Bartlett has five-year plan to boost tourism
published: Thursday | May 15, 2008

SLICE!!

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May 15, 2008. The fight world is about to change. MediaTakeOut.com just EXCLUSIVELY learned that former heavyweight boxing champ has tentatively agreed to fight internet streetfighter Kimbo Slice under ProElites live fight division, EliteXC. According to an insider at the company, Mike and Kimbo are set to fight "late this year or early next." But first things first, Kimbo has to win his fight next Saturday night against James "Colossus" Thompson. A fight that or insider claims is "going to be tough."

When talents from overseas, especially from a different genre of music turn to Jamaica for that missing element from their product, it means we have something unique and good on our island.

The latest such move was made by popular United States duo Gnarls Barkley, an American musical collaboration between multi-instrumentalist and producer Danger Mouse (Brian Burton) from New York, and rapper/vocalist Cee-Lo Green (Thomas Callaway), from Atlanta.  The duo shot their latest video for the single Going On, in Kingston, Jamaica including Tivoli Gardens. The video includes Jamaican dancers and popular dances.

The single is off their latest album, The Odd Couple and the video was directed by Wendy Morgan of Revolver Films in Canada.

According to Zimbio.com, The story of the video is: A group of friends celebrate their discovery of a portal to another dimension. Led by their fearless young leader, they travel to the sacred destination. What lies on the other side no one knows

Going On might be the hottest track on Gnarls Barkley's new album--it grabs you in the first 10 seconds.

Student still in hospital

Posted: 2008-05-14 13:03:25
The eleventh grade student of Marcus Garvey Technical High School in St. Ann who was stabbed in a classroom by intruders yesterday is now recuperating in hospital.

The student underwent emergency operation yesterday evening and is said to be recovering well.

The student was admitted to the St. Anns Bay hospital yesterday with a punctured lung following the incident, which left both teachers and students traumatised.

It is reported that shortly after 8 a.m. yesterday morning, the eleventh grade science class was being held when two men wearing mask entered the classroom.

They proceeded toward a student who was sitting at the front and attacked him with a knife.

The incident caused the frightened female teacher and other students to run out of the classroom while the attackers escaped in nearby bushes.

A spokesman for the school board Reverend Roy Wickham said the incident points to the need for improved security at the institution.

Thursdaytalk - HOTTEST TOPICS ON THE COCKTAIL CIRCUIT
published: Thursday | May 15, 2008

Dragged kicking, screaming

1. Some of his colleagues are not too pleased with his recent utterances. They are saying it seems that since he was dragged kicking and screaming trying to justify his own matter and lost, now he is behaving like the convert and trying to embarra** them by seeking to draw them out.

Memoirs, not well received by some

2.The 'Memoirs' have not been well received in some quarters at all! Some are upset that it seems to be both 'dissing' and disinterring the memory of one of the nation's favourite sons.

Email amusement

3.People are laughing their heads off in amusement at the irony of it all as they are saying how funny it is that the accusations and nasty comments contained in the hate-mail resemble those making them!

Puppet-masters

4.The political puppet-masters had demanded that he not be appointed, but political expedience brought on by numbers, prevented him from being not so appointed. His illness, however, provided the perfect cover to reassign him.

Citizenship speed

5.Some in political circles are questioning the speed with which the recent citizenship issue was dealt with by the embassy.

What's up with the high-profile one?

6.The one-time high-profile north-coast pharmacologist seems to have gone underground. Some are wondering why?

Should there be a probe?

7.The goodly doctor of email notoriety has raised some poignant questions about the role of a certain individual in the building scandal. The assertion needs some explanation, or, as some are quietly asking, for an investigation.

Some cringing

8.People are still talking about the "performance" at the big concert the other day. Some are even still cringing!

Support for investment

9.How does Jamaica benefit when we disparage foreign or local investments?

Stop it!

10. Some are saying the new-found penchant by some for hopping on the private aeroplanes of private-sector people in the region needs to be curtailed before the innocent get caught up in international investigations.

Lil' Kim was awarded a half million dollars by a judge yesterday after winning a lawsuit against former friend, Junior M.A.F.I.A. rapper Lil' Cease.

Kim sued Cease (born James Lloyd) and his company, Ground Zero Entertainment - which puts out street DVDs - for wrongly capitalizing on her fame with a film about the click.

She also put the breaks on a second DVD, The Chronicles of Junior M.A.F.I.A Part II: Reloaded, with a court order forcing Cease to stop production.

Lil' Kim had originally sought $6 million in damages from Cease, who testified against her in a criminal trial in which she was convicted for perjury. Kim (born Kimberly Jones) was sentenced to one year and a day in prison for lying to a federal grand jury about a 2001 shootout that took place outside of New York's Hot 97 radio station.

Most recently though, Kim made headlines when repo men showed up at her front door to confiscate her silver Bentley because of delinquent payments. A rep for Kim said the car was a gift and the matter was being resolved.

Google has started blurring faces from its Street View feature, and let me tell you, it's not a moment too soon. Big Brother (and my actual big brother who is still trying to track me down on the internet) shant have the freedom to log my locations. It's bad enough that cameras are popping up at intersections to "catch red-light-runners."

John Hanke, director of Google Earth and Google Maps said at the Where 2.0 Conference recently that a new algorithm is being used to seek out the faces and blur them automatically and that it, "It does a good job of figuring that out. It uses a variety of technologies to filter," Hanke said, though it's "not perfect."

THE woman suspected of being the mother of two babies found in toy boxes was named yesterday.

Margaret Guarino, 77, is thought to have hidden the children more than 50 years ago after they were stillborn.

The discovery was made by her daughter Lucia Grime, 45, in Audenshaw, Manchester.

Ms Guarino, a mother of eight, died two years ago. Police are waiting for the results of a post mortem and DNA tests.

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Mavado 'Lock and Load' with 50 Cent's G-Unit

NOT BUYIN GAME SYSTEAM FOR A LONG TIME..

GAMES ANYONE..?

NO MUNGA FOR SUMFEST?
Word is that Munga will not be on this year's Reggae Sumefst show. Checks revealed that the star had not been confirmed for the show, but with almost eight weeks before the event itself, it is still possible that he could be booked.

BRITISH MAN DIES AFTER INGESTING COCAINE
The drug game changed with the death of Briton Lee Brand, 33, who has been reported in the UK press as the being first Briton to have died smuggling balloons of cocaine out of Jamaica in his stomach. He died on Sunday, May 4 while staying at a hotel in Negril. His body's been flown back to england and he's being buried next week.

DEFINING A LOUDAS
Racquel, a loudas or a deafas is a quaint colloquial term used to define an extreme form of physical assault where one individual slaps another in the face with great force. This is not a normal 'bitch-slap', but one done with great violence and force so that it echoes and can be heard within a radius of ten to fifteen metres, hence the term loudas. When the said act causes a slight injury to the ear whether from the blow striking an ear, or the subsequent echo being so loud as to damage the ear drum, it is then referred to as a deafas. There ends this morning's etymological lesson on Jamaican slang terms.

QUESTIONS ANSWERED
No, it is not Elephant Man's babymother who was killed.

AT a massive 73-stone, Kenneth Brumley must lose weight, or die.

 

His daily intake of 30,000 calories is the same as a regular-sized man eats in two weeks.

 

For four years hes been confined to a bed which buckled under his weight and powerless to move his gigantic legs.

 

Only deliveries of fast food from his partner Serena break the monotony of the day.

 

Because of this weakness for junk food, Kenneth is among two million Americans who are over 40-stone, and classed as super morbidly obese.

 

Kenneth, 40, from Texas, says: I got into this shape over the last seven years.

 

Theyve been the worst of my life.

 

 

It is like Im a prisoner to myself.

 

I just sit here, watch TV and eat.

 

Thats all I do, every day.

 

The volume of food Kenneth consumes is truly shocking.

 

He says: Id wake up and get chilli cheese fries for breakfast.

 

Its basically fast food 24 hours a day, seven days a week

 

That and a case of super-strength lager.

 

At my heaviest I ate three or four cheeseburgers at a time, maybe a half gallon of orange juice or apple juice.

 

Two litre bottles of soda would last about 30 minutes.

 

If I feel like Chinese, McDonalds or Mexican, thats what I get.

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Weezy had to be lifted during this interview:

I dont do too many (drugs). I just smoke weed and drink. But Ill never f**k with no more coke. Its not about the bad high, its just about the acne: Cocaine makes your face break out. Im a pretty boy.

Poor fellow. Its a classic case of delusions of grandeur. Either that or buddy boy hasnt looked in a mirror - his whole life.

Nate Dogg in Bad Condition in Hospital

BRITNEY SPEARS has been involved in yet another car incident.

This time the singer rear-ended a car on Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills.

Brit hit a red Ford Explorer, driven by a lady. There were no reported injuries, and the star didn't even get out of the car after it happened.

Instead her bodyguard got out and spoke to the other woman.

The red Explorer Brit hit followed her back to Britney's home where it's thought the incident was settled.

In other news, Britney fuelled speculation that shes pregnant by appearing with a bulging tummy.

She was spending a day with her sons Sean Preston, two, and Jayden James, one but nipped away for a ciggie.

She looked like shed had a bellyful...

A BOY of 14 clocked doing more than 110mph in a stolen people carrier was caged for eight months yesterday.

The teen, who cannot be named, took the VW Touran from a care home in Hull and drove 30 miles to Scunthorpe, Lincs, before he crashed.

Cops judged it too risky to chase him and tracked the VW by chopper.

The boy admitted taking the car and was sentenced to youth detention by Hull magistrates.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A man who is believed to have robbed several parents with their young children nearby is the focus of an intense police investigation.
Police said all three robberies were committed Monday night in nearby streets in the Mandarin area. The first incident happened on San Jose Road at 8:27 p.m., the second on Old St. Augustine Road at 8:50 p.m., and the last on Claire Lane at 9:45 p.m.
"As I'm going to put my key in my lock, I hear a man's voice," said one victim who asked to only be identified as Catherine. "I dropped to my knees, covered my son and threw my wallet out and said, 'Take it.'"
The robber struck as she was walking into her apartment.
"As a woman you want to think that, 'Oh, I would do this or I would be the tough one to take,' but when you have your kid with you, you just freeze. You can't do anything," Catherine said.
She was not the only victim Monday night in what police said they suspect was a Mandarin crime spree by the one person.
The same thing happened to a grandmother who was returning home with her 9-year-old grandson, and then at a nearby Mandarin church two men were robbed after the man pointed a gun at one of their 11-year-old sons.
"It looked like he targeted persons that the victim would not want to jeopardize their safety with. You have a 9-year-old, an 11-year-old and an infant child," said Jacksonville Sheriff's Office spokesman Ken Jefferson.
Catherine said she wonders if the robber would return.
"That's why we've been concerned, he got some credit cards he won't be able to use and not much cash on them at all," she said.
Catherine said she moved to Mandarin a few months ago thinking it was a safe place to live, but after Monday night, she's thinking again.
"I didn't know if he was crazy enough to shoot me or my son. I've never been in a situation like that before, not in a neighborhood like this. You just don't expect it," Catherine said.

Barbee is upbeat about her latest single, 'Love You Any Way', which is scheduled to be released in the summer. The song is sounding good and from all indications should do well for her on the international scene.

The song comes in her effort to take her career to a higher level. "It's a real lovely song, it was produced by Alicia Key's producer Sean Do," she disclosed. "It is a song that is dear to me. It's about when you are in a relationship you should stay true and just stick it out, just love him and don't bun him."

She added, "I just sat back and focused on my music. I saw where I needed to get back to basics. I started taking guitar lessons and voice training because I am preparing myself for the big times. I am looking at the different aspects of the business because that's where many people fail. They are stuck on the small things and miss the bigger picture."

Barbee disclosed that she is also doing acting lessons which was prompted by her getting some offers for the 'big screen'. "Some roles are on the table, some real big opportunities which I am excited about," she said.

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Lady Saw says her sister alone handles her bookings

One876Entertaiment.com understands that Jamaican dancehall artiste Lady Saw believes that there is a particular booking agent that has been inflating her prices to prospective promoters, damaging her reputation in an already competitive marketplace. While she refused to name the booking agent, Saw said that the incident stemmed from a booking she has to perform at a show in Spain later this month.

"When I spoke to the promoter, he told me that the agent had told him two to three thousand dollars more than I usually charged. So the agent got extra money. Plus the promoter asked me if I was married now as the agent had insisted that I would not come unless another artiste also performed. Then the last straw, I found out that someone was also flying first class on my rider," she said. "This creates a lot of confusion in how I handle my business."

There was also a similar incident involving another show in New York. That is the reason she is moving aggressively to let promoters know that her bookings are handled by her sister, Jazz and that she can be contacted at ladysawbooking@gmail.com.

"They can also go on my Myspace and contact me, everything will be handled through Halls Production from now on," she said.

The Manchester police high command says migratory criminals and manpower shortage are the major challenges to their anti-crime initiatives.

"Shortage of manpower is a general problem in the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) at this time," Superintendent Martin Bayliss tells The Gleaner. "Like every other division, we are affected, because we don't have enough personnel to patrol the commercial area and the residential communities as we would want to."

According to Bayliss, a 35-year veteran crime fighter who has served in the urban divisions of Kingston Central, St Andrew South and St Andrew Central, as well as Jamaica Police Academy, believes most of the criminals are from other parishes.

Two firearms seized

This premise was substantiated in a recent incident in which four men who robbed a bar in the district of Mount Olivet in the parish were held and two firearms seized.

"Two of the young men are students of Vere Technical High (Clarendon), one is from Glenmuir High School (Clarendon), while the eldest is 24 years old, who is out (on bail) on two gun charges. None is from the parish," Bayliss said emphatically.

Since January, 14 murders have been committed in the parish, eight more than for the corresponding period last year. According to the police, most of these murders stemmed from domestic disputes, with the knife being the weapon of choice. While unwilling to disclose the figures, the top cop says all other offences, including house-breaking and shooting, are down in the parish.

There are no gangs operating in the parish, but the police hierarchy has been focusing on areas such as the bus park and a section of the market called Bronx, where illicit activity is reportedly rife.

Despite the challenges, the police believe that the partnership brokered in a 2007 bipartisan memorandum of understanding with the Closed To Crime Initiative, a group of business and civic groups, will continue to bear fruit.

"The Closed to Crime Initiative (CTCI) has assisted us greatly," the superintendent says. "The men are really motivated, it is evidence of what can be achieved when the community partners with the police to fight against criminality.

"The investigative unit has been upgraded, the District Intelligence Unit has a spanking new home and we have also been given a motor vehicle."

Bayliss is of the opinion that the installation of closed-circuit television (CCTV) will give the police an advantage over criminals.

"With the closed-circuit television, we will have a better means of managing the activities in the commercial area, as well as pay attention to the troubled spots."

"On most occasions when these migrants come into an area, criminal activity increases, so we will be on the look out for them."

Cameras are critical

Bayliss - Call Superintendent Martin Bayliss at 819-4266 (cellular) or 962-2888 (office).

Director of the CTCI, Robert Cunningham, agrees. "The cameras are critical (as they would help) to identify people who are coming through this town," he says, "Extortion has not reached the level of (what is taking place in) May Pen and Spanish Town, but there are persons (in the Mandeville business community) who have been approached, because as the economic activity increased, so is the number of transit people."

"Over the Christmas holidays, there were multiple cambio-type and retail-type burglaries that appro-priately placed CCTV cameras would help to apprehend those criminals," Cunningham argues.

Bayliss, while commending civic groups for assisting the police, says the citizens need to do more.

"There are a number of times when a stranger comes in our community and no one knows anything about them, but they welcome him in their neighbour-hood without asking the police to do background checks. Citizens must be aware that they have a vital role to play in policing their communities.

"While we have a large number of neighbourhood watch organisations in the parish, a great amount of them have been dormant for a while," he continued. " ... Despite our efforts to renew interest, we are experiencing resistance in a few areas, as residents are a bit reluctant for meetings to be held at their homes, afraid of being branded," the policeman added.

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A KINKY driving instructor took schoolgirls into woods and paid them to kick him in the groin as he crouched on all fours with his trousers down, a court heard.

David Aston, 32, would lay a towel down to keep his clothes clean then make the youngsters boot him until he could not bear the pain.

The court heard of two occasions when married Aston drove girls aged 13 to 15 to woods near Bicester, Oxon, after contacting one online in 2006.

He had oral sex with the 15-year-old both times before two, then three girls kicked him.

He drove them home in his Honda Civic, paying two girls £10 and one a bottle of whisky, Oxford Crown Court heard.

Cops investigated when he complained one was pestering HIM for sex.

Officers allegedly found child porn on his computer in Witney, Oxon. Aston denies sex with a child and possessing child porn. The case continues.

8-y-o saves friend from drowning
April 9, 2008, 3:56 pm

At eight years old, Don-Christopher Barnes may not have changed all his baby teeth as yet, but he has already saved a life. Revered as a 'hero' by the Stella Maris School community and his entire family for his courageous deed of rescuing his friend from a swimming pool, the very poised and talkative student sat down with The Gleaner on Monday to retell his story. It was the day after the category four Hurricane Dean passed south of the island. Don-Christopher and his best friend Akeem Williams, also eight years old, were busy cleaning leaves from the balcony of his house in Stony Hill, St. Andrew. "I saw that the pool also needed cleaning, so I was going to try to take the leaves from the pool," he said. The very astute eight-year-old told The Gleaner that he went inside his house "just for a second". At the bottom of the pool "But then I heard Akeem's brother screaming his name and I came out and saw that he was lying face down at the bottom of the pool," said Don-Christopher. "I was thinking what to do at first, but then I remembered his brother can't swim in the deep end either, so it was up to me." At just three feet, eight inches, Don-Christopher said he did not panic as he dived into the five-foot deep pool and pulled his friend to safety. "I dived in and brought him to the shallow end of the pool and then his father jumped in and took him out of the pool and gave him CPR," he said. When asked if he wasn't just a little terrified at jumping in the deep end of a pool to save someone's life, he said: "What else should I do? He needed my help, so I dived in, saved his life and now he's OK." Don-Christopher said he did think about calling an adult for help before he decided to rescue his friend, but didn't want to waste time. "If I had stopped to ask an adult, they would probably panic and it would take too long, so I thought if I did it myself, it would be quicker and easier," he explained. He explained that his friend was actually unconscious and had turned blue - a sign that his body had become deprived of oxygen - when he was taken from the pool. Now back in school Young Akeem was later taken to the University Hospital of the West Indies where he was admitted for a week. "He is now back in school and doing quite well," said his father, Colin Williams. Mr. Williams was, however, quick to point out that it is always necessary for pool owners with small children to take extra precaution. "Safety in and around the pool is critical," he said. "There must be a capable and responsible adult present at all times when there are small children involved." Don-Christopher, who has been swimming since he was just six months old, said he would like to become a lifeguard when he gets older. "I originally wanted to be a comedian, but now I think I want to save people, so I want to be a lifeguard and a comedian," he said. "I might entertain the kids in the pool while I am saving their lives," he said.

Wednesday, 14 May 2008

A terrible bike accident on Monday claimed the life of Brian HoSang, the 24 year-old son of New York businessman, Vincent HoSang, who owns Caribbean Food Delights, a Tappan-based company with locations in more than a dozen states.

Brian was speeding with three friends along Interstate 684 when he lost control of his motorcycle and crashed into the woods in North Salem, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

MI HAFFI SAY WAAAY FWD ONE A MY FAV GAMES WAS DUCK HUNT A MUSSEE TRU D ZAPPA DID A GO SOOO HAAAAAAD !
WHICH OL SKOOL GAMES UNNU 'MEMBA AND WAA SEE AGAIN ???

Ladies: Would you ask a man to marry you?

Men: Would you appreciate a woman asking you to marry her?

please feel free to tell how u men approach girls n ladies feel free to tell how u wud want dem to approach you. hope to c wat u ppl do.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- If there was a dumb criminal charge under Florida state law, the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said they know who would get it -- armed robbery suspect Stephon Busbee.

Police recently arrested Busbee, who they said caught himself with the help of a cell phone camera he allegedly stole.

Authorities said Busbee was involved in an armed robbery that took place outside the Tailgate Bar and Grill across the street from Jacksonville Municipal Stadium a few weeks ago.

"He pulled a gun on us and told us he was trigger happy and to give us everything we had," said a victim who asked not to be identified.

One of the things the robbery victim handed over was his cell phone. He said a few days later, when he bought a new cell phone, he noticed two new pictures had been downloaded.

The pictures had been taken with the phone that was stolen.

Police said Busbee used the phone he stole to take pictures of himself. In one of the cell phone pictures, Busbee was seen wearing the gold chain he allegedly swiped in the robbery as well.

"His pictures were on the cell phone. He took pictures of himself -- petty idiotic," the victim said.

Police said they were able used the pictures to identify Busbee because he had a criminal record and a mug shot on file to compare to the cell phone images.

"He was brought over, interviewed by our robbery detectives, initially denying everything until the pictures were shown to him and he then implicated himself," said Jacksonville Sheriff's Office spokesman Ken Jefferson. "It has to be one of the dumbest things a crook can do. He ranks up right there at the top three. He's charged with armed robbery. We don't have dumb charge that we can put on him at this time."

The victim said he is still leery because he said Busbee had a couple accomplices, which he hopes are caught just as easily as Busbee.

"I'm definitely happy because if he didn't have the actual cell phone pictures he would have been out for a while and that wouldn't have been a good thing," the victim said.

No pictures of any accomplices were taken with the stolen phone. Anyone with information that could help police find the accomplices in the robbery is asked to call Crimestopers at .

Wednesday Tea - No Munga for Sumfest?

NO MUNGA FOR SUMFEST?
Word is that Munga will not be on this year's Reggae Sumefst show. Checks revealed that the star had not been confirmed for the show, but with almost eight weeks before the event itself, it is still possible that he could be booked.

BRITISH MAN DIES AFTER INGESTING COCAINE
The drug game changed with the death of Briton Lee Brand, 33, who has been reported in the UK press as the being first Briton to have died smuggling balloons of cocaine out of Jamaica in his stomach. He died on Sunday, May 4 while staying at a hotel in Negril. His body's been flown back to england and he's being buried next week.

DEFINING A LOUDAS
Racquel, a loudas or a deafas is a quaint colloquial term used to define an extreme form of physical assault where one individual slaps another in the face with great force. This is not a normal 'bitch-slap', but one done with great violence and force so that it echoes and can be heard within a radius of ten to fifteen metres, hence the term loudas. When the said act causes a slight injury to the ear whether from the blow striking an ear, or the subsequent echo being so loud as to damage the ear drum, it is then referred to as a deafas. There ends this morning's etymological lesson on Jamaican slang terms.

QUESTIONS ANSWERED
No, it is not Elephant Man's babymother who was killed.

Bad *lo** between Rebel and Sugar Blacks?

There is apparently some bad *lo** between Sugar Blacks and Tony Rebel stemming from their bitter parting of ways years ago which led to a heated verbal exchange backstage at the recently concluded Western Consciousness show. Sugar Blacks has repeatedly said that Rebel underpaid him for several years while he worked as a harmony singer for the Fresh Vegetable singer and his company, Flames Production.

"I went on countless tours and he only paid me US$80 each time telling us that they were all promotional tours, and then the one time,I did harmony for Everton Blender at a show in the Caribbean, me and Lehbanculeh get US$500 each. Even after we have the hit songs, Oh Jah and Tears Gonna Come, we no get no money fi bookings either, and fi years, we worked for him, singing great harmony and we no get nothing." he said.

Sugar Black said that he and Rebel had not exchanged words for almost eight years when they had a heated exchange at this year's Western Consciousness show.  He said Rebel threatened to kill him, but Black said he was not afraid. He also claimed to have reported the incident at the Half Way Tree police station, registering the complaint under his real name, Patrick Hall. Checks with the HWT Police station could not confirm that a report had been made.

"Him need fi know say me have hyenas and wolves inna my family too," he said.

However, Rebel has denied Sugar Black's allegations saying that "Black was looking a hype".

"He's trying a thing, it has been 10 years since he left Flames, if he was a good artiste,, him woulda buss already. This is not the first time he is trying to look a hype off me, and worse now, with Queen Ifrica doing so well, we're not even going to pay him any mind," Rebel said.

Sugar Black has also said that he and Rebel fought "fist to fist" and with stones during an ugly incident at the Anchor Recording studio in 2000. Black alleges that Rebel broke two of his ribs when he punched him whlie a stone gripped in his fist.

"The man bruk two of mi ribs, but I never followed up the court thing because mi know say is a buyout thing. Both of us had been arrested at the time but mi fly out after the first court date and it just die down. The man is wicked, him need to leave me alone because it nah go happen like that again, next time ah different thing," he said.

For his part, Rebel denied breaking his ribs, playing down the incident saying that 'Sugar Black get couple slap up, that's all'.

Flava to be sued by German producer

One876Entertainment.com understands that A German producer, Ingo Kleinhammer, has filed a lawsuit in Europe against No Doubt Records which alleges that its chief executive officer, Kemar McGregor collected over 300,000 euros for productions and LPs that have not yet been delivered to the German company.

Kemar 'Flava' McGregor is contending that the contract he signed with Hammer Music is exploitative that robs him of his production rights, and that he has never received any royalties for his work even though his albums have sold hundreds of thousands of copies.

"The artistes dem get pay, but Hammer has breached its contract with me. I signed with them when I was 23, they have done 20 albums with me, but almost seven years later, I have seen no statement, no royalty payments. When I checked on my rights, I was told that the performance rights, writer's and mechanical rights to the songs have been paid over to Hammer," he said.

"I did nine compilation CDs with the, I did an album for Luciano, two for Sizzla, three for Turbulence, and one for Anthony B, and I haven't got any royalties," he said.

"I have checked with the major distributors that put out the first Sizzla album and that sold 150,000 units on soundscan, and Turbulence's 'Join Us' album with 'Name and Number' was album of the month in Germany. Nuff yute ah get rob. We send out our work out there and no get no royalties. When we step out and get we owna lawyer, that is when we find out they are robbers," Mr. McGregor said.

He believes that the company believes that because he is the hottest roots producer in the business now, they want to exploit him in a "bakra master thing".

"If you go on www.reggae-now.com, you can see that they want to claim all my work. They believe they own Flava, and they are the ones who breached their contract. The artistes not getting any royalty, and the artistes dem a blame me, mi send on their money from the company to do their albums but all me do is produce the albums dem," he said.

However, Mr. Kleinhammer said that substantial advances were paid for LPs from artistes such as Gentleman, Bushman and Warrior King that have not been delivered.

Mr. Kleinhammer also charges that Mr. McGregor had engaged in illegal licensing of products repeatedly and had received advances for selling and licensing the product to third parties.

"This happened with the Mama track by the artiste Gyptian plus additional tracks or a complete album involving Ras Records, VP Records and Greensleeves. The money was returned to Ras Records after they threatened to sue him, but he has not paid over the advance he got from VP Records to Hammer Musik GmbH, and the matter with Greensleeves is still pending, but Mr.McGregor did not pay the advance back, so the matter is unresolved," Kleinhammer, who is the managing director of Hammer Musik GmbH, he told Xtra News during an international phone call this week.

He said that Hammer Musik GmbH paid US$7,000 for the production of Queen Ifrica's 'Daddy' but despite promises, has not paid the money. He licensed this track illegally on a rhythm album with Greensleeves, the Triumphant Rhythm, and signed a publishing agreement with Network Music in New York.

"We had to put a stop on this by informing BMI," Mr. Kleinhammer said.

There were other problems with Turbulence's Name and Number, and other irregularities involving artistes.

"On certain product, that is, the Gentleman contracts were presented and other emails documented that there would be a release. None of them was conducted, and constant reminders to supply master records or even  samples were either ignored or promised, but not delivered," he said.

"While on certain projects like with the artiste Warrior King and Bushman, there was not even a contract with the artiste by No Doubt Productions/No Doubt Records. The artistes have already confirmed this and have done so by email. Bushman will take him to court. The money was spent on other purposes, this can only be considered as serious fraud. Consequently, there was also a violation of the existing publishing agreements and information was simply not supplied," Mr. Kleinhammer stated.

Mr. McGregor is sticking to his guns, saying that all the artistes had been paid.

"Every man get them advance, money mek, it start out good, but when the record start sell, dem no send no statement. They have only sent to me statements regarding what they have spent, what about the profits, especially since I signed 50-50 deal with them. It is because mi hot why are they doing this now. Every artiste need to have access to Soundscan, and employ lawyers to do the research, and they will see how they are being robbed," he said.

Producer Collie Bud has had a similar experience with Hammer Music.

He said that he had submitted more than 20 albums and several singles since 2000 to the company.

"After three months, they said they would they would send the royalties. I got nothing. I found out they have collected money from other publishing companies on my behalf,  and not advanced money to us, I send emails and no reply. I put out my work, license it on different albums, but he was also the publisher for the Sizzla album, so him collect. This is a cautionary tale, one company cannot be a publisher and a record company for any one person," he said.

Collie Bud produced the popular 'Poverty' single by QQ which was available as a ringtone through a European telephone company.

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-- Edited by warhawk at 17:01, 2008-05-10

http://www.jamaica-star.com/thestar/20080514/news/news6.html

Two women pleaded guilty to charges of using indecent language and disorderly conduct when they appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on Friday.

Latania Pasco and Shawn Anderson were charged after they were seen behaving rudely in the customs hall at the Norman Manley International Airport.

It is reported that they were held by a policeman and arrested and charged.

When RM Glen Brown asked the women why they used indecent language, one replied; "I was robbed your honour and mi upset bout it".

RM Glen Brown then told the women that if they had behaved disorderly in New York, they wouldn't have granted them access to travel in their country again.

The women were each fined $1,000 or 10 days in prison.

"Lock off that, now. Nuh call nobody. Two o'clock is the law and we give you until three. When mi seh lock off that, mean me mustn't hear any amps or sound," a police officer ordered last Saturday night at Rendezvous, staged at Temple Hall Estate, St Andrew.

"Yuh want mi come pull the plugs fi yuh?" he added.

With that said, there was an exodus from the VIP area, and despite the fact that there was no announcement made, the persons in the general area quickly got an idea of what was transpiring backstage and soon followed suit.

However, it did not just end abruptly for many of the patrons, who openly voiced their disgust at the revived attempt by the lawmen to enforce the Noise Abatement Act. "A we the people fi get the blame because things neva suh bad under the PNP. Nuh unnuh talk 'bout unnuh want Labour (JLP)," one man argued.

for me its Soundquake(ger), Rodigan(uk) and Bass Odyssey(ja)
Mighty Crown also nice sound

DUJIANGYAN, China - The toll of the dead and missing soared as rescue workers dug through flattened schools and homes on Tuesday in a desperate attempt to find survivors of China's worst earthquake in three decades.

The official Xinhua News Agency said the death toll exceeded 12,000 in Sichuan province alone, and 18,645 were still buried in debris in the city of Mianyang, near the epicenter of Monday's massive, 7.9-magnitude quake.

The Sichuan Daily newspaper reported on its Web site that more than 26,000 people were injured in Mianyang.

The numbers of casualties was expected to rise due to the remoteness of the areas affected by the quake and difficulty in finding buried victims.

There was little prospect that many survivors would be found under the rubble. Only 58 people were extricated from demolished buildings across the quake area so far, China Seismological Bureau spokesman Zhang Hongwei told Xinhua. In one county, 80 percent of the buildings were destroyed.

Rain was impeding efforts and a group of paratroopers called off a rescue mission to the epicenter due to heavy storms, Xinhua reported.

Panda-watching tourists missing
More than two dozen British and American tourists who were thought to be panda-watching in the area also remained missing.

Officials urged the public not to abandon hope

As all can see everything wrong. Food price rising, the cost of gas gone sky high. And the war going on in the middle east. And our own little Jamaica with so much violence. Can it now be said that the wrold is really coming to an end? Cause all these things were wriiten in the bible and now they are fulfilling.

-- Edited by Ricky at 19:29, 2008-05-08

Was Peter King a sex tourist?

10 May 2008 | by A.K.A., Contributing Writer

There are fresh concerns that former trade ambassador Peter King could have used his position as a trade ambassador to commit illegal sex acts with children in impoverished countries while vacationing or brokering deals overseas. That is question on the minds of child advocacy experts these days as more lurid details emerge on King's highly experimental sex life. Could he have been a sex tourist?

It is a very real question we need to be asking ourselves. This was obviously a man who was living on the edge and willing to take risks. He videotaped sex acts with young children and acts with his sexual partners and he must have known that his dangerous lifestyle would have led to his death, one child advocate told One876Entertainment.com.

The question we must ask is what other terrible acts could Mr. King could have committed, even in other countries, that we ought to be aware of.

So there it is. Was Mr. King a sex tourist? Sex tourism is a very lucrative industry that spans the globe. In 1998, the International Labour Organization reported its calculations that 2-14% of the gross domestic product of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Phillipines, and Thailand derives from sex tourism. In recent years, tourists have increasingly traveled to Mexico and Central America for their sexual exploits as well.

It has emerged that there are several recorded scenes of King posing young boys and exploiting them for sexual kicks. There are even scenes where young boys are seen dancing in a provocative manner. At least two of the tapes appear to have been filmed in an overseas locale because of the landmarks seen and the different languages and accents of the young boys in question.

While some tourists are pedophiles that preferentially seek out children for sexual relationships, many child sex tourists are "situational abusers" who while they do not consistently seek out children as sexual partners, do engage in sexual acts if an opportunity arises.

Ambassador Peter King, whose father Rev Canon ROC King was known for his work with Boys' Town, began his public service career in the 1960s in the Jamaica High Commission in London. Soon afterwards, he became a personal assistant to the then minister of trade and industry Robert Lightbourne, and in the 1970s to his successor, a young P J Patterson.

In the 1980s, King served as deputy high commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and Guyana, and in the 1990s was a lead representative of behalf of the Caricom Regional Negotiating Machinery for market access in the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiations.

yow mi n mi some a mi coworkers a come a work this morning on the bus n we a talk bout best balla who we c play ball..

now mi a sk d res a zone who dem seh?

mi seh rivaldo n zidane...bear in mind mi neva really c pele n diego

What are you going to give your mother for mothers day?

people of the zone what is your favourite food??


i and i hungry and nuh know weh fi eat dat is how dis come up!!

CINCINNATI - A man ordered by a judge to make sure his daughter studied has found himself in jail because she failed to earn a high school equivalency diploma.

Brian Gegner, who lives near Cincinnati, was sentenced last week to 180 days in jail for contributing to the unruliness or delinquency of a minor.

He was ordered months ago to make sure his 18-year-old daughter Brittany Gegner, who has a history of truancy, received the diploma known as GED something that hasn't happened yet.

Brittany Gegner, who said Monday that she plans to take a required GED test this month, said her father shouldn't be blamed for her failure because she has been living with her mother.

"It was my wrongdoing, not his," said Brittany Gegner, whose fiance and 18-month-old daughter also live at her mother's home. "He shouldn't have to go to jail for something I did."

Her mother agrees.

"Brittany is almost 19 years old now and I think it's unfair to put her father in jail," said Shana Roach. "She's an adult now, and it's not right to rip an innocent man from his home."

Juvenile Court administrator Rob Clevenger Jr. said Monday that the court still has jurisdiction in the case because Brittany Gegner was a juvenile when the truancy problems began and when the charge against Brian Gegner was filed in 2007.

A hearing on a motion filed by Brian Gegner's attorney to reconsider the sentence is scheduled for Friday. Messages seeking comment were not returned Monday at the offices of defense attorney Tamara Sack and the prosecutor.

Brian Gegner's wife, Stephanie Gegner, said she and her husband are afraid he will lose his job if he remains in jail. She said they tried to keep his daughter in school.

"You'd take her to school and she'd go out the other door," Stephanie Gegner said.