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KINGSTON, JAMAICA: Pinchers injured, two killed in shooting incident

Sunday, January 25, 2015 | 9:41 AM

Pinchers

KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Dancehall singer Pinchers was shot and injured during an incident in the Queensborough area of Kingston Saturday night.

The Corporate Communications Unit, media arm of the police, said two men were killed in the shooting while another man was also injured.

Pinchers was shot in the right arm. His injury and that of the other man, are not considered life-threatening.

One of the deceased has been identified as 37-year-old Ralston Daley. The other man has not yet been identified.

The CCU reports that the shooting took place at 11:20 when armed men opened fire on a group that included Pinchers. Daley and the other man died instantly. No arrests have been made.

The 49-year-old Pinchers (real name Delroy Thompson) had a number of hit songs during the 1980s including his 1987 breakthrough, Agony. Lift it up Again, Got to be Me, Return of The Don and Bandelero are among his other hits.

Sarah Palin's Bizarre Iowa Speech Gets Thanks -- From The Democrats Sarah Palin in Iowa: "The man" (?) is doing some dirty things to...the middle class? The GOP?

The Huffington Post |  By Ed Mazza Email Posted: 01/25/2015 11:44 pm EST
Shortly after declaring that she's "seriously interested" in running for president in 2016, Sarah Palin delivered a confusing speech that was panned by many, even some on the right.

Speaking at the Iowa Freedom Summit in Des Moines on Saturday, the former Alaska governor and one-time vice presidential candidate delivered a speech that John Fund of the National Review described as "meandering and often bizarre."

Here's an excerpt:

Cosby: 'Trust Me.' Wife Of Prominent Film Producer Says Bill Cosby Assaulted Her In 1969.... I was a 21-year-old single woman in the world's most exciting city.

Posted: 01/26/2015 8:26 am EST 

In 1969 I met Bill Cosby while working in New York for the late film producer Ray Stark. I was a 21-year-old single woman in the world's most exciting city. He was a 32-year-old internationally known comedian and television star, one of the most likeable and popular entertainers in the business. He asked for my number and I gave it to him.

Bill Cosby

We began hanging out, took in a movie, watched television and ate pizza and hot dogs in my apartment with my roommate. He was married to his current wife and he acted like a perfect gentleman who didn't come on to either of us, which, I have to admit, made me wonder what his objective was.

One night we were going out to a movie. We agreed to meet at an apartment that he said belonged to a friend of his. I had a terrible headache but didn't want to cancel the evening. He told me he had a miracle cure his doctor had given him that would get rid of the headache. He went into another room and came back with a capsule. I asked a couple of times what it was. Each time he reassured me, asking, "Don't you trust me?" Of course I did. This was Bill Cosby.

For more than 45 years I have tried to recall exactly what happened that night. To this day it remains a blur. I have a vague recollection of feeling like I was floating while walking through Times Square and watching some kind of Japanese samurai movie with him. I don't remember where the theater was nor very much of the evening. more 

BRACE YOURSELVES 2 TO 3 FEET.Northeast Braces For Colossal Snowstorm....De Blasio: 'Biggest Snowstorm In The History Of This City'... 'Don't Underestimate'... 29 Million People Under Blizzard Warning... 7 States... Potential White-Out Conditions... Up To 36 Hours... 3,500 Flights Canceled... Track Winter Storm Juno... 'CRIPPLING AND POTENTIALLY HISTORIC'... 'Prepare For The Worst'... CRISIS MAP... RADAR... HAZARDS...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Northeast residents are girding for a "crippling and potentially historic" storm that could bury communities from northern New Jersey to southern Maine in up to 2 feet of snow.

The National Weather Service said the nor'easter would bring heavy snow, powerful winds and widespread coastal flooding starting Monday and through Tuesday. A blizzard warning was issued for a 250-mile stretch of the Northeast, including New York and Boston.Government officials began to activate emergency centers on Sunday as professional sports teams, schools and utilities hastily revised their schedules and made preparations.

"This could be a storm the likes of which we have never seen before," New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio told a news conference in a Manhattan sanitation garage where workers were preparing plows and salt for the massive cleanup on about 6,000 miles of city roadways.

In Massachusetts, Gov. Charlie Baker warned residents to prepare for roads that are "very hard, if not impossible, to navigate," power outages and possibly even a lack of public transportation.

Boston is expected to get 18 to 24 inches of snow, with up to 2 feet or more west of the city, and Philadelphia could see up to a foot, the weather service said. more

Pay Attention, The Shit Sad But True.

Post by Andre Terry.

Miss Jamaica Kaci Fennell places fifth in Miss Universe pageant which was won by Miss Colombia, Paulina Vega.

Monday, January 26, 2015  

KACI Fennell last night placed fifth in the 63rd staging of the Miss Universe pageant which was won by Miss Colombia Paulina Vega.

Miss USA Nia Sanchez was named first runner-up in the pageant that Jamaicans watched with high anticipation that Fennell would have won.

(L-R) MIAMI, Florida — Miss Colombia Paulina Vega, who
 won the Miss Universe title last night, during the evening
gown segment of the pageant.  MIAMI, Florida — Miss Jamaica
Kaci Fennell poses during the Miss Universe pageant in Miami
 last night. (PHOTOS: AP)

Jamaicans erupted with joy when the 22-year-old Fennell was named in the top 15 in the early stages of the pageant held at Florida International University Arena in Doral, Miami.

The celebrations grew louder when she was the first contestant placed in the top 10, followed by the contestants from Agrentina, Ukraine, The Philippines, Colombia, Spain, The Netherlands, Venezuela, Australia, and USA.

When Fennell appeared in the evening dress competition she was described as "immaculate" by one of the pageant's hosts.

Later, when she was named in the top five, along with the contestants from USA, The Netherlands, Ukraine, and Colombia, Jamaicans cheered even louder.

In the interview section, when each of the top five contestants was asked the following question submitted by viewers on Facebook: 'What is the greatest contribution of your country to the entire world?' Fennell pointed to reggae superstar Bob Marley and track legend Usain Bolt. Her answer elicited loud and sustained applause from her Jamaican supporters in the audience.

However, their hope turned to despair when Fennell was announced as the fourth runner-up.

Throughout her year-long reign, Miss Universe will wear a new crown designed by pageant sponsor DIC. more

IN JAMICA: 'Everything bun up' Fire leaves 9 homeless in Arnett Gardens

Monday, January 26, 2015   

AT least nine people were left homeless yesterday when fire destroyed five board houses and a shop in a section of Arnett Gardens known as Hopeful Village.

A mother of three, who gave her name only as Camille, told the Jamaica Observer that she lost everything in the fire.

"Everything bun up. Di bag dem bun up, di book dem bun up, di shoes dem bun up. Everything bun up. Nothing, mi nuh save no clothes," she cried.

No one was injured in the blaze, as most of the victims were attending a funeral when it started just after 3:00 pm.

An irate resident blamed one of the victims for the fire. According to him, the person who is responsible lit a piece of sponge and left it unattended.

"Mi tell him seh fi out di fire, out di fire, out di fire," the resident shouted.

Two units from the York Town Fire Station and one from the Trench Town put out the blaze.

SHAUNA CHIN - "Criminal Minds" on CBS TV and SSSJamz with RULA BROWN (RECORDED 1/25/15)

Montego Bay-born Shauna Chin lands role on the hit CBS series Criminal Minds (Airs Feb 4th)...Criminal Minds is her first US television credit. She has had small roles in films including The Necklace, Lunch Break and Choices...Chin is known by Jamaicans for her role in The Blackburns of Royal Palm Estate... Shauna will INTERVIEW WITH RULA BROWN Today on SULTRY SUNDAY SLOW JAMZ at 4:30pm ET

January 1, 2015 BY KEVIN JACKSON Observer Writer (Repost)

Shauna Chin (Facebook)

Actress Shauna Chin is hoping her role on the hit CBS series Criminal Minds will lead to more acting opportunities in Hollywood.

The Montego Bay-born Chin shot scenes for an upcoming episode of the popular television drama this week.

She told Splash how the part came about.

"Over the years I've developed a relationship with the casting department for Criminal Minds. When an actor goes in for an audition, it's important for them to not just focus on landing the role, but also to make an impression," she said. "I've auditioned for them twice before for different episodes and did not get the part. However, I made sure that I stood out to their team, so I got placed on their radar."

The part is a small one. Chin shares a scene with Matthew Gray Gubler, who plays Dr Spencer Reid, one of the lead characters.

Shauna Chin (Facebook)

"It's the opportunity that's huge. Once you prove that you're able to book a major prime time television series, larger opportunities become available. So that's mostly why I'm excited about this particular role," she explained.

Chin is known by Jamaicans for her role in The Blackburns of Royal Palm Estate. She played Claudine Chambers, love interest of Richard Blackburn (Adam Hyde) and sister of the sinister Jennifer Chambers (Carol Williams).

The 35-year-old actress migrated to the United States in 1995. Growing up in Montego Bay, she attended Barracks Road Primary and Mount Alvernia High schools.

Chin later attended Davenport University in the US where she earned a degree in Health Care Business Administration. She holds a degree in nursing from Wayne State University.

Criminal Minds is her first US television credit. She has had small roles in films including The Necklace, Lunch Break and Choices.

Rihanna Just Dropped 'FourFiveSeconds,' A New Song With Kanye & Paul McCartney

McCartney, Rihanna, Kanye

Rihanna

Surprise! Rihanna released a new song on Saturday night: "FourFiveSeconds" withKanye West and Paul McCartney. The acoustic track was teased by West on Wednesday at the iHeartMedia Music Summit. Listen at Rihanna's website:rihannanow.com. ("FourFiveSeconds" is also available at iTunes.) more

ST. ANN, JAMAICA: 58-year-old woman who tried to assist old man ends up losing $300,000... Elderly con man kept using ‘God’ on his evil journey... “Him is about 87 or 88 years old. Mi can’t believe an old man like that a do dem things deh,” the woman lamented as she related her ordeal to the Jamaica Observer.

BY RENAE DIXON Sunday Observer staff reporter dixonr@jamaicaobserver.com  Sunday, January 25, 2015  

The kindness of a 58-y ear-old woman meant nothing to a St Ann con artist last week, as she was fleeced of $300,000 in a bid to assist the con man, a senior citizen whom nobody expected to be involved in the business of ripping people off.

The woman, who did not want her identity revealed, works as a caregiver for an elderly woman.

The events unfolded in a bizarre fashion. It was last Tuesday that the victim decided to pay her bills in the parish capital of St Ann’s Bay when she saw the elderly man who appeared to be in distress.

“Him is about 87 or 88 years old. Mi can’t believe an old man like that a do dem things deh,” the woman lamented as she related her ordeal to the Jamaica Observer.

She said that as she continued her trek, she saw the elderly man crying along the road.

“Him say: ‘Hey Miss, just a word wid you’,” she stated.

The bank book and receipt that
show the withdrawal made on
 Tuesday. (PHOTO: RENAE DIXON)

According to the woman, the elderly man was asking for directions to a place.

“Him a ask mi about some real estate,” she said.

When she told the man that she did not know the place, he proceeded to tell her that he had been robbed by a woman who promised to help him buy a piece of land.

“Him seh dem rob him all the time and him have the whole heap a money,” she continued. more

1) Shauna Chin Actors Reel. One Scene....2) Shauna Chin Audition as Crazy Linney

IN JAMAICA (INSPIRING STORY) : Yanique Chin, 18 y-o adamant she will stay alive...Glenmuir High School teen battles rare heart condition known as truncus arteriousus, in which the heart was not properly formed....“I believe I am going to live a long long time. I am very positive.” Chin said that she wanted her story to be told in a positive way and be inspiring to other people who may have similar and other life threatening illnesses.

BY DONNA HUSSEY-WHYTE Sunday Observer staff reporter husseyd@jamaicaobserver.com  Sunday, January 25, 2015   

Yanique Chin has been defying medical science by simply staying alive.

At three months old Chin’s mother was told that she would not live beyond three years old. When she got to three, she was then told six, followed by 12 and on and on it went.

18 y-o Yanique Chin

On New Year ’s Day, the Glenmuir High School fifth former celebrated her 18th birthday and believes she has many more ahead.

Chin was born with a rare condition known as truncus arteriousus, in which the heart was not properly formed. With a normal heart there are two main blood vessels leaving the heart — the aorta, carrying blood to the body, and the pulmonary artery that branches immediately to carry blood to each lung.

Instead of having a separate pulmonary artery and aorta, each with its own three-leafed valves, Chin’s heart has only one blood vessel or trunk leaving the heart, which then branches into blood vessels that go to the lungs and the body, thus preventing proper breathing and blood circulation. This can collapse at anytime.

(L)Yanique Chin hugs her brothers Essien and Conroy
 Chin after reaching home from school on Thursday & (R)Yanique
 Chin hugs her mother Patricia Nelson at their home in
 Clarendon on Thursday.

“Three years come and passed. They say I had until 12 — 12 come and passed. Now I am 18,” a smiling Chin told the Jamaica Observer at her Clarendon home on Thursday. “I believe I am going to live a long long time. I am very positive.”

Chin said that she wanted her story to be told in a positive way and be inspiring to other people who may have similar and other life threatening illnesses.

“Mine is rare, my doctor say only two other persons that she knows of in Jamaica who have it. So I am the third one. But you have other persons with problems close to mine,” she lamented.

Despite the doctor’s diagnosis, Chin admitted to not realising just how serious and life threatening her condition was until she was 14. Now that she is aware, she ensures that she complies with the doctor’s orders, and continues to hope. more

To Kaci, With Love...Could the next Miss Universe be a Jamaican???? As 22-year old gamine beauty Kaci Fennell hits the stage at the Florida International University Arena in Doral, Miami for tonight's Miss Universe live NBC broadcast (to be simultaneously telecast locally on TVJ)

Sunday, January 25, 2015  

Kaci Fennell

She's wooing international pageant press watchers, second-place to the Philippines in Internet polled fan votes, and looking to shake things up and snag The Rock's first Miss Universe crown. As 22-year old gamine beauty Kaci Fennell hits the stage at the Florida International University Arena in Doral, Miami for tonight's Miss Universe live NBC broadcast (to be simultaneously telecast locally on TVJ) and aims to one-up 2010's first runner-up Yendi Phillipps, we at SO were long taken with the Audrey Hepburn-loving Fennell (note her too-cute pixie-cut ode) before she entertained star-making dreams.

Blessed with winning poise, charm for days, and an easiness on the eyes, Fennell has sat for our stable of in-house photogs on fashion shoots for our Style Observer and All Woman publications, beginning in 2012; made the guest list for our Scandal viewing party in 2013; invited us into her home for a Best Dressed Chicken-prepared, friendship-themed dinner that she whipped up for a Thursday Life feature, and has remained a Page 2 fave four years since we crossed paths.

Best wishes, dear Kaci, and here's our valentine to you!

ST. JAMES, JAMAICA: MoBay doctor returns tightness to vaginas with procedure called Laser Vaginal Rejuvenation (LVR) . Gynaecologist says procedure bringing back the love in marriages....After giving birth to three children, the 33-year-old Montegonian just couldn’t get the pleasure she once experienced during sex... DR GERMAINE SPENCER patients say procedure is best thing since slice bread

BY MARK CUMMINGS Editor-at-Large Western Bureau cummingsm@jamaicaobserver.com  Sunday, January 25, 2015   

MONTEGO BAY, St James — After giving birth to three children, the 33-year-old Montegonian just couldn’t get the pleasure she once experienced during sex.

Dr. Spencer

The woman, who has been married for almost three years, said the tightness in her vagina no longer existed.

Fearing that the lacklustre sex could impact negatively on her marriage, she became worried, and suffered in silence for months.

“It [sex] just didn’t feel the same as before, and I know my husband who is 37 felt the same way about it, even though he said it’s okay. But I know for sure that he just wasn’t getting that feeling like before, just like myself, and so I became very concerned about our marriage,” she told the Jamaica Observer.

But fortunately for her, sometime last year she saw an advertisement in a local newspaper that addressed a surgical procedure called Laser Vaginal Rejuvenation (LVR) that involves the tightening of loose vaginal muscles, being offered by Dr Germaine Spencer at Baywest Wellness Clinic in this resort city.

After much discussion with her husband, who she said was “a bit sceptical”, and consultations with Dr Spencer about the operation, the woman, whose condition is known as vaginal relaxation, decided to go for it.

The procedure, which lasted for less than an hour, was successfully done last April, much to the delight of her husband and herself. more

Ronnie Thwaites, Minister of Education lashes GULLY BOP...for his recent comment on a television show in which he bragged of side-stepping his responsibility as a father....Thwaites lamented that a recent survey on living conditions in Jamaica revealed that 38 per cent of the nation's youths "either don't know who their father is or have no effective relationship with him".

 BY HORACE HINES Observer staff reporter hinesh@jamaicaobserver.com  Saturday, January 24, 2015    

MONTEGO BAY, St James — Education Minister Ronald Thwaites has taken issue with deejay Gully Bop for his recent comment on a television show in which he bragged of side-stepping his responsibility as a father.

Gully Bop and Ronnie Thwaites, Minister of Education

Thwaites was speaking at Montego Bay High School for Girls on Wednesday at the Kiwanis International 100th anniversary celebration during which 100 youths were recognised for their exemplary services as volunteers.

"I don't want to criticise him too much, because I only heard it second hand. But I gather that recently there was an interview, it must have been on some video or television, of a man called Gully Flop... have I got that right? And when this person, whoever he is, was asked about his children, he said yea, he has plenty children but he only looks after three or so because he makes it a pattern that he only deals with a woman who is working or a woman who has a man who is working," said Thwaites.

"I want to tell you, that's what's keeping Jamaica back, and what's cranking us in education, is the weakness of the family structure in this country. And you (students) are old enough for me to say to you this evening that the greatest shackle of the slavery that we all went through in different roles, was the destruction of the African family form," he continued.

The education minister, who is a father of seven children, said that a good parent is of extreme significance.

"The most important thing that we can ever be in life is not to be prime minister or Usain Bolt or Shelly Ann (Fraser) or anybody else, but it is to be a good parent. And you are preparing for that right now by your very involvement in the Kiwanis movement and in the service that you give," the education minister said. more 

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Morgan Heritage pleased to be on Jamaica Jazz & Blues Festival

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King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia Dies at 90 y-o

Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

King of Saudi Arabia

Abdullah ibn Abdilazīz is the King of Saudi Arabia. He ascended to the throne on 1 August 2005 upon the death of his half-brother, King Fahd. According to Forbes, in 2013, Abdullah was among the world's most powerful people ranked 8th globally. Wikipedia

Born: August 1, 1924 (age 90), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Office: King of Saudi Arabia since 2005

Parents: Ibn Saud, Fahda bint Asi Al Shuraim

Siblings: Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Fahd of Saudi Arabia, More

Spouse: Alanoud AlFayez (m. 1972–2003), More

Children: Mutaib bin Abdullah, Adila bint Abdulla Al Saud, More