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Though a billionaire Indian steel baron threw a $60 million wedding for his daughter in 2004, factor in inflation and the most expensive wedding was a seven-day affair for Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, ruler of Dubai, and his bride, Princess Salama. The 1981 wedding, which would cost $100 million today, included a stadium big enough for 20,000 wedding guests built especially for the celebration.

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RHIANNA RESURFACES IN MEXICO HER SECOND PUBLIC APPEARANCE SINCE HER ALTERCATION WITH RNB KING CHRIS BROWN...................

LONDON, England (CNN) -- The ever budget-conscious boss of Ryanair has suggested the discount airline may start charging passengers for using the toilet on board its flights.

Michael O'Leary said the airline had revived inquiries into whether the airline could install coin-operated toilets on its fleet.

"People might actually have to spend a pound to spend a penny in future," he said in a BBC interview, adding "We're always in Ryanair looking at the ways of constantly lowering the costs of air travel and making it more affordable and easier for passengers to fly with us."

Asked by the incredulous presenter what passengers would do if they found themselves without money mid-flight, O'Leary replied: "I don't think there is anybody in history that has got on board a Ryanair aircraft with less than a pound." Sound Off: Is it fair to charge a fee for a flush?

The Irish airline is renowned for its cheap flights and regularly advertises competition-crushing deals to boost capacity on its short-haul routes.

Andrew Blake, a man accused of trespassing into a man's yard and using a hose to steal gas from his parked car, pleaded guilty to simple larceny in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday.

Blake, however, pleaded not guilty to assault.

The court was told that Blake climbed unto the complainant's premises and went to his car with five-gallon bottles. He used a hose to take gas from the complainant's car and fill the bottles.

When the complainant saw him and approached, it is alleged that Blake pulled a knife and stabbed at the complainant. The matter is to be mentioned again on April 15.

With no visible bruises from her alleged beat down from Chris Brown, Rihanna spent last weekend down in Punta Mita, Mexico relaxing in the sun.



We're told she stayed at a private home and left earlier this week.

The Mandeville police in Manchester are theorising that a 86-year-old man whose body was found on Waltham Road in the parish was robbed before he was killed.

The body has been identified as that of Herbert Blair of Perth Road in Mandeville.

According to the Constabulary Communication Network, about 6:45 a.m., a passer-by found the body of the pensioner lying on the roadway and alerted the police.

Investigators say the body had multiple stab wounds.

Investigators also say the man's pockets were turned inside out, suggesting that he was robbed.

Formal charges have now been laid against the 15-year-old student of Frome Technical High School in Westmoreland.

The teen is accused of being involved in an incident during which a female student of Petersfield High School, also in the parish, was fatally stabbed.

The ninth-grade student was charged with murder on Monday, almost a week after she was taken into custody following the deadly incident.

The police say the girl is scheduled to appear in the Westmoreland Juvenile Court today.

According to police reports, last Tuesday the girl visited the home of a schoolmate who was said to be recovering from injuries he sustained after being shot by gunmen.

While there, the other female student arrived, after which an altercation developed.

A pair of scissors was brought into play and the student from Petersfield High School was fatally stabbed.

The police were alerted and the Frome Technical student was subsequently taken into custody.

She just wanted gas -- but at the ARCO station yesterday, Nadya Suleman got a tank-full of bitching out.


While she had a lackey fill 'er up, a woman started screaming at her, yelling "Get a life, get a job!" and "That's our tax money!" as OctoMom hid behind a Scooby Doo book. Jinkeys!

The Lacovia Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of two men, whose bodies were found between Saturday night and Sunday morning in bushes in St Elizabeth.

The bodies of the two men were found in bushes in Cashew Park, Lacovia, St. Elizabeth.

The bodies were identified as Dwight Brown, 36, otherwise called 'Maxi', and Gregory Elliot, otherwise called 'Links', 35, taxi operator, both of Cobbla district Manchester.

Police reports are that about 5:15 p.m., farmers saw a body in bushes and called the police. When police closely inspected the body, they found a large wound at the back of the neck. A grey Toyota Corolla motor car was also found near to the body. The crime scene was processed and the body removed to the morgue for post-mortem.

About 8:15 Sunday morning, the police were again called to Cashew Park district where another body with chop wounds was found. The crime scene was processed and the body removed to the morgue for post-mortem.

Critics upped the ante Sunday in their battle against the New YorkPost, aiming their fire at owner Rupert Murdoch's media empire.

TheRev. Al Sharpton and several City Council members riled by a cartoonperceived as racist want the Federal Communications Commission to yanka waiver allowing Murdoch's News Corp. to run two newspapers and two TVstations in the city.

"You can stem protests because you own somuch of the media. People can't question you," Sharpton said on hisweekly radio show on 98.7 KISS FM. "Advertisers are reluctant to pullout because you own so much of the media market."

In additionto the Post, which last week ran the cartoon that critics say comparesPresident Obama with the face-mauling chimp shot dead by cops, NewsCorp. owns The Wall Street Journal and local Fox 5 (WNEW) and My9(WWOR). It also owns the Fox Network and online networking siteMySpace.

Sharpton said he hopes to get a million signatures online this week to show regulators the depth of opposition.

AtMedgar Evers College in Brooklyn, meanwhile, students burned copies ofthe Post and encouraged classmates to boycott the paper and shut downtheir MySpace pages. "We are the ones who are putting money in theirpockets," said Marie Antoine, a senior and president of the studentgovernment association. "They have treated us like animals."

"Wedon't need this trash," said state Sen. Eric Adams (D-Brooklyn),standing behind a barrel of burning copies of the Post. "This is whereit deserves to be."

Brooklyn City Council members Letitia Jamesand Charles Barron are demanding the city pull all advertising from thePost and cancel any subscriptions.

The protesters dismissed claims that their demands infringed on freedom of speech.

"Youhave the freedom to do it, and we have the freedom to make you pay forit," Sharpton said. "We can hardly fight back if he owns half thenewspapers in town and half the TV stations."

The Area Three police are currently investigating a possible job scam in Manchester in which more than 300 persons were conned out of varying sums of money they paid to get jobs overseas.

The police confirmed that they have arrested a woman who is to face the court today on charges of obtaining money by false pretence and fraudulent conversion. The number of counts are being determined because the police are still taking statements from complainants. However, THE STAR understands that the sums ranged from between $10,000 and $40,000 and that there are 360 possible complainants in the matter.

Marie, a victim who was swindled of $35,000, said she went to an agency last November in response to an advertisement in the paper. She said when she went there, she was told that the applicants would be given jobs overseas at hotels and restaurants.

Process the application

Marie said she was told to pay $500 to register and in addition, she was told to take additional documentation to process the application. After this was done, Marie said she and other applicants were told that the first set of workers would leave the island in December and the second set in February.

"She told us that we would make US$450 (J$39,150) as a housekeeper at the hotel and those who worked at the restaurant would make US$350 (J$30,450) per week," she said.

However, to date, no one has left and many of the complainants have still been unable to get back their money. "Since this happen, most time we cannot get her (when we call), and when you do get her, she tell you another thing," she said.

Marie said she even got over 30 people to register with the programme and only some of them have been able to get back their money.

In the meantime, the Ministry of Labour is encouraging persons to call the ministry to verify the legitimacy of any agency offering overseas employment. Ann-Marie Dobson, public relations manager, said while the ministry mainly administers overseas employment programmes, there are some agencies, which have its permission to operate their own programme. She said agencies that are allowed to do so must register with the ministry and persons can verify this with a telephone call.

AIR JAMAICA yesterday slashed four underperforming routes and terminated jobs at those locations, as administrators attempt to make the struggling airline attractive to prospective buyers.

Bruce Nobles, president and chief executive officer of Air Jamaica, told The Gleaner that workers at the Atlanta, Miami, Los Angeles and Grand Cayman offices were let go.

He said another round of layoffs was due in March but declined to disclose how many persons would be affected.

"This is part of a strategy to make Air Jamaica profitable by summer," Nobles said.

He added that some of the workers released yesterday could find employment at the company's Fort Lauderdale and New York offices.

In January, Nobles announced that Air Jamaica would stop flying six routes which were not making money. Direct flights from Jamaica to Barbados and Grenada were also cut.

Surprising cut

Wehby

Termination of the Miami route was most surprising; Air Jamaica had been travelling to the south Florida city since 1969. Atlanta and Los Angeles were added to the airline's schedule in the 1990s when it was run by hotelier Gordon 'Butch' Stewart.

Yesterday, Nobles said there were plans to increase the number of flights to and from Fort Lauderdale "depending on demand".

Currently, there are four flights daily to that city, which is also located in south Florida and has a large Jamaican population.

The Government, which subsidises Air Jamaica at US$30 million annually, had hoped to sell it by the end of March.

The airline lost US$170 million in 2007 and has accumulated debt of US$1.3 billion.

In January, Senator Don Wehby, the Cabinet minister overseeing divestment talks, said the Government was in talks with "two reputable airlines" to purchase Air Jamaica.

"March 31 is close but we are going to try our best to hit that deadline," he said.

The Roman Catholic support group Missionaries of the Poor has again made an impassioned plea to mothers contemplating abortion.

Father Richard Ho Lung who heads the group told legislators yesterday that his organisation is in the process of establishing a home for pregnant women in crisis.

The home called: The Holy Innocents Building, located at West Heroes Circle in Kingston, will also provide a facility for children, who would normally have been aborted by their mothers.

Father Ho Lung told the parliamentary committee deliberating on abortion, that the home will house more than 200 children and space is now available for 25 women and their babies.

He explained that Missionaries of the Poor and Food For the Poor have given a commitment that any woman who has been raped or who conceived through an act of incest will be helped by the organisation.

Health Minister Rudyard Spencer who chairs the committee, applauded the Roman Catholic body for its work.

A motor vehicle that crashed along the Pepper main road in St Elizabeth has claimed the life of a man and his female companion while three other persons have been hospitalised in critical condition.

The dead man has been identified as Jermaine Pothemon, 28, a taxi operator of Portmore Pines in St Catherine.

The woman is yet to be identified.

The two were travelling in a white Toyota probox motor car which crashed into an Izusu truck.

The Santa Cruz police report that about 3:30 yesterday afternoon, the two vehicles were travelling from Mandeville, Manchester towards Santa Cruz in St Elizabeth.

On reaching a section of the road in Pepper District the driver of the car was in the process of overtaking the truck when the driver slowed and the action led to the crash.

The driver of the truck and two other passengers were rushed to hospital in critical condition.

13 persons have lost their lives in motor vehicle crashes in St Elizabeth since the start of the year.

WASHINGTON Ever wonder why sharks get several rows of teeth and people only get one? Some geneticists did, and their discovery could spur work to help adults one day grow new teeth when their own wear out.

A single gene appears to be in charge, preventing additional tooth formation in species destined for a limited set. When the scientists bred mice that lacked that gene, the rodents developed extra teeth next to their first molars backups like sharks and other non-mammals grow, University of Rochester scientists reported Thursday.

If wondering about shark teeth seems rather wonky, consider: Tooth loss from gum disease is a major problem, here and abroad, and dentures or dental implants are far from perfect treatments. If scientists knew exactly what triggers a new tooth to grow in the first place, it's possible they could switch that early-in-life process on again during adulthood to regenerate teeth.

"It's exciting. We've got a clue what to do," said Dr. Songtao Shi of the University of Southern California School of Dentistry, who said the Rochester discovery will help his own research into how to grow a new tooth from scratch.

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WHAT YOU THINK Y VYBZ FISHAMAN KARTEL A RUN FROM DI DISS THAT DEVA AND NUCLEAR A SEND TO HIM AND PORTMORE EMPIRE

Vivid Entertainment has made a $1 million offer to Nadya Suleman to make a pornographic video.

In an offer letter obtained by TMZ.com, the president of the pornography studio and distributor Steven Hirsch says the company would release the film under their "Vivid-Celeb imprint, which has released titles starring such personalities as Pamela Anderson, Kim Kardashian, and most recently, former Miss USA Kelli MCarty."

The site also reports that the company is offering her family dental and health care if she agrees to star in a series of films.

Suleman, 33, known as "Octomom" after giving birth to octuplets earlier this year, has reportedly not replied to the request.

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Heres what Star Magazine is reporting:
Just days before the terrifying incident, [Rihanna] had consulted an ob-gyn after confiding in close friend sthat she believed she was pregnant.Rihanna was afraid to tell Chris about it because she was sure he didnt want to have a baby, says a source [but] on Jan 26, Rihanna, wearing dark sunglasses, a black off-the=shoulder top, black pants and black boots, had a scheduled appointment at the office of Dr. Gregory Ewertz in Cedars-Sinai Medical center.
Heres the National Enquirer:

Oh, my God, I could lose the baby!

Rihanna has told pals that horrifying thought raced through her mind as her boyfriend Chris Brown brutally beat her because she thinks she is pregnant

Rihanna had missed her period and told friend that she thought she was pregnant. But when she told Chris he didnt want to talk about it and was in sort of denial.

This is just TOO MUCH!!! 

alliance or portmore empire

this is just a question out of wondering........

Since as how the music is in the state of censhorship, will the producers still make the effort to have a edited version done.?

i think its a positive for kartel but at the same time its too little too late,  too much controversy 

What is your definition of love? This is a question that is always being asked.


My definition of LOVE is "a foolish feeling shared between two fools".



Plz share yours!!

February 22nd, 2009 @ 10:30A.M.

Pop star Rihanna has issued a statement thanking fans for their support after an alleged assault by her R&B singer boyfriend Chris Brown.

However, she declined to comment on a leaked photograph which appears to show her with facial injuries.

"At the request of the authorities, Rihanna is not commenting about the incident involving Chris Brown," the star said via her spokesperson.

"She wants to assure her fans that she remains strong."

Brown was questioned by police on 8 February over a complaint of assault.

Police said the 19-year-old got into an argument with an unidentified woman in a parked car in the Hanc**k Park area of Los Angeles, which escalated after they left the vehicle.

Both Brown and Rihanna pulled out of that night's Grammy awards, where they had been due to perform.

He has since said he was "sorry and saddened" by the incident and was seeking counselling.

Prosecutors have asked police to provide more information before deciding what charges, if any, to pursue against him.

On Friday, Rihanna's 21st birthday, a photograph was posted on a US gossip website which purported to show the Barbadian star in the hours after the incident with welts, scratches, bruises and swelling on her face.

After it appeared, the Los Angeles Police Department launched an internal investigation and asked for the public's help in finding the person who leaked it.

A police news release said the image "has the appearance" of one taken during a domestic violence investigation, and classified its release as a case of serious misconduct.

"The Los Angeles Police Department takes seriously its duty to maintain the confidentiality of victims of domestic violence," it added.

Digitally manipulated images of Rihanna with facial injuries have appeared on the internet several times over the last couple of weeks.

In her statement, the singer - whose hits include Pon De Replay and Umbrella - said she was "doing well, and deeply appreciates the outpouring of support she has received during this difficult time".

The Love You Anyway hit maker Barbee is definitely loving the direction her career is heading as her hit single Love You Anyway is now occupying the #1 position on Richie B's Top 20 Reggae Singles, while her video dominates the #1 spot on the CVM TV's Hitlist Video Countdown Chart.

Other Charts

After spending 13 weeks on the New York Top 30 Reggae Singles Barbee's Love You Anyway is now threatening to take over the #1 spot from Gyptian's I Can Feel Your Pain. On the South Florida Top 20 Reggae Singles chart, Love You Anyway is now #22 - after peaking at #7.

Apart from the mainstream love and rave reviews, the single has been getting it's also riding high at #3 on Stampede Street Chart (Top 15 Reggae songs).

Barbee is now busy doing promotions, interviews, photo shoots in between Jamaica and New York.

In a new interview with Details magazine, Kanye West reveals that he is done with music and is ready to pour all his "superhero" energy into conquering fashion. Find out what else the hip-hop artist has to say about his new endeavor and read his thoughts on being the self-proclaimed voice of his generation.

On being a rapper turned fashion designer and how it's seen as cliche:
"People base their opinions on cliche. There's a reason why they're cliches: 'I was gonna wear a coat today, but it would be so cliche.' How about some pants -- if it's not too cliche?"

[ Video: Kanye speaks out on his signature style and being "a walking brand" ]

On his fashion influence:
"Marc Jacobs is my fashion idol because of the way he merges all worlds, the way he's big in the hood and the head of the No. 1 fashion house in the world."

On his infamous "I am the voice of this generation" quote:
"If not me, then who?" he says. "Someone could be a better rapper, dance better. But culturally impacting? When you look back at these four and a half years, who's the icon at the end of the day? Who broke down color barriers? What other black guy would a white person use as a fashion reference?"

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This guy is serious

 

A man was recently arrested after strangling his 14-year-old daughter to death after catching her talking to a boy on the Internet

A crazed Bronx building superintendent confessed Saturday to strangling his 14-year-old daughter and dumping her unconscious into the basement furnace, police sources said.

The still-burning corpse of Anna Matias was pulled from the furnace that heats the Highbridge buildings boiler just after 11 a.m. Saturday, police and witnesses said.

An hour earlier, the victims father, Miguel Matias, called 911 to say he had strangled his daughter for using his computer to chat with a boy, the sources said.

Matias said he then stripped off her clothes, opened the manhole-size cover to the furnace and threw her body inside, they said.

The teens clothes remained scattered next to the boiler late Saturday as police searched the furnace for the rest of her charred remains. Its such a shock, building resident Rosa Villavane said. He was in my apartment just two days ago, and I never saw him mad.

Source: NY Daily News

It looks like Kanye West's new gal is really into the singles scene -- as in she's got a history of stripping for one dollar bills. Here's a picture of a wigged out "Amber Rose" in the dressing room of a strip club in Philadelphia. Wonder if Kanye makes it rain on her?

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Customers at a popular fast-food restaurant in the heart of Ocho Rios received a shock during their lunch hour on Friday as they lined up to purchase lunch.

A huge rat fell on to a female customer as she sat in the restaurant enjoying her meal.

Instantly, the afternoon's relative quiet was shattered by ear-shattering screams by the frightened woman and her female friend.

When the other customers, mostly women, realised what was happening, the restaurant became a virtual mad house as they scampered in all directions, some on to chairs, some outside, to avoid the now frightened animal as it too scurried about, trying to get away.

One brave woman showed some guts as the rodent came close to her, giving it a huge kick, sending it slamming against the counter and almost on to a woman standing there.

Lots of screams

The rat fell to the ground, stunned, but soon regained its focus and scampered off, once again sending the women into a frenzy, evoking lots of screams and some amount of laughter.

The rat finally met its end when a man stepped on it.

A STAR reporter who was in the restaurant at the time of the incident tried to speak with the woman who the rat fell on but she was too shaken to respond.

A worker later told a customer that the rat fell out of the air condition unit, which was located above the seat where the woman was sitting.

She said she believed the rat was forced from its nest by the monthly pest control exercise carried out by the restaurant.

Medical officer of health for St Ann, Dr Patrick Wheattle, upon hearing of the incident, immediately delegated a member of his team to investigate.

Dr Wheattle said the Health Department was currently collaborating with the St Ann Parish Council and business owners in an ongoing drive to improve the public-health situation in the parish.

The drive, which includes the education of business owners about public-health practices, started in Discovery Bay and was due to target Ocho Rios, especially the James Avenue area, next week, he disclosed.

Dr Wheattle said the incident should not create any fear or panic in the mind of the public.

The grandmother of a 16-year-old Arizona girl accused of prostitution -- and recruiting and pimping other teen girls -- said Wednesday she hopes to fight the charges in court.

"I really want to take it to trial," Linda Tye, grandmother of Tatiana Tye told CNN Radio. "She needs to meet her accusers."

Tatiana Tye and a second 16-year-old girl, Jazmine Finley, were indicted earlier this week by a grand jury, Maricopa County, Arizona, prosecutors said in a statement. Although the girls are juveniles, prosecutors released their names and said they will be tried as adults.

Tye is charged with one count of child prostitution and three counts of pandering, or serving as a go-between or liaison for sexual purposes, prosecutors said.

Finley faces nine counts of child prostitution; two counts of receiving earnings of a prostitute; and one count of pandering. All the charges are felonies, prosecutors said.

The two were arrested last week after a five-month investigation, Phoenix police told reporters. Authorities believe Tye and Finley recruited at least five girls, ranging in age from 14 to 17, on the campuses of their high schools, police spokesman Sgt. Andy Hill said in a Monday news briefing posted on the Web site of CNN affiliate KTVK.

"We have a situation of two girls, 16 years old, who are, in essence, pimps," Hill said. "And they ran their own brothel."

A 32-Year-Old BUSINESSMAN was shot & his BMW stolen in broad daylight in the
basement of the busy New Kingston Shopping Centre yesterday.
The victim, a project manager at a local financial institution, has been admitted in hospital in serious condition. He was shot twice.
Police say about 3:20 pm.,the victim, who had advertised his car for sale, met up with two female prospective buyers in the basement of the mall. He took the women for a test drive, returned to the parking area and went to have lunch with a friend in a nearby restaurant.
While there, the women reportedly called him to say that they left a phone in his car. He, along with a friend, made checks & no phone was found. He then went back to complete his lunch.

T.I. is in rare form in these deleted scenes from last nights episode of Road To Redemption on MTV. In this video, T.I. receives a phone call from his mom, Violeta Morgan, who is shocked at the language and behavior displayed by one of T.I.s younger cousins at a teenagers birthday party.

Listen to the kid try to explain to T.I. why he didnt think his behavior was inappropriate. Then you will understand why an entire generation of youth is lost because of Hip Hops influence

I know most of you watch NBC and you all are familiar with Matt Lauer. Every year he does a segment called "Where in The World is Matt Lauer". There is an online list where you can vote which country he should visit in 2009. Jamaica is on the list.... This Could possibly help tourism. So heres the link to vote http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23960057/

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-- Edited by MZJ at 22:37, 2009-02-25

You know, Minister of Education Andrew Holness has impressed me since he assumed his role as minister. He is a bright fellow, which is more than I can say for many of this country's ministers of government - green or orange.

He has taken decisions that I believe will benefit the educational system and subsequently our children. But, even the best of us makes the occasional blunder.

This minister's idea about training teachers to become special constables as a means of curbing crime in high school is *lo**y ridiculous. It is almost as insane as Audley Shaw's suggestion that Jamaica can rise and shine in the shadow of the looming recession in the US economy. Well, not quite that bad but still pretty stupid.

Teachers are already overburdened and underpaid to boot, being educators, parents, counsellors, and generally miracle workers. Now the minister wants them to become cops too? I appreciate that many of our kids are becoming increasingly violent and something needs to be done to restrain these junior criminals, but the answer is not turning teachers into blue-seam cops.

As I write this, I am visualising these select teachers walking into a classroom with MP5s slung over their shoulders, and clad in bullet-proof vests with the word 'police' printed across the chest. At the first sign of trouble; "Boy, sit down before I am forced to unleash my weapon!"

Before long, we'd start getting reports like "A student of (insert school here) was shot dead by a teacher yesterday during a shoot-out in a third-form classroom. Reports said that the teacher approached the classroom where boys were seen acting suspiciously. The teacher confronted the students who opened fire and ran off in different directions. The teacher returned the fire and the wounded boy was eventually discovered bleeding under a desk. He was taken to the school nursing bay where he was pronounced dead on arrival. The police are investigating."

Parent's job

Okay, so that's a bit extreme but, really, teachers have no place being police. The minister would be better served by helping to draft legislation that would make parents accountable for the actions of their children. Whenever a child commits a violent act, he/she and the parents are brought before a tribunal and if found guilty, the child is suspended and the parents fined heavily. If they can't pay the fine, then they are jailed and the child becomes a ward of the state until the sentence is served.

See how long it would take for parents to fall in line then? Everybody understands what clock is striking when they have to pay money. Yes, it sounds desperate but so does turning teachers into policemen and women. Because if that has become the case, why then doesn't the Government just set up police stations within each school?

We have long identified that poor parenting is at the root of the problems concerning student violence. As such, we need to take the pressure off the teachers and start putting it where it belongs, on the parents.

For too long too many kids have been allowed to bring unplanned-for children into this world. There are no consequences facing these young girls and the boys, taxi/bus drivers and dirty old men that impregnate them. In a few years, all these maladjusted kids are unleashed on teachers, who are then expected not only to teach them but 'mother' them as well.

It makes no sense. We cannot win the battle that way. We have to get to these kids before they get to school or better yet before they start being specks in their mothers' eyes.

Chris Brown tells Rihanna Happy Birthday over the phone

It's OFFICIAL SHEBADA, BAD BOY TREVOR, MISS P, MR. BASHMENT & ANGEL are heading to the big screen, as the bashment Granny movie is slated for a december 2009 release.
The movie comes after the very successful 2007 Bashment Granny and the sequel, which is currently playing across the island. Speaking to The Star after Saturday's screening for Desperate Decisions at Redbones the Blues Cafe in New Kingston, scriptwriter and director Paul O Beale said "it is going to be a groundbreaking film". He will be doing the screen script for Bashment Granny; Gariedild "Bad Boy Trevor" Reid wrote the original play.
Beale said the film would be done with the same cast members as tay. But while it will be basically the same plot, "there are many things that are going to happen". All would be reveal about the new things is that "it starts with a car chase in New Kingston. Pre-production for the Bashment Granny movie starts in April.
Beale said in addition to the existing main cast, a further 20 persons will be required and open auditions will be done to fill the roles. He said that he isn't into the building of cliques, hence the audition process. In addition, it helps to unearth new talent. He said that bringing in new talent not only means that there will be some continuity in the business, but "it keeps people who are in on there toes".
The movie will be Produce by B.L Allen while Stages Production serves as executive producer. It will be no longer than two hours. "For me personally it is something I am looking forward to. Bashment Granny is a franchise. This is an expansion of franchise," Beale said.

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Coming on the heels of Steven 'Di Genius' Mcgregor's 'Day Break riddim' which is now enjoying very favourable reviews from the heavy radio rotation it's been recieving on the local airwaves. Acclaimed music producer Don Corleone has stepped up to the challenge with the release of his latest project dubbed the "Double Joint Riddim".

The project which exudes a very 'old skool' vibe, bears all the attributes of something that could be easily mistaken for the works of producing greats Sly and Robbie. Even though Don was always known to be very creative in his musical endeavours.

According to privied information reaching  the completed project sees the likes of upcoming artiste 'Wasp' with a tracks titled "A No Man", which sees him delivering some very edgy social commentary about why the females are fighting our his GOD given asset.

The compilation set to hit the streets soon also features tracks by; Vybz Kartel, Alaine, Bounty Killer, Assassin, Flexxx, Pressure, Bling Dawg and the Gargamel Buju Banton.

Just last month at the recently concluded Reggae Academy Awards both producers we in contention for the coveted title of 'Producer of the Year', but saw their hopes dash when the award was nabbed by Stephen Marley, son of reggae great Bob Marley.


-- Edited by Dj Rohan at 08:44, 2008-03-20

he self proclaimed King of Dancehall will be coming out with a double album for his next project. The double album tentitavely intitled "The double size of Moses" should be coming out before the summer.

The first single coming out this album is "Gimme, Gimme, Gimme" produced by Stephen Mcgregor!

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A 60-year-old businessman from the Corporate Area was yesterday charged with incest and indecent assault after allegedly fondling and performing oral sex on his 12-year-old daughter.

IAn employee saw the man sexually abusing his daughter and reported the matter to his son, who contacted the police.

The father was asked to visit the Centre for the Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse (CISOCA) offices for questioning but he failed to turn up. He was subsequently arrested by police at his lawyer's office yesterday.

It's understood that the father was accused in the past of sexually abusing his daughters. The three girls, aged 15, 12 and nine, were taken into state care last Thursday.

Perverted acts

A police source disclosed that the father would take the minor in question into his room, at times, where he would carry out the perverted acts on her. The source continued that the 'acts' might have been taking place since the minor was as young as seven.

A CISOCA spokesperson said the accused is being held at a lock-up in the Corporate Area. He should be charged by Thursday.

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