D'Angel - Reflection of a mother's love
published: Sunday | May 11, 2008

Peta-Gaye Clachar/Staff Photographer
LEFT: Pansy Nesbeth and her daughter, Michelle 'D'Angel' Downer.
RIGHT: Marco Dean and his mom, D'Angel.

Teino Evans, Entertainment Coordinator

Of her five sisters and two brothers, Michelle Downer, more affectionately called 'Angel' (otherwise known as D'Angel), might very well be the epitome of being a 'mama's girl'.

This is not just because she was deemed a talented singer from a tender age, but also because Pansy Nesbeth, her mother, could always rely on her to 'inform' on her older siblings.

"Dem use to beat mi up an sey mi chat too much," Downer recalls of her sisters while they were growing up.

She adds, "I always use to want to follow them everywhere and if they didn't take me I'd tell on them. And even if they did take me along, I still use to guh back an talk what I see dem do."

Nevertheless, there is no evidence of favouritism where the children are concerned, as the members of the close-knit family that hails from Spanish Town is always very proud and supportive of one another.

According to Downer's mother, she is very proud of her daughter and admits "sometimes I cry reading the good stuff about her ... I know that there is a whole lot of people who love her and God is taking her where she ought to be. I'm very proud of her".

Downer's mother says she has always been very supportive of her daughter's career and despite her (D'Angel) artiste's biography stating that "she knew that she was born to be a star", it was also very accurate when it went on further to state that 'this dream was shared by her friends and family who honed her vocal ability when they would encourage her to sing and perform at an early age. In fact, they often served as her audience while she practised her vocals while entertaining them".

Proud mother

Downer's mother recalls, "I use to sit them down and make her sing and she use to sing Mariah Carey so well. So today I'm a proud mom, trust me."

Indeed, Pansy Nesbeth must be a proud mother when she looks at what her daughter has achieved to date, not only for her life as a mother herself, but also for her business and musical career.

But D'Angel says nothing beats the support of family as "we are close. They (mother and sisters) are the only family I know. And the love that I have for my mom and sisters is very affectionate and eternal. Everywhere you see me, you see them".

'Below the waist' is just that - below the waist
published: Sunday | May 11, 2008

Collectors record Jamaica's music history
published: Sunday | May 11, 2008

Drivers revved up for Dover
published: Sunday | May 11, 2008

Ricketts keeping in shape with U21s
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Former soldier and police commissioner, Colonel Trevor MacMillan, is to be named the new minister of national security, the Sunday Observer has been reliably informed.

MACMILLAN. has more than two decades of knowledge and expertise in the area of crime management and security

According to a highly placed source, the decision to appoint MacMillan was finalised at a meeting yesterday attended by Prime Minister Bruce Golding.

"It will be discussed at the Cabinet meeting on Monday, after which an announcement will be made," said the source, who asked for anonymity.

According to the source, a Government senator will be asked to resign in order that MacMillan can be appointed to the Upper House and thereby take up the ministerial appointment.

The Government has 13 of the 21 senators in the House.

MacMillan will replace Derrick Smith who has been recuperating from surgery, but who has been consistently criticised as not being up to speed with the demands of the job. It was not clear where Smith will be placed.

More than 500 murders have been committed in the country so far this year and last month 119 homicides were recorded.

On Thursday, the Government, facing increasing criticism for seeming lethargy in the face of rising crime, announced a raft of new and old measures to c****at the problem.

Among them were the immediate implementation of cordons and searches, curfews, vehicle checks and, in general, a zero tolerance approach to all illegal activities.

Asked whether the decision to pull Smith from the ministry was made in response to the criticisms, the source said it was more a matter of putting in charge, someone with better knowledge of police and military operations.

MacMillan, who has served as executive director of Security Advisory and Management Services Ltd, was commissioner of police between 1993 and 1996. Has more than two decades of knowledge and expertise in the area of crime management and security.

His appointment as chief constable broke with tradition, given that he did not have any formal police training prior to the appointment.

MacMillan was appointed chairman of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica's Standing Committee on National Security (SCNS), effective November 25, 2005.

The SCNS comprises a cross section of representatives from various spheres of society, including the Ministry of National Security, the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), the National Crime Prevention Fund (Crime Stop) and other private sector interests.

Throughout the years, the crime committee has worked on several programmes, addressing issues related to crime and violence. Two major initiatives spearheaded by this committee have been the year-long series of Police Courtesy Weeks held in 2003 and the PSOJ/JCF Phone-in Programme, which was launched in 2002 and is ongoing.

Long before the 2007 general elections, MacMillan was appointed to the Senate by the then Opposition Jamaica Labour Party. However, he was not reappointed after the elections. 

2008-05-10
Headley Avenue in Central Kingston blocked with debris for over a week by residents to prevent drive-by shootings.  Kingston Mayor, Senator Desmond McKenzie, says he is clamping down on extortion.  But adherents of the opposition Peoples National Party (PNP), most of whom earn their livelihood providing security and other services, see his decision as political, in closing an illegal bus park at Church Street in downtown Kingston. Compounding the already complex issue of extortion, its roots and reaches in downtown Kingston, the roughly 30 bus operators plying the Kingston and St. Thomas route, who are caught in the middle, say it will cost them more to park at the Darling Street bus park, where men from Tivoli Gardens, the mayors political enclave, are demanding $400 per trip.  Prior to the closure of the Church Street bus park, the bus operators said they paid $500 each week in fees.  These fees covered costs to hustlers, mainly from the PNP-controlled areas in the eastern end of the city, who earned their livelihood loading buses, cleaning the bus park and providing security.  According to the operators, the move to the government bus park at Darling Street is costing $200 daily for parking fees, plus $400 per trip to enforcers from Tivoli Gardens and other JLP-aligned communities.  This, they say, is the standard fee for buses plying rural routes, which terminate at the Darling Street bus park.   The PNP adherents, who earn a weekly income from the bus operators, do not view Mayor McKenzies decision to close the Church Street park as enforcing the rules, but instead, as an act of political victimisation against them.  Those making the claims charged that the income base of the JLP supporters, some of whom capture and use state land to operate illegal car parks in the western end of the city, remains intact, while their source of revenue has been cut off. Apart from the illegal car parks, where shoppers pay up to $100 for parking fees, hustlers from the JLP political enclave are paid in both cash and kind by higglers selling at Coronation Market and other markets in the western end of the city.  The thugs also control the extortion racket operating on the southern side of downtown Kingston, stretching from Coronation Market to Breezy Castle in the east, where scores of businesses are said to be paying extortionists.  Calls by the security forces for reports of demands from extortionists have fallen on deaf ears, as players contend that the official security forces cannot match the level of security provided by the enforcers.  Officially, extortion is a crime for which offenders can be imprisoned.  But for hundreds of youths living in politically volatile communities in downtown Kingston, it is way of life.  This is how they earn their livelihood.  And it becomes a matter of turf for supporters of either of the two major political parties in these areas. Although supporters of the JLP enjoyed the fruits of the closed Church Street bus park, most of the beneficiaries were from Tel Aviv, Smith Lane and other communities supporting the PNP.  Checks by the Sunday Herald revealed that the beneficiaries were organised in order to share the spoils in an orderly way.  Men from each community are assigned to work on different days of the week loading buses, cleaning the park and providing security.  Several higglers who sell items like bag juices, cigarettes, water and other items, also earn their livelihood from the hundreds of passengers using the facility daily. Residents see McKenzies actions as part of his political intentions to contest the next General Election.  McKenzie is interim JLP caretaker for the Central Kingston constituency, represented by the PNPs Ronnie Thwaites. Among those holding this view is Tel Aviv community leader, popularly known as Pepsi.  The 45-year-old Pepsi told the Sunday Herald that persons unknown to him threatened to kill Mayor McKenzie, saying they were representing Pepsi, a charge that he denied.  They also reportedly told the mayor that if he did not reopen the bus park, vendors at the Pearnel Charles arcade would have to pay $500 each.  Pepsi was adamant that Tel Aviv was not only being targeted unfairly, but has also been dragged into the latest *lo**y flare-up between warring factions within the JLP stronghold in the constituency.  Residents in Tel Aviv traced the infighting to internal conflicts triggered by a move engineered by the late community activist, Franklyn Allen, alias Chubby Dread, to unite communities seven years ago.  The move, according to Pepsi, received support from GraceKennedy, which provided economic support.   But some elements in the JLP areas reportedly saw the move as an attempt to weaken the party politically.  As a result, some youth in Southside were accused of switching political support from the JLP to the PNP.  This was said to have been the start of a *lo**y internal conflict.  Some of the accused youth took refuge in Tel Aviv, where they are still residing. Chubby Dread was killed in New Kingston outside the popular Asylum nightclub.  Some JLP supporters, including his son, believe his own people killed him because it was felt that he was getting too soft and was influencing the men to join the PNP.  His son has since taken over the leadership of one of the gangs in the community, which are battling for supremacy, resulting in a series of tit-for-tat killings.   For now, the guns have gone silent for the umpteenth time in several years.  Following a meeting on Friday with Commissioner of Police Hardley Lewin, the leaders on both sides agreed to make efforts to keep the peace.  Later today, meetings will be held in Southside and Tel Aviv as follow-ups to the meeting with the commissioner.  But residents on both sides are not sure that the peace will last.

Red Bull wings F1 to Ja
published: Sunday | May 11, 2008

Caribbean Village moves into Sweet Auburn Spring Festival
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The Voice - 'The Watchman' looks out for youths
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Brazil youth focus may hold answer to Jamaica's crime problem
published: Thursday | May 8, 2008

Mark Beckford, Staff Reporter

Policemen detain two suspects during an anti-drug raid in the Pavao-Pavaozinho slum in Rio de Janeiro on April 28. - AP

A multidimensional strategy including a strong emphasis on improved police-community relations has been credited for Brazil's success in curbing crime in its second largest city.

The anti-crime push - which is also hinged on rehabilitating troubled youths and seizing guns from the streets - has been critical to Cesar Rubem battling lawlessness in his native Rio de Janeiro.

"Our work has tried to look at these three components - working with young people, gun reduction and gun control, and you must have police action if you want to control guns," he told The Gleaner Tuesday.

GUN CRIMES

Rubem, founder and executive secretary of the non-governmental group Viva Rio, has seen some of the worst forms of gun crimes and juvenile deviancy. However, he has been able to effect change in Brazil and Jamaica's neighbour Haiti, a Caribbean nation wracked by endemic poverty, widespread illiteracy and political upheaval.

Rio and Jamaica's cities share similar experiences on the subject of crime and violence. In 2006, Jamaica, with a population of 2.6 million, tolled 1,340 murders. Rio, with more than six million persons, in the same year tallied 2,273 deaths.

Violent crime in both countries is fuelled by a jigsaw puzzle of urban shantytowns teeming with unemployed youth, some of whom are wooed by gangs. In Jamaica, they are called ghettos; Brazil dubs them favelas. The use of small firearms figures prominently as the weapon of choice in both countries.

Rubem, who is in Jamaica as a guest of the United Nations Development Programme and the Violence Prevention Alliance, shared some of the strategies his organisation has pursued in taming the crime monster in Brazil's former capital.

"We have a lot of gun violence in Brazil, very, very tough, especially in Rio de Janeiro. The main issue is that you have a c****ination of community control and drug dealing. The control comeswith guns and the money comes from the drug dealing."

Rubem told The Gleaner that since his organisation's inception in 1993, it has been able to help more than 100,000 marginalised youths through its programmes. He also said the state had adopted the idea of helping dropouts and juvenile delinquents reintegrate into society.

Out of school

"Young people who have dropped out of school, if you are in school you can still make a career, a strategy of life. When you drop out of school, you are out, and unless you have studied, it is hard to go to the labour market," the activist pleaded.

Rubem is also a firm believer in negotiating with gangsters and providing incentives in order to reduce crime. This approach, he said, was used in Haiti to great effect.

His organisation approached gang leaders and offered them 30 scholarships a month for children in the five warring sections through a lottery system.

Viva Rio also offered an extra training incentive for gang leaders if they held to an agreement to ensure that no violence was committed over a two-month period. They have held to that commitment since May 2007.

"We managed to facilitate a peace accord among gang leaders in Bel-Air in the centre of Port-au- Prince (Haiti's capital) and that was very surprising for us since that has been achieved, it is possible to negotiate peace."

In terms of gun control, Rubem has pointed to the Disarmament Statute and the gun amnesty in his country between July 2004 and October 2005 which yielded more than 500,000 guns.

Gun ownership

The Disarmament Statute has several limitations with gun ownership. These include the right to own a gun but not carry it in public, and strict conditions on gun licence issuance. Also, all ammunition must be traceable.

A person who is under 25 years old cannot own a gun, and civilians are prohibited from purchasing semi-automatic and automatic guns for personal use. Rubem also said that gun convictions carried a minimum sentence of four years.

Friday, 09 May 2008 21:11

As jury selections for the R. Kelly sex trial began today, new claims surfaced that an aide to Kelly allegedly paid off a woman to get her to return an incriminating sex videotape featuring the Grammy Award winning singer. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, last month Judge Vincent Gaughan held four closed-door hearings and was told that the Atlanta woman, who is expected to testify that she had a three-way sexual encounter with Kelly and the suspected underage girl at the center of his child porn trial, was allegedly paid by Kelly's aide to recover a sex tape featuring Kelly. It is unclear how much the aide allegedly paid the woman, but the woman did receive payment and arranged for the tape to be delivered to the aide. The Atlanta woman was granted immunity from state and federal prosecution in exchange for her testimony. Federal immunity was provided to protect the woman from charges of transporting child pornography across state lines. Sources revealed the woman had been in love with Kelly. During the April hearings, Judge Gaughan was told at one point the aide arranged for the woman to take a polygraph test to determine if she was telling the truth about the tape. It is not clear whether the embattled singer had any knowledge of the alleged deal. Prosecutors became aware of the woman's dealings with Kelly's aide and decided to make her a witness in the case involving the initial sex tape. The Atlanta woman's testimony could prove damaging to the defense's case as she can identify the girl and testify if she was underage at the time. The girl, now in her 20s, has denied before a grand jury that she was involved in alleged act. She might become a defense witness at the trial. The 41-year-old singer was indicted on child pornography charges in June 2002 for allegedly having sex with an underage girl and videotaping the act. Prosecutors have said the girl may have been as young as 13 when the tape was made. R. Kelly has pleaded not guilty and faces up to 15-years in prison if convicted.

According to a memorabilia dealer's upcoming book, O.J. spilled the juicy details of what happened on the night Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were murdered.

Mike Gilbert claims that O.J. had smoked pot, took a sleeping pill and was drinking beer when Simpson told him he didn't bring a knife to his ex-wife's apartment on June 12, 1994 -- and that, "If she hadn't opened that door with a knife in her hand ... she'd still be alive."

Gilbert also claims he helped Simpson avoid the murder charges by telling him how to bloat his hands so they wouldn't fit in the infamous Isotoners, according to the AP.

Simpson's current lawyer said that none of the claims are true and that Gilbert is "a delusional drug addict who needs money."

A man accused of sexually molesting his 14-year-old niece was granted bail when the matter was mentioned in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on Wednesday.

The accused man was arrested after a teacher at the girl's school reported the molestation to the police.

The teacher allegedly became aware of the abuse which had been going on for a number of weeks after reading an essay written by the child.

The court was told that the child was in the care of the accused from she was six years old. It was alleged that during that time, he pressured the complainant repeatedly for sex. It is further alleged that at the time of the first sexual encounter, the accused used a pillow to cover the child's face and fondled her before having sex with her.

different story

However, the accused's attorney pointed out that the incidents allegedly took place four years ago. In addition he said that when the child was questioned, she said it was not actually her uncle who sexually molested her.

After listening to both sides, Senior Resident Magistrate Glen Brown granted the accused $50,000 bail with surety and the condition that he do not go near the complainant. In addition his fingerprints were also ordered taken.

The matter is to return to court on June 12.

EDUCATION Minister Andrew Holness says schools would be supported in alternative methods of instilling discipline, instead of the use of corporal punishment, which he called demeaning and outdated.

The minister said the possibility of prosecuting delinquent parents, placing deans of discipline in all high schools, and the introduction of a behaviour management strategy were some of the ways schools will be assisted in enforcing discipline in students.

Director of administration at Kingston Bookshop, Sonia Fuller, pins a boutonniere on the lapel of the Minister of Education, Andrew Holness, on his arrival at a teachers' luncheon, hosted by Kingston Bookshop at the Terra Nova Hotel in Kingston on Tuesday. Sharing in the occasion is assistant director of administration at the bookshop, Shauna Fuller.

Speaking at a luncheon in honour of teachers in St Andrew Tuesday, Holness said while some teachers felt corporal punishment was an effective tool, it was failing to achieve the desired impact.

"For 300 years, we have been giving our children some serious licks. I think it's time that we try something else, don't you?" the minister said to murmuring from some teachers at the Terra Nova Hotel.

"The evidence is clear that corporal punishment is only a short-term solution to instilling discipline. Violent, demeaning, aggressive disciplinary instruction only teaches our children that the only way to change behaviour is by resorting to violence. And we sit and wonder why our society is so violent?" Holness said.

He said that Jamaica, as a signatory to several international conventions on children's rights and with the passage of the Child Care and Protection Act, corporal punishment in schools was in contradiction of the country's laws.

"I'm not going to back down, we're going to argue it through because this is one of the keys to changing the outcomes of our current education system", Holness said.

But to support the teachers in their efforts, the role of parents would be formalised with the establishment of the parenting commission. The commission will develop programmes of minimum standards of parenting, provide support to parents and institute a public education campaign on parenting. Churches and other organisations will also be utilised in this regard.

Holness said he would ensure the prosecution of "neglectful and delinquent parents", if necessary. He cited as examples parents "who allow their little ones to end up at dance, leave their children to go to dance, and go to school to cuss off the teacher".

In the meantime, the minister said the process to create the post of dean of discipline in all secondary schools would not be completed in time for the next academic year in September. "Schools who want to put in a dean of discipline on their own, should do so, with the assurance that come September, the past will be formalised. Some schools already have the post", he said.

The behaviour management strategy to be implemented by the deans of discipline would include classroom management, building self esteem of students, and systems of punishment including detentions, demerits and suspensions.

"The regular classroom teacher ought not to be overburdened in dealing with these issues...The schools will be more empowered now," said the education minister.

At the luncheon, sponsored by Kingston Bookshop Ltd, educators Dahlia Repole, principal of Excelsior Community College and Ruel Reid, principal of Jamaica College, were honoured, while retiring principal of St Jago High School, Keith Noel was recognised for his 'unique contribution' to education through the arts and sports.

AMY WINEHOUSE was arrested yesterday over The Suns sensational video showing her smoking crack.


Waiting ... cops with Amy
The pop diva looked anguished and dishevelled as she arrived at a police station in a people carrier driven by a minder.

She was held on suspicion of possessing drugs after turning up at the East London nick at 1pm by prior arrangement, before being released on bail at 10.30pm.

Sir BOB GELDOFs daughter PEACHES will be questioned by cops tomorrow after she was also recorded buying drugs off the same dealer, it is alleged.

Detectives want both women to give statements against the pusher who is suspected of trying to frame them


Amy, 24 renowned for her song Rehab with the line, They tried to make me go to rehab, I said no, no, no was filmed smoking crack and snorting cocaine and powdered ecstasy.

The covert 19-minute clip, taken in January, was found on a memory stick.

Clips of Peaches, 19, offering £190 to a pusher were found on the same stick.


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She is heard to say: I need to get all that stuff off you tonight. Tomorrow I need Valium.

Probe
In March police arrested Jonny Blagrove, 34, and his girlfriend Cara Burton, 22, on suspicion of supplying controlled drugs.

Their arrests form a major part of the probe into an alleged drug supply operation in which celebrities were targeted.

They were allegedly filmed taking drugs and then threatened with exposure unless they paid bribes.

One source told The Sun: Those being brought in for questioning this week will be asked to give statements about the people who supplied them with drugs.

The dealers are the targets of the investigation.

Psychiatrists and lawyers were called in to see jittery Amy before yesterdays appointment. And the star, who wore a lime green vest, was said to have sobbed uncontrollably once inside Limehouse nick.

Detectives from Tower Hamlets CID initially told her they planned to keep her in until today, it was claimed.

But she was released on bail late last night after she calmed down and co-operated.

Sordid ... star is secretly filmed smoking crack
A Met spokesman said  We can confirm that a 24 year old woman was arrested on suspicion of possessing controlled drugs when she attended a police station by prior arrangement at 1pm today. The arrest was part of an ongoing investigation.

A report will be prepared for the Crown Prosecution Service.

It is notoriously hard to prove possession of drugs unless the substance is found on the person arrested.

The Metropolitan Police previously launched a disastrous probe into the KATE MOSS cocaine video.

Supermodel Kate, 34 did not face any charges.

Under the law, it has to be proved whether a substance being snorted is Class A such as cocaine or Class B like speed.

An accused cellular phone thief, who is contesting a robbery charge was remanded when he was brought before the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court, on Wednesday.

The man, Sean Jackson, 24, of a Montego Bay, St James address, is arguing a case of mistaken identity to allegations of robbery with aggravation and assault at common law.

This is, however, not the first time that the accused has been before the court on such a charge. Last October, he was charged with larceny, assaulting a police constable, resisting arrest, malicious destruction of property and possession of an offensive weapon stemming from allegations that he attacked a woman and robbed her of a cellular phone valued at $24,000.

He also pleaded not guilty to those allegations.

The report stemming from the recent offence is that at 7 p.m. on April 29, the police were on patrol along Barnett Street in Montego Bay when they observed a struggle between a man and a woman.

stabbed victim

The cops observed him grabbing something from the woman and as she tried to retrieve the item, the man allegedly stabbed at her and pushed her to the ground. The man ran and was chased and held by the police.

The man, allegedly, turned out to be Jackson who held his knife at the police in a threatening manner. The woman subsequently made a report to the police that the accused took her cellphone valued at $12,000.

However, in court, Jackson told RM Winsome Henry: "It's not me your honour".

The officer who witnessed the incident told the court that from the moment he and his colleague saw the tussle between the accused and the complainant, they never lost sight of him and are positive that he was the one involved in the incident.

He was remanded in custody until May 19 when he will be assigned legal representation.

BY TANANGACHI MFUNI, OREN YANIV & JONATHAN LEMIRE
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

A 5-year-old Queens boy was thrown from an SUV and killed early Thursday after his aunt's vehicle crossed the path of two drag-racing cars, police and witnesses said.

Jordan McLean's aunt swerved her Ford Escape away from one car but could not avoid a blue BMW.

The luxury sedan slammed into the SUV, spinning the Ford and ejecting Jordan from the backseat. The little boy ended up pinned between his aunt's crumpled SUV and a wall on 109th Ave. in Jamaica.

"I just heard a boom and the car started spinning out," said witness Roosevelt Watson, 34. "We pulled a lady out of the car and she started screaming, 'Where's my baby?' 'Where's my baby?' "

Jordan's aunt Claris Edwards was driving north on 164th Place to drop the boy and his mother, Marcia McEachron, at their home just after midnight. Two cars suddenly roared down 109th Ave. - a drag-racing hot spot, residents said.

"Two cars were racing, they were speeding," said Edwards' son Christopher Smith, 21. "She tried to pull away from one but the other one hit her."

The impact tore the SUV apart and propelled the BMW into a parked Hyundai.

The BMW's driver and passengers fled and were not found in a police sweep.

The second car in the race - described by witnesses as a burgundy Jaguar sedan - drove off and did not return, police said.

The BMW had been purchased and registered in the name of a Queens man who did not actually buy it, a police source said. Investigators believe that man had his identity stolen, the source said.

Edwards and McEachron were hurt in the crash, but the injuries were not considered life-threatening, officials said.

"I'm feeling a lot of pain," said a weeping Edwards before she was taken off in an ambulance.

Jordan, who was raised on the island of Jamaica before moving to Queens a month ago, died at Jamaica Hospital a short time later. McEachron's husband, who still lives on the island, collapsed when he heard his son had died, relatives said.

Witnesses told police the BMW was spotted racing in the area minutes before the crash, the police source said. Angry residents said the stretch of 109th Ave. is popular with racers.

Councilman Leroy Comrie (D-Queens) said he would ask Queens District Attorney Richard Brown, who launched other successful operations against drag racing, to crack down on the practice in southeast Queens.

A Department of Transportation spokesman said there had been seven accidents at the intersection since 2003, but it did not meet the federal standards for an additional traffic light or stop sign.

Jordan McLean, 5, was thrown from his aunt's SUV.

A man accused of stealing metal bars from a bridge in the Six Miles area of St Andrew, pleaded guilty to simple larceny in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on Tuesday.

The allegations against Christopher Wray, 20, are that he was spotted by police removing metal bars from the bridge. When arrested and cautioned, he reportedly told the police, "Officer, a di first mi do it. Mi have some other metal an' mi waan mek dem up."

When he appeared before RM Glen Brown, he said he was stealing metal for the first time. When asked where he had planned to sell the metal, he repeated that it was his first time.

He was ordered to have his fingerprints taken by the police and was remanded until June 12 for sentencing. A probation report was also requested.

THE court appointed joint receiver/managers of the failed Cash Plus pyramid scheme will on Monday present their findings on the assets of failed alternative investment scheme Cash Plus to the Supreme Court.

Observer sources confirmed yesterday that attorneys representing the joint receiver managers (Kevin Bandoian of local accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers and his unnamed female partner) were granted the additional time after making an application in the Supreme Court yesterday.

The attorneys were initially to present their findings to the court on Monday of this week, however, when they appeared in court then, they told the presiding judge, Justice Marva McIntosh, that they required more time to complete the process. McIntosh had subsequently granted them until yesterday to provide the information.

On March 30, Justice McIntosh approved the appointment of Bandoian as joint receiver/manager along with the other classified party to manage the affairs of the beleaguered Cash Plus, which owes billions of dollars to its 40 lenders.
The joint receiver/managers were given 35 days to supply the court with a report on Cash Plus' status.

Following a police raid on the Norbrook Drive home of the Cash Plus Chairman Carlos Hill last month several documents were seized, some of which suggested that billions of dollars in several overseas financial institutions have been linked to Hill and Cash Plus.

The investment arm of Cash Plus, which promised high rates of interest on the contributions of investors, has been out of operation since being served last December with a cease-and-desist order by the Financial Services Commission (FSC).

MONTEGO BAY, St James - The truck driver involved in Wednesday's fatal three-vehicle collision along the Rose Hall main road in the second city turned himself in to the police yesterday.

The man, who fled the scene following the death of Chinelle Bent, a 15-year-old student of Holland High School in Trelawny and the injury of nine others, reported to the police yesterday morning.

He has not been arrested but police say their investigation into the fatal crash continues.

Bent, of Greenwood, St James, was killed and the nine others injured when a Toyota Camry motor car, registered 8467 FD, travelling from Falmouth towards Montego Bay collided with a truck as the car attempted to make a U-turn in the vicinity of the Palmyra Resorts.

The truck reportedly got out of control and hit a Townace bus in which Bent was a passenger, sending the bus into a ditch.
The police in St James also detained, questioned and released some 20 persons from the Anchovy area yesterday, as it continued its investigations into a spate a robberies and murders in the area.

According to the commanding officer for the parish Superintendent Steve McGregor, the police has stepped up its surveillance of certain communities - Anchovy/Wiltshire Mount Carey, Tucker and Irwin and the outskirts of Granville - which have seen an upsurge in crimes with three persons shot dead last week.

According to McGregor, these areas are not traditional hot spots and the police will continue surveillance and patrols as part of its wider strategy to contain crime in the parish, which has seen an increase in five murders committed in the parish compared to the corresponding period last year.

NICHOLSON. we need to have a full constructive debate

SENATOR A J Nicholson, the former attorney general and minister of justice, says the time is ripe for both the Government and Opposition to decide whether or not capital punishment should resume, especially in the face of the growing crime rate.

"We need the debate on capital punishment, and we are not talking about for partisan political purposes. We need that debate because three-quarters of the persons in Jamaica say they wish for capital punishment to be resumed so we need to have a full constructive debate so that the people of Jamaica can know what are the parameters," Nicholson told the Senate yesterday.

Attorney General and Leader of Government Business in the Senate, Senator Dorothy Lightbourne, in responding to Nicholson, said the question of the death penalty was being addressed by the administration, which was elected last September.

Lightbourne said a resolution was being drafted and would be taken to the House before the Charter of Rights is debated.

The Government had indicated last year that members of the House and Senate, instead of voting along party lines, would be asked to vote by conscience on the death penalty.

Nicholson's suggestion of a debate on capital punishment came during debate on the 2005 Firearms (Amendment) Act which, though passed in 2005, was never gazetted and was therefore not brought into force. An amendment was therefore sought to the bill to validate and confirm the actions of all persons who acted under the assumption that the Act was in force as well as indemnify bodies such as the Firearms Licensing Authority and the Review Board against any claims that might be made against them on the basis that the enabling legislation was not yet in force.

Sections 34 and 44 of the Act, which addressed the matter of the duration of licences granted and the payment of annual duty on the licence, were also amended.

The sections are being amended so that a licence would have a duration of five years, expiring on the birthday of the licensee, where the licence was granted on the birthday of the holder or during a period of 30 days before that birthday. Where the licence was granted after the holder's birthday it will initially expire four years after the holders next birthday. The Act is being amended for the ninth time since Independence.

Nicholson told the Senate that the discussion on the Firearms Bill had provided an ideal opening for the resurrection of the capital punishment debate as "overtime the firearm has become as commonplace an instrument of daily life as a water jar, a bucket or a slingshot".

Said the Opposition senator: "The firearm has become an instrument of pervasive destruction in such a way that it has found its way into our popular cultural expressions in almost all of their forms. It has become the main instrument of the settlement of disputes - large and small - and in short it is wreaking havoc in our country; the land is soaked with the *lo** of victims of firearms".

The former attorney general said a recent poll found that 71 per cent or almost three quarters of the persons polled were in favour of capital punishment to be resumed.

"It is not many areas of public life that you are going to find a poll taken and you get 71 per cent, almost three quarters of the persons polled agreeing on any single issue. It means then that it is not something the Government or the Opposition can ignore," he said.

He suggested that the debate be taken before discussions on the Charter of Rights Bill which was tabled in the House by Prime Minister Bruce Golding in November of last year began.

"I am asking for that debate to come to the fore even before the Charter of Rights Bill comes to be discussed. It wouldn't detract from what would flow from a debate on capital punishment if it is done sooner rather than later," Nicholson told senators.

Nicholson said, too, that there was also a need for the
Government to at this time advise as to its vision concerning the eradication of the "pervasive gun culture".
Jamaica last hanged a murder convict in 1988, under the then Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Government led by Edward Seaga.

Police statistics showed that up to the end of April this year 489 people were murdered, most of them by the gun.

DESPITE the pain and the scars from a stabbing under her left eye with a kitchen knife, Stacy-Ann Morris on Thursday asked the court to drop a wounding charge against the father of her son.

Morris said she has no choice but to drop the charges against Rakeesh Marsh as she would be unable to take care of the child without his support.

Marsh, the police reported, used a kitchen knife to stab Morris under her left eye during a dispute at their Kingston home.

"Your honour, I forgive him because he is the father of my son and I would not want him to go to prison because he is the only one taking care of him, I am not working at the moment," the woman said, as Marsh stood silently in front of Resident Magistrate Glen Brown.

She said that she recently gave birth to the child and was not yet able to resume working until she had fully recovered from childbirth.

"Do you love your babymother, Mr Marsh? Why did you stab her in the face? Is it because you don't want her to get any other man?" Brown asked.

"No, your honour, it was an accident and I love her, your honour," a timid-looking Marsh said softly as a handful of women at the back of the courtroom hissed in annoyance.

"My view is that men who stab a woman or anyone for that matter should go to jail," said Brown. "So the next time that both of you have a quarrel, and you will quarrel because it is not every time that you will want to take care of the child, make sure that there are no knives around," the magistrate said sternly before dismissing the couple.

 

this get me crossed!!!! Nuh kill him ah go kill har next time.

Treat that special lady on Mother's Day tomorrow
published: Saturday | May 10, 2008

Live music of Floyd FoulksChez Maria celebrates Mother's Day with live music of Floyd Foulks; 11:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. - $2,500 for adults, $1,500 for kids.St Paul's concertThe Church of the Conversion of St Paul's Mother's Day concert is at the church grounds in Portmore; $200 for adults, $100 for children.Air Supply concert The ultimate duo Air Supply will perform at the Cable and Wireless Golf Academy in New Kingston. The concert also features A.J. Brown and One Third.'The Perfect Setup'Take mom to the hilarious play, The Perfect Setup, starring Munair Zacca, Carol Campbell and Kerstin Pringle at the 5 p.m. or 8 p.m. show at Centerstage in New Kingston.Waterfalls' brunchCheck out Waterfalls' Mother's Day brunch from 10:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $1,500.

Sounding off on deejay ban
published: Saturday | May 10, 2008

Dancehall behind wave of immoralityTHE EDITOR, Sir:We have not been ganging up on dancehall. Not at all. We are instead ganging up on the violent and disgusting content that is contained in much of the music that dancehall represents.After 20 years of exposing the young people to it, we have created a culture of pure violence and murder and hate.Music? Is this what they call music? That is pathetic. If you want to put your finger on a specific cause of the present moral decay in Jamaica today, look no further. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, the culprit - dancehall.Mavado and Bounty Killer especially have been targeted because they have been identified as the main offenders. Performers are now being made to be responsible for what they sing, and the message they send.Jamaica needs a fresh start. A new beginning, and dancehall and its culture have no future in a decent, moral society. Dancehall has deteriorated into an abyss of filth and gun-slinging lyrics. Our young men are hypnotised by it and are acting out what these songs say in real life.The best news I heard recently was the banning of these two deejays by Guyana! They should not even stop there.Decent people are sick and tired of the vile and violence-laced songs, some of which actually enjoy airplay on radio!I am, etc.,DANIELLE KATZgoodheartgal07@hotmail.com Bad omen for regional unityTHE EDITOR, Sir:It is my opinion that Bounty and Mavado should not be banned. This is definitely an attempt by the Guyanese government to gang up on dancehall.To think at a time when we as Caribbean nations should be looking to solidify the CARICOM Single Market and Economy, we are seeking to alienate those persons of another island who promote hardcore dancehall.What is the real objective of the Guyanese?I am, etc.,HALEEM ANDERSONhalkim77@yahoo.com

Youth organisations urged to unite
published: Saturday | May 10, 2008

Tendai Franklyn-Brown, Staff Reporter

Youth organisations across the country are being urged by a United States national youth organisation to consolidate their efforts to implement programmes that will directly benefit young people.

James Wagoner, president of the Advocates For Youth (AFY), was the guest speaker at Wednesday's opening of the Jamaica Youth Advocacy Network's (JYAN) debut Yute X Advocacy Conference. The three-day conference, held under the theme 'An X for Youth - An X for the Future!', at The Knutsford Court Hotel in New Kingston, ended yesterday.

Wagoner told The Gleaner the event was timely as it encouraged young people to use their insight to discuss youth advocacy in Jamaica.

"Right now there is a lot of inspiration, a lot of effort. But what is needed is one organisation, an umbrella under which all of these organisations coordinate and prioritise their work, to have an immediate impact, in terms of addressing the problems faced by youths," he said.

Over the course of the conference, AFY, in partnership with JYAN, aimed to broach the issues affecting youths holistically and relate it to education, violence, and disability.

"JYAN is very supportive of adult youth partnership. Support of adults can help them network, obtain resources and serve as professional mentors for these young people as they build their careers," Wagoner said.

"In this environment the adult steps back and the young person comes forward and you're there to contribute to the ideas and strategies being developed by young people themselves."

Facilitating young people

Andrew Francis, convener of JYAN and youth advocate, suggested that the seminar would facilitate young people in voicing their opinions so they could contribute to driving policies and nation building.

"We need to unite all of the different youth groups and unite with the Government and form partnerships with them to come up with a firm plan to improve the issues that affect young people in the areas of crime and violence, education accessibility and eradicating unemployment."

Attaining street credibility for the average artiste is a lyrical battle that many labour over.

In the dancehall, one's area code can make or break an artiste, as uptown artistes, especially, may find it difficult to make it initially in the streets.

In the beginning persons like Don Yute and Supercat broke the barrier, leading 'uptowners' into the business. But it was the likes of Sean Paul that infiltrated and made the big breakthrough in the dancehall market.

Since then, the number of uptown dancehall artistes hitting it big include Damian Marley, Brick and Lace and Tami Chynn, who is enjoying success from her collaboration with Akon called Frozen. Also dipping into the pot is Cezar, Alaine, Wayne Marshall, Leftside, Ce'Cile, Tessane Chin and others.

Yet, there is still the struggle of being accepted in the downtown garrison areas as hardcore dancehall artistes. Up-and-coming artiste and producer Serani captures that struggle well in his recent song Not A Bad Man. As Serani sings, "I'm not a bad man, I'm not evil, I neva buss gun and kill people...I'm not from Garden, Rema or Jungle, yuh neva hear mi seh mi kill inna bungle...mi is just a likkle uptown yute a hustle..mi love di ghetto yo mi should born there..mi life nuh easy mi shed so many tears."

'garrison' heart

For Serani, the song speaks to his reality of being uptown but with a 'garrison' heart. To Serani, being uptown in the dancehall has not been fully accepted by the dancehall community. "Nuff people don't know I'm not from the ghetto, I'm not really into uptown stuck-up people, which a lot of uptown people tend to be. There are lots of things I love 'bout garrison people - dem roots and I'm a roots person," he said.

While not being from the garrison can have its drawbacks in the music business, it can be helpful as well. Serani portrays himself to be a chameleon who can adapt to any social situation. His writing style reflects his upbringing but his subject matter in Mama Still Hungry, Doh and others, reflect his knowledge of the downtown world. For Serani, he believes he performs 'harder' in garrison situations than in the uptown settings.

hardcore

He said, "I could go much harder in terms of what I say, much much more hardcore, but that's not the image I wanna portray. I want to be seen as a decent yute, who has been through his struggles, dat a help nuff yute."

VJ, deejay and selector, Supa Hype has never shied away from announcing his uptown roots to the industry as seen in his tongue-in-cheek parodies such as Welcome to Norbrook, based on Junior Gong's hit Welcome to Jamrock, and Uptown Story, from Cham's Ghetto Story. In Uptown Story, Supa Hype recounts an entirely different life from the garrison experience, 'Mi grow up inna Norbrook, Cherry Garden, Stony Hill, Constant Spring, Beverley Hills ... This is a real uptown story, mi house have five stories ... I remember satellite dish before cable buss; every top movie a mi a watch dem fuss.'

Supa Hype endorses the 'uptown' or 'UPT', as he explained to THE STAR, "years of living uptown is like the uptown neva exist in dancehall. As a uptown yute, no one used to big up uptown. If yuh nah seh Rema and Garden yuh nah seh nut'n, what happen to where mi live? So I gotta represent where I come from."

According to Supa Hype after the release of Uptown Story he got a lot of respect in the garrison yet it was still difficult for him to breakthrough in the dancehall. "Nuff time mi feel like people a fight mi in terms of mi production and ting. My songs playing on radio, but not much in the garrison. People seh Supa Hype rich, uptown him nuh have no need for dis," Supa Hype said. One drawback in the comedic approach for this artiste is that he claims its hard for people to accept him as a serious artiste who does 'real' songs other than parodies.

An acclaimed international success, Sean Paul has proven that, while dancehall arose from the ghetto, it doesn't have to stay there. Locally, being uptown has plagued Sean Paul, as in the beginning of his career many doors were closed to him. Speaking to THE STAR previously on the issue, Sean Paul claimed, "Those things have to do with the perception of the general public, some people call it the system, some people say it's the way things are. I call it an injustice of society and it just shows you where we are still. Cause if someone can be a great artiste and put out many songs and people feel that he's reached there because of this, or he didn't reach there because of that - it is a bias that people have. I don't have it, I just do music." According to Sean Paul, the issue should not be where the music came from, but that it sounds good.

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Edward Keith Stoddard Jr. really likes his PlayStation 3. So much, in fact, that if you were to touch his PS3, he may just kill you. Such was the fate of his neighbor, Douglas F. Abrams, who Stoddard believed had taken his console. During an argument over the missing system, police say Stoddard shot Abrams, fatally wounding him. When cops showed up on the scene, Stoddard surrendered and was taken to Land O'Lakes jail (no, really) in Dade County, Florida. It's okay to love your console, people -- just don't get jealous if it drops by the neighbor's house for some tea.

Season best for Foster-Hylton
published: Saturday | May 10, 2008

Nina Sparkles
Friday 9 May 2008 @ 1:53 pm

Nina Sparkles

Born January 9th in Kingston to Tilton and Ruthlyn Sinclair,The Sinclairs have Five Daughters, Marie grew up in the Cockburn Pen Area in Kingston before moving to Portmore Where she attended Independence City All age While at school one her favorite teacher turn out to be sister Of a soon to be Vbyz Kartel. Marie was also an track and field athlete, she claims to be very good She also a Kingston Senior Alumni and a qualified Cosmetologist She was a stylist when She met Mc Nuffy Who introduced her to A slew of female artist such as Macka Diamond, Lady G, Queen Paula To name a few, She was bitten with the entertainment Bug and started Hanging out with these artistes where she discovered one of her many Talents dancing for a while she toured with Macka Diamond,she Started to make friends in the Industry such as the famed David House, Whom encouraged her to explore her other talents such as an artist As the transition from dancer to dejay has not been an easy one. She is currently working with Money Must From Em Records Located in Portmore. Her Role model as an female is definitely lady Saw Current Singles:- In a Mi Ting (Gary G) I Need A Gansta Ras (Em Records) Dance Feat Powerman (Em Records) She also has A C****ination with Kiprich, the video for in a Mi Ting Was recently shot , Sparkles was a little for her solo effort She performed at world renowned Stone Love sound system anniversary Held at Mas Camp located in Kingston Jamaica, she looking forward to perform At the legendary dancehall show Sting to be held in Portmore.

A story was released on Europe's largest gay news service, Pink News by Tony Grew, on May 6, that the interior minister informed the Lesbian and Gay Federation in Germany, that Reggae Artiste Sizzla Kalonji will not be granted a Schengen visa for his proposed European tour this month and has been refused the entry visa.

Attempts to contact the Jamaican German Embassy were futile. However, despite their claims, Sizzla and his band departed for their European tour last night for his first show in Poland on Saturday.

Sizzla and other artistes Capelton, Bounty Killer, Beenie Man, and others continue to be a target by the gay community. As a result, a Coalition to Defend the Rights of Black Businesses, Black Organizations and Reggae Artists has been formed to provide a unified voice to defend the Reggae Industry against these attacks by the Gay community and other issues.

Mariah crazy about husband Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon Bangshowbiz Mariah Carey is 'over the moon' about her marriage. The singer wed in a 'very impulsive' ceremony last week Wednesday at her home in The Bahamas. Mariah's friend André Leon Talley, the editor of America's Vogue magazine, revealed the 38-year-old singer was "so happy" following her nuptials to rapper Nick Cannon. He said: "She is very happy. I've spoken with her and she is superb. She is over the moon. I received an email from her and she is so happy. She really sounds like someone on her honeymoon." Approved of nick André also said he approved of Nick, who appears in the video for Mariah's new single Bye Bye - adding: "I love Nick Cannon for Mariah. For Mariah, this is poetry." Another source confirmed that there was no pre-nuptial agreement as "there wasn't time". It was also reported that the US$2.5 million ring Mariah has been sporting was originally given to Nick's ex, Selita Ebanks. However, jewellers Jacob and Co. dismissed the suggestion, saying they designed the 17-carat pink diamond ring after he split from Selita. Mariah and Nick began dating after he directed the video for her single, Bye Bye, in March. People magazine are set to release exclusive photographs of the secret wedding ceremony.

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MySpace Introduces Data Availability with Landmark Launch Partners Yahoo!, eBay, Photobucket, and Twitter

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MySpace, the worlds most popular social network, alongside Yahoo!, eBay, Photobucket, and Twitter, today announced the launch of the MySpace Data Availability initiative, a ground-breaking offering to empower the global MySpace community to share their public profile data to websites of their choice throughout the Internet. Todays announcement throws open the doors to traditionally closed networks by putting users in the drivers seat of their data and Web identity. The launch of the Data Availability initiative marks the first time that a social Website has enabled its community to dynamically share public profile information with other sites.

The walls around the garden are coming downthe implementation of Data Availability injects a new layer of social activity and creates a more dynamic Internet, said Chris DeWolfe, CEO and co-founder of MySpace. We, alongside our Data Availability launch partners, are pioneering a new way for the global community to integrate their social experiences Web-wide.

Data AvailabilityUser Interface

Data Availability pioneers a new way for users to dynamically share their user generated content and data with websites of their choosing. The Data Availability initiative is founded first and foremost on the simple and comprehensive user control of their own content and datausers will have control over what information they share and who they share it with. Additionally, rather than updating information across the Web (eg. default photo, favorite movies or music) for each site where a user spends time, now a user can update their profile in one place and dynamically share that information with the other sites they care about. MySpace will be rolling out a centralized location within the site that allows users to manage how their content and data is made available to third party sites they have chosen to engage with.

Inside this opt-in framework, they will be offered the opportunity to share their MySpace profiles with the site they are visiting. MySpace, and its landmark launch partners, will be allowing users to dynamically share the content and data of their choosing including: (1) Publicly available basic profile information, (2) MySpace photos, (3) MySpaceTV videos, and (4) friend networks. Integration of the Data Availability project will roll to MySpace users and participating Websites in the coming weeks.

The launch of Data Availability is an unprecedented move to further socialize the Web and empower users to control their online content and data, said Amit Kapur, Chief Operating Officer, MySpace. We are thrilled to begin this initiative with a world class suite of landmark partners and invite websites around the world to participate.

yo uno tell mi who uno waan see clash so mi try seee if mi can mek uno get that clash

who would quicker tell a lie a man or a woman

WHATS THE MOST TIME U HAVE EVERY HAD SEX FOR A DAY ???

I DONT KNOW IF NOBODY POST THIS ALREADY

WHAT WOULD U DO IF U FOUND OUT THAT YOUR BEST BEST BEST FRIEND IS TALKING TO YOUR SISTER?????? LOL TO MAKE IT BETTER IF SHE IS YOUR ONLY SISTER AND SHE IS 13 GOING TO 14 AND THE FRIEND IS 19 GOING TO 20

-- Edited by vybz10107 at 13:35, 2008-05-07

Google: We Like Yahoo, and We Like It Independent

By Miguel Helft

Windows Mobile to get pumped up on Nvidia

Watch out, Nvidia is stalking the iPhone. The maker of fast graphics processors will apply its chip know-how to juice up the mobile internet device market and the Windows Mobile interface.

As reported back in February, after a decade of pumping up PC performance, Nvidia is betting a big part of its future on boosting graphics performance in fit-in-your-pocket mobile internet devices (MIDs).

CNET Video of APX 2500 prototype here.

iPhone-style devices with Nvdia's APX 2500 system-on-a-chip--due late this year and next year--incorporate most of the functionality of a PC. (See block diagram.) And it is important to note that Nvidia is building all of the core electronics that will run a mobile internet device, not just the graphics component.

The APX 2500 is different from Intel's Atom processor platform--which is offered as a processor and a separate chipset--because the 2500 integrates everything onto one piece of silicon. This makes it more akin to Intel's upcoming Moorestown processor that's due next year or early 2010.

Nvidia's goal is to pack as much processing punch as possible into a few-hundred-milliwatt power envelope, said Michael Rayfield, general manager of the Mobile Business Unit. "I said start from zero. And then made my team beg and plead for every milliwatt," he said. Notebook PC processors typically operate in power envelopes between 10 and 35 watts.

But to the user, the biggest difference will be Microsoft's Mobile Windows interface and what can happen when there is Nvidia GeForce graphics silicon pushing everything around.

The platform that Nvidia is demonstrating goes far beyond the staid, pin-striped Windows Mobile that is used today. Nvidia is showing finger-flick-and-roll screens and accelerometer-based reorienting 720p video.

These tiny devices are designed to run 720p HDTV video for 10 hours--one of the marquee features that Nvidia will be emphasizing, Rayfield said. He plugged a prototype APX 2500-based device into a large screen TV via a High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) connector and played high-definition movies with the same fluidity and resolution as you get from a big HDTV box or bigger computer.

All on, believe it or not, Windows Mobile. The operating system has struggled since its inception back in 2000. Initially, it had promise on Compaq (and later Hewlett-Packard) iPaq handhelds, but these devices never appealed to a large base, even in corporate America which eventually went en masse for the Blackberry. There is more acceptance now as Windows Mobile 6.1 is adopted by companies like HTC, Samsung, and Acer (which announced its intention to bring out a Windows smartphone)--but it is still Windows. In a post-iPhone world, Nvidia says this is not adequate.

The prototype mobile internet device that Nvidia is currently working on is not the product that will appear from phone companies or navigation device vendors. Rayfield said it is necessarily a thick device and contains extra circuit boards because it is a development platform. The final product made by device manufacturers will be thin, he said.

THE OLYMPIC flame has reached the top of the world. Live television footage showed a Chinese mountaineering team holding up a specially designed torch along with Chinese and Olympic flags yesterday on the top of Mount Everest.

"One World, One Dream," team captain Nyima Cering yelled as his torch was lit on the final icy incline leading to the peak, repeating the slogan for the Beijing Olympics. "We have lit the torch on top of the world," another climber said.

Spectacular feat

The 19-member team, dressed in red parkas emblazoned with Olym-pic logos, broke camp at 8,300 metres (27,390 feet) before dawn and reached the top of the 8,850-metre (29,035-foot) mountain a little more than six hours later.

The climb up the world's highest peak was a spectacular feat that organisers of the Beijing Olympics hoped would under-score China's ambitions for this August's Games.

But the climb had been criticised from the outset because of China's often harsh rule over Tibet - where Everest is located - and the relay drew even more intense scrutiny after Tibetans across western China erupted in anti-government protests in March.

Counter damage

Organisers hope the dramatic image of the torch atop Everest will counter some of the dama-ging publicity from protests that marred the interna-tional leg of the torch relay.

The Olympic flame had been carried up to the world's tallest peak in a special metal canister.

As the team neared the summit, it used a wand to pass the flame from the canister to the torch, which had been designed to withstand the frigid, windy, oxygen-thin Himalayan air.

The climbers could be heard struggling for breath as five torchbearers each inched a few metres before passing on the flame to the next person.

A colourful Tibetan prayer flag lined the path and fluttered in the wind.

A woman who reportedly fleeced several persons out of hundreds of thousands of dollars by pretending she could provide them with jobs, repaid two complainants in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on Tuesday.

Ann-Marie Ashman is accused of telling the complainants she was able to provide them with jobs overseas, and collecting money under the guise that she was facilitating such jobs. The police were called in when the complainants received no jobs or a refund.

When Ashman appeared before Resident Magistrate Glen Brown, she brought $70,000 which was used to pay off two of her many complainants. The others, begged RM Brown to help them, complaining about the many trips they had made to court and how much it cost them to travel to Kingston from as far as Montego Bay, and leave empty-handed.

One complainant also told the court that she had been receiving death threats, a claim which the investigating officer said he was aware of. After a stern warning for Ashman, RM Brown set a new date of June 4.

Foxy Brown avoided further jail time this week after she plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of menacing.

Foxy is alleged to have hit a Brooklyn woman, Arlene Raymond, in the face with a BlackBerry. According to Foxy's lawyer, Laura Dilimetin, the plea deal lets the rapper avoid a felony assault charge.

"There was no penalty and we consider it a victorious day today, and we're moving forward so she can focus on her career, family and fans," Dilimetin said, according to MTV News. "She feels great. She's really happy and excited to move forward. We're very pleased with this outcome."

Foxy was sentenced to time served, which mean she can stay out of jail - for now. A bench warrant was issued earlier this week for Foxy in connection to this case, but the warrant was issued in error due to a scheduling change by the court.

Dilimiten also explained that a civil suit has been filed against Foxy in this case. "We're going to fight this civil lawsuit hard and make sure there are counter-claims against the person who filed it," she said.

My bredren Lennox Dread jus posted this on ozreggae.com
- info from RIDDIM Mag (I assume he tranlate to english)

so a group rallied the ministers of the German government
to prevent the artist know as Bounty Killer to enter the country,Germany,
but it came a little too late while the entertainer was already in Munich to preform a show so they couldnt refuse him entry to the country he was already in. so a police task force was in full control of the only German Show, bounty hit the stage told the crowd he would not be talkin about battys tonight. as the police would escort him to jail
if he broke the laws, so this was the only show in Germany others where cancelled

If you have seen episodes of Making the Band, you know it's hard to impress Diddy. The mogul recently opened up about whether or not he was impressed with the actors who portray him, The Notorious B.I.G., Tupac Shakur and others in the upcoming film, Notorious, about the life of Biggie Smalls.

Derek Luke was given the task of playing Diddy. How did he do, according to the man himself?

"People asked me years ago who you'd want to play me, and I said Derek Luke ... so it was just destined. I got to see him do his thing, and it was scary for me. I had to leave, 'cause he was acting just like me," he told MTV about the film.

"Gravy, the guy playing B.I.G., it was just too eerie for me to be on that. Gravy's killing it. If I tell you he's killing it, then that's all we need to say, you know what I'm saying? I don't think anybody could have done a better job."

Deric "D. Dot" Angelettie, a long time Bad Boy affiliate and the movie's music supervisor agrees.

"It's a little creepy. You know he's not B.I.G., and we accepted that, [but all of] B.I.G.'s people ... looked to Gravy and said, 'You can play B.I.G. You could do it!' I believe that Gravy has studied hard enough; I think he got enough battle scars from the streets that he could pull it off. We're very happy that he's a part of it."

One thing few know about the film is that it's "Miss Wallace's movie."

"It's not my movie," Puff admitted. "A lot of people don't know this, but it's not my movie. It's Miss Wallace's movie. It's from a mother's perspective. I'm just there as support."

"It's good for his mom. It gives [her] some relief that the world really appreciated her son. It's good for Brooklyn, it's good for hip-hop," D. Dot chimed. "It's [gonna be] very good."

Fans anticipating will have to wait for the film to hit theaters January 2009.

me done upload d vst (effect) to virtual dj every thing but when me click some shit a show up witth a chart and other complecated operation