FARGO, North Dakota (AP) — The first plea agreements have been reached in a wide-ranging federal investigation into a Jamaican lottery scam targeting mostly elderly victims in the United States, including one woman from North Dakota who agreed to empty her savings account and then take out a loan on a life insurance policy. More than two-dozen people have been indicted in the case, including some ... »
Enrique Iglesias (centre) with Descemer Bueno (left) and Sean Paul after the NBC performance. KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica’s Sean Paul and Enrique Iglesias will perform together on ABC’s Good Morning America on Friday, August 1. The two, along with Descemer Bueno recently performed ‘Bailando’ live on NCB’s America’s Got Talent. Enrique tapped Sean Paul for the English version of his hit... »
André Lowe, Senior Staff Reporter Kimberly Williams Andrew Riley Glasgow, Scotland: The writing was on the wall. From heats to final, if a Jamaican was in a women’s 400m race at the 2014 Commonwealth Games she would be the first across the finish line. So it wasn’t too big a surprise when one after the other, the Jamaican threesome – Stephenie-Ann McPherson, Novlene Williams-Mill... »
Rihanna is sleeping a little bit better today after a homeless man was arrested in New York fro dropping off three creepy letters at her condo in SoHo. According to NY Daily News, a 53-year-old homeless man name Kevin Mcglynn was taken into custody for stalking and threatening Rihanna. The man hand delivered at least three letters. Mcglynn was captured on the apartment building surveillance camera... »
The entertainment community was once again thrown into a state of disarray after news broke that another entertainer had been killed. According to preliminary information gathered upcoming Dancehall artiste ‘Propally’ was killed in the wee hours of Saturday morning. The artiste whose given name is Samora Grey met his untimely demise last Saturday (July 26th) in the vicinity of Half Way Tree when h... »
Sean Kingston fans are wondering if the reggae pop singer is going broke because another one of his pricey cars just got repossessed. According to TMZ, some repo guys swoop in on Sean Kingston’s white Lamborghini over the weekend while it was parked at the intersection of Hollywood and Vine and took it away on a flatbed. Sources say Kingston leased the tricked out Lamborghini and hadn’t made any p... »
T.I.’s wife Tameka Harris, aka Tiny, is for the first time speaking publicly about the Floyd Mayweather scandal and fixing her marriage. In may Tiny’s rapper husband T.I. attacked Floyd Mayweather at a Fat Burger joint in Las Vegas because he thought the boxer was having an affair with his wife. Mayweather denied any intimate relationship with Tiny. Earlier this month at a press conference while p... »
Alkaline is making it clear that he is no fans of dancehall deejays Gage and Tommy Lee Sparta. During a recent interview with Onstage, Alkaline was asked about Gage where he responded “what is a Gage.” According to Alkaline, Gage is not yet in his league and should stay to the side. “The little artists them a try to their thing but there is levels to this thing, keep the corner league over there b... »
Fresh from a scintillating performance at the recently concluded Reggae Sumfest in Catherine Hall, Montego Bay, red hot dancehall star Aidonia is set to launch his new clothing line within the coming weeks. The deejay will be rolling out his apparel line for the summer. The collection will cater to both males and females with a line specifically for children to follow. “Ever since my emergence in ... »
GLASGOW, Scotland — It seems, and understandably so, that the Commonwealth Games is a pull for royalty. Just these past couple of days the Glasgow Games has had Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, her husband Prince Phillip and the monarch’s son and heir apparent Prince Charles inside the athletes’ village. Some athletes, including two from Jamaica, were privileged to greet and have lun... »
FLORIDA, USA (CMC) — The United States Customs and Enforcement (ICE) agency says a Jamaican woman has been found guilty of marriage fraud by a US federal jury. The ICE reported Thursday that Nerene Erica Harrison, 32, of St Ann’s Bay, Jamaica, faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison. Her sentencing hearing is scheduled for October 23. Harrison was indicted on November 13, 201... »
It’s being reported that Konshens was forced to cancel the remainder of his current European tour as doctors have diagnosed the young star with having ‘chronic laryngitis’. Konshens has been touring non-stop for the past year, starting with a stint in the USA, which ended in Connecticut, before embarking on a three-week run in France and the African south coast. From there he wen... »
Col Jacqueline Payne-Borden (right) receives the President of the United States certificate of appreciation from Col Sandra Tynes at a retirement ceremony held to honour her 28 years of service to the US Air Force. The retirement ceremony was held recently at Fort McNair Officers’ Club in Washington, DC. WASHINGTON, DC, USA — United States President Barack Obama has commended Jamaican-born Jacquel... »
BY PAUL HENRY Coordinator — Crime/Court Desk (L-R) MILLER… accused of attempting to pervert the course of justice. COKE… found in company of clerygman after one month on the run THE prosecution’s first witness in the trial of Rev Al Miller was yesterday accused of lying and exaggerating his role in the capture of Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke as a means of furthering his career, as th... »
Bounty Killer was among the top performers on last week’s Reggae Sumfest dancehall night. The dancehall veteran delivered a sizzling set of some of his classic singles back from the 1990s to some of his more recent hits. During his performance he did take a few shots at his former protege Mavado. During an interview with Winford Williams of OnStage after his set, Bounty Killer says he would want t... »
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Residents in sections of Pittsburgh, USA have been warned to beware of a telephone scam believed to be based in Jamaica and are being urged to block the 876 area code. The warning came from the District Attorney for Allegheny County Stephen Zappala, who said the callers claim to work for a legitimate sweepstakes firm — Publisher’s Clearing House – tell residen... »
GLASGOW, Scotland (CMC) — Sprint super star Usain Bolt has criticized anti-doping officials for reducing Tyson Gay’s doping ban. Gay and Bolt’s fellow Jamaican sprinter Asafa Powell, both 31, failed drug tests for oxilofrine, in July 2013. Gay was given a one-year ban and Powell was initially suspended for 18 months. “I’m not really happy with the situation and with how it was done,” B... »
promoting his new album: DREAD & TERRIBLE watch video below: http://youtu.be/zWXCiyHwJvU CHRONIXX IS DREAD AND TERRIBLE INTERVIEW ONSTAGE TV »
Michael Ranglin, newly appointed president and CEO of GraceKennedy Foods USA. – File GraceKennedy Limited has entered into an agreement to purchase the operating assets and business of La Fe Foods Inc for US$26 million. The transaction is being executed through GK’s wholly owned and new subsidiary GraceKennedy Foods (USA) LLC, the conglomerate said Friday. The deal includes the La Fe b... »
Erica Virtue • Senior Gleaner Writer Despite scores of public-education campaigns and female-empowerment programmes, there are still women in Jamaica who believe their men beat them because they love them. A just-released national survey, the Jamaica Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2011, conducted by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), has found that at least six per cent of the w... »
R&B singer Omarion finds hismelf behind bars on Friday. According to reports, the Maybach Music Group singer was tooling around in the San Fernando Valley on Friday evening when cops pulled him over for running a red light. SEE ALSO: Omarion Expecting First Child With Girlfriend Apryl Jones SEE ALSO: Rick Ross Arrested For Missing Court Date Officers ran his tags and found out that there was a... »
Janet Silvera, Senior Gleaner Writer WESTERN BUREAU: As with every Reggae Sumfest, ‘The Doctor’ Beenie Man had a near-flawless surgery on the audience, Saturday morning at the Catherine Hall complex in Montego Bay when he closed the curtains on International Night One. Dedicating his opening song to the incarcerated Buju Banton, Beenie Man arrested the audience with How Would You Feel.... »
The management of Fly Jamaica has shed light on the reasons for recent flight delays. Last weekend a Guyana to New York flight was delayed for two days, this came on the heels of a previous delay of a New York to Kingston flight. Director of Fly Jamaica Roxanne Reece, says the delays were due to maintenance issues. “We take maintenance very seriously, we are registered with the FAA and we are a... »
Beyonce may have had enough of Jay Z’s cheating because according to reports she is inches away from serving him divorce papers. The power couple has been rocked with mounting rumors of divorce and infidelity over the last few months. Folks have even linked the infamous elevator fight between Jay Z and Beyonce’s sister Solange to some alleged cheating on the part of the rap mogul. According... »
Detective Inspector Clarence Bailey of the Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Intellectual Property Vice Squad examines one of the fake Clarks shoes seized during yesterday’s police operation in downtown Kingston. (PHOTO: BRYAN CUMMINGS) NINE men were yesterday arrested during a major operation that led to the shutdown of an underground factory that was being used to manufacture millions of dollars w... »
