COLORADO SPRINGS, USA (AP) — Sprinter Tyson Gay has accepted a one-year suspension and has returned the silver medal he won in the men’s 400-metre relay at the London Olympics after he tested positive for a prohibited substance. USADA announced Friday that Gay’s one-year ban began last June 23, the day his sample was collected at the US championships. As part of the penalty, he also ac... »
Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of Mobile Reserve Winchroy Budhoo (left) exchanges the ISCF Chevron (blue) for the JCF one (red and yellow) with a newly sworn member, formerly of the ISCF. KINGSTON, Jamaica — Members of the Island Special Constabulary Force (ISCF) who had signed and submitted letters of re-assignment issued by the Commissioner of Police are to be sworn in today, M... »
Dancehall star Vybz Kartel is currently channeling his focusing on his appeal. The self proclaim Worl’Boss, whose real name is Adidja Palmer, Shawn “Storm” Campbell, Kahira Jones, Andre St John are all serving a life sentences in a maximum security prison after being convicted of the murder of Clive “Lizard” Williams on March 13. Kartel and his three co-convicts have since filed paperwork ... »
ORANJESTAD, Aruba (CMC) – The head of the Caribbean Public Health Authority (CARPHA), Dr James Hospedales, has declared the Chikungunya virus has reached epidemic proportions in the Caribbean. “By definition this is an epidemic since it represents an unusual number of cases of this problem where we would never have it before,” Dr Hospedales told the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC). The mosquito-... »
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A woman, who thought she was purchasing chicken and cooking oil recently, instead ended up with a box of stones, a bottle of water, and $5,000 out of pocket. The shifty ‘salesman’ is to be sentenced on May 21, having entered a guilty pleaded guilty when he appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court this week. In entering the guilty plea, Leonar... »
Vybz Kartel is currently serving a life sentence in a maximum security prison in Jamaica. The dancehall deejay was convicted on March 13, 2014 for the 2011 murder of Clive “Lizard” Williams. His protege Shawn Storm and two friends Kahira Jones and Andre St John are also serving life sentence. But who was Vybz Kartel before he was sent to prison? Anthony Miller of ER recently aired a documentary on... »
The bleaching epidemic in dancehall is reaching a new high as another deejay step into the limelight confirming his bleaching. U.K. based dancehall star Don André is the latest artiste to confirm his bleaching with a new single. Don André has a new single titled “Bleach Out” where he openly deejay about his skin bleaching. Check out some lyrics excerpt: I’m so brown and I am proud of it Mi madda d... »
