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President Obama commends retired Jamaican-born air force colonel

President Obama commends retired Jamaican-born air force colonel

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... »

Lawyer accuses cop of lying as trial of Al Miller starts

Lawyer accuses cop of lying as trial of Al Miller starts

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 Want To Clash Mavado, Talks Going Gospel (VIDEO)

Bounty Killer Want To Clash Mavado, Talks Going Gospel (VIDEO)

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... »

Pittsburgh residents urged to block calls from Jamaican area code

Pittsburgh residents urged to block calls from Jamaican area code

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... »

Reggae Artiste CHRONIXX perform live on NBC…the Jimmy Fallon Show/ALSO with WINFORD WILLIAMS/ONSTAGE TV (VIDEOS)

Reggae Artiste CHRONIXX perform live on NBC…the Jimmy Fallon Show/ALSO with WINFORD WILLIAMS/ONSTAGE TV (VIDEOS)

promoting his new album: DREAD & TERRIBLE watch video below: http://youtu.be/zWXCiyHwJvU CHRONIXX IS DREAD AND TERRIBLE INTERVIEW ONSTAGE TV »

GraceKennedy buys food chain in the US

GraceKennedy buys food chain in the US

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... »

Begging for a beating: Some Jamaican women still believe ‘mi man lick mi because him love me’

Begging for a beating: Some Jamaican women still believe ‘mi man lick mi because him love me’

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 Arrested During Traffic Stop

R&B Singer Omarion Arrested During Traffic Stop

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... »

Beenie Man delivers big performance at Sumfest

Beenie Man delivers big performance at Sumfest

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.... »

Maintenance issues led to flight delays – Fly Jamaica

Maintenance issues led to flight delays – Fly Jamaica

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 Gave Jay Z Ultimatum Or Else Divorce

Beyonce Gave Jay Z Ultimatum Or Else Divorce

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... »

Cops lock down fake Clarks shoe factory; nine men arrested

Cops lock down fake Clarks shoe factory; nine men arrested

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... »

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Tommy Lee Take Shots At Alkaline, Says Its Just A Warning

Tommy Lee Take Shots At Alkaline, Says Its Just A Warning

Tommy Lee Sparta is taking aim fast rising dancehall deejay Alkaline. But According to the “Spartan Soldier” deejay, he is just issuing a warning to the young dancehall act. Tommy Lee released a new single “Bad Like We” where he took a few shots at Alkaline over his infamous “batty wash” line in his single “Touch You.” ALKALINE TAKE A HIT AT EVERY ARTISTE “Jamaica wi born wi no promote filet, no b... »

Chris Brown Drop 10 Grand To Custom His Lamborghini Aventador

Chris Brown Drop 10 Grand To Custom His Lamborghini Aventador

Chris Brown has been banking paper since his release from jail last month. The “Loyal” singer drop a reported $10,000 to add some custom paint to his already pricey 2013 Lamborghini Aventador. Breezy posted a few photos of the pimped out supercar on Instagram showing off the new sky blue finish. »

Maggots in food among Ohio prison food complaints

Maggots in food among Ohio prison food complaints

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Maggots in food, staffing shortages and reports of running out of foods are among new complaints facing the vendor that won the contract to feed Ohio inmates. Reports obtained by The Associated Press through records requests found numerous problems reported since April, when the state took the rare step of fining the vendor because of contract failures. The records show... »

Jamaica has first suspected Chikungunya case

Jamaica has first suspected Chikungunya case

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica may be facing its first case of the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus. The Ministry of Health announced in a release today that a suspected imported case of the chikungunya virus has been detected through its “heightened surveillance system”. Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Kevin Harvey says the case is of an individual who travelled from an affected country and fell ill. Scr... »

The Voice of the Voice Tessanne Chin’s “Count on my Love” sales – disappointing

The Voice of the Voice Tessanne Chin’s “Count on my Love” sales – disappointing

Following the release of Tessanne Chin’s “Count on My Love” album, there are concerns that the album is not doing as well as hoped. According to Headline Planet – with the near-official number finally available album sales have been disappointing. The article from Headline Planet points  to Hits Daily Double’s weekly sales report, which usually differs only slightly from the authoritative Bi... »

Dancehall Artiste Alkaline barred from performing in Nevis

Dancehall Artiste Alkaline barred from performing in Nevis

The authorities in St. Kitts and Nevis have revoked the work permit granted to Jamaican artiste, Alkaline, to perform in the country today. Alkaline, whose given name is Earlan Bartley, was scheduled to headline a concert in Nevis. In a statement, Police Commissioner Celvin Walwyn said the Nevis Police Command decided to revoke the permission granted for the concert, out of respect for the Office ... »

Tracy Morgan Released From Hospital, Suing Walmart

Tracy Morgan Released From Hospital, Suing Walmart

Tracy Morgan is finally heading home following weeks in a hospital recovering from injuries he sustained in a deadly car crash in New Jersey last month. On June 7th a Walmart tractor trailer slammed into the back of a limo Tracy Morgan and some friends were traveling in killing two people including comedian James McNair. Morgan received multiple broken bones and was listed in critical condition in... »

Sir Howard Cooke – former Governor General of Jamaica is dead

Sir Howard Cooke – former Governor General of Jamaica is dead

Former Governor-General Sir Howard Cooke is dead. Sir Howard, who was 98 died on Friday afternoon. Howard Felix Hanlan Cooke, was born in Goodwill in t he western parish of St. James on November 13, 1915. The son of David Brown Cooke and Mary Jane Minto, he was educated at elementary and private schools, The Mico College and London University. On July 22, 1939, he married Ivy Sylvia Lucille Tai. T... »

I-Octane parts company with Barcelona based company

I-Octane parts company with Barcelona based company

Members of the management team of reggae singer, I-Octane, are distancing themselves from Barcelona-based LiveJam Entertainment and Stefano Ingrosso. According to the management, effective immediately, LiveJam Entertainment is not authorized to accept bookings or deposits on behalf of I-Octane and is not in a position to negotiate any contractual or other arrangement on behalf of the singer, wheth... »

Vybz Kartel Files Multimillion Dollar Lawsuit Against Police Head Owen Ellington

Vybz Kartel Files Multimillion Dollar Lawsuit Against Police Head Owen Ellington

Vybz Kartel is not going down without a fight. Attorneys representing the embattled dancehall star has filed a multimillion dollar lawsuit against outgoing Police Commissioner Owen Ellington. Kartel’s lead attorney, Tom Tavares-Finson, told ZipFM, that the documents have ben signed by the incarcerated deejay but he had dated them which he shouldn’t have. So he will have to re-sign new docs which w... »

RHOA Star Apollo Nida Handed 8-Year Prison Sentence

RHOA Star Apollo Nida Handed 8-Year Prison Sentence

A Georgia judge handed down a 8-year sentence to Real Housewives Of Atlanta star Apollo Nida. After months of of waiting the reality TV star now knows his faith. Nida, who is the husband of Phaedra Parks on Real Housewives Of Atlanta, was indicted in a massive money fraud and laundering scheme. He reportedly laundered more than $2.3 mil through phony bank accounts. According to TMZ, Nida received ... »

Professional Photographer Ajamu zooms in on dancehall

Professional Photographer Ajamu zooms in on dancehall

  Photos on display at the exhibit THIS is the final in a 12-part series looking at Jamaicans who have excelled in the tri-state (New York, New Jersey and Connecticut) area’s entertainment and leisure industry. FOR the past 20 years, Marlon ‘Ajamu’ Myrie has zoomed in on the New York City dancehall scene, using his camera to capture the biggest artistes on the town or in con... »

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