The Joint Select Committee of Parliament studying proposals for an Independent Commission to investigate police abuses on Thursday agreed that complaints of rape or grievous sexual assault should be immediately forwarded to the Director of Public Prosecutions.

The suggestion was made by Opposition Senator K D Knight during the clause by clause examination of the bill.

"The two most serious offences are those relating to rape and sexual assault. I am wondering if they shouldn't immediately forward a report certainly in relation to rape. It's a serious offence," Knight said.

Under Section 18 of the Act which deals with complaints, a grievance may be reported to the Commission by a person who alleges that the conduct of a member of the security forces or any specified official resulted in the death of, or injury to any person or was intended or likely to result in such death or injury; involved sexual assault, assault or battery or resulted in damage to property or the taking of money or other property.

Further under Section 18, sub-section (3) (d), the director of complaints, upon receipt of a complaint relating to a fatality, is required to forward a copy of the complaint to the DPP.
Knight, however, recommended that the legislature take this a step further and allow not only complaints involving fatalities to be forwarded to the DPP but rape as well.

Committee chair, Attorney General and Justice Minister Senator Dorothy Lightbourne agreed with Knight and pointed out that it was such offences that "triggered off the need for this legislation".

Director of Legal Reform in the justice ministry, Dr Eileen Boxhill, who is part of the technical team guiding the committee in its deliberations, added that there might be a need to be guided by the decision to keep the traditional definition of rape and have other sexual acts recognised under further offences elsewhere in the proposed new Sexual Offences Act.

"In light of the proposed Sexual Offences Act we might need to expand that because there will be rape and there will be grievous sexual assault," she said.

The Sexual Offences Act will bring all laws relating to sexual crimes under one umbrella. It will repeal the Incest (Punishment) Act and several provisions of the Offences Against the Person Act relating to rape and other sexual offences.

It was also decided Thursday that the officer against whom a complaint has been made and the security force to which he is employed must make a report to the commission of any incident as specified in the Act no later than 48 hours after occurrence.

Knight, who also brought up the point, said the "as soon as possible" option given by the bill was open to interpretation and left too much room for contradictions.

The bill will repeal the Police Public Complaints Act and make provisions for the establishment of a Commission of Parliament, known as the Independent Commission of Investigations. The commission will undertake investigations concerning actions by members of the security forces and other agents of the state that result in death or injury to persons or the abuse of the rights of persons.

(CNN) -- Brazilian model Mariana Bridi da Costa, whose hands and feet were amputated in a bid to save her from a deadly and little-known illness, died early Saturday, two friends of the model told CNN.


Brazilian model Mariana Bridi da Costa died Saturday after undergoing multiple amputations.

1 of 2 "Unfortunately Mari couldn't resist any longer. She passed away at 3 a.m. today," Henrique Fontes, executive director of Miss World Brazil, said in an e-mail to CNN.

Renato Lindgren, a friend of the model who runs a blog dedicated to her, confirmed da Costa's death.

On his blog, Lindgren wrote that he and other friends were going to the hospital.

"On behalf of all the family, we are grateful for the support and the affection that the entire world has sent to us," he wrote.

Da Costa, 20, had fought a pernicious disease that has ravaged her body and forced doctors to perform the amputations and extract part of her stomach as well as both kidneys.

She had been breathing through a respirator, officials at Dorio Silva Hospital in the Brazilian state of Espirito Santo said Friday.

Da Costa suffered from necrosis, or the fast deadening of tissue, caused by septicemia. Septicemia, triggered by a bacterial infection, causes insufficient *lo** flow that can lead to organ failure.

Da Costa first sought medical advice after feeling ill in late December. Hospital officials said she was transferred to Dorio Silva on January 3 in "septic shock," a serious medical condition caused by an inflammation.

Da Costa was first diagnosed as suffering a urinary tract infection. By the time the infection was detected, it had developed into septicemia.
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According to reports, Lady Marsha, an upcoming artiste is accusing popular deejay L.A. Lewis of allegedly scamming her of more than $600,000 by purchasing a car, which was later driven by Mr. Lewis. The 25-year-old, who is a former member of the deejay's L.A. Lewis Enterprize, has reported the matter to the necessary authorities. According to reports Lady Marsha said, "I am from Montego Bay, I came to town with over $3 million, me and the graffiti artiste used to par. I found out he is a liar and I decided to step aside." L.A. Lewis response to lady Marshas accusation: "Marsha is his girlfriend from the country. She just decide to follow the influence of people and seh she going to break up with me. I am the one who built Marsha, we even just put out a 17-track album and her song is number 4 on it." Mr. Lewis went on to say that, Because of this, I told her to take a leave of absence from the company. And even that day when I told her to leave, I sent home the entire staff because I did not want the embarra**ment to show on her." Lewis commented that he still has hope in this young artiste.

A 20-year-old man who broke into a bakery in Santa Cruz, St Elizabeth, on Sunday night, got the biggest shock of his life after he was set upon and beaten by irate residents.

Pete Davy, labourer, of Brighten district in the parish, had to be rescued by the Santa Cruz police, who were early on the scene.

Phone call

According to the police, about 10:15 a.m., the owner of Pastry Palace bakery, situated in the community of Doctor Rock, received a phone call from a concerned citizen that someone had broken into his business place. On his arrival there, the owner sought assistance from residents who had gathered near the building.

When he opened the door and went inside, he saw the man who had been allegedly beaten by the residents.

He was rushed to the Black River Hospital where he was treated and release in the cutsody of the Santa Cruz police. He was later arrested and charged with shop-breaking and larceny.

Detective Constable Dwayne Card told The Star that the man gained entry into the bakery by removing the windowpanes of two windows at the rear of the building.

Some things arent always black and white. Then again, sometimes they are like the twin sons born July 11 to a German couple.

The first baby that was born, Ryan, has light skin and blue eyes. His brother, Leo, is dark-skinned with brown eyes.

"None of us could believe it," the maternity ward's head doctor, Birgit Weber, told one news source. "Both kids have definitely the same father."

Stephan Gerth is German and white. His wife, Florence Addo-Gerth, is from Ghana and has dark skin.

It was a real surprise, Gerth told the German newspaper Die Welt, adding that the most important thing to him isnt color, but that everyone is healthy.

VIDEO: These brothers are a very rare pair

The odds are one in a million, say doctors, but it can happen with fraternal twins due the genetic soup in our backgrounds. Peter Propping, former director of the Institute for Human Genetics at Bonn University, told Die Welt that the black mother may have had some white ancestors, or that the white father may have had black ones. Very occasionally, the roll of the DNA die may cause the baby of biracial parents to inherit only the genetic coding for one color.

 

Rare though they are, the German twins do have some company. In the past few years, at least three mixed race couples have welcomed twins who were also black and white. 

Deva Bratt has form his own group now, they go by the name K.K.K.
The K.K.K doesnt mean Klu Klas Klans but as soon as i find out i'll let u know. The Memebers names have not been yet reveal.

jus a mek unuh know wah gwan wid di Bratt

Sergeant Dermouth Barba (right) of the Seaview Gardens Police Station hands over nine-week-old Kailee Walker to her parents Simone Samuda (left) and Kenar Walker yesterday, three weeks after she was snatched from her home in Denham Town, Kingston by a woman. (Photo: Jermaine Barnaby)

THREE weeks after searching desperately for her baby daughter, Kailee Walker, who was snatched from her home at Denham Town in Kingston, Simone Samuda is now breathing a sigh of relief after the police recovered the baby in New Haven yesterday.

"I get back my baby. I am very happy and overjoyed," Samuda told the Observer as she cl**tched little Kailee, now nine weeks old, in her arms. "I won't get to carry her home tonight because she have to do DNA test tomorrow (today)."

Sergeant Dermouth Barba of the Seaview Gardens Police Station told the Observer that Kailee was recovered at a church in the Kingston community last night after the woman accused of snatching the baby fled her home in Seaview Gardens, with Kailee, when she was confronted by Samuda earlier in the day. However, no arrest was made.

"She knows the pastor because her baby's father lives in New Haven so she went there and left the baby. The news reached the pastor that the baby was stolen so he called the father and the father called the police and we went and got the baby," Barba said. "The baby is going to be transferred to the Denham Town Police and then Bustamante Children's Hospital where she will be examined," added the policeman.

Earlier yesterday Samuda came close to getting back her daughter after she and a friend confronted the alleged baby snatcher at her home minutes after 2:00 pm.
"Me get a call seh the baby deh down here and me come and me see the girl mother and me tell her fi call her. When she come out she did have me baby in her hand and me seh a you ask mi fi the (drink of) water, give me mi baby," an obviously distraught Samuda told the Observer yesterday.

In December, Samuda said the woman had entered her house for a drink of water and offered to hold Kailee while she made the baby's formula. Samuda said she was distracted for a few minutes and when she turned around the woman was gone with Kailee.

Yesterday's confrontation was too much for Samuda and she fainted during the heated argument, while the accused baby abductor ran off with the child.

"Mi friend did hold on to the baby, but she hold to the baby tight, tight so when she run off she couldn't grab the baby from the woman," she said. "Me not even see which part she run go."

Samuda said the woman's mother who was at the house at the time, promised to go and buy credit for her cellphone to call her daughter, but never returned to the premises, located just metres away from the Seaview Gardens Police Station.

A large group of residents who had gathered at the scene said they were shocked that the woman accused as a "baby thief" had been right 'under their nose'.

"Me shame because all along me did think a fi her baby that," one woman said.

The resident also claimed that the woman had lost her baby recently, but pretended that the baby was still at the hospital receiving medical care.

"Mi hear she nuh tell the baby father seh the baby dead. She used to get up a morning time and wash the baby clothes and mek like seh she a go a di hospital," another resident claimed. Another alleged that the woman had christened the baby last Sunday.

Bounty Killa in More Trouble

The year haven't started well for some artiste at all.. especially Bounty Killa. Once again the War Lord is in trouble with the law. It has been reported that the DJ is to appear in court in early February to answer to charges of dangerous driving among other traffic offences. One of the charges slapped on the Five Star General is the breaking of seven red traffic lights ..in one early morning session with his entourage after returning from an event in Kingston.

Who's better lyrically?

The s****er, elegiac tones before President Obamas oath of office at the inauguration on Tuesday came from the instruments of Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman and two colleagues. But what the millions on the Mall and watching on television heard was in fact a recording, made two days earlier by the quartet and matched tone for tone by the musicians playing along.

The players and the inauguration organizing committee said the arrangement was necessary because of the extreme cold and wind during Tuesdays ceremony. The conditions raised the possibility of broken piano strings, cracked instruments and wacky intonation minutes before the presidents swearing in (which had problems of its own).

Truly, weather just made it impossible, Carole Florman, a spokeswoman for the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, said on Thursday. No ones trying to fool anybody. This isnt a matter of Milli Vanilli, Ms. Florman added, referring to the pop band that was stripped of a 1989 Grammy because of its lip-synching, making it synonymous with the practice.

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Kanye West Denies Porn Rumors, Claims Accounts Have Been Hacked

Report that 'Ye is willing to star in an adult film has been retracted.

It's been a bittersweet week for Kanye West. On the one hand, he performed for President Barack Obama at MTV's Youth Ball on Tuesday night and then flew to Paris to bask in the glow of the fashion elite as he unveiled the shoes he designed for Louis Vuitton.

On the other hand, according to his blog post on Thursday, someone has been trying to jack his online presence by hacking his personal Web and e-mail accounts and spreading the rumor that he's signed up to appear in a bisexual porn film. (He also complained in an interview Thursday about being insulted by 50 Cent.)

"Yoooo, why won't you let me be great!!!" West wrote in his inimitable all-caps style. "I had the two greatest days of my life, and when I get back from the Louie [sic] show, I read some sh-- claiming I said I'm down to do porn and some bisexual porn!!!! I can't believe the AVN [Adult Video News] would post [that story]."

The quote in question was allegedly from an interview West did with the adult magazine, but according to a correction posted on AVN.com, the false story originated with an anonymous poster on the AllHipHop.com Web site who "launched a thread containing what he claimed were quotes from an interview West did with 'writer David Watts.' " The thread has since been removed and AVN, which said it does not employ a writer by that name, has apologized for picking up the false item.

A clearly upset West, still stung after someone pretending to be him started a Twitter feud with Stephen Colbert in December, said this is the latest case of his online profile being jacked. "First people believed the Twitter/ Stephen Colbert thing, Rolling Stone even printed it!!!!" he said. "Now somebody has been hacking into my MySpace and somebody's actually hacked into my personal GMail account and has been e-mailing people from it. ... Hey, world, I no longer have GMail! I found out I had twelve unauthorized Skype accounts under my name!!! This all in the past four days. Welcome to Kanye West World!"

On the upside, 'Ye brags about giving "the performance of my lifetime" for the new president and brags about immediately jetting off to Paris to debut the new shoes he designed for Vuitton, "which was a dream come true."

"Please I beg you, give me a break!!!!!" he concludes. "Let me be great!!! Who have I hurt so bad that they want to destroy me? Who have I ever spoke about so negatively? I just was speaking with our new president two days ago ... and now this."

Who U think Is Gonna Hold It Down This Year... Start Votin

Producer Not Nice. - contributed

It is not often that a producer has his dreams fulfilled in a matter of four days. For Ainsley 'Notnice' Morris, he not only produced his all-time-favourite artiste, Vybz Kartel, for the first time, but surpassed all expectations when he recorded the artiste's latest album in only four days.

While Notnice is now climbing to his zenith as a producer, he is no newcomer to the business. He told the STAR in a recent interview: "I've been interested in music for a long time, from going to school when people used to deejay and I would beat on the tables and dem tell me seh mi bad."

After investigating more about music and the music business, Notnice soon encouraged his mother to buy him a computer so that he could build his own rhythms.

After teaching himself to build rhythms, the young producer started to work at Ruckus Records, where he recorded artistes on his 'Charity' rhythm.

Portmore link

However, it was after leaving Ruckus and linking with fellow Waterford members Blak Ryno, Shaun Storm and Dosa Medicine that Notnice started to make a name for himself in Portmore.

"Long time mi link wid the others and dem come mek some mix tape. I had rhythms from long time, but I had no way to get them out there. Den I made the 'Remand Rhythm' and Blak Ryno come hear it and voice on it, he carried it mek Teacha hear it and him listen it, that's how the connection with Vybz Kartel came about. From ever since my dream is to work with Kartel."

From strength to strength

Since then Notnice has been working from Exodus studio in Havendale. The producer soon strengthened his musical career with the 'Cool Shade' rhythm, which features Kartel's Seh Weh Yuh Feel Fi Seh as well as the 'Fight Fi War' rhythm which features a song of the same name from Blak Ryno and Jah Vinci. He also did Last Man Standing, the now popular post-Sting song from Vybz Kartel.

Other huge hits followed for Not nice with Rampin' Shop and Get Wild, also for Kartel.

Dedicated to music as a full- time career, Notnice admires the work of fellow producers Stephen McGregor, Don Corleon, Birch and Lenky. He hopes to one day expand his artiste catalogue to work with other talented entertainers, but will always be dedicated to working with the artistes from the Portmore Empire.

His latest project is the soon-to- be-released 'Story Teller' rhythm and he will also soon be working with the self-proclaimed 'King of the Dancehall', Beenie Man. Not Nice has completed Kartel's latest album as well as the Empire Universe, a compilation album from the Portmore Empire.

Apart from di teecha, Who u think is the Baddest artist lyrically in the Empire?

-- Edited by pengo at 16:43, 2008-03-20

Obama bid to halt Guantanamo trials

Newly-installed President Barack Obama wasted no time in getting down to business after his administration requested a halt to controversial military trials at Guantanamo Bay.

Hours after his historic inauguration as the first black president of the United States, Obama appeared to quickly honour his vow to act over the terror-suspect holding camp in Cuba.


He has previously said he will close Guantanamo, home to widely criticised war-crimes trials created by former President George Bush and Congress in 2006.

The suspension request came from the US Department of Defence, which said it was seeking a 120-day halt to the war crimes trials at the camp pending a review by President Obama.

His new team put the brakes on all pending regulations that the Bush regime tried to push through in its last days. That order went out shortly after Mr Obama's inauguration on Tuesday, in a memorandum signed by new White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel.

Aides had previously suggested that the new Commander-in-Chief would immediately launch into the job, with a raft of policy announcements expected by the end of the week.

An announcement on the actual closure of Guantanamo Bay has been put forward as an early contender for policy actions.

The US military currently has charges pending against 21 men at Guantanamo and officials have said they intended to charge dozens more.

Pre-trial hearings in two cases - the trial of five men charged in the 9/11 attacks and Omar Khadr, a Canadian accused of killing a US soldier in Afghanistan - were due to take place this week.

 

PRO-CHOICE advocates in the United States yesterday observed the 36th anniversary of the historic Roe v Wade ruling, expressing optimism that President Barack Obama will support abortion rights.

Two persons involved in the local abortion debate differ on what impact his policies will have in Jamaica.

"Legislators are sensitive to the views of Jamaicans who don't support abortion. They won't take a lock, stock and barrel approach to their constituents," said Doreen Brady-West, a member of a coalition of Christian doctors opposed to abortion.

Spokespersons for the pro-choice movement expect Obama, a Democrat, to honour presidential campaign promises and increase Federal funding for planned parenthood. Removing a 'global gag rule' banning federal support to similar agencies overseas is also high on the agenda.

Gag rule

Joan Wedderburn of Development Alternative for Women in the New Era (DAWN) says clearing the global gag rule would be beneficial to cash-strapped Jamaican family-planning programmes. She said the effective 'Two is better than too many' campaign of the 1980s was driven by overseas funding, but fell away once that source dried up.

Wedderburn said DAWN supports a recom-mendation of the Abortion Policy Review Advisory Group that a woman can make a decision to terminate pregnancy after 12 weeks, once it is done by an authorised medical practitioner in a registered facility.

The Roe v Wade case legalised abortion in the US in 1973. It is one of the most divisive issues in that country with Republican (pro-life) and Democratic (pro-choice) administrations revising Federal funding for planned parenthood programmes when either party takes office.

Abortions are illegal in Jamaica, although it is reported that as many as 30,000 are performed here annually. Under Section 72 of the Offences Against the Person Act, persons found guilty of having or facilitating an abortion face life imprisonment.

Legislators are sensitive to the views of Jamaicans who don't support abortion. They won't take a lock, stock and barrel approach to their constituents. - Brady-West

Simone Samuda, the mother of nine-week-old Kailee Walker who was snatched from her home three weeks ago, spent yesterday enjoying quality time with her daughter.

The woman who allegedly stole Kailee from her home fled to the New Haven community in Kingston after she was confronted by Samuda at her home in Seaview Gardens Wednesday afternoon. The accused baby snatcher reportedly handed the child over to a pastor who called the police.

"I got her back last night after they finished examining her," an elated Samuda told the Observer, adding that the doctors gave Kailee a clean bill of health. "I couldn't sleep last night, I just lay down and looked on her. I'm really glad I got her back."

Yesterday, Sergeant Denworth Barba, who is in charge of the Seaview Gardens Police Station, said the cops are very close to arresting the alleged baby snatcher.

"The investigation is ongoing and we suspect, based on our investigation thus far, that within a couple of days we will be able to find her," Sergeant Barba said. "We have some information as to her whereabouts but we cannot make that information public just yet, we don't want her to get jumpy on us."

Sergeant Barba also paid tribute to two of his colleagues - Detective Constable Nicholas Prendergast and Detective Corporal Dalton Morgan, both also of the Seaview Gardens Police Station - who he said were also pivotal in the investigation which led to the recovery of the child.

Hayden Panettiere's dad, Alan, has pled no contest to misdemeanor battery.

Alan faced a judge in a Bev Hills courtroom on Tuesday, stemming from an altercation he had with his wife back in August.

He received 24 months probation, $400 in fines and must attend 52 weeks of domestic violence counseling.

A protective order against him remains in place.

Medics rushed onto the set of "America's Best Dance Crew" yesterday when poppin' and lockin' suddenly turned into passin' the hell out.


TMZ has leared Cara Petrunich -- a member of the Dynamic Edition dance crew -- fainted during a break in production yesterday. We're told the on-site medic immediately rushed to the scene and supplied Cara with water and oxygen.

The story has a happy ending -- Cara quickly recovered and was able to dance with her peeps on the show later that afternoon.

'Flying car' goes to market

Company behind the vehicle prefers the term 'roadable aircraft'

	The Transition aircraft, shown in this illustration with its wings partially unfolded, can shift from road-worthiness to airworthiness. The vehicle carries a price tag of $194,000.  View related photos
Terrafugia

Woman With FFF Breast Implants Wants More

Last Edited: Tuesday, 06 May 2008, 11:48 PM CDT

Created: Tuesday, 06 May 2008, 11:48 PM CDT

Houston woman is in Brazil's record books for the largest breast implants. (MyFoxHouston) From MyFoxHouston Reports HOUSTON -- A Houston woman says she is proud to be in Brazil's version of the Guinness Book of World Records for the largest breast implants (video: MyFoxHouston). Sheyla Hershey, 28, has undergone surgery eight times to accommodate her FFF implants (photos: MyFoxHouston), which is equal to two quarts of silicone in each breast. Doctors say her biggest medical risks are scar tissue around implants that large, as well as shoulder and back pain. Hershey said she gets frustrated when people laugh at her. She says this is her dream and she wished people would be move accepting. "I want to look better each day, every day. Everybody's got a dream inside, you know? And, it's good when you can make your dream come true," Hershey said. The mother and housewife said she still isn't satisfied with her implants and wants them even bigger, but getting implants larger is not an option in Texas. The limit in Texas is 1,000 cubic centimeters of silicone in each breast. Silicone breast implants were developed in Houston nearly 50 years ago.

SHOCKED surgeons were forced to use their imagination after operating on woman with a huge can of hairspray stuck in her bum. Mirela Gradinaru, 37, arrived at the clinic in Arad, western Romania, in agony, begging docs to help. But she refused to tell surgeons how the can came to be lodged in her rear even after a successful operation dislodged the canister. This was not just a little can of deodorant, this was a massive can of hairspray Mirandolina Prisca, a doctor at the clinic, explained: "We had X-rays done to localise the object and then we carried out the operation. The patient was fine after it. "She was very embarra**ed. She was clearly in a lot of pain, however it got there." "This was not just a little can of deodorant, this was a massive can of hairspray," said one hospital worker. And perhaps unsurprisingly the docs never got to the bottom of this medical mystery!

2008 yr a di dagger fi di gyal dem if normal sex wasnt hard enuff fi dem fi manage now gyal a get fling bout and ting ....poor souls lol


so which tune u think is the best daggering tune fi 2008
and who u think have the lyrics wen it come to daggerin tunes



Rdx mi seh

Implicates Max B In Murder Case

Friday, 16 January 2009 10:15

Gina Conway, the ex-girlfriend of rap star Max B., told authorities on Tuesday (January 13) that the former Dipset member masterminded a deadly 2006 robbery that left one man dead. Conway was set to go on trial this week for her role in the shooting. Instead, she accepted a plea deal of manslaughter to avoid life imprisonment on a murder conviction. At her March 21 sentencing, she faces a maximum of 18 years in prison on the admitted armed robbery and manslaughter charges. The September 2006 armed robbery took place at the Fort Lee Holiday Inn along New Jersey's Route 4. In her deal, Conway stated she was recruited by her ex-boyfriend Max. B (Charly Wingate) to rob David Taylor and Allan "Jay" Plowden. The plot was allegedly hatched after Conway informed Max that the two men kept high amounts of cash on them. Later, the rapper allegedly recruited a third conspirator in Kelvin Leerdam. The night of the robbery, prosecutors charge that the group subdued Plowden at gunpoint with duct-tape. Although they were able to retrieve $30,000 from the hotel room, the trio allegedly waited until Taylor arrived in hopes of stealing more money. Once David Taylor arrived, he was killed execution-style with a shot to the head. Both Max B. and Kelvin are charged with murder and face 30 years to life imprisonment if convicted. Since being released on a reputed $2 million dollar bail in July 2007, Max B. has recorded several mixtapes and worked on his long-awaited official debut. Max B.'s murder trial will be tried in Superior Court in Hackensack, New Jersey. At press time, a date has not been announced.

Radian Beckford more popularly known as Chi Ching Ching and a friend were arrested for having ganja in their possession and for breaking several of the countrys road traffic laws.

The fast rising dancer-turn-deejay Chi Ching Ching seems to be mighty too anxious to get his hands around a motor vehicle steering wheel, which led, for him to pick up additional charges for breaching the Road Traffic Act - such as driving a car without a drivers license and no insurance. He was also ticketed by the St. Ann police for driving over the speed limit.

OutAroad.com gets to understand that Chi Ching Ching has been driving for a while with his Learners License.

However when OutAroad.com got in touch with Chi Ching Ching he had this to say, yeah man the police dem did pull mi over and tek mi up a station and charged mi, I was later released on station bail - I just want the people dem fi know seh mi deh a road even up to last night mi deh a Uptown Monday and couple other places a party.

That's not The Unknown Comic (Google it, kids), it's everyone's favorite gimpy man-boy action star Shia LaBeouf.



With his extremities covered in bags, the 22-year-old driver's license-free wise guy braved the L.A. rains and ventured to a liquor store on Thursday.

Paper or spastic?

President Barack Obama's first public act in office yesterday was to institute new limits on lobbyists in his White House and to freeze the salaries of high-paid aides, in a nod to United States economic turmoil.

Announcing the moves while attending a ceremony in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building to swear in his staff, Obama said the steps "represent a clean break from business as usual".

The pay freeze, first reported by The Associated Press, would hold salaries at their current levels for the roughly 100 White House employees who make more than $100,000 a year.

"Families are tightening their belts, and so should Washington," said the new president, taking office amid startlingly bad economic times that many fear will grow worse.

Those affected by the freeze include the high-profile jobs of White House chief of staff, national security adviser and press secretary.

Obama's new lobbying rules will not only ban aides from trying to influence the administration when they leave his staff. Those already hired will also be banned from working on matters they have previously lobbied on, or to approach agencies that they once targeted.

Ban for lobbyists

The rules also ban lobbyists from giving gifts of any size to any member of his administration. It was not immediately clear whether the ban would include the traditional 'previous relationships' clause, allowing gifts from friends or associates with which an employee comes in with strong ties.

The new rules also require that anyone who leaves his administra-tion is not allowed to try to influence former friends and colleagues for at least two years. Obama is requiring all staff to attend an ethics briefing like one he said he attended last week.

In an attempt to deliver on pledges of a transparent government, Obama said he would change the way the federal government interprets the Freedom of Information Act. He said he was directing agencies that vet requests for information to err on the side of making information public and not to look for reasons to legally withhold it.

HARARE (AFP) Zimbabwe unveiled a 100 trillion dollar note Friday in the latest grim measure of its staggering economic collapse, heightening the urgency of a new round of unity talks set for next week.

Veteran leader Robert Mugabe and opposition chief Morgan Tsvangirai are set to hold talks Monday with key regional leaders in a bid to salvage a four-month-old unity accord, which has yet to be implemented.

The stalemate over disputed elections last year has only fuelled the economic and humanitarian crisis that has impoverished the country, leaving nearly half the population dependent on food aid as a cholera epidemic sweeps the country.

The Reserve Bank announced in the government mouthpiece Herald newspaper a series of trillion-dollar denominations to keep pace with hyperinflation that has left the once-dynamic economy in tatters.

The new 100,000,000,000,000 Zim-dollar bill would have been worth about 300 US dollars (225 euros) at Thursday's exchange rate on the informal market, where most currency trading now takes place, but the value of the local currency erodes dramatically every day.

Oprah has a ex-boyfriend that is smearing her name and claiming the she used to cook up rocks for them to take to the neck, but get this, it is all true supposedly:

Oprah made a rock of cocaine and baking soda in the tube and heated it, a method known as freebasing. [Oprah] then put the lit torch on the rock, inhaled and held the smoke in her lungs for a long time. When she finally exhaled, she began to shake violently as she put the pipe down, she had trouble catching her breath and her eyes got big as saucers. We smoked at least a couple of times a week. Sometimes we would smoke up until her limo was waiting to take her to the studio to perform her show Randolph Cooks relationship with Oprah was in 1985.

Heres Oprah herself from a 1995 episode of her show:

In my 20s, Id done this drug and I know exactly what you are talking about. She said the drug use occurred while she was an anchorwoman on a television news show. Its my lifes great big secret. It was such a secret becauseI realize (with) the public person I have becomeif the story ever were revealed, the tabloids would exploit it and what a big issue it would be. She went on to explain, But I was involved with a man in my 20s who introduced me to the same drug that youve been talking about and, like Patrice, I always felt that the drug itself is not the problem but that I was addicted to the man. She admitted: I cant think of anything I wouldnt have done for that man.

It is hard to imagine Oprah cooking up yayo, let alone hitting the rock till she does the funky chicken and her eyes are the size of golf balls. Say it aint so O.

Days before three-month-old Jordan Palmer was going to take his first set of baby pictures at the photo studio he met his tragic death after falling from a bed at home on Monday night.

Jordan lived with his mother, Lilieth Palmer, and five siblings in Mount Salem, Montego Bay.

, the distraught mother was still in shock after the sudden death of her child. "Mi put im dung fi sleep about 9:30 last night and put a whole heap a pillow round him and lef fi go a shop. Mi neva spend long and when mi come back mi see Jordan pon di floor face down," Lilieth said crying.

She immediately rushed the baby to the Cornwall Regional Hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead after a series of examinations.

The Montego Bay police have launched an investigation into the matter and no formal charges have been made against the mother. understand that Palmer is being questioned in police custody.

The Child Care and Protection Act states that if you leave your child at home alone and he/she gets injured you could be imprisoned for up to three years for neglect, or face more serious charges such as manslaughter.

Spencer

THE TRIAL of the accused in the Cuban light-bulb scandal will begin in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on June 22 and is expected to last at least two weeks.

Senior Resident Magistrate Glen Brown set the date yesterday, despite protest from defence attorneys that they had not been served all documents germane to the case and that they were, therefore, not in a position to go to trial.

Brown, however, told them that "between now and then, this is the opportunity to put everything in order".

When the trial begins, only embattled Member of Parliament for North East St Elizabeth, Kern Spencer, and his companion, Colleen Wright, will be in the dock answering criminal charges.

Rodney Chin, who was charged jointly with them, will be among 32 witnesses the Crown will call upon to help prove its case. Yesterday, Director of Public Prosecutions Paula Llewellyn dropped all charges against Chin when the matter came up for mention in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court.

Out on bail

Chin, Spencer and Wright were arrested February 26 last year, following an investigation into the implementation of the Cuban light-bulb project.

Chin and Spencer were charged with money laundering, corruption and conspiracy to defraud. Both men were out on $10 million bail before Chin decided to testify against his co-accused.

Wright is charged with aiding and abetting corruption. She is on $5 million bail.

In court yesterday Llewellyn fended off a push, from defence counsel for Spencer and Wright, for more disclosure in relation to the circumstances under which Chin's status changed from criminal accused to Crown witness.

The defence has requested that Llewellyn give them all statements or conversations that took place between Chin and the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions; statements or conversation between Chin and parliamentarians, including government ministers; and, a list of all contracts that Chin received from Government since September last year.

Ready to commence

Llewellyn told the court she had provided the defence with all possible documents and statements, and indicated that the Crown was ready to commence trial.

Spencer, state minister in the Ministry of Energy during the Portia Simpson Miller administration of the last People's National Party government, had ministerial responsibility for the project, which involved the replacement of incandescent bulbs with four million energy-saving fixtures given to the island by the Cuban government.

Chin's companies - Universal Management and Development Limited and Caribbean Communications Media Network Limited - were beneficiaries of the contracts, which did not go to tender as required by law.

MANDEVILLE, Manchester -Six fishermen who left the south coast town of Black River in St Elizabeth last Thursday on a fishing trip have gone missing, according to reports reaching the Observer last night.

Reports say the six - including five Jamaicans and a Honduran - who left Black River in the fishing boat 'Cross Tide' failed to make contact with the boat owner on the weekend as had been arranged.

Checks by colleague fishermen in an area of the western Caribbean where the men were scheduled to arrive on Saturday morning have proven negative, reports say.

Mavado3.jpg One876Entertainment.com understands that the Guyanese government has black listed Alliance leader, Rodney Bounty Killer Price and his protégé David Mavado Brooks. The Jamaicans artistes are banned from the island as the government regards them as security risk to the country.

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee told reporters today at a press conference held in Georgetown that the decision was made by the Bharrat Jagdeo administration after careful consideration of their track records.

The decision comes at the heel of a controversial end to a show headlined by Bounty Killer a couple weekends ago. The show ended after several break in performances due to faulty equipment and alleged gunfire.

This ban halts Mavados plans to perform in the country this weekend at the Linden Town Week celebrations alongside Lady Saw.

What is it about beauty queens turning bad once they give up their crown? Former Miss USA Kelli McCarty, a Kansas native who won the crown in 1991 then stated she was interested in acting. She played the part of "Beth" on the NBC soap opera "Passions, and was eventually killed off, but McCarty has now reinvented herself as a lady of the night. Yes, Kelli has just completed filming a porno called Faithless as an employee of adult movie production company Vivid Entertainment.

"I enjoy acting, and I really like sex ... so this was the perfect opportunity to c****ine two of my passions," McCarty said. The film is set for release on February 4.

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DIRECTOR of Public Prosecutions Paula Llewellyn yesterday entered an unconditional nolle prosequi against businessman Rodney Chin, one of three accused in the Cuban light bulb scandal, effectively dropping the criminal charges against him.

Chin, who will now become a witness for the state, was bound over to appear in court on June 22 when the trial of Kern Spencer, the former junior energy minister in the People's National Party administration, and his co-accused Coleen Wright, in the Cuban light bulb case is expected to get under way.

Llewellyn said that the determination to drop the charges were "made in the interests of justice".

In a statement to the Half-Way-Tree Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday, Llewellyn stated categorically that neither her nor anyone from her office had any discussions with any government parliamentarian regarding the case against Chin.

The DPP's comment was triggered by a letter from attorney Patrick Atkinson, Spencer's senior counsel, that the disclosure be made if there were any such discussions.

Following the withdrawal of the charges, Spencer's attorneys asked that the court instructs that all Government contracts granted to Chin and any of his companies be turned over to them, along with any information as to why the charges against Chin were dropped.

But the DPP said that she had already written to Chin's lawyer, Richard Small, asking that a list of all contracts to Chin by the Government for the past 20 years be handed over to the defence.

When asked by reporters about the relevance of Chin's government contracts to the case, Debra Martin, junior counsel for Spencer, said after the adjournment of yesterday's court sitting that the trial judge would have to make a determination as to Chin's credibility based on the information.

Spencer, Chin and Wright - Spencer's former executive assistant and supervisor at the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica - were arrested and charged in February last year following a probe into the handling of a gift of four million Cuban light bulbs, which reportedly cost taxpayers well over $100 million to be distributed.

The Universal Management Company, operated by Chin was contracted to distribute the bulbs.

Chin is now freed of two counts of conspiracy to defraud, between July 2006 and September 2007, one count of corruption under Section 14(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, one count of money laundering and engaging in a transaction with criminal property (J$3.1 million) on July 30, 2007.

One-hundred-and-three-year-old Sylvester Royes chats with Bishop Ira D Thompson of the Bethel United Church of Jesus Christ Apostolic while his wife of 62 years, Una, lies beside him yesterday. (Photo: Bryan Cummings)

ONE-hundred-and-three-
year-old Sylvester Royes yesterday became the latest of the more than 700 centenarians across Jamaica to be honoured by the National Council for Senior Citizens.

Yesterday, a small team from the council headed by Leroy Aiken, acting parish organiser, presented Royes with a commemorative cup to mark the milestone at his home on Arnold Road in Kingston.

"We are at present getting together a list of all the centenarians in the country; so far we have honoured over 700 centenarians across the island since 2002. We have quite a few centenarians," Aiken told the Observer yesterday.

Sylvester, born May 5,1905, is bedridden these days but is a picture of contentment lying next to his 94-year-old spouse Una Royes who is also bedridden. They have no major illnesses, but for Una being partially deaf and blind, and they pass their days keeping each other's company.

In accepting the cup yesterday, Royes said, "Thank you, thank you very much" and promptly requested "some coffee in there" while lifting it to his lips playfully.

Asked to express how he felt, Royes said, "I feel lovely. Thank the Lord for keeping me such a long time, I praise the Lord for all his benefits".

The couple have been married for 62 years and have no biological children, but the devotion to each other is unmistakable.

"Mi love her till mi sorry fi har," Royes, the more expressive of the two, said with a twinkle in his eyes.
He is also anticipating more years with her in the house they purchased in 1979 for J$10,000.

"I'm going to live as long as Jesus permits me," he said, adding that they "feel no pain".

Ira D Thompson, Island Bishop of the Bethel United Church of Jesus Christ Apostolic to which the couple belongs, in celebrating the moment with them yesterday said the couple had served faithfully since becoming members in 1979.

"In the short time I have been here he sang for us and I got a good handshake. I can tell he is a jolly person, they are clean and healthy," Aiken told the Observer. He said Una will be honoured by the council at a later date.

i think he talk too much...... nas talks the truth...all the time...

Looks like Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio has come up with the cure for DMX's addiction to jail. The hip-hop star and repeat offender, like all of Arpaio's other inmates in the Maricopa county jail, must wear pink t-shirts, underwear and socks.

The girlie wardrobe colors caught DMX by surprise. "This is ridiculous, this is disrespectful," DMX said with a sarcastic laugh during an interview with My Fox Phoenix. "Why the pink?"

Arpaio told Fox & Friends he has had the pink policy in place for 10 years with success. He said the inmates were stealing the white underwear so he dyed them pink. 

(Click photo below to view DMX's interview clip.)

According to Arpaio, DMX is serving time for charges of animal cruelty, drugs and fraud. Arpaio did not express any sympathy for the hardcore rapper, adding, that jail was not supposed to be fun.

DMX misses the good ole days. "This is not where I want to be man," DMX said. "It used to be, I'll go there, I'll be the life of the party, and ... it's nothing."

Requiring male prisoners to wear pink undergarments is emasculating, but listening to DMX talk about going to jail as if it is a hangout spot is not fine either.

Maybe Cam'ron can give X a pep talk. Cam'ron and other Harlem MCs have always been fine with the springtime pastel color.

BIONIC boy Evan Reynolds sips water from a bottle held in his new prosthetic hand. Evan, 19, has been fitted with the £10,000 bionic i-Limb a fully functional prosthetic arm which he can control just by thinking. Sports fan Evan, who lost his left hand in a car accident two years ago, has become only the second Brit to be fitted with the incredible i-limb. The battery-operated hand developed by Scottish-based Touch Bionics is controlled by the muscles in the remaining part of the arm. Boffins attached electrodes on the skin surface which pick up muscle signals to open and close the life-like fingers. The teenager, from Haslemere in Surrey, was devastated when his left hand was ripped off on a summers evening in 2006 as his friend was driving him home from a day out destroying his dreams of joining the British Army. Devastated He was sitting in the passenger seat with his hand resting on the wound-down window ledge when the car scraped a wooden post at the exit to the car park. Evans hand was taken off instantly. It was very nasty. It was amputated in a second, he said. I always wanted to join the Army, that was what I wanted to do with my life, I dreamed of going to Sandhurst. "Obviously I couldnt join the Army any more, I was devastated. Advertisement It was Mr Reynolds older brother Richard who first saw a TV report about the i-Limb and contacted Touch Bionics. The firm was still working on a prototype at the time, but after a number of tests and meetings with prosthetic experts, in February 2008 Mr Reynolds became the second person in Britain to have the i-Limb fitted. "The most amazing thing about it was how quickly I adapted to it, said Evan. I put it on and within minutes I was using it as well as I can today. People always ask how its changed my life, but theres no specific thing.

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand police have arrested a safe burglar by using the popular social networking website Facebook to identify and track him down.

Queenstown police in southern New Zealand posted security-camera footage and pictures showing the man's face as he tried to break into the safe of a local tavern on Monday.

"The offender was identified after a movie and images of him were displayed on Facebook. He was identified from members of the public viewing him on Facebook and also seeing him on TV after the Facebook images were displayed on the news," the police station said in a statement on its Facebook page.

Police said the unnamed, 21-year-old Queenstown native would appear in court on Wednesday.

Local media said the man got too hot while trying to break into the safe, took off his balaclava and revealed his face to a hidden security camera.

"He was a very silly young boy. The room is really small and it gets really hot in there at the best of times," the bar's assistant manager, Mel Kelly, was quoted as saying.

"Clearly, he didn't realize there was a video camera there until the last moment. He looks round and sees it and there's just a shocked look ... His face definitely drops."

Staff at the bar did not recognize the man, but Kelly suspected he was a former employee because of his knowledge of the property.

This is not the first time that Facebook, the world's largest online social network, has been used to track down criminals.

In November, an Australian restaurateur left holding a hefty unpaid bill when five young diners bolted used the website to find them, and got them to pay their bill.

THIS MORNING I HEARD THE MANAGER OF THE RADIO BROADCASTING
 
COMMISSION OVER THE RADIO SAYING THAT MANY DANCEHALL SONGS

[ESPECIALLY VYBZ KARTEL AND MOVADO SONGS] WOULD BE BAN BECAUSE
 
HE WILL BE PUTTING UP A LAW SAYING THAT SONGS SHOULD NOT PLAY

THAT HAV BEEP OUT WORDS.....
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TELL ME NOW...DEM ALWAYS A TRY STIFLE THE DANCEHALL MUSIC WITH THEM FOOLISHNESS

Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is reviewing his investment portfolio, Saudi newspapers quoted him as saying on Wednesday, after his Kingdom Holding Co 4280.SE posted a record loss in the fourth quarter.

"Kingdom Holding Company is working on rebalancing its investments and to redirect them," Asharq al-Awsat newspaper quoted him as saying at a press conference for the Saudi media.

Alwaleed, nephew of King Abdullah, did not elaborate but al-Eqtisadiah newspaper quoted him saying that his investments will focus more on "Saudi Arabia and the region" and he cited particular interest in real estate.

Kingdom Holding's spokeswoman Heba Fatani could not be reached for comment. The company's shares were down 6.10 percent at 0913 GMT.

Kingdom Holding, in which Alwaleed holds a 94 percent stake, shocked investors after it announced a $8.26 billion net loss for the fourth quarter due to a dive in the value of its assets, which include a substantial stake in Citigroup (C.N).

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Hardline demonstrators burn posters of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama, during a demonstration in support of the people of Gaza, in front of the Swiss Embassy in Tehran January 13,

A man accused of killing three members of Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson's family in Chicago has pleaded not guilty to charges of first-degree murder and home invasion.

William Balfour entered his plea Tuesday at Cook County Criminal Court in Chicago. Before doing so, he nodded to members of his family in the courtroom.

Balfour is the estranged husband of Jennifer Hudson's sister, Julia Hudson. He's accused of killing the women's mother, brother and Julia Hudson's seven-year-old son in October.

Balfour is being held without bail. He is next due in court January 27.

Jennifer Hudson is expected to sing the national anthem at the NFL football Super Bowl on February 1.