RulaBrownNetwork (RBN): 2014-06-15

Neville Garrick Puts Colour In Reggae...Garrick is renowned for designing a number of covers for albums produced by Bob Marley and the Wailers in the 1970s,

Melville Cooke, Gleaner Writer Published: Tuesday | June 24, 2014

Neville Garrick, contributor

Neville Garrick is happily a part of the Jamaican support group for Brazilian football. Just before Mexico tackled Brazil last Tuesday, he told The Gleaner, "I have been cheering for Brazil since Pele days."

Having played as a defender for the University of Carolina, Los Angeles, the team reaching the 1971 and 1972 National Collegiate Athletic Association finals, Garrick is well qualified to speak about football matters. But there is a special link between artistry and football that he has been privy to - off the formal field of play.

Garrick is renowned for designing a number of covers for albums produced by Bob Marley and the Wailers in the 1970s, as well as more than 20 backdrops for the Reggae Sunsplash Festival, from 1981 to 1988.

His album art was not restricted to the Tuff Gong, as Garrick also did visuals for Jimmy Cliff, Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer, Burning Spear, The Wailers, Steel Pulse and the I-Threes. There was also the standout Haile Selassie I backdrop for Marley's tours. On those trips, the beautiful game was not left behind.

With Marley, Garrick said, "we never went on tour without a football". In the hotel rooms they played 'money ball' - what you broke you played for.

Ziggy Marley

Garrick literally drew his way into reggae's history, honing an art skill which was nurtured at Kingston College and shaped at UCLA, where the 'Black Experience' mural he co-painted with six other students, has been recently restored.

On returning to Jamaica, initially, Garrick was art director at the Daily News. Then, he said, "I created my job with Bob Marley. Nobody was looking at the art."

At that time, Garrick said, there were artistes who would send their music to a company and the packaging would be done without their input.

"They did not have any influence on the cover," Garrick said. more

IN JAMAICA: Viva The Ward Tuesday..."The Ward Theatre must be saved. I invoke the name of every actor, every director, every performer who ever graced the stage of the Ward Theatre. ASHE!"

June 24, 2014

THE 2014 Kingston On The Edge Urban Arts Festival's effort to restore the Ward Theatre got going Sunday with an outstanding show at the historic Kingston landmark.

Interestingly, opening the afternoon of eclectic entertainment was the Alpha Boys School Orchestra, produced by Jamaica's most renowned musical cradle (Alpha Boys School) which is also experiencing survival challenges.

The Ward Theatre

The youthful aggregation presented an organised, lively set of ska, jazz and reggae, living up to the lofty standards of the iconic institution they represent.

Then came the Moder-Ashbourne Gang comprising veteran composer/violinst/keyboardist Peter Ashbourne, his Austrian wife Rosina Moder-Ashbourne who plays the recorder, and their sons, drummer/producer Jeremy and pianist Joel. Their performances of Take Five, For Your Love and Biddy Biddy stood out.

Storyteller Jean Small was in fine form with a piece dubbed Relationshits -- a 'dramedy' about a persistent suitor.

The performance company, Street Meets Studio, also went over well with its dramatisation of Relationships: Time, Space, Music People.

Fabian Thomas's spoken word set called Life, was dominated by provocative messages which climaxed with his appeal for the preservation of the Ward.

"The Ward Theatre must be saved. I invoke the name of every actor, every director, every performer who ever graced the stage of the Ward Theatre. ASHE!"

Thomas was followed by the dynamic dub poet Randy McClaren, the self-proclaimed Creative Activist. He also addressed social issues, opening with the call-and-response, A WHO DIS? before going into Armadale Children on Fire.

Venezuelan guitarist/singer, Luis Felipe Bellorin, did well with Caravana (Song of Peace), Song For The Little Children, A Piece of The Conversation, among others. more

KINGSTON, JAMAICA: 16-y-o boy on murder rap of 18-year-old, David Wilson remanded

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

A 16-year-old student who, along with an 18-year-old man, has been accused of strangling another man to death was on Thursday denied bail when he appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court

The minor was arrested and charged along with Romaine Forbes for the June 2 murder of 18-year-old David Wilson of Paisley Road in Kingston.

The court heard that both accused held Wilson and choked him to death during a dispute on Slipe Road in Kingston. It is also alleged that the accused used a machete to chop the deceased man and left him on a sidewalk.

But on Thursday when the matter was mentioned, the juvenile's attorney, Shauna-gaye Mitchell, told the court that her client was innocent during a bail application.

She said that her client and Wilson had a dispute over a petty issue and that Wilson threatened to kill her client. However, she said during an ensuing tussle between her client and Wilson, he fell and was choked to death by Forbes.

"My client had nothing to do with it," she said "And my client did not prompt him (Forbes)."

However, Senior Magistrate Judith Pusey refused the application and remanded the minor in custody until June 27. Forbes was not brought before the court on Thursday. more

Shanique Myrie paid by Barbados Government....Myrie was awarded damages in the sum of US$38,000 by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) after she filed a lawsuit claiming she was subjected to a dehumanising cavity search....However, the money is short of B$1,000

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

AFTER a frustrating eight-month wait, Shanique Myrie has finally been paid by the Barbadian Government. However, the money is short of B$1,000, Myrie told the Jamaica Observer.

Myrie was awarded damages in the sum of US$38,000 by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) after she filed a lawsuit claiming she was subjected to a dehumanising cavity search by a female immigration officer at Grantley Adams International Airport, locked in a filthy room overnigwht and deported to Jamaica in March 2011.

Shanique Myrie

"My lawyer called me this morning (Monday) and told me the money was in the account. It was a long wait but finally it is over," Myrie told the Jamaica Observer.

The CCJ had also ruled that Barbados should foot the bill of Myrie's legal costs and said the action was a serious breach of her right of entry into that country.

Last week, a frustrated Myrie threatened to file another complaint before the court after the award was not paid, despite promises from Barbadian officials.

Before that, Foreign Affairs Minister AJ Nicholson announced in Parliament that the onus was on Myrie and her legal team, and not on the Jamaican Government, to ensure that Barbados complied with the judgement.

On Friday, Barbados' Attorney General Adriel Brathwaite told the media in the eastern Caribbean state that the money had been paid over but late Friday evening Myrie said the payment did not show up in her lawyer's account.

Her plight was brought to international attention after the Observer reported her ordeal.

She had also complained that she was subjected to derogatory remarks from the female official who told her she was her 'worst nightmare'.

"The lady took me into a bathroom and told me to take off my clothes. I did as requested. After searching me and my clothes she found no contraband or narcotics. She then asked me to bend over, open my legs and spread (my private parts). She said that if I did not comply then she would see that I end up in prison in Barbados," Myrie said. more

IN JAMAICA: Single mom, ANGELITA KELLY thanks God as son overcomes poverty to earn PhD at age 25... Nelson got wake-up call from mom’s warning.....was left to raise her month-old son by herself after his father abandoned them for another woman...From her first job as a waitress, to working as a domestic helper, a shopkeeper and a chicken farmer, Kelly did it all to ensure her son, Peter Nelson, would receive the education she was denied by her father.

BY INGRID BROWN Associate editor — special assignment browni@jamaicaobserver.com Monday, June 23, 2014

WHEN teen mother Angelita Kelly was left to raise her month-old son by herself after his father abandoned them for another woman, the then 17-year-old said she knew she had to do whatever it took to give her child a better life than the one she had.

Angelita Kelly said it was never easy as a single mother
to raise her son, but is proud that her hard work paid off.

From her first job as a waitress, to working as a domestic helper, a shopkeeper and a chicken farmer, Kelly did it all to ensure her son, Peter Nelson, would receive the education she was denied by her father, who preferred to spend his money in bars.

Today, her hard work has paid off as her son has exceeded even her own expectations, having become one of the youngest persons, if not the youngest, at the University of the West Indies (UWI) to receive a doctorate in chemistry by age 25.

Dr Nelson, who is also the first to complete both an MPhil and a PhD in three-and-a-half years, also beat out 275 worldwide applicants to claim one of the five doctoral fellowships at Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, beginning this August.

The St Thomas Technical High past student has also been published in seven international journals, including Journal of Molecular Structure, Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, Dalton Transactions and International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

In August 2010, he presented a paper on the Phase Behaviours of Zinc Carboxylates at a IUPAC-sponsored MAM 10 conference and, in August 2012, he gave a presentation on the Molecular and Lattice Structures of Sodium(I) Carboxylates at the American Chemical Society Conference in Philadelphia.

His doctoral thesis, awarded on October 25, 2013, titled The Molecular Packing, Lattice Structures and Thermotropic Phase Behaviours of the Homologous Series of Silver, Sodium and Potassium n-Alkanoates, examines compounds used to make bathing soaps and detergents, which form liquid crystals with the application of heat and are also applicable in liquid crystal display (LCD) devices.

“I am really very proud of him,” Kelly told the Jamaica Observer North East from her St Maarten home, where she has lived for the past seven years.

Dr Peter Nelson shortly after graduating from the University
of the West Indies with his PhD.

“Everyday ah thank God fi how Him help mi son and had a plan for him, because not even me did dream my son could come out so good,” a grateful Kelly said.

The 43-year-old Kelly said she always drilled into Nelson’s head that an education was the only way out of the impoverished life they lived in the tough St Thomas community in which he grew up.

According to Kelly, her teachers had always pointed to her academic abilities, but she never got the chance to realise her full potential as her father preferred to drink and get drunk instead of ensuring that she had the tools for going to school.

“When I was growing up my father used to drink out the money and mi had to go school without breakfast or any lunch money or books, and so life was very hard,” she recalled. more

IN JAMAICA: A doctorate by age 25....St Thomas youth Peter Nelson also holds hold a bachelor of science, an MPhil and a PhD in chemistry from the University of the West Indies (UWI), wins coveted fellowship to Israeli University as he will take up one of five post-doctoral fellowships at Weizmann Institute of Science....recalled how difficult it was in a single-mother household. He attributes a lot of his success to his mother's advice not to make her labour go in vain.

BY INGRID BROWN Associate editor — special assignment browni@jamaicaobserver.com Sunday, June 22, 2014

PETER Nelson's story is not different from a number of Jamaicans who have overcome adversity to achieve academically. However, not many 25-year-olds here hold a bachelor of science, an MPhil and a PhD in chemistry from the University of the West Indies (UWI).

Dr Peter Nelson flips through the pages of his latest publication.
(then) NELSON... a lot of the persons who are really successful
were not born with a gold spoon in their mouth, but what
they had is a solid mentality to be successful
(PHOTOS: BRYAN CUMMINGS)

In August this year, Dr Nelson will add another landmark achievement to his name, as he will take up one of five post-doctoral fellowships at Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, having been selected from 280 applicants from around the world for the

coveted position.

"It was very competitive to get into this institute because they told me they had 280 applications for the five positions and so it was really tough on them to decide, but one of the things that helped me to get in was the papers I published in international journals," Dr Nelson told the Jamaica Observer.

However, it is not only the accomplishments that this St Thomas native has amassed at such a young age that make his story unique. Rather, it is that he disproved the stereotype that a boy from an impoverished community who attended a non-traditional high school and was raised by a single mother who worked as a domestic helper would not beat the odds.

And those who may still doubt his potential upon seeing his unassuming demeanour may be further taken aback by the research work he has done, which has gained international recognition. Already he has amassed seven publications in international journals, including Journal of Molecular Structure, Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, Dalton Transactions and International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

In August 2010, he presented a paper on the Phase Behaviours of Zinc Carboxylates at an IUPAC-sponsored MAM 10 conference, and, in August 2012, he gave a presentation on the Molecular and Lattice Structures of Sodium(I) Carboxylates at the American Chemical Society Conference in Philadelphia. He has also made presentations in the Departments of Chemistry at Mona and at St Augustine in Trinidad and is currently preparing two manuscripts for submission.

Dr Peter Nelson shortly after graduating from the University
of the West Indies with his PhD.

Dr Nelson completed the MPhil and PhD at UWI in three-and-a-half years, although the maximum time for a full-time candidate to finish is five years and seven years for part-time.

"It was stressful, more mentally than physically, because you can't get an MPhil or PhD in science unless what you have discovered is totally new because there has to be novelty about it," he told the Sunday Observer.

"Excellence or nothing at all" is the philosophy of life that has guided this St Thomas Technical High School graduate.

"I did a lot of studies because I realised time is critical for pure and applied science students, and there is no pure and applied person who parties a lot and does well, it just doesn't happen, especially those doing chemistry as the pass rate in some of our courses is about 26 per cent, and so you want to get into that 26 per cent," he said.

Dr Nelson, who grew up in Hampton Court, St Thomas before moving to Retreat in the parish, recalled how difficult it was in a single-mother household. He attributes a lot of his success to his mother's advice not to make her labour go in vain. more

URGENT HELP NEEDED, PLEASE HELP BY SHARING HER STORY: Local doctors give up on cancer patient, UWI student, 19 y-o KIRBY CAMPBELL...."We have spent close to $3 million already" and now Doctors in JAMAICA can't help. She has $55,000.00 of medication sitting at home. Re-growth of three tumours in her neck...."Basically what my doctor is saying is that I don't have a lot of time so I have to move quickly," Her goal is to go to USA and get treatment.....

By DONNA HUSSEY-WHYTE Sunday Observer Staff reporter husseyd@jamaicaobserver.com Sunday, June 22, 2014

After being diagnosed with Squamous Cell Carcinoma (SCC) cancer in the neck during November of last year and spending six months in the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI),19-year-old university student Kirby Campbell has been told that she has to seek overseas help as local doctors say that they can no longer treat her.

A distressed Kirby Campbell seeks help to go overseas
for medical treatment as local doctors are unsure of the type
of cancer she has.

"I was told by the hospital that they can no longer treat me for anything at all because they don't know what type of cancer it is," a distressed Campbell told the Jamaica Observer last week.

"So they told me that I should try to go abroad because they don't have the facility out here to treat the type of cancer that they think it is. They are thinking it's sarcoma but as to the type of sarcoma, they don't know.

"They know it's a sarcoma based on the behaviour of the tumour. So I'm here up and down carrying out letters begging for support to go abroad because I found a hospital, MD Anderson in Texas, and just for consultation it is J$3.5 million, and that does not include any treatment.

"Another one, Moffitt Cancer Centre in Florida is for US$5,500. The one for $3.5 million they say that is the best in the world. So now I'm just here going around asking for contribution and support. I found five hospitals, but moneywise those were the two that gave me figures. We are mostly focusing on Moffitt because US$5,500 is better than J$3.5 million just for consultation," she said.

Campbell's story was first highlighted in the Sunday Observer of February 2, 2014, when several people made contributions towards her cause. However, the family said that the money has been exhausted.

"We have been helped by persons all around the world," Campbell's mother Sophia Drummond explained. "But we have exhausted the funds. We have spent close to $3 million already, and right now we owe the University Hospital money because we only paid a part of the doctor's fee. You have one medication for $26,000... one medication! I had to buy two sets of that and one is still at the University Hospital," she stated.

"We have thousands of dollars of medication at home, we also have chemotherapy medication at the hospital that they told us to bring back. We have spent vast amounts of money doing radiation," Drummond said. "We are due to do another set of radiation which is $900,000 but the doctors are contemplating on why start the radiation when that is all we can get," she said.

Kirby Campbell and her mother Sophia Drummond.

"They don't want to compromise what type of radiotherapy the hospital abroad will give me," her daughter interjected. "Basically what my doctor is saying is that I don't have a lot of time so I have to move quickly," she said.

Despite the re-growth of three tumours in her neck, Campbell said that the doctors at UHWI are hesitant in administering more chemotherapy since they have no idea what type of cancer they are dealing with.

"I did the first surgery in the first part of March and then I had to go back in April because it started growing back real fast. There are three more there right now. Two can be seen by the naked eye and one is under the surface. I did a scan and it showed that," Campbell explained. more

MARK WIGNALL COLUMN: The poor are being savaged by the dollar slippage....In 1989, J$100 could purchase basic food and grocery items for a family of five for a week....In 2014 that same J$100 can only purchase four minuscule packets of black pepper. In 2014 the Jamaican dollar is worth, at today’s rate, US$0.0089, less than a cent.

In the last year of his prime ministerial run from the violence riddled latter part of 1980 to early 1989 the much unloved, highly autocratic and hands-on Eddie Seaga presided over an economy that saw the Jamaican dollar valued at US$0.18.

In 2014, food items that the poor could always
fall back on in 1989 are totally out of their reach.

In 1989, J$100 could purchase basic food and grocery items for a family of five for a week.

In 2014 with the still loved and admired Portia Simpson Miller in charge but seemingly disconnected from active governance, that same J$100 can only purchase four minuscule packets of black pepper. In 2014 the Jamaican dollar is worth, at today’s rate, US$0.0089, less than a cent.

Only very few of us will admit that the slippage in matters of governance and the spiral into systemic governmental corruption was given its birth during the disastrous run of the PNP’s Michael Manley from 1972 to 1980. No leader was more loved than Michael, and as hands-on as he appeared to be, he was mostly led by his oratorical skills, his gross misreading of the US, and his appeal to Third World causes on the global stages.

One writer, Donald Howell, captured it in poetic tones when he wrote in early June as part of a continuing series of Facebook, “The introduction of Democratic Socialism in 1974 made the period 1974 to 1980 the age of foolishness, the epoch of incredulity, the season of darkness and the winter of despair.”

MANLEY… was mostly led by his
oratorical skills, gross misreading of
the US, and his appeal to Third
World causes on the global stages

Today, the poorest among us would need $200 to purchase a pound of chicken meat. They would need to find $160 to buy a pound of turkey neck and although they would get back $10 change after buying a tin of mackerel, that same $10 cannot purchase a small packet of black pepper.

Chicken back, at $80 per pound, would give back $20, but again that $20 cannot buy a little packet of black pepper.

Last week I purchased from a little corner shop a small tin of ‘bully beef’ and a tin of condensed milk. In general I must confess that, unlike Chupski, I do not know the price of many items. I was, however, bowled over when the lady in the shop said, ‘Five hundred dollars.’ In 1989 the same purchase, which in 2014 can only get me two items, could feed a family of five for five weeks! more

IN JAMAICA: Lannaman's Preparatory School science fair for Grade Six Students....This years' winners were the 'farmer girls', whose project explored whether plants grew faster in milk or water.

Young scientists

Sunday, June 22, 2014

LANNAMAN'S Preparatory School hosted its annual science fair at the school on June 11, in the form of a competition where grade six students displayed projects with aim of getting the lower grades interested in science.

This year the projects were judged by lecturers from the University of Technology and University of the West Indies, along with engineers from the Jamaica Public Service Company and the National Solid Waste Management Authority.

One of the projects on display

This years' winners were the 'farmer girls', whose project explored whether plants grew faster in milk or water. Second place went to the students who experimented with dry ice, and third place to a group of boys who made enough voltage from Irish potatoes to light up an LED bulb. Here are some highlights from the event: One of the projects on display. A judge inspects these boys' potato project. These boys display their insulation project.

A judge inspects these boys’ potato project.

A judge inspects this hot dog cooking project. Young scientists. more

THE Jamaica Observer's Junior Writers' Club : Junior writers feted.... The eight club members, ages 10 and 11, were selected from primary and preparatory schools in Kingston and St Andrew.

Sunday, June 22, 2014

THE Jamaica Observer's Junior Writers' Club proudly celebrated the success of its members on June 13 at an awards luncheon hosted at the newspaper's Beechwood Avenue headquarters.

Teamwork makes the dream work! Pictured (front row from left) are junior
writers Oshane Armstrong, Jordanne Kerr, Jada Dixon, Catherine Fagan,
Treshawna Clarke, Amelia Ebanks, and Akira Guthrie. (Back row from left)
Elizabeth Ramesar, editor (Publications Division), Jamaica Observer;
Pamille Shaw-Blair, assistant marketing manager, Jamaica Observer;
Jana Bent, guest speaker; Ainsley Cowell, marketing officer, Kingston
Bookshop; Trudi-Ann Dennis, junior writer; Lisa Tomlinson, promotions
manager National Bakery; Debra-Gail Williamson, editorial assistant/creator
Learning Corner; Diane Browne, Junior Writers’ Club workshop
facilitator; and Olivia Wilmot, conceptualiser of the Junior Writers’ Club.

The eight club members, ages 10 and 11, were selected from primary and preparatory schools in Kingston and St Andrew. These students attended workshops for the purpose of improving their writing skills and bonding with each other. They also contributed stories which were published in the Observer's educational supplement, Learning Corner.

At the luncheon, these outstanding club members received gifts and commendations from sponsors National Baking Company, Kingston Bookshop and Wisynco. The Observer presented them with plaques, a catalogue of their published stories, and GSAT study guides. Author Diane Browne also presented them with copies of one of her books.

The writers shared reflections of their experiences in the club, both verbally and in poster form, and read a story they had written together. Here are some highlights. more

Everett Moseley, Top of the class.....graduated with an overall GPA of 4.13 from UWI in JAMAICA....Moseley has been accepted to read for a master's degree in mathematics and computational finance at Oxford University

By AINSWORTH MORRIS Career & Education writer Sunday, June 22, 2014

WHEN Everett Moseley, the 2014 prime minister's youth awardee for academics, and top actuarial science student from the 2012 graduating class of the University of the West Indies (UWI) first applied to pursue a bachelor of science degree in actuarial science, he was rejected.

Everett Moseley. (PHOTO: LIONEL ROOKWOOD)

Moseley was told he was not qualified as his A'Level scores in mathematics were too low, and as such it was recommended that he pursue studies in mathematics and/or computer science instead.

But being the persistent young man that he is, Moseley created a plan to get into the Actuarial Science Department at UWI. And one day in his first semester he overheard a conversation that students who were rejected, but who accumulated a high Grade Point Average (GPA) in their first year, would be considered for actuarial science if they could make a good case.

Moseley said he had got a grade one in Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate math, and grades three and four for units one and two respectively in CAPE (Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Exam).

"To get into the actuarial science programme I had to prove to the programme co-ordinator that I had the ability to do extremely well in this programme; so during my first year, I placed extra effort in getting stellar grades in order to get in, and I did," he said.

Moseley, who resides in Linstead, St Catherine, was admitted to pursue a bachelor of science degree in actuarial science in 2010 and graduated with an overall GPA of 4.13.

In addition to his fight to score the required points for his GPA, Moseley said he faced several other challenges.

"During my first year at UWI, my father's job as an electrical engineer was threatened due to a halt in alumina production in Jamaica. Being the sole breadwinner for a family of five, with two children in college and another child in high school, financial difficulties began to develop," he told Career & Education.

That, said the former head boy of Ewarton Primary and former deputy head boy of Jamaica College, motivated him to go in search of scholarships and he was able to secure a Carlton Alexander bursary in his second year and the Caribbean Actuarial Scholarship in his third year of pursuing the actuarial science programme.

Moseley graduated with a first class honours degree. He is now employed at GraceKennedy Limited in the supply chain unit as a product manager. more

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WARNING: (GRAPHIC VIDEO) Scumbag of the Century Award Goes To, Vincent Lavon Johnson…The Guy Who Punched Out A Pregnant Cashier At A Boost Mobile Store

The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office served an warrant for robbery and battery on Vincent Lavon Johnson this afternoon for a robbery that occurred May 28 at Happy Nick’s Store on Palafox Street.

Vincent Johnson

According to a press release from the sheriff’s office, after entering the store, Johnson is said to have punched a store employee, knocking her to the ground, when she asked what he needed. He then grabbed cash from the register before fleeing the store, the press release said.

Original story:

Pensacola Police have arrested a man who punched a pregnant woman in the face Wednesday afternoon while robbing a business, a news release from the Pensacola Police Department said. Probably top 5 most vicious punches I’ve ever seen to the point where it’s hard to watch. Kind of feel like you have to go straight death penalty here right? Like skip all the annoying fair trial shit and judges and juries etcetera etcetera. Just get it over with nice and quick and make sure scumbags who punch pregnant women in the face as hard as they can to steal change out of a cash register at a Boost Mobile dealership are done walking the streets forever.

IN JAMAICA: JCDC planning ska's rebirth.....The event, Heart of Ska Festival, is slated for the Ranny Williams Entertainment Centre in St Andrew on Saturday, August 12.

BY CECELIA CAMPBELL-LIVINGSTON Observer reporter livingstonc@jamaicaobserver.com Saturday, June 21, 2014

THE Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) is adding a new event to its calendar this year.

The event, Heart of Ska Festival, is slated for the Ranny Williams Entertainment Centre in St Andrew on Saturday, August 12.

Dahlia Harris, director of culture in the Ministry of Youth and Culture

According to Dahlia Harris, director of culture in the Ministry of Youth and Culture, the festival's main objective is to reposition Jamaica as the home of ska music, which has become increasingly popular in Europe and USA.

"We have lost widespread engagement with the form here in Jamaica. The festival's name, Heart of Ska, speaks to the genesis of the genre, rooted not just in the musical form, but in fashion, movement and discourse. Ska is a way of life and we felt it was important to begin the process of re-establishment," Harris told the Jamaica Observer.

A forerunner to rocksteady and reggae, ska is a Jamaican music that originated in the 1950s. It is a mix of jazz, rhythm and blues, and many other styles.

The sound's greatest exponents were The Skatalites, a band that included Jamaica's best musicians. Saxophonists Tommy McCook, Roland Alphonso and Lester Sterling; trumpeter Johnny 'Dizzy' Moore; the gifted trombonist Don Drummond; bassist Lloyd Brevett; drummer Lloyd Knibb and guitarist Jerome 'Jah Jerry' Haines were a formidable unit weaned on American jazz.

However, it was Clarendon-born Millie Small's My Boy Lollipop, that broke ska big in the United Kingdom where it was embraced by working-class white youth called Skinheads. The track was cover of American singer Barbie Gaye's minor hit. more

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JAMAICA'S Chris Gayle onslaught lifts Windies to victory in 2nd Test Match and level the three-match series 1-1....The Jamaican, in his 101st Test, belted seven fours and six sixes, reaching his half-century from a mere 28 deliveries.

Saturday, June 21, 2014

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) — A stunning onslaught from Chris Gayle helped ease West Indies frustration as the Caribbean overcame rain and determined lower order New Zealand batting, to win the second Test by 10 wickets and level the three-match series 1-1 here yesterday.

Opener Chris Gayle (left) celebrates his whirlwind
half-century as teammate Kraigg Brathwaite looks
on yesterday. At right: Kemar Roach appeals for
the wicket of Mark Craig.(PHOTOS: WICB MEDIA)

Set a paltry 93 for victory after the Black Caps doggedly extended their second innings up until lunch on a dramatic final day, West Indies sped to 95 without loss with the left-handed Gayle slamming a trademark, whirlwind unbeaten 80 from 46 balls.

The Jamaican, in his 101st Test, belted seven fours and six sixes, reaching his half-century from a mere 28 deliveries - the second fastest fifty by a West Indies player in Tests.

He overshadowed Man-of-the-Match Kraigg Brathwaite, who was unbeaten on 14, and ended the match in just 13.2 overs.

His blitzkrieg also erased any hopes New Zealand had of a shock result after their lower order rallied admirably in the extended first session to lift the total to 331, before the innings ended 13 minutes after the scheduled lunch break.

Wicketkeeper BJ Watling finished unbeaten on 66, while overnight partner Mark Craig scored a superb 67, the pair sharing a vexing 99-run, ninth-wicket stand which left West Indies captain Denesh Ramdin bereft of ideas. more

Jamaica on Orchestra of Americas score.....The highlight of the Jamaican tour will be two concerts; one in Kingston at Church on The Rock on July 24 and the Montego Bay Convention Centre in St James on July 26.

Saturday, June 21, 2014

MEMBERS of the National Youth Orchestra of Jamaica (NYOJ) will have the opportunity to collaborate with their peers from 20 other countries, when the Orchestra of the Americas comes to Jamaica on tour in July.

The orchestra of the Americas during a performance in Mexico

The Jamaican stop forms part of the visiting orchestra's first tour of the Caribbean which involves participation of more than 1000 musicians. Other destinations are Dominican Republic and Haiti.

The highlight of the Jamaican tour will be two concerts; one in Kingston at Church on The Rock on July 24 and the Montego Bay Convention Centre in St James on July 26.

While in Jamaica, Orchestra of the Americas members will engage in music education workshops with youth at risk from communities across Kingston, as well as music workshops with students and music instructors attached to NYOJ.

Nigel Clarke, chairman of the NYOJ, sees this tour as a great opportunity for Jamaicans to recognise the power of music.

"NYOJ's aim is to create opportunities for music education to be opened for everyone, regardless of social background and hope that through the outreach, concerts and activities more persons will be seized by the awesome power of music to transform lives and communities," said Clarke. more

IN DECALB COUNTY, GA: JAMAICAN WOMAN, PAMELA BALLIN GOT LIFE SENTENCE FOR MURDERING HER HUSBAND, RICKY BALLIN

Thursday July 17, 2014

UPDATE NEWS BREAK.: Pamela Ballin, the Georgia woman who murdered her husband Derrick "Ricky" Ballin was today sentenced to Life Imprisonment......News just came in from a source at the Court house....More news to follow. THIS IS A NEWS BREAK. Below is the news info which was first reported after she was found gullty then release by the judge. The sentencing took place today Thursday, July 17, 2014. DEKALB COUNTY, GA (CBS46) -

Evora Ritchie and her family were very happy Wednesday when a jury found Pamela Ballin guilty of malice murder, felony murder and aggravated assault.

"We expected they would take her back in handcuffs and lock her up," Ritchie said.

But that's not what DeKalb County Judge Mark Anthony Scott ordered after the jury found Pamela Ballin guilty on all three counts of murdering her husband Derrick "Ricky" Ballin.

"We're upset! The whole family is upset because it's been four-and-half years that we've waited," said Ritchie. "We finally get justice. Twelve people found her guilty and the judge lets her walk."

Ricky Ballin was found dead at the couple's DeKalb County home in 2009. Pamela Ballin told police some men beat him during a home invasion, but prosecutors said there was no evidence that supports her story.

"I mean she bludgeoned the man. He had 10 blows, I mean big blows," said Ritchie. "Can you imagine standing over someone hitting them ten times?"

Ricky Ballin's cousins said they don't understand why Judge Scott let a convicted murderer walk.

"First the lawyers asked him, 'Aren't you going to make a ruling on what he brought up?' He said he was going to wait until after the verdict and make the ruling," said Ritchie.

The jury deliberated for two-and-a-half days before returning the guilty verdict.

A CBS46 news team found Pamela Ballin at her business in DeKalb County. They tried to ask her about the jury's verdict and the judge's decision.

They saw Pamela Ballin, but an unidentified woman jumped in front of the news vehicle and stopped them from going any further on the property.

"How do you guys feel about the jury's verdict?" reporter Tony McNary asked.

"Get the {expletive} out. How's that?" the woman answered.

Judge Scott extended Pamela Ballin's bond and scheduled a hearing on July 17 to address the pending directed verdict.

The judge's colleagues agree this is an odd decision.

Prominent defense attorney and part-time Fulton County Judge Louis Levenson said this type of decision doesn't happen often.

He spoke with CBS46 right after he got off the bench Thursday evening.

"It is very peculiar because normally before a jury makes a decision, a judge makes a decision. He decides if the state's evidence is inadequate," said Levenson." Once the jury speaks it's unusual for the judge to be reserving a decision that was to have been made at the conclusion of the prosecutions case, normally. I'm not saying it can't be made at other times." SOURCE WGCL-TV. more

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Digicel Launches Summer Reggae Sumfest Campaign With Tessanne Chin....one customer will win the Ultimate Sumfest Experience, which includes $500,000 cash

Published: Friday | June 20, 2014

Just weeks before the 22nd staging of Reggae Sumfest, telecommunications company and lead sponsor of the 'Greatest Reggae Show on Earth', Digicel, has announced a summer campaign which will see its customers receiving massive benefits this summer.

Digicel's regional brand ambassador, Tessanne
Chin, caught in a behind-the-scene photo during
the Digicel Summer Up, Up, Up campaign
shoot. - Contributed

Set to launch today and run until July 10, Digicel's Summer Up, Up, Up promotion is led by its newest regional brand ambassador, Tessanne Chin, and will see customers winning a number of prizes, including VIP Experience packages to Reggae Sumfest, round trip back home to Jamaica, tickets to Sumfest Reggae, plus cash and other amazing weekly and daily prizes.

ULTIMATE EXPERIENCE

In one of its three major offers this summer, one customer will win the Ultimate Sumfest Experience, which includes $500,000 cash, VIP tickets for two to Sumfest - all three nights, spa makeover, VIP accommodationfor two, transportation to Montego Bay and transportation to and from Reggae Sumfest each night. In the meantime, more than 50 customers will win weekly prizes of $10,000 cash, Marley headsets, folding chairs and DL700 smartphones with one-month data plan.

To win, Digicel said customers simply need to purchase a data plan, upgrade to a smartphone, top up with $200 or more in the case of prepaid customers or talk for 20 minutes as a postpaid customer. more

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