made love to every girl in every city in America, and he had AIDS, and when he had those AIDS, I went to my synagogue and I prayed for him, I hope he could live and be well. I didn't criticize him. I could have. Is he an example for children?"
Anderson corrected Sterling, explaining that Johnson was HIV-positive but did not have "full-blown AIDS."
Sterling briefly adjusted his language but not his tone.
"What kind of a guy goes to every city, has sex with every girl, then he catches HIV. Is that someone we want to respect, and tell our kids about?" Sterling said. "I think he should be ashamed of himself."
Johnson had Tweeted after the recording emerged last month that he would never attend another Clippers game while Sterling was owner. But he was in attendance at Sunday's playoff game against the Oklahoma City Thunder sitting next to NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, who handed down Sterling's lifetime ban and a US$2.5 million fine nearly two weeks ago. more
Dangerous chemicals linked to breast cancer – study Seven ways to lower exposure.....1) Limit exposure to exhaust from vehicles or generators, don't idle your car, and use electric lawn mowers, leaf blowers and weed whackers instead of gas-powered ones. 2) Use a ventilation fan while cooking and limit how much burned or charred food you eat. 3) Do not buy furniture with polyurethane foam, or ask for furniture that has not been treated with flame retardants. 4) Avoid stain-resistant rugs, furniture and fabrics & more....
Monday, May 12, 2014 | 1:19 PM
WASHINGTON, USA (AFP) -- Certain chemicals that are common in everyday life have been shown to cause breast cancer in lab rats and are likely to do the same in women, US researchers said Monday.
The paper in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives lists 17 chemicals to avoid and offers women advice on how to minimise their exposure.
They include chemicals in gasoline, diesel and other vehicle exhaust, flame retardants, stain-resistant textiles, paint removers, and disinfection by-products in drinking water.
"The study provides a road map for breast cancer prevention by identifying high-priority chemicals that women are most commonly exposed to and demonstrates how to measure exposure," said study author Ruthann Rudel, research director of the Silent Spring Institute.
"This information will guide efforts to reduce exposure to chemicals linked to breast cancer, and help researchers study how women are being affected," she said.
Some of the biggest sources of mammary carcinogens in the environment are benzene and butadiene, which can come from vehicle exhaust, lawn equipment, tobacco smoke, and charred food.
Other concerns are cleaning solvents like methylene chloride, pharmaceuticals used in hormone replacement therapy, some flame retardants, chemicals in stain-resistant textiles and non-stick coatings, and styrene which comes from tobacco smoke and is also used to make Styrofoam, the study said.
Carcinogens can also be found in drinking water, researchers said.
"Every woman in America has been exposed to chemicals that may increase her risk of getting breast cancer," said co-author Julia Brody.
"Unfortunately, the link between toxic chemicals and breast cancer has largely been ignored. Reducing chemical exposures could save many, many women's lives."
Brody described the paper as the first to comprehensively list potential breast carcinogens and detail ways for experts to measure them in women's blood and urine.
The study also recommends seven ways for women to avoid these chemicals:
1) Limit exposure to exhaust from vehicles or generators, don't idle your car, and use electric lawn mowers, leaf blowers and weed whackers instead of gas-powered ones.
2) Use a ventilation fan while cooking and limit how much burned or charred food you eat.
3) Do not buy furniture with polyurethane foam, or ask for furniture that has not been treated with flame retardants.
4) Avoid stain-resistant rugs, furniture and fabrics.
5) If you use a dry-cleaner, find one who does not use PERC (perchloroethylene) or other solvents. Ask for "wet cleaning".
6) Use a solid carbon block drinking water filter.
7) Keep chemicals out of the house by taking off your shoes at the door, using a vacuum with a HEPA (high-efficiency particulate air) filter, and cleaning with wet rags and mops.
The research was funded by the Avon Foundation. The Silent Spring Institute is a 20-year-old organisation made up of scientists who focus on the environment and women's health. more
Luciano Denies UK Visa Woes - Slated To Perform In England This Week....The tour will also feature performances from I.Wayne, Teflon, Ras Omeek, BadRass (aka Jahfet), Hurcules and Fireflames, all backed by Mafia & Fluxy.
Published: Monday | May 12, 2014
REGGAE LEGEND Luciano will headline four shows in the United Kingdom (UK) beginning Thursday, his reps have confirmed.
The news follows claims that the Silver and Gold hitmaker had been unsuccessful in securing a visa to enter the country, forcing him to pull out of the much-anticipated Positive Vibrations tour.
Reps for the star released a statement on Friday, assuring fans that the Jamaican singer was in rehearsals and would arrive in the UK tomorrow.
"After much unfounded speculations and false rumours, which were circulating up and down the country recently that Luciano was unable to get a visa to come to England, promoters and sponsors are glad to announce that the British High Commission in Jamaica granted Luciano, The Messenger, his work visa, valid from the 6th May 2014," the statement started.
"Luciano himself is booked on a British Airways flight, leaving Kingston on Monday May 12 and will arrive in England on the morning of Tuesday May 13, 2014."
Though his management team is unclear how the rumours started, they confirmed Luciano, also known as The Messenger, had promised to give fans "something very special" after "being away for many years".
The tour will also feature performances from I.Wayne, Teflon, Ras Omeek, BadRass (aka Jahfet), Hurcules and Fireflames, all backed by Mafia & Fluxy.
Bob Marley's LEGEND gets new life 30 years after its release....Universal Music Enterprises will be reissuing a commemorative version of Bob Marley's album Legend....Legend holds the distinction of being the longest-charting album in the history of Billboard magazine's of 1,110 weeks and counting.....
Monday, May 12, 2014
THREE decades after its release, Universal Music Enterprises will be reissuing a commemorative version of Bob Marley's album Legend.
The set, a posthumous compilation of Marley's biggest hits, is due to hit the stores in July.
Legend 30th Anniversary Edition is remixed by Grammy-winning American producer Bob Clearmountain in 5.1 surround sound and
on Blu-Ray audio disc.
Clearmountain has worked with heavy hitters in the music industry including Bruce Springsteen,
The Rolling Stones, Bryan Adams, and Bon Jovi.
Legend's deluxe version includes the early studio recordings of No Woman No Cry and two previously unheard takes of Easy Skanking and Punky Reggae Party.
Classic Marley anthems Three Little Birds, Get Up Stand Up, One Love/People Get Ready, No Woman No Cry, Exodus, Redemption Song and I Shot The Sheriff make the cut.
For the purists, Legend 30th Anniversary Edition will also be made available on tricolor vinyl (yellow, green and red) and pressed as a double gatefold LP allowing for a higher fidelity sound quality that is closer to the original source.
Legend holds the distinction of being the longest-charting album in the history of Billboard magazine's Catalogue Albums chart, 1,110 weeks (and counting) and has been on the Billboard 200 chart since 1988. Marley died on May 11, 1981. He was 36
IN JAMAICA: 23 y-o Shoyea-Gaye Grant is selected as the 2013 Prime Minister's youth awardee for excellence in academics, which adds to her many other accomplishments even while she battles with lupus. Grant graduated last year from the University of the West Indies, Mona, with a 4.0 GPA
BY AINSWORTH MORRIS Career & Education writer Sunday, May 11, 2014
TWENTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD Shoyea-Gaye Grant is one happy camper.
Having recently been nominated and selected as the 2013 prime minister's youth awardee for excellence in academics, this young woman says she's honoured and humbled by the award, which adds to her many other accomplishments even while she battles with lupus.
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| GRANT... I’m ecstatic. I’m overwhelmed with joy |
Lupus is a chronic inflammatory disease that occurs when the body's immune system attacks its own tissues and organs. Studies by The Mayo Clinic reveal that inflammation caused by lupus can affect many different body systems — including the joints, skin, kidneys, blood cells, brain, heart, and lungs.
Grant graduated last year from the University of the West Indies, Mona, with a 4.0
GPA and consequently a first-class honours bachelor's degree in psychology.
Topping her classes was no easy feat, she says, as she had several bouts with the disease that effectively "took her out of commission".
"Lupus, that's my biggest challenge even to this day. Its unpredictability and the constant pain, fatigue, and general discomfort make my journey a constant struggle," Grant says.
But this was not all. Coupled with illness was the financial struggles that dogged her ability to stay in school and be healthy.
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| Shoya-Gaye & PM, Simpson-Miller |
"I also faced the challenge of limited financial resources. Financing a university education is a huge burden. That coupled with lupus
was terribly unbearable. I have monthly visits, medication I have to take every day... "Additionally, I'm not an only child, and my mother is recovering from a stroke she had in 2007. My father had to be solely providing for my sisters and myself, along with my mother, and it was rough." more
IN JAMAICA: Mother's Day and Elizabeth McKnight's 105th birthday...."She reads without glasses and she can hear and see very well,".... McKnight names all 66 books in the Bible in their correct order in less than two minutes, without hesitation....."And she does not take any form of medication; the only thing she takes is aspirin."
BY DONNA HUSSEY-WHYTE Sunday Observer Staff reporter husseyd@jamaicaobserver.com Sunday, May 11, 2014
Like most mothers, Elizabeth McKnight will today be taken to dinner by her family. That is, of course, after she goes to church.
But today is an even more special day for McKnight. She will celebrate her 105th birthday.
"She is very sharp for her age," said her caregiver, Jacqueline Rowe. "I have worked with other persons in homes and so on and you will find some persons her age not remembering, hearing or things like that. Not so with her, the things that she is doing, those who are 70, 80, and 90 cannot do that."
As if to prove Rowe's point, McKnight names all 66 books in the Bible in their correct order in less than two minutes, without hesitation. She is still able to read large prints without glasses and takes pleasure in reading the headlines of the newspapers.
"Business confidence fell sharply..." McKnight read from last Friday's Caribbean Business Report in the Jamaica Observer.
"She reads without glasses and she can hear and see very well," a proud Gloria Laing, McKnight's niece, told the Sunday Observer at the centenarian's home in Claris Brook, St Elizabeth, Friday. "And she does not take any form of medication; the only thing she takes is aspirin."
McKnight interjected: "I was born in Cameron Hill on May 11th, 1909. So Sunday is my birthday and Mother's Day -- nuff tings in one!"
She attended Glen Stewart Elementary School and completed the Jamaica local exams, which she said was a big deal during her time.
"After that I learnt dressmaking with my sister-in-law. People would bring material come give me and I make their dress and shirt. When it comes onto shirt, you call mi name!" McKnight said then laughed out loud.
She said persons would journey to Claris Brook from as far as Montego Bay with material for her to make shirts with her hand-operated machine. When they returned home, others would see her work and come to her.
"That time mi did name Lizzy! But mi nuh Lizzy again because mi can't sew anymore," she said jokingly.
Laing said her aunt was still sewing up to age 99.
McKnight said she never got married, and reflected on that with great humour. more
MONTEGO BAY, JAMAICA: MoBay blaze leaves 27 homeless, including 11 children after the blaze swept through their seven-house tenement yard at 17 Paradise Row....Daisy Bell-Dewar, 97, who lived in one of the houses at the tenement yard, and had to be rescued by neighbours, said she has lost everything.
By MARK CUMMINGS Editor-at-Large Western Bureau cummingsm@jamaicaobserver.com Sunday, May 11, 2014
MONTEGO BAY, St James — An early morning fire yesterday left 27 people, including 11 children homeless, after the blaze swept through their seven-house tenement yard at 17 Paradise Row in the resort city of Montego Bay.
"At approximately 2:06 am we responded to a call received at Paradise Row. Five units responded with a complement of 20 firefighters," District Officer at the St James Department of the Jamaica Fire Brigade O'Neil Kerr, told reporters yesterday.
"Upon arrival we realised that seven houses were being affected by this fire, and we immediately got into operation which lasted for about three hours," added Kerr.
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| Fire Devastation in Mobay Tenement Yard |
Daisy Bell-Dewar, 97, who lived in one of the houses at the tenement yard, and had to be rescued by neighbours, said she has lost everything.
"Everything gone, not even a sweetie to put a mi mouth. I have no shoes, no clothes, nothing to eat...everything gone," said Bell-Dewar, who has been living at Paradise Row for more than four decades.
The elderly woman who lived alone in one of the dilapidated wooden structures, told the Jamaica Observer that shortly before 2:00 am she felt "heat coming in mi face and mi back, so mi sey it look like fire deh 'bout here, so after mi look outside mi see deh fire, and bawl out fi fire."
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| 97 y-o Daisy Bell-Dewar |
"After mi bawl out one young man come grab mi and sey 'come grandma' and him tek mi outside and put mi down right yah suh (another house few metres away),"said Bell-Dewar.
Damion Whyte, a mason, who occupied one of the houses on the premises with his two children, aged 12 and four, said he only managed to save a bed and a television set before his two-bedroom house was gutted.
"Mi lose almost everything, only one of mi beds and mi TV mi save. Everything else gone, mi tools, mi pay weh mi get yesterday (Friday) which is about $30,000 bun up, clothes, shoes... everything gone," Whyte wailed. more
Michael Sam Is The First Openly Gay Football Player Drafted Into The NFL....St. Louis Rams selected him with the 249th pick in the seventh round of the 2014 draft. WATCH AS Michael Reacts to Being Drafted by the Rams (VIDEO)
Michael Sam has reached the NFL. The NFL has reached out to Michael Sam. Both milestones made American sports history.
The first-team All-American defensive lineman from the University of Missouribecame the first openly gay player ever drafted into the NFL when the St. Louis Rams selected him with the 249th pick in the seventh round of the 2014 draft.
Sam, the 2013 SEC Co-Defensive Player of the Year, waited until the eighth-to-last selection to hear his name called at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on Saturday. The 24-year-old from Hitchcock, Texas announced that he was gay in February in interviews with The New York Times and ESPN. He told both media outlets that he came out to his teammates during a preseason football practice before the Tigers' 2013 campaign. Sam went on to lead the SEC in sacks (11.5) and tackles for a loss (19) as Missouri roared to a 12-2 record. moreSongs of praise for Mother......No Woman Nuh Cry — Bob Marley's somber reflection about living 'inna government yard inna Trench Town' really hits home....No Less Than A Woman -Lady Saw....Thank You Mama — Sizzla
Sunday, May 11, 2014
No Woman Nuh Cry — Bob Marley's somber reflection about living 'inna government yard inna Trench Town' really hits home.
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Johnny Was — From the Rastaman Vibration album, Marley pours the pain of a ghetto woman whose son has been gunned down.
No Less Than A Woman — Lady Saw shows she is more than slackness on this ode to women who cannot, or find it difficult, to conceive.
Mother To Be — Earl Sixteen salutes women who nurture and care for the unborn child.
Thank You Mama — Sizzla went deep into his soul for this gem from Da Real Thing album.
Hush Babymother — Judy Mowatt consoles the despondent single mother who must fend for herself and her children.
Princess Black — Edi Fitzroy pays homage to the woman of colour.
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Mama Don't Cry — Gyptian is the soothing son on this song, one of his early hits.
Stay At Home _ Dennis Brown pleads with the inner-city queen to show dignity in the midst of personal challenges.
Pumpkin Belly — Tenor Saw recalls the lessons of his wise 'ole time Granny' who taught him that 'whatsoever yuh want yuh want, yuh haffi work very hard for it'. more
Maxi Priest returns with "Easy to Love" ......After 35 years in the business, the dreadlocked Priest says he still has the formula to hit the musical mark.
BY HOWARD CAMPBELL Observer senior writer howardgcampbell@yahoo.com Sunday, May 11, 2014
NOT many reggae singers can boast having number one songs in Britain, the United States and Jamaica. Maxi Priest belongs to that August group.
Priest is looking for more success when he returns to the fray on June 10 with Easy to Love, his new album, which is distributed by VP Records.
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It is the singer's first studio album since 2011's Time of The Year. Priest has enjoyed some pre-release love, with the set's title track getting strong airplay locally.
Easy to Love (the song) is produced by Colin 'Bulby' Yorke. Priest says he heard the 'riddim' through a friend early last year and quickly wrote a song for it.
After 35 years in the business, the dreadlocked Priest says he still has the formula to hit the musical mark.
"From day one it's always been, 'I hope I can make a hit song'. But more importantly, I still love singing and I still love the music," he told the Sunday Observer.
He credits longtime friend Beres Hammond for him recording his first album of original songs in three years.
"The song really did well an' him call mi up an' sey, 'Bwoy Priest, time right fi do a album'."
The latest release from Easy to Love is Gravity, another Yorke production. The song was originally done by John Mayer.
Priest also has great expectations for the Sting International-produced Bubble my Way (with Agent Sasco), and Holiday. The latter is produced by De Red Boyz out of Barbados. more
Drunk Woman Busted For Loud Sex In Airplane Bathroom: Report, An irate young woman had to be restrained after cabin crew members busted up her tryst with a man in the bathroom during a Virgin airlines flight to Las Vegas from London last week.
The Huffington Post | by Andres Jauregui
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. What happens on the way to Vegas is apparently everyone's business, whether they want to know about it or not.
An irate young woman had to be restrained after cabin crew members busted up her tryst with a man in the bathroom during a Virgin airlines flight to Las Vegas from London last week.
Passengers told UK tabloid The Sun that they saw the woman, who was in her 20s and traveling with her parents, flirting and "getting heated with the guy next to her."
People began to complain about hearing loud sex noises after the couple retreated to a restroom. Crew members forced the restroom door open and thwarted the couple's mile-high induction ceremony.
The woman, who the Daily Mail described as "drunken," became abusive towards the cabin crew and had to be cuffed to her seat. U.S. authorities questioned her once the plane landed, but they let her go with a warning. It's not clear if the woman knew the man whom she joined in the restroom prior to getting on the plane. Virgin Airlines did not respond to the Huffington Post's request for comment.
Other people have gotten in trouble for getting frisky on an airplane. In February, an intoxicated woman was arrested after she got rowdy when passengers on a Delta flight refused her sexual advances. The plane had to be diverted so that she could be taken into custody.
IN JAMAICA: Senior cop James Forbes convicted on corruption charge.... Forbes to appeal conviction. Should Forbes lose his appeal it would bring an end to the 30-year career of a man who was slated for promotion
Saturday, May 10, 2014 Jamaica Observer
SENIOR Superintendent of Police James Forbes, the cop who in the 1990s became the poster boy of what a clean police force should be, was yesterday convicted on a charge of attempting to pervert the course of justice.
The guilty verdict, handed down by Corporate Area Magistrate Stephanie Jackson-Haisley, makes Forbes the most senior member of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) to be convicted on corruption charges.
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| FORBES… showed no emotion at the verdict |
He's to be sentenced in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court next week Thursday. His bail was extended until then.
Following the conviction, Queen's Counsel Jacqueline Samuels-Brown gave notice that she would be appealing the decision, but Jackson-Haisley told her to wait until after sentencing before she gives notice.
Should Forbes lose his appeal it would bring an end to the 30-year career of a man who was slated for promotion to the post of assistant commissioner just before the arrest.
Yesterday, Forbes showed no emotion at the verdict but earlier he was seen rubbing his fingers relentlessly, and constantly swallowed hard when it became obvious what the decision would be.
In handing down the verdict, the magistrate said she found that Forbes was aware of the circumstances surrounding businessman Bruce Bicknell, in that Bicknell had been arrested and was before the court on allegations that he attempted to bribe a police officer during a traffic stop, when he (Forbes) called the meeting that resulted in a charge of attempting to pervert the course of justice being brought against him.
"The meeting was designed to affect the outcome of the matter against [Mr Bicknell]," Jackson-Haisley told a court packed with stunned police officers. "His act was intended to pervert the course of justice."
The magistrate rejected Forbes' defence and said she found him to be "changing his defence as the trial progressed". She said she also found him to be "insincere and disingenuous" in his testimony. more
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Pope Francis Calls For 'Legitimate Redistribution' Of Wealth To The Poor....On Friday, Francis called for the United Nations to promote a "worldwide ethical mobilization" . WHAT'S YOUR THOUGHT ON THIS?
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Francis called Friday for governments to redistribute wealth to the poor in a new spirit of generosity to help curb the "economy of exclusion" that is taking hold today.
Francis made the appeal during a speech to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the heads of major U.N. agencies who are meeting in Rome this week.
Latin America's first pope has frequently lashed out at the injustices of capitalism and the global economic system that excludes so much of humanity.
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On Friday, Francis called for the United Nations to promote a "worldwide ethical mobilization" of solidarity with the poor in a new spirit of generosity.
He said a more equal form of economic progress can be had through "the legitimate redistribution of economic benefits by the state, as well as indispensable cooperation between the private sector and civil society."
Francis had a similar message to the World Economic Forum in January and in h is apostolic exhortation "The Joy of the Gospel." That document, which denounced trickle-down economic theories as unproven and naive, provoked criticism in the U.S. that he was Marxist.
Francis has denied he's Marxist, and spent years in Argentina battling Marxist excesses of liberation theology. But he has said from the outset that he wants a church that "is poor and for the poor" and ministers to the most marginal of society.
On Friday, he urged the U.N. to promote development goals that attack the root causes of poverty and hunger, protect the environment and ensure "dignified" labor for all. more
IN JAMAICA: Court says man who killed cop acted in self defence....A 37-year-old man was yesterday acquitted of a charge of murder in the stabbing death of his brother-in-law, who is a police officer, over a $22,000 loan.
Friday, May 09, 2014
A 37-year-old man was yesterday acquitted of a charge of murder in the stabbing death of his brother-in-law, who is a police officer, over a $22,000 loan.
Desmond Bariff, a labourer of Portmore in St Catherine, was set free after the Justice Marva McDonald Bishop instructed the jurors to enter a formal verdict of not guilty in the trial before the St Catherine Circuit Court.
Bariff, the court was told during the trial that started on Wednesday, stabbed Stijan Wood during a dispute at the Portmore home of Wood's family on November 26, 2010.
Evidence was led that the altercation arose out of an argument over an unpaid loan from Bariff to Wood. It was further alleged that the altercation got physical and Wood was stabbed.
Wood's parents reportedly came out the house and saw him bleeding from the chest.
The policeman, who was assigned to the Mobile Reserve, died leaving a son who was one-year-old at the time.
Bariff handed in himself to the police, and told them that he acted in self defence.
Yesterday, after the crown closed its case, attorney Peter Champagnie made a no-case submission, arguing that the it had not been proven that the accused wasn't acting in self defence.
At the end, McDonald Bishop upheld the submission and instructed the 12-member panel of jurors to return a formal verdict of not guilty. more
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