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Scientific tests of 'wonder drug' give patients new hope
Anthony Browne, health editor

Cannabis is a 'wonder drug' capable of radically transforming the lives of very sick people, according to the results of the first clinical trials of the drug.

Tests sanctioned by the Government are proving far more successful than doctors, patients and cannabis campaigners ever dared hope. Some of the patients are simply calling it a 'miracle'.

Taking the drug - which it is still illegal for doctors to prescribe - has allowed a man previously so crippled with pain that he was impotent to become a father; a woman paralysed by multiple sclerosis to ride a horse for the first time in years; and a man who couldn't sit up in a chair on his own to live without a carer.

Until now claims of the benefits of the drug for certain conditions have been anecdotal. But the preliminary results of the UK government trial, started last year, suggest that 80 per cent of those taking part have derived more benefit from cannabis than from any other drug, with many describing it as 'miraculous'.

The results make it almost inevitable that the Government will bow to public pressure and legalise the cultivation of cannabis for medical purposes by 2002. Scientists now predict that cannabis - first used for medicinal reasons 5,000 years ago - will follow aspirin and penicillin and become a 'wonder drug' prescribed for a wide range of conditions.

Bowing to pressure for a less hard-line attitude, the Home Office started the first major cannabis trials in the world to see whether there was any scientific basis for its use as medicine. A licence was granted to a specially formed drug company to grow the plants under controlled conditions in a secret location in southern England. Twenty-three patients, suffering from multiple sclerosis and arthritis, were recruited on to the first trial, and given daily doses of cannabis by spraying it under the tongue, before wider trials were started.

The remarkable stories of the patients will be revealed tonight on the BBC programme Panorama , which was granted unique access to them.

Alex Ure, a former paratrooper, suffers from a severe spinal condition. The pain was so bad he considered suicide; he found legal painkillers turned him into a z****ie and he couldn't have sex with his wife, Wendy, for five years. But after starting the trial he became a father. 'I couldn't even bend down and play with a child before - I could do anything now,' he said.

His doctor, Willy Notcutt, of James Paget Hospital in Great Yarmouth, was sure the cannabis was responsible: 'His pain has been sufficiently controlled to engage in sex again,' he said.

Tyrone Castle, a former publican, started suffering from multiple sclerosis when he was 21 and became so incapacitated he needed two helpers to winch him out of bed. He also suffered from uncontrollable spasms. Cannabis has transformed his life.

'It has really helped sort out my spasms. It helps me sleep because I don't spend the night jumping about. The difference in my legs is unbelievable - they are no longer stiff as a board,' he said.

Jo, the wife of a school chaplain, suffered so badly from multiple sclerosis she would struggle to lift her legs up in the air six times. After she started the trial, she could lift her legs 25 times. 'It's miraculous, really extraordinary. I've never had any sort of relief of this kind, and I've tried pretty well everything,' she said.

Notcutt said the trial was a success: 'The results have exceeded what I dared hope for. We're getting 80 per cent of patients good-quality benefit from the cannabis. For some we are getting almost total relief from their pain, with pain scores going down to zero.'

Doctors believe cannabis could eventually prove useful in conditions such as osteoporosis, cancer, HIV and Aids, arthritis, spine injury and certain forms of mental illness.

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CHILD pornography websites will be blocked by three major internet providers in the US.

 

ISPs Verizo, Sprint and Time Warner Cable agreed to wipe out the vile material from their servers.

 

The three companies will also pledge $1.1million (£562,000) to remove online child porn created by users through their services.

 

The changes will affect customers across the United States, said Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.

 

Time Warner Cable acted as soon as it learned that users were posting objectionable material and eliminated it, said spokesman Alex Dudley.

 

He said Time Warner didnt host or provide any of the content and was simply a portal, allowing groups to be created with content provided by the users.

 

"As soon as we were made aware of the issue ... we took steps to correct," said Mr Dudley.

 

The agreements follow an undercover investigation of child porn newsgroups.

A MAN who got nipped on his penis by a SNAKE used a cold RUM CAN to soothe the pain.

Daryl Zutt thought he was going to die, so he rang his mum to say a final goodbye while reaching for the metal can to help lessen his agony.

"I thought I was gone," he said.

"I thought, Maybe, this is it. Maybe, Im gonna cark it."

Mr Zutt's bizarre trouser snake encounter was revealed two weeks ago after he stopped for a roadside toilet stop in remote far north Queensland.

Fatal

 

Speaking of the snake's near fatal swipe at his manhood, Mr Zutt said: "I squatted down. I reckon I mustve nearly sat on his head," he said.

"As soon as I felt it, I yelled. It really hurt.

"When it happened, I knew in the back of my mind it was a snake.

"I seen him coming out from between my legs."

He said he tried to remain calm as he inspected the damage.

"He got me about halfway down," he said. "I saw fang marks and a bit of *lo** come out."

Mr Zutt's friend drove him to a medical centre before he was moved to a hospital for further tests which showed he was not envenomated.

There is a growing school of thought that reggae sales, as represented by sales generated by Soundscan, may not be accurate reflection of overall reggae and dancehall sales in the United States. "Reggae is selling and doing well too. VP would want us to believe that it is not so that they can lower the price that they pay to artistes and producers for their work. Reggae is powerful and continues to do well, even though we don't have the megasellers from a few years ago," No Doubt Records chief executive officer Kemar McGregor told one876entertainment.com after reading the article written last week. "There are several mom and pops stores, small establishments who sell reggae music who are not connected to the Soundscan network throughout the United States. Just check how many reggae stores are in the US, not many of them can afford the machines to register their sales like the big retailers like Walmart, Walgreens, Target, Best Buy and so on. So don't believe it, reggae is doing well," he said. He also criticised VP's business ethics charging that they are underpaying record producers for their work. "Look at Reggae Gold, one of their biggest sellers every year, I feel that Soundscan report is wrong, number one, and furthermore VP can afford to pay the producers more. Look at it, if they sold 46,000 copies, just multiply that by 12, you get 552,000, that's how much they could make according to Soundscan, not even taking into account the small reggae stores. Look at how much VP pays the producers, US$5,000 per track, and if you have say 13 tracks, that is 85,000, then you add their shipping costs and packaging and they are making a killing," McGregor said. "They should pay us fairly for the music that we make because we incur great costs for electricity, paying to voice the artistes and so on, that's why I prefer to own my productions so that when a major label comes knocking, I am in full control," he said. One of the biggest sellers this year has been VP's insanely popular Reggae Gold series with the 2007 edition selling over 46,000 copies after 50 weeks on the chartVP's Strictly the Best series continue to do well with volume 36 cresting sales of over 18,000 copies after 78 weeks on the chart, while volume 37 has sold over 8,000 copies after 27 weeks. As it relates to the local music industry, there is a growing trend among producers to cut the amount of productions, and some have even taken the position of not recording artistes signed to VP. "It no mek no sense record nobody from VP because when we do a song wid dem artiste and it buss, dem come in and say dem own the artiste voice and dem never tell we fi go record dem artiste," one producer confided on the condition of anonymity. "Right now, is like dem a try sign everyone fi capture the reggae market, but mi nah build no artiste who sign to VP, dem need fi know say new stars and singers ah go come 'bout and we nah mek nobody rob we no more."

June 10, 2008. NEW YORK (AP) - A city Health Department study finds that more than a fourth of adult New Yorkers are infected with the virus that causes genital herpes.

The study, released Monday, says about 26 percent of New York City adults have genital herpes, compared to about 19 percent nationwide.

The department says genital herpes can double a person's risk for contracting HIV.

Herpes can cause painful sores, but most people have no recognizable symptoms.

Among New Yorkers, the herpes rate is higher among women, black people and gay men.

The health department urges consistent use of condoms, and says its STD clinics offer free, confidential herpes testing

CHICAGO - R. Kelly told the judge in his child pornography trial Tuesday that he doesn't plan to testify.

fter Judge Vincent Gaughan told Kelly he had a right to not take the stand, the R&B singer leaned forward at the defense table with his hands folded and, speaking for the first time at the trial, responded: "I decided not to testify."

The jury wasn't in the room at the time.

Kelly, 41, has pleaded not guilty to charges that he videotaped himself having sex with an underage girl. Both Kelly and the alleged victim, now 23, have denied being on the tape.

Also Tuesday, the judge ruled that jurors can view the sex tape once they begin deliberating.

Kelly's lawyers had asked the judge to bar jurors from reviewing the graphic video, saying they worried jurors would overemphasize one piece of evidence. But prosecutors argued the tape is the primary subject of the trial and couldn't be kept from jurors.

"People's Exhibit No. 1 is the actual nucleus of the case ... the evidence centers around this exhibit," said prosecutor Shauna Boliker.

Gaughn agreed, but added that he would instruct the jurors before they begin deliberating that they shouldn't put too much emphasis on the tape alone.

A prosecution witness also took the stand for a second time to rebut defense claims about the tape. The defense and prosecution both have rested their cases but video expert Grant Fredericks' testimony is part of the prosecution's right of rebuttal.

A version of the video that the defense used in presenting their case was misleading because it was such low quality, Fredericks told jurors.

The defense argued that in their version of the tape there is no mole on the back of the man who appeared, proving the man is not Kelly, who has such a mole.

But Fredericks says higher quality versions of the tape clearly show a mole on the man's back.

The defense and prosecutors also sparred in court Tuesday about who made certain copies of the tape and whether that may have undermined the defense's case.

Closing arguments are likely to be delivered Thursday.

Ministry hopes transformation project will push up GSAT scores

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

THE Ministry of Education is hoping that the implementation of its transformation project will push the mean score of the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) to 85 per cent by 2015.

This will include emphasising literacy and numeracy at the grade four level before students advance to higher grades.

Presently, the mean score - an average of the national averages by subject - is 54.4 per cent, but the plan is to increase it incrementally by five percentage points each year.
"The task force has set a target that the mean score by 2015 ought to be 85 per cent," Ruel Reid, advisor to the education minister, told the Observer yesterday.

"But we have to bear in mind that the transformation implementation is behind target, so any fall off in those figures ought to be taken in that context," he said.

The results for the 2008 sitting of the exam, published last week, showed that the national averages for Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Language Arts and Communication Tasks were 54.6, 52.3, 55.8, 52.6 and 56.7 per cent, respectively.

The figures showed a marginal improvement over last year's averages - 46.0, 52.1, 51.1, 48.3 and 65.8 for the five subjects - but chief education officer Jasper Lawrence said that the mean scores were not ideal for determining the real success of students.

"We can't just look at the raw figures (because) we don't know how many are doing badly," he said. "It's the mean score, so more than half the students could be performing below that mark. There has been some improvement, but how many of our students are doing well? How many are ready for the secondary curriculum?

"Probably what we need to focus on is the number of students performing at or below a certain score and what we need to concern ourselves with is to reduce the number of students who are not ready for the secondary system," he said.

The education ministry, he added, was in the process of establishing minimum standards for secondary readiness.
"...And not until everybody is over that threshold should we be satisfied (with the GSAT grades)," he said.
Lawrence said every student should be performing at the level that they are guaranteed a place in any of the three schools they choose.

"Everybody can get 90 or 100 in a subject and the system would be able to accommodate all of them. ...It's not so much where they are placed but that they are ready for secondary education," he said.

The quality of scores going into individual schools was not available yesterday but Reid, who is also the principal of Jamaica College in Kingston, told the Observer that on a whole the averages for traditional high schools were "qualitatively quite high" and that non-traditional schools were receiving "top-level" students too.

Clarendon cops spruce up Canaan Heights Basic School

Corey Robinson Tuesday, June 10, 2008

THE Clarendon Crime Prevention Committee (CCPC) last Thursday spruced up the Canaan Heights Basic School in the parish, as part of its efforts to improve relations with residents of the violence-prone community.

More than 50 officers holstered their pistols and picked up paint brushes, brooms, machetes and other tools to give the basic school a well-deserved facelift.

While classes were still in progress for the more than 50 students enrolled at the institution, the officers repainted the outside walls, cleared land and planted gardens on the school grounds. A handful of mostly female residents also helped in the day's activities.

"Canaan Heights suffer from a lot of stigma, crime and violence and wanton shootings, so the police wanted to do some intervention in the community starting at the basic school," said Albert Bailey, member of the Canaan Heights development committee.

"We are very happy for this clean-up project, in fact we wanted to do a Labour Day project, but because the police wanted to do some intervention activities in the community, we decided to hold off," Principal Elese Patterson told the Observer. She said interaction between the police and the mostly male students would help to foster a non-violent mindset from a tender age.

The CCPC efforts, however, seemed to have been limited in terms of making the majority of the residents aware of the activities at the school.

The low turnout of residents, however, did not dampen the spirit of the police. According to constable Camay Watson, Clarendon residents are becoming increasingly aware of police interventions being undertaken in the parish.

"The fact that it is community activity being undertaken by the police normally you would find residents supporting it. Today's activity is a one-day thing but interventions are ongoing and the word is being spread as we speak, so you will see more residents coming out as the programmes continue," Watson told the Observer.

 

Do you have more than one partner that you are having an intimate relationship with? How do you balance that lifestyle? Do you distribute the time evenly or you just link whosoever that is available? 
 

Mr. Vegas celebrates ten years in the business with West Coast Tour After two amazing performances in Los Angeles, including stops at UCLA while on the Irish and Chin Campus Rave Tour and Jamaican Gold, Irish and Chin, Inc. has decided to commemorate Mr. Vegas' 10th Anniversary with a West Coast Tour. The management team believes that a West Coast Tour is an ideal vehicle of celebrating Mr. Vegas' success and longevity in the Reggae music industry. And they feel that it gives fans on the West Coast a chance to thoroughly enjoy the Mr. Vegas experience. Impressively, in this 10 year time period, Mr. Vegas has managed to hold strong, despite that many artists in the genre have come and gone. "After 10 years worth of music, I have reached a milestone in my career," commented a visibly excited Mr. Vegas. "I've never dreamt of being in the business and continuously having hits for so long with songs like 'Nike Air' all the way up to 'Tek Weh Yuhself' and 'Hot Wuk'." With popular new songs 'Mus Come A Road' and 'Daggering' already tearing up the airwaves and creating a stir in the dancehall, Mr. Vegas is more than ready to bring it to the West Coast massive and perform for all of those who missed him at UCLA and Jamaican Gold. Mr. Vegas will also continue 10th Anniversary celebrations in New York, Miami and of course Jamaica. "Fans can expect all of my hits but with a special twist - I really would like to rock each concert with an acoustic 'unplugged' type of vibe," shared Mr. Vegas when asked what his fans on the West Coast can expect. Get Ready! Mr. Vegas is coming to a city near you. For over a decade, Mr. Vegas has kept up the momentum by entertaining fans with timeless hit after hit. His most recent studio album Hot It Up, distributed by Delicious Vinyl, has been embraced by the massive. Notably, the racy single "Hot Wuk" landed on the Billboard charts. Mr. Vegas recently completed his Campus Rave Tour to great reviews. In August 2007, Mr. Vegas signed onto Irish and Chin, Inc. to manage his career.

camcorder.jpgThe warning is out for artistes to be careful for the kind of sexual pleasure they indulge in. If you don't know let us buss a secret, the kinkier your requests the more likely you will end up on a video tape done by the women themselves. YardFlex recently came across a video from Atlanta featuring a prominent dancehall artiste and trust us when we say 'No One' can achieve this c****ination like the artiste who was begging to perform anal sex on his co-star and it's all captured on tape. The girl refused cause she is not that kinky but she is disappointed to the max to think that the ras that she looked up to could suggest a thing like that. But fi real, anno di same ras lick out gainst another ras weh day and call him batty bwoy and den come meck a request like da one yah! Whe him fi know is dat whether yuh approach a woman or a man, yuh a still fish. YardFlex held back the tape for one reason and one reason only - and that out of respect for his baby mother...who is a close friend of ours and a big fan of the site...Ras, we surprise.

MediaTakeOut.com just got the official word that Ashanti's album The Declaration sold approximately 90,000 units in its first week. By all accounts, this is a stunning and disastrous failure for Ashanti.

But the news gets worse. MediaTakeOut.com told you last week that Ashanti had developed a parity website where you can fictionally kill a person whom has done you wrong (See the site here). Well, a number of African American activist groups are set to protest outside of Universal Music headquarters in Los Angles. The groups claim that Ashanti's website promotes violence.

Here's the official statement of Najee Ali - founder of Project Islamic Hope - one of the protesting agencies:

Ashanti should be ashamed of herself. Her participation in the glorification of violence in her music video sends a horrible message to thousands of impressionable youths worldwide who are accessing the unedited video that is being promoted by Universal Music/Motown on their website.

Here's what Paul Porter, co-founder of Industry Ears, another group protesting Ashanti today - had to say:

Universal Music and Motown continue to promote black violence and stereotypes without corporate responsibility. Ashanti's senseless promotion is evidence that commercial hip hop is dieing fast.

Instead of producing and promoting a quality project, Ashanti and Universal have decided to deliver another typical ho hum project that the corporate blue suits have signed off on.

Weak sales projections of less then 75k for first week sales have prompted this mess. Even BET had to edit some of Ashanti's video content.

Hopefully Doug Morris at Universal will explain why his company is insensitive to urban violence."

Ouch - they're really going hard at our girl. Times are tough out there though

COLUMBIA, S.C. - A 4-year-old girl shot herself in the chest Monday after snatching her grandmother's handgun from the woman's purse while riding in a shopping cart at a Sam's Club store, authorities said.

A witness, Lueen Homewood, said store workers grabbed first-aid materials off store shelves to help the grandmother as she cradled the wounded child near the store's pharmacy, The (Columbia) State newspaper reported on its Web site.

The girl was rushed to a hospital in critical condition and was recovering Monday afternoon after surgery, said police department spokesman Brick Lewis. Hospital officials would not release her condition after the operation.

Lewis said the grandmother, Donna Hutto Williamson, has a permit to carry a concealed weapon and the purse containing the small-caliber handgun was in the cart near the child. The 47-year-old Williamson, of Salley, was not immediately charged with a crime.

Williamson, a South Carolina magistrate, was distraught after the shooting, her mother-in-law said.

"The grandmother is just beating herself up," said Inease Williamson, 68. "She is just so upset. Everyone is upset."

Officials said the shooting, which was captured on store surveillance cameras, appeared to be accidental. Lewis said police would not release the video.

The store was closed while police investigated the shooting. It reopened Monday afternoon.

"Everyone at Sam's Club is deeply saddened by today's tragedy," Tara Stewart, state spokeswoman for Wal-Mart and Sam's Club, said in a statement. "Our thoughts and prayers are with the little girl and her family."

Concealed weapons permit holders in South Carolina are not allowed to carry weapons into buildings that prohibit it, or into government buildings, schools and daycare facilities, among other places.

The Sam's Club store does not have a sign prohibiting guns inside.

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Police are theorizing that the motive for the murder of publicist Marc Johnson on Sunday morning was robbery. However, it was not immediately clear if the publicist knew his attackers as the investigations are ongoing. Johnson was a well-known figure in local entertainment circles because of his offbeat sense of humour, witty ripostes and sunny, engaging personality. Marc, his friends say, had the singular ability to light up a room with his b****astic presence. He has worked with leading entertainment figures such as former dancehall queen Carlene Smith, the British Link Up crew, Stone Love Movements, Shocking Vibes Productions, and most recently, as a publicist for deejay Michelle D'Angel Downer. Former dancehall queen Carlene Smith has known for Marc for 23 years, ever since she was 14 years old. Marc was a memorable person, you could never forget him. He was going to come and tease you, trouble you, tell you some ridiculous thing. He had the presence of a star, when he walked into a room he made his presence felt, she said. Marcs zany quirks included a habit of getting up in the middle of a conversation and just dancing ballet. I told him to make his mom sign him up earlier in the next life. He was always trying to do that, she joked. He had a passion for life and living and he was so much a part of my life," she said, her voice breaking a little. "He would call me at any time in the early morning. He is really a part of my world, I know a lot of people, and not many people are a part of my world but Marc was my closest, dearest friend.. She was quick to dismiss rumours that Marc had died in a sexually compromising position at the hands of a gay lover. She said he was beaten, robbed and finally strangled with an electrical cord. The incident happened at about 10:00 on Sunday morning. A caretaker found his body later that afternoon. I havent slept since yesterday, I will miss him...there were times when I didnt see him for two weeks, then I would see him 24-7, but those days will never come again, but I have many cherished memories, Carlene said. Two years ago Marc Johnson survived an attack where he was stabbed 14 times and his throat slashed by unknown attackers.

A POLICEMAN who died on a firearms training exercise was shot dead by a colleague, investigators have revealed.

PC Ian Terry, 32, was fatally wounded while he was taking part in the exercise run by the Greater Manchester Police firearms unit at a disused warehouse in Newton Heath.

Paramedics rushed to the scene and tried to revive the officer. He was taken to North Manchester General Hospital where surgeons tried to save him but he died shortly after arrival.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has launched an investigation and said initial enquiries showed that PC Terry died 'after being struck by a single shot discharged from a shotgun carried by a colleague.'

Naseem Malik, IPCC commissioner for the North West, said: My sympathies go out to the family and friends of the man who died. This must have been a very traumatic experience also for all the officers involved in the exercise. I will ensure a thorough investigation is conducted to determine the full circumstances of the incident.

PC Terry, from Burnley, Lancs, had been a firearms officer since 2002 after joining the police force in 1997 and was described as a "highly regarded" officer.

He was taking part in a pre-planned exercise involving firearms officers from Greater Manchester Police in a huge disused warehouse, known locally as the Sharp building, in Newton Heath. The fatal shot was fired at around 11.35 am on Monday.

Dave Whatton, acting chief constable of Greater Manchester Police, said: "This was a tragic incident and our thoughts are with Ian's family and friends. He was a well-respected officer and will be sadly missed."

He added: "Everybody from Greater Manchester Police is devastated with the news we have all received and the loss of a highly regarded colleague and friend to many officers in the Greater Manchester force."

A formal statement released by GMP said: "A police officer has died after he suffered a gunshot wound during a training exercise in north Manchester earlier today, Monday, June 9, 2008.

"The officer suffered a serious chest injury and was taken to North Manchester General Hospital where he died."

A large area at the back of the former Sharp Electronics distribution centre was cordoned off and forensics officers could be seen taking photographs of two weapons at the scene.


Speaking in the Commons, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith told MPs: "The whole House will be saddened to learn of the tragic death today of a police officer during a training exercise with Greater Manchester Police.

"This demonstrates the dangers that police officers face on our behalf.

"I am sure that the whole House will join with me in expressing our deepest sympathy to the officer's family, friends and colleagues."

Several mourners at a funeral in Lance's Bay, Hanover, were injured after lightning struck the church on Sunday evening.

THE STAR was told that during the funeral, while it was raining lightly, a bolt of lightning struck and five people were hit.

One resident of the community, who was on her way to the church, told THE STAR what happened. "Quite a number of people were struck by the lightning. When I went there, I heard they had gone to the hospital."

She said one woman's dress was burnt but she was not injured, and another reportedly received two injections at the hospital.

Another resident, who was at the funeral, told THE STAR what she witnessed. "We were there at the funeral and about 2:30 or some time like dat, the rain was barely falling and out of the blue, lightning struck. It was terrible. It was horrible. People were lying on their backs and some people's clothes were burnt. It hit me hard on my hand too. It was my worst experience with something like that. I don't know how to explain it to you. I wouldn't want to experience anything like that again."

She said about six people were taken to hospital and told THE STAR about one woman who reportedly had metal in her arm because it had been broken. She said this woman was hit very hard and now will have to visit the hospital to get an X-ray done.

The funeral reportedly continued, but since the incident, which damaged the electrical wires, the church has been without power.

A PEEPING Tom has been banned from owning a camera phone for a year - after he secretly filmed a woman in an airport toilet.

Samuel Ong, 19, sneaked into a female toilet at Singapores Changi Airport earlier this year and used his camera phone to snap shots of a woman from under the cubicle door.

Banned

 

The woman caught him and reported him to the police.

Ong pleaded guilty to the filming his victim and was banned from having a camera phone.

He must also do 60 hours of community service, observe a curfew as part of his sentence and continue psychiatric treatment, the Straits Times reported.

Ongs lawyer pleaded for leniency saying that he was a good student and that he regretted bringing shame to his family.

Crime continues to plague the tourism capital following three murders on the weekend, including that of a minor.

The first incident occurred Saturday morning when unknown assailants fatally shot 34-year-old shopkeeper, Ceon Campbell of Paradise Crescent in Montego Bay, at his business place.

Police report

According to the police liaison officer for St James, Constable Richam Davis, citizens reportedly heard a loud explosion about 7:30 a.m., after which they saw gunmen running from Campbell's shop.

It was further reported that during their escape, one of the gunmen fired a shot at a passing motorist which caught him in his upper body. Both men were rushed to the hospital where Campbell died while undergoing treatment. The motorist has since been admitted in stable condition.

Meanwhile, 16-year-old Rodeika Duncan and 25-year-old Junior Jarrett were both shot and killed by gunmen in the Paradise-Norwood community Sunday morning.

A 52-year-old man was also shot and injured in the incident.

All three persons are residents of Paradise-Norwood.

According to police reports, about 12:15 a.m., Jarrett and Duncan were reportedly having an argument along North Street in downtown Montego Bay when they were approached by gunmen, who shot them several times.

During their escape, the gunmen turned their guns on the 52-year-old man.

The police were called and the injured persons taken to hospital. Jarrett and Duncan were pronounced dead and the other man admitted in serious but stable condition.

Grenada and Jamaica face each other in a friendly international today at the National Stadium.

The Spice Boyz are hoping to use the game to fine tune their preparation ahead of a crucial World Cup qualifier against Costa Rica on Saturday on home soil.

Jamaica are preparing to start their campaign for the 2010 World Cup with a two-way series against The Bahamas on June 15 and 18.

Grenada's national coach Norris Wilson is concerned about the proximity of today's warm-up fixture to Saturday's encounter with the Costa Ricans.

He does not intend to keep most of the leading players on the field for long periods to safeguard against injuries.

"We will be playing most of our players for a full game," he told CMC Sports yesterday.

"We will be putting them on and pulling them off very frequently. We are trying to avoid injury since its just about three days between the games. It's too close."

Grenada drew 1-1 with the England-C side last week, and boast a number of internationals in their line-up such as Blackburn Rovers striker Jason Roberts and New England Revolution's Shalrie Joseph.

Wilson said the Spice Boyz are ready for the Reggae Boyz, who he says play a tough attacking game similarly to their local counterparts.

Prime Minister Bruce Golding has maintained a nine percentage point lead over Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller as the person who Jamaicans say is best able to run the country at this time.

But Simpson Miller has seen a sharp climb in her favourability rating, moving her ahead of Golding for the first time in almost one year.

That should be good news for Simpson Miller, who is still facing the possibility of a challenge for the leadership of the People's National Party (PNP), even as the prospect of a general election looms.

The latest Bill Johnson polls show Golding with 42 per cent support when Jamaicans were asked which of the two leaders would do a better job of running the country. This was an almost unchanged position from the 41 per cent who gave Golding the nod when the poll was conducted last November.

Best person

Golding has been ahead of Simpson Miller in the contest for the best person to lead the country since August last year when he outperformed her in a pre-election debate and moved to the front with 41 per cent support. At that time, the popular Simpson Miller had 40 per cent support, leaving the two party leaders in a statistical dead heat.

But since then, two Bill Johnson polls have shown Golding's rating consistent in the 45-46 per cent region and Simpson Miller struggling to catch up.

The popular PNP president also saw a sharp decline in her personal support, which dipped to 39 per cent last year after reaching dizzying heights in the immediate aftermath of her victory in the PNP's internal election.

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But Johnson now shows Simpson Miller with an upswing of 11 percentage points, moving her to 52 per cent.

Three in ten Jamaicans had an unfavourable opinion of Simpson Miller while 18 per cent said they were not sure.

This is the best showing for Simpson Miller since last year when her favourability rating started to plummet.

The Bill Johnson poll was conducted on May 31 and June 1 in 84 communities with 1,008 respondents. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus three per cent.

For Johnson, this is a clear indication that Simpson Miller remains the more popular of the two leaders with the numbers showing her approval rating four percentage points above Golding.

But the pollster notes that, even among PNP supporters, there are question marks about her ability to lead the country at this time.

According to Johnson, 85 per cent of the people who voted JLP in the last election support Golding as the best person to lead the country at this time while six per cent say Simpson Miller, nine per cent are undecided.

However, 10 per cent of the people who voted PNP say Golding is the man for the PM's job while 71 per cent say Simpson Miller nineteen per cent are undecided.

"Despite of the trying times, including the problems of crime and the riding cost of living, Golding remains the popular choice as the person to lead the country," Johnson noted.

Lil Wayne, "Tha Carter III" (Universal Motown)

More than most rappers, Lil Wayne is a master at self-mythologizing. Like his predecessors the Notorious B.I.G. and Jay-Z, Wayne claims of no longer writing down his lyrics before recording. Given the volume of record-stealing guest appearances and the flood of mixtapes since his last studio album, "Tha Carter II" (2005), that free-association songwriting approach seems all the more remarkable. So much so that he has claimed to be the best rapper alive.

Now with the release of "Tha Carter III," Wayne attempts live up to his own hype, but falls short. The disc is a frustratingly uneven effort that's filled safe songs aimed at commercial radio and a few quirky cuts that feature Wayne's bizarre sense of humor and inflated opinion of his rap skills. The best of the latter is "A Milli," a bizarre, breathless rundown of Wayne's self-worth: "Threw the pencil and leak on the sheet of the tablet in my mind/Cause I don't write (expletive) cause I ain't got time/Cause my seconds, minutes, hours go to the all mighty dollar." He gets conceptual on the jazzy, Swizz Beatz-produced "Dr. Carter," on which he diagnoses and cures rap's ailments. Later Kanye West lends a soaring soul sample under Wayne's staccato, twangy flow on "Let the Beat Build." And on "Phone Home," he channels E.T. in a semi-robotic cadence: "We are not the same/ I am a martian."

However, it's obvious that Wayne's rap ambition is more dependent on radio play than true experimentation. Hence, there are Auto-Tuned throwaway ditties "Got Money" with T-Pain and the ubiquitous first single, "Lollipop" featuring the late Static Major. And he further tempers the out-there moments with conventional R&B hooks and smoothed-out grooves Robin Thicke, Bobby Valentino and Babyface all make appearances. Ultimately the gloss seems to dull Wayne's potential to be one of rap's true innovators.

CHECK OUT THIS TRACK: On the clever "Dr. Carter," Wayne plays Dr. Phil urging rappers to "stand out like Andre 3K" and then offers to put "more vocab in your IV." Yahoo news

Summer is fast approaching and its indeed the summer for parties and a time where there is a big buzz in the music industry as every artist and producer try to have something hot for the streets that could possibly be the anthem for the summer.


It is understand that Zip jock turn producer Zj Liquid is wasting no time and has already started the crusade with the release of his brand new spanking project called Infared Riddim. The riddim was debut yesterday on the Fresh To Death Wednesday.

The Riddim built from last yearwas originally slated for release in April this year but the jock decided now would be the time to unleashed the project. Some of the big name on the compilation are Grammy Kids, Beeenie man and Sean Paul, the Gangsta ras Munga Honorabel, T.O.K, Assassin, the Gully god Movado and fast rising deejay Wasp

 Now, this looks like the real Barack Obama..............

  



With his Mother Ann
StepDad Lolo, Mother Ann & half sister MayaDad Barack,SrGrandparentsDad Grandmother in KenyaHalf sister Maya in Hawaii'The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others'- Mahatma Gandhi 

 

Milky One L-l-l-icks it like a Lollipop

09 Jun 2008 | by Abena, Freelance Writer

MILKY ONE'S SEXY VIDEO FOOTAGE ROCKS KINGSTON
The whole ah the Corporate Area ah talk 'bout the video weh ah circulate hard wid a certain well know TV personality and a certain popular disc jock. But me finally see it last night when mi girlfriend Bluetooth it to mi phone and jah know, my girl deal wid it a way, some woman affi go tek notes or use it as a training video on how to be the perfect wife. She l-l-licked it like a lollilop. Still, mi no understand what the big scandal is for, ah several years the two ah dem de, and the video do from about 2005 so what's the big deal? It happen inna dem owna bedroom and everybody know say the Milky One nuh ramp fi sort out her man. So wha the big deal? But it kinda suspicious how it just leak out at this time, wah dem say? The phone lost? That kinda weak, it come in like she have nuff enemy out there, or maybe is true she and the big man inna tings again mek her enemies decide fi try destroy her. But dem say when yu a dig a hole, just dig two, and the Milky One is a survivor, memba dat!


the phone CAM again
Yow Mi waan see the Vid so if any a u have it u done know..

-- Edited by Glitch at 17:11, 2008-06-10

Presidential hopeful has a lot of explaining to do. Not for his politics, but for what he did to his first wife. MediaTakeOut.com has learned that McCain, whom the mainstream media portrays as a descent man - is far from it. In a report by the British paper the Daily Mail, McCain apparently left his wife while she was on her deathbed - for a teenage socialite.

Here's how they report it:

[McCain] was shot down over Hanoi in October 1967 on his 23rd mission over North Vietnam and was badly beaten by an angry mob when he was pulled, half-drowned from a lake.

Over the next five-and-a-half years in the notorious Hoa Loa Prison he was regularly tortured and mistreated.

It was in 1969 that Carol went to spend the Christmas holiday her third without McCain at her parents home. After dinner, she left to drop off some presents at a friends house. It wasnt until some hours later that she was discovered, alone and in terrible pain, next to the wreckage of her car. She had been hurled through the windscreen.

And after the accident, Carol was reportedly in bad shape - and McCain started playing the field:

When McCain his hair turned prematurely white and his body reduced to little more than a skeleton was released in March 1973, he told reporters he was overjoyed to see Carol again.

But friends say privately he was appalled by the change in her appearance. At first, though, he was kind, assuring her: I dont look so good myself. Its fine.

I thought, of course, we would live happily ever after, says Carol. But as a war hero, McCain was moving in ever-more elevated circles.

The he met Cindy McCain - a wealthy teenager whos dad had enough money to finance his political ambitions:

In 1979 while still married to Carol he met Cindy at a cocktail party in Hawaii. Over the next six months he pursued her, flying around the country to see her. Then he began to push to end his marriage.

Here's what some of McCain's pals say happened:

They portray the politician as a self-centred womaniser who effectively abandoned his crippled wife to play the field. They accuse him of finally settling on Cindy, a former rodeo beauty queen, for financial reasons.

McCain was then earning little more than £25,000 a year as a naval officer, while his new father-in-law, Jim Hensley, was a multi-millionaire who had impeccable political connections.

Here's how one of McCain's former friends puts it:

This is a guy who makes such a big deal about his character. He has no character. He is a fake. If there was any character in that first marriage, it all belonged to Carol.

Wonder if the mainstream press will go with this story

A service launched by BT which offers to improve broadband speeds or "your money back" has been branded expensive.

As part of its Home IT Support service, BT has pledged to improve broadband speeds by at least 0.5Mbps (megabits per second).

But with a price tag of £90, some industry watchers suggest users find alternative ways of upping speeds.

Broadband speeds vary for a variety of reasons, including distance from the telephone exchange.

Accurate speed

TOP TEN ISPS FOR SPEED* O2 - 6.4Mbps Be - 5.5Mbps Virgin Media - 4.1Mbps Sky - 3.8Mbps PlusNet - 3.2Mbps Post Office - 3.0Mbps TalkTalk - 2.9Mbps BT - 2.8Mbps Demon - 2.8Mbps Orange - 2.7Mbps *Average speeds. Data supplied by TopTenBroadband

The BT Broadband Accelerator service offers to investigate reasons for a slow connection, including tweaks to the performance of a PC, as well as more complex problems such as rewiring sockets or improving the general wiring in the home.

It promises to boost broadband by at least 0.5Mbps with the promise of a refund if that is not achieved.

The service will be offered by BT's Home IT Support service, which sends engineers to peoples' homes to sort out technical issues.

Speed, and the lack of it, remains an extremely hot topic among consumers.

The subject attracted more comment on the BBC's website than any other in its history when it was discussed last week.

Many consumers are disappointed that services promising speeds of up to 8Mbps are falling far short of this.

As a result of complaints, regulator Ofcom now wants companies to publish accurate estimates of the maximum connection speeds people can expect before they buy broadband packages.

A UFO had a mid-air collision with a fighter jet over central Europe, a shock leaked report has revealed.

 

Defence chiefs are investigating claims that the Romanian MIG 21 fighter plane was struck by strange objects.

 

The official report says the cockpit of the jet was shattered.

Meteorites

 

Romanian defence ministry officials have ruled out all normal types of collision such as birdstrikes, ice or small meteorites.

 

Chief investigator Commander Nicolae Grigorie said in the report: "We can definitely say what this thing was not, but we cannot say what it was."

 

The impact on a training flight above Transylvania took only 67 milliseconds and was recorded on an in-flight video camera.

 

Pilot Marin Mitrica was slightly injured but managed to land the plane safely after the incident in 2007.

 

Baffled defence chiefs have now passed the UFO incident on to the Security Committee of European Air Forces for investigation.

Eighty-plus national appearances were hardly a cure for the uneasiness Andy Williams felt as he took the field for Jamaica's recent friendly football international against St Vincent and the Grenadines.

After nearly three years of largely self-imposed national team exile, the veteran, long respected for his composure on the field, had been nudged out of his comfort zone.

"Of course I was nervous," Williams admitted with a laugh yesterday. "It's been a while since I felt like that."

He had plenty reasons to be. It was his first game for the Reggae Boyz since retiring in frustration, following the 2005 Gold Cup in the United States. In addition, the match was being played at the National Stadium where vociferous supporters at 'The Office' can be as intensely kind to their favoured Boyz as they are cruel when they fail to live up to their expectations.

Almost brand new

For Williams, everything was almost brand new. He arrived in the Boyz' camp two days before the game, enough time for one to "basically walk through" a training session. Except for a few familiar faces, like Ian Goodison, Deon Burton, Donovan Ricketts and captain Ricardo 'Bibi' Gardner, most of his teammates were playing alongside him for the first time. His role was a bit different too - a variation from the bold, goal-hungry approach of former years which had earned him the nickname 'B****er'. Williams took no chances.

Keeping it simple

"I was going out there not to make mistakes," he said. "Keep it simple."

While public reviews of his performance were mixed - Williams graded himself "about a C-plus" - Jamaica's technical director René Simoes appears satisfied. Simoes has invited Williams to rejoin the Boyz for the two qualifiers - June 15 and 18 - against The Bahamas in Jamaica, although the midfielder had to return to his US Major League Soccer club Real Salt Lake (RSL) after the St Vincent game, missing friendlies against Trinidad and Tobago and Grenada.

It appears the B****er is back, and he's enjoying himself, even if Williams is still surprised by his fortune.

"It was kind of surreal," he said about his recall, despite playing regularly for RSL. "I didn't really expect to be there, but I appreciated the invite. It's fun, pretty cool."

Part of his apprehension related an old disagreement with Simoes, which began during the Brazilian's last stint in Jamaica. But fences were quickly mended after coach and player met following a recent RSL game.

"We just washed all the bad vibes under the table," Williams said. "Both of us."

In his recent short stint in the Boyz' camp, Williams noticed the Brazilian's approach is different from the 1998 campaign when he led Jamaica to World Cup finals in France. Experience, it seems, earns respect.

"It's kinda funny," Williams said. "Coach Simoes liked talking to the seniors (back then), like (the late Peter) Cargill, (Theodore) 'Tappa' (Whitmore) and (Linval) 'Rudy' (Dixon). So this time around he was talking to me a lot more."

Reviving Whitmore/Cargill role

With that respect should come more responsibility for the 30-year-old. Against St Vincent, Williams said he was asked to help channel the youthful aggression of the team to fit the coach's demand for more ball possession. It was like reviving the old Whitmore/Cargill role. But Williams said he's ready to make any adjustment the team needs, reminding THE STAR that he did exactly that during the 1998 campaign.

"(Simoes) wants a certain amount of passes each game and for me to control the pace of the game," he explained.

"In '98 I started as a forward, then moved to attacking midfield where I was pushing and trying to score more then. He's looking for someone to control things now."

Williams is keen to make other adjustments as well, like getting to know his new teammates. He agrees with Simoes that the Boyz' talent pool may be deeper than in 1998 when Jamaica qualified for the World Cup with Williams as a 20-year-old.

"It's much better now," he said. "There are about 20 overseas-based and 10 locals (in camp)."

In '98 it was the reverse. Yet Williams is already impressed with local-based youngsters like Evon Taylor. The teenaged midfielder's debut against St Vincent was enough to convince him that Taylor "has potential, and could be just as good as 'Bibi'."

Williams is content now, coming out of retirement, hoping he can contribute in a big way to Jamaica's bid to qualify for World Cup 2010 in South Africa. It's partly to prove he can still play at the highest level, after such a long layoff, and partly to reward those who believe in him.

Pretty happy

"I'm pretty happy with the situation I'm in," said the 10-year MLS veteran, who has scored a dozen goals for Jamaica. "I appreciate the fact that Simoes is willing to take a chance on me. It's my chance to repay the faith of the coach and the public."

However, Williams is not expecting another bout of nervousness for future matches, which should allow him to assert himself more.

"There are a lot of games coming up," he said. "It's just for me to get used to being back in the national team ... Once I feel more comfortable you'll see the old Andy again."

Gordon Williams is a Jamaican journalist based in the United States.

Ministry hopes transformation project will push up GSAT scores

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

THE Ministry of Education is hoping that the implementation of its transformation project will push the mean score of the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) to 85 per cent by 2015.

This will include emphasising literacy and numeracy at the grade four level before students advance to higher grades.

Presently, the mean score - an average of the national averages by subject - is 54.4 per cent, but the plan is to increase it incrementally by five percentage points each year.
"The task force has set a target that the mean score by 2015 ought to be 85 per cent," Ruel Reid, advisor to the education minister, told the Observer yesterday.

"But we have to bear in mind that the transformation implementation is behind target, so any fall off in those figures ought to be taken in that context," he said.

The results for the 2008 sitting of the exam, published last week, showed that the national averages for Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Language Arts and Communication Tasks were 54.6, 52.3, 55.8, 52.6 and 56.7 per cent, respectively.

The figures showed a marginal improvement over last year's averages - 46.0, 52.1, 51.1, 48.3 and 65.8 for the five subjects - but chief education officer Jasper Lawrence said that the mean scores were not ideal for determining the real success of students.

"We can't just look at the raw figures (because) we don't know how many are doing badly," he said. "It's the mean score, so more than half the students could be performing below that mark. There has been some improvement, but how many of our students are doing well? How many are ready for the secondary curriculum?

"Probably what we need to focus on is the number of students performing at or below a certain score and what we need to concern ourselves with is to reduce the number of students who are not ready for the secondary system," he said.

The education ministry, he added, was in the process of establishing minimum standards for secondary readiness.
"...And not until everybody is over that threshold should we be satisfied (with the GSAT grades)," he said.
Lawrence said every student should be performing at the level that they are guaranteed a place in any of the three schools they choose.

"Everybody can get 90 or 100 in a subject and the system would be able to accommodate all of them. ...It's not so much where they are placed but that they are ready for secondary education," he said.

The quality of scores going into individual schools was not available yesterday but Reid, who is also the principal of Jamaica College in Kingston, told the Observer that on a whole the averages for traditional high schools were "qualitatively quite high" and that non-traditional schools were receiving "top-level" students too.

The self-styled Gangstress seems to have hit the jackpot with her latest Falling Down video with its riches-to-rags storyline. The video kicks off with a man stepping out of a Toyota Pajero, and heading to work, then the scene cuts to Stacious and her friend crossing the road. As their paths cross, the man reaches out and spots Stacious on her magnificient butt. Angered by this blatant show of disrespect, she gets up in his face, but he laughs it off, and hooks up with her friend.

The video cuts to a scene showing the guy gambling at a roulette table while sandwhiched by pretty girls. He is winning, and flossing, raining down money, however, his luck soon turns traitor, and the girls leave his side, one by one. Finally, his pockets are empty and he is ushered out by a security guard.

Several weeks later, the video cuts to a shot of the former flosser apparently living the bums life on the street, his clothes ragged and torn, and his teeth looking like blackened stumps in his mouth. He spots Stacious, dressed in a sparkling white nurses uniform, and comes up to her window, presumably to wash her car for a lickle ting. She shoos him away initially, but after a while, she relents and peels him a few US dollars and instructs him to wash her vehicle.

In this visually excellent video by Jay Will, there is an impressive succession of great  clothes and stylish looks for Stacious, including a blue glittering suit with sexy cutouts for the ass and back, and complimented by white boots, one where she is red glasses, red hair and a pullover, a shot with her sporting green hair with green beads and accessories, a gangster look with orange shirt and a black hat, and my favourite, a hot red and black number accentuated by a cross attached to a swinging silver chain.

Stacious superstar friends show up in the video as well with Mavado, Red Rat, Natalie Storm and Tifa lending support. Dancers Mad Michelle and Keiva also add a certain flair to the video. This is easily one of the best videos shot this year, and judging by the buzz on the single which appears on the John John Muzik/Doc Mac Entertainment label, it could be her biggest hit to date.

Principals say improved GSAT results offer hope

Kimone Thompson Tuesday, June 10, 2008

THE Jamaica Association of Principals of Secondary Schools (JAPSS) says it is hopeful that the improvement in this year's Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) scores, though marginal, is a sign of better things to come.

"What it probably means is that those regions that have been lagging behind have been catching up because those at the primary level have been doing a lot of remedial work and obviously that is taking root," said President Nadine Molloy.

This year's national average for Mathematics was 54.6 per cent compared to 46.0 per cent in 2007; Science recorded a marginal increase with 52.3 per cent up from last year's 52.1; Social Studies moved up by almost five points, averaging at 55.8 per cent; Language Arts registered 52.6 as against the 48.3 per cent average of 2007.

The only subject in which the 2008 national score fell below that of last year was Communication Studies with 56.7 per cent as opposed to 2007's 65.8 per cent.

"For us at the secondary level," Molloy continued, "it simply means we are hopeful that our programmes will fall on more fertile ground and that as the students progress through the secondary system they will be continue to improve."

Responding to reports that the education ministry was dissatisfied with the scores, Molloy said she could understand if the ministry was disappointed, especially if a target had been set. She, however, noted that her association still had a responsibility to acknowledge the improvement.

"I'm not sure if a target had been set and what it was but with what has been happening in our system, if there is an improvement, we should acknowledge and applaud it," she said.

The ministry's Student Assessment Unit said students to receive scholarships won't know before next week since the scholarship committee only met yesterday. It also said that further analyses of the results would be available as of this week.

MILKY ONE'S SEXY VIDEO FOOTAGE ROCKS KINGSTON The whole ah the Corporate Area ah talk 'bout the video weh ah circulate hard wid a certain well know TV personality and a certain popular disc jock. But me finally see it last night when mi girlfriend Bluetooth it to mi phone and jah know, my girl deal wid it a way, some woman affi go tek notes or use it as a training video on how to be the perfect wife. Still, mi no understand what the big scandal is for, ah several years the two ah dem de, and the video do from about 2005 so what's the big deal? It happen inna dem owna bedroom and everybody know say the Milky One nuh ramp fi sort out her man. So wha the big deal? But it kinda suspicious how it just leak out at this time, it come in like she have nuff enemy out there, or maybe is true she de back wid the big man mek her enemies decide fi try destroy her. But dem say when yu a dig a hole, dig two, and the Milky One is a survivor, memba dat! BOUNTY FOR ASYLUM PERFORMANCE Bounty_Killer.jpgMi hear say the Cross, Angry and Miserable one will be holding centrestage at the Asylum nightclub later this week, and the show will be held on his birthday. The club supposed to ram that night, but right now, me hear nuff man ah pree the ting and say dem caan afford fi spend $2,000 fi go the bikini party, but dem no understand say is a plan Bounty and him friend dem have, dem waan all the girls to themselves. Bounty mussi ah look a new browning fi the Summer, Alliance in the building! GHETTO LINXX PRODUCTIONS TO THE WORLD There is a new force rising in the music industry - Ghetto Linxx. Remember Kirk, Idonia's manager who everybody thought was his brother? Yea, well, since him and Idonia split, him tek time fi build something fi himself, him have him owna studio and production house and him have some sick thing him a drop fi the Summer. Him also a manage a yute name Khaos who mad! The streets dem say him ah the D-d-d-donia. Big up Kirk, ghetto yutes ah rise and dem caan stop it. SUNDAY WAS BUSY, MONEY ON SUNDAYS SELL RIGHT OFF Yo, yesterday was mad, first me and mi girlfriends dem end up over HYPE TV ting over Lime Cay, and then inna the night we go Passion Sundays, then check out Macka Diamond's Money O Sundays outta Old Harbour before we end the night at Prendy's. Mi not even get teh chance fi go Lena British ting over Plymouth Avenue inna Millsborough. The way mi tired, mi just a write a quick thing, then go back ah mi bed go hold a meds. Mi wi tell yu bout it later. THE PEOPLE WAAN FI KNOW... Who is Sparkles, and Ian Money Muss and all these things? Why dem and Scratchy B inna tings? If is true say Red Stripe nah sponsor the annual Negril parties this year? No RTI? When Beenie Man court case ah go done? Dem a drag it out and stifle mi deejay? Who ah lead pon the Estrogen riddim? Timbaland, Queen Paula, Tifa or Stacious? When Mark Ward plan fi step up the promotion pon him new riddim?

GIRLS!!!

When a GIRL is quiet, Millions of things are running in her mind.


When a GIRL is not arguing, she is thinking deeply.


When a GIRL looks at you with eyes full of questions, she is
wondering how long you will be around.


When a GIRL answers 'I'm fine' after a few seconds, she is
not at all
fine.


When a GIRL stares at you, she is wondering why you are lying.


When a GIRL lays on your chest, she is wishing for you to be
hers forever.


When a GIRL wants to see you everyday, she wants to be pampered.


When a GIRL says I love you, She means it.


When a GIRL says, 'I miss you,' No one in this world can miss you
more than that!!

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Word on the street is that there's gonna be a wedding this fall. MediaTakeOut.com is hearing whispers that American Idol winner and her longtime boyfriend rapper Young Dro are set to jump the broom.

But don't expect anything to crazy. According to one insider, the two are reportedly "planning a small event for family and friends."

Good for them...

Why is it so difficult for a man to meet a female for the first time and have a good good converstaion with her without she believing that he has something hidden up his sleaves?
 
All the females that I meet, tend to immediately utter, "I have a boyfriend, so I cannot talk," even when I am simply asking for directions to the train station. How ignorant, but I must understand that some females tend to belive that all men want the same thing...Wrong!  
 
I heard a female speaking to her companion while traveling to work via subway. The language/dialect that was spoken by her and her companion was different, I have never heard such tones before. So I asked her, "what langauge or dialect were you speaking?" She indicated, "I was speaking Gaelic." Before mi coulda seah thank you, shi utter, "I have a boyfriend." I smiled and walked away becaz mi neva inna di mood.

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-- Edited by Gangsta Natz at 21:22, 2008-06-08

I'm sure many of you watched the taping of the Oprah Winfrey Show where her guest was Tommy Hilfiger. On the show, she asked him if the statements about race he was accused of saying were true. Statements like'...'If I'd known African-Americans, Hispanics, Jewish and Asians would buy my clothes, I WOULD NOT have made them so nice. I wish these people would *NOT* buy my clothes, as they are made for upper class white people.'
 
His answer to Oprah was a simple 'YES'. Where after she immediately asked him to leave her show.
 
My suggestion? Don't buy your next shirt or perfume from Tommy Hilfiger.
 Let's give him what he asked for. Let's not buy his clothes, let's put
 Him in a financial state where he himself will not be able to afford the
 ridiculous prices he puts on his clothes. BOYCOTT DAT SHIT MI SAY..

This has been another first brought to you by the good folks atwho dem a try fool? Ah we ah lead, we originate and dem pirate. Ah we set the ting, the whole world ah read we, and we can defend it. This is Abena, your girl with the inside scoop on what a gwaan inna the business, and mi nuh ramp fi talk the tings dem. Mi nah live no dutty life, so mi can talk up, inna mi, no man nah walk up, yea! This is the Tuesday Coffee and mi come fi entertain, ah my time now fi talk ALL THESE THINGS..

KYINO RETURNS TO JAMAICA
Mi hear say Kyino is back in Jamaica, we have not seen him, but we hear that he is in a movie called Candy Shop where he and his friends go and get a lap dance and realize that the girl is a man. The he/she thing is not so funny now knowing what we know about Kyino, is it? Mi hear a little ting say him ah go change him name, but mi hope say anno true. Anyway, mi hear say him friend, the same one who post him video pon the Internet wid him ah bathe wid man, ah gwaan wid a bagga tings over one apartment complex. All kinda people ah come de late at nights and people ah lose dem appliance and furniture. Him can gwaan, tink dem young shotter ya nah ramp. Look wah happen to Peter King and Brian Williamson them.

MILK, YU BUSS YA NOW
What a way Milk just tek her career to the next level. STAR ah call her phone, Wendy Williams ah call her phone, she ah issue statement to Internet media site. MILK TO THE WORLD. Some people ah say ah she release the tape pon herself because she know say she ah go be world famous, and some people ah say she ah get crazy props fi it inna the street, pure man ah ring off her phone and all these things. And when she go supermarket, woman nuh stop hold on tighter pon dem man when dem see she push her shopping cart near. Everybody wants a drink of milk now. Heheh! Right now, mi only sorry fi her teenaged son, cause God knows what his friends are saying about it worse the video reach Photobucket now and all these things.

SOPHIA BROWN DE A FARRIN
Mi hear say Sophia Brown ah live the crazy hype life. She have two show ah Arizona this week, but first, she go New York go look fi her boo, and as she reach and put in her foreign chip, crazy people ah ring off her phone, she ah do interview pon radio, disc jockey ah big her up say she inna the Big Apple, how she one so hype? Today, she ah check into her five star hotel, Hyatt Grand Regency, no roach motel roun ere. Proper breakfast and ting, then she ah do interview pon Radio 107.1 in Tucson, so her ting sort out. Wah yu say, Sophia, no roach nah run no marathon inna yu hotel, right?

KERRI PAIGE OPENS NEW STORE
The other day mi go Western Union inna Clock Tower go collect the whack and after mi go out, mi go upstairs to Ruggies where Kerri Paige open up her new store, KP Fashions, the tings dem in de a go hard. Mi hear say ah just L.A she shopping, not Miami and Panama like some other stores round town.

THE PEOPLE DEM WAAN FI KNOW
If Scratchy B really get thump inna him mouth by Ian Money Muss? Somebody ah tell lie inna the ting.

Yu nuh hear Milk statement, '...it was a consensual act between two adults in the privacy of their bedroom...it should not be sensationalized...? She ah say 'yes I did it, ANSO? A wah dis?

How come Buju Banton nah say nothing about the Junior Reid incident?

What happen to Mr. Vegas when him perform ah Canada the other day?

WHO DO U THINK IS THE BETTER DJ LEFTSIDE OR ESCO

THIS ONE YAH TUFF

Ushers made a splash with his Polow Da Don-produced smash Love in This Club, featuring Young Jeezy. The remix pits Urshs vocals alongside Beyonce and Lil Wayne. But according to Plies, he and Mariah Carey were suppose to take the Club track to the next level, not B and Weezy. At the time, it was conveyed to me that it was supposed to be Usher, Mariah Carey and me, Plies explained.

Obviously, that was a no-brainer as far as putting down what I had to do. I sent two verses to them. Then I get a call from a friend of mine at a radio station that they was getting ready to go with the record, but the version they had didnt have me on it.

Lil Flip is okay and, in fact, just returned from touring overseas, according to his manager, Sandy Lal. Reports surfaced that the Houston rapper was injured recently in a car accident and BCD music even released a statement on the incident. But Lal cleared up the mistake. Lil Flip was not involved in any accident, he said. Hes very healthy and just returned from overseas touring. [AHH]

Hes been a rap star for years now, and has had his turn on the big screen, now Snoop Dogg takes his turn in the cartoon world. The Los Angeles rapper is set to release Adventures of Tha Blue Carpet Treatment, an animated production that follows Tha Doggfather in a series of comedic run-ins and various plots and situations. The story will feature guest appearances from a number of stars, including The Game, Katt Williams, and E-40. The DVD is set to be released June 24.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana: A heavily armed gang suspected of killing 23 people in two village massacres drove back a security assault at its hideout in dense Amazonian jungle, Guyanese police said Sunday.

Scores of soldiers and policemen surrounded the group, led by Guyana's most-wanted fugitive, late Saturday near the South American country's border with Suriname.

But fugitive Rondell Rawlins and his gang repelled the initial attack and managed to escape deeper into the jungle after injuring three police officers, police spokesman Ivelaw Whittaker said. One gang member was killed.

President Bharrat Jagdeo has accused Rawlins and his cohorts of planning meticulous and deadly assaults on the coastal village of Lusignan and the mining town of Bartica earlier this year. He also has linked Rawlins' gang to the 2006 assassination of Agriculture Minister Satyadeo Sawh.

On Sunday, Whittaker said police recovered several rifles, nearly 2,000 rounds of ammunition, stores of food, and a diary that he says provides "incontrovertible evidence of Rondell Rawlins' planning and execution of the killings at Lusignan and Bartica."

Whittaker also said that security forces at the jungle hideout found electronic equipment that belonged to police from the western river town of Bartica, where gunmen killed 12, including three police officers, in a February assault.

In statements to local radio and newspapers, Rawlins has claimed responsibility for the Jan. 26 killings of six adults and five children in Lusignan, and threatened more deadly assaults.

He said the attack was an effort to get back his pregnant 18-year-old girlfriend, who he says was kidnapped by Guyanese security forces. Authorities have denied the allegation.

Nobody has claimed responsibility for the Bartica slayings.

The massacres have shaken Guyana's security system and raised concerns about the effectiveness of its military and police.

DRUGS worth £100MILLION are smuggled into jails each year and Government efforts to tackle the problem are failing, a report warned last night.

Huseyin Djemil, an ex-addict who once worked for the Prison Service, claimed there are more drugs in Britains jails than ever before.

And he said the Government is more interested in managing the problem than eradicating it.

Mr Djemil, former head of drug treatment at the National Offender Management Service, said: Drugs are widespread. It is undermining any attempt to clean up prisoners and increasing the chances of corrupting staff.

He said treatment is not focused on stopping addiction.

The Government estimates more than half of prisoners are users more than 40,000 inmates

In an exclusive interview with Hip Hop Weekly (on stands now), Mashonda talked about her relationship with Swizz, her career and during the interview, she implied that it was Alicia who came between her marriage. Here's an excerpt of the interview:

[Alicia Keys] is her own woman and she has made her own choices. I don't have a problem with her. I will say this though, I am not a scorned woman. I have a responsibility to raise [my son], he's my number one priority and everyday I strive more for him and of course my music

DANG Alicia