The man whose name is still being withheld was last week taken into custody, kicking and screaming after he assaulted Caymanas Track senior security officer, Jason McKay, who unknowing to him is also a district constable attached to the St. Catherine South Police Division.
According to one eyewitness, the tussle started when Mavado was making his way out of the venue after a stellar performance in front the huge gathering and record breaking sold out crowd. There were some harsh exchanges between his crew and security personnel that lead to one man being wrestled to the ground and arrested, but not before the police encountered some serious resistance from his fellow cronies.
However when asked McKay was very tight lipped as to whether the artiste was directly involved, but did admit that there were two other individuals whom he could easily ID that were instrumental in the fracas. He said the matter is now before the courts so he is unable to speak openly on it.T.R., Westmoreland, Jamaica
Dear T.R.,
If you continue to have sex with different people you may contract a sexually trans-mitted infection (STI) in-cluding HIV/AIDS. I am not here to condemn you, but I must warn you that your type of lifestyle is nothing to be proud of. If it is just a matter of sex you need, you are living with a man and both of you are having sex. Evidently you do not feel like you are having enough. He is unable to satisfy your sexual needs, so you allow Tom, Dick and Harry to have sex with you.
Anyone who feels that he/she must have sex 24/7, needs psychological help. Therefore, I suggest that you contact a psychologist and go to him/her for counselling.
Pastor
Officers have detained the 32-year-old on suspicion of drug smuggling, authorities said.
The suspect, whose name was withheld, arrived late on Sunday at Vaernes airport near the city of Trondheim on a flight from Copenhagen, Denmark, the customs service said.
"The agent thought she had a great deal of hair and suspected that she was wearing a wig," the agency said.
"The wig was examined and the agents found a bag of cocaine."
Norway's largest newspaper, Verdens Gang, said the cocaine was glued so firmly to the woman's real hair that police brought her to the local hospital to have it removed.
Kjetil Mjoesund, of Trondheim police, confirmed that it was glued to her head, but had no information about how it was removed.
He said she was taken for a routine medical check.
A court ordered the women held until July 15, pending a formal indictment and trial.
MINEOLA, Texas (AP) -- In the windowless front rooms of a former day care center in a tiny Texas community, children as young as 5 were fed powerful painkillers they knew as "silly pills" and forced to perform sex shows for a crowd of adults. Two people have already been convicted in the case. Now a third person with ties to the club, previously known in town only as a swingers group, is set to go on trial Monday not far from Mineola, population 5,100.
"This really shook this town," said Shirley Chadwick, a longtime resident of Mineola. "This was horrible."
Patrick Kelly, 41, is charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child, tampering with physical evidence and engaging in organized criminal activity.
In all, six adults have been charged in connection with the case, including a parent of the three siblings involved. Jurors this year deliberated less than five minutes before returning guilty verdicts against the first two defendants, who were accused of grooming the kids for sex shows in "kindergarten" classes and passing off Vicodin as "silly pills" to help the children perform. Jamie Pittman and Shauntel Mayo were sentenced to life in prison. Kelly also faces a life sentence if convicted, and Smith County prosecutors hope for another swift verdict.
Thad Davidson, Kelly's attorney, said his client passed a lie-detector test proving his innocence and worries about getting a fair trial in Tyler, 25 miles southeast of Mineola, which is in Wood County.
"I think it's impossible to get a fair trial within 80 miles of Smith County," Davidson said.
Mineola, about 80 miles east of Dallas, is a close-knit, conservative bean-processing town of with more than 30 churches. Residents there want to put the scandal behind them as quickly as possible.
The one-story building where prosecutors say four children -- the three siblings, now ages 12, 10 and 7, and their 10-year-old aunt -- were trained to perform in front of an audience of 50 to 100 once a week has been vacant since the landlord ousted the alleged organizers in 2004.
Down a slight hill is a retirement home, and even closer is the office of the local newspaper. Doris Newman, editor of The Mineola Monitor, said rumors of swinger parties spread around town but that no one mentioned children being involved. Newman, who can see the building from her office window, said she remembers the parking lot filling up with more than a dozen cars at night.
In August 2004, an editorial under the headline "Sex In the City" opined that if the swingers left quietly, "we'll try and forget they've infiltrated our town with their set of moral standards."
"It's not that we're trying to look the other way," Newman said. "But there's a lot more to Mineola than that."
According to a Mineola police report, the department first investigated a complaint in June 2005 in which the siblings' foster mother said one of the girls described dancing toward men and another child saying that "everybody does nasty stuff in there."
In the second trial, Child Protective Services caseworker Kristi Hachtel testified, "I've seen a lot and I never in my wildest dreams imagined this. They were preyed upon in probably one of the most heinous ways possible." The children are now doing better, the welfare agency said.
"Through counseling and therapy sessions, these children are now finally feeling secure and safe," agency spokeswoman Shari Pulliam wrote in an e-mail.
Permanent custody of the three siblings was given to John and Margie Cantrell. This week, prosecutors in California charged John Cantrell with sexually assaulting a child in the state 18 years ago. Margie Cantrell said her husband is innocent. Kelly's attorney moved Friday asking to postpone the trial in light of the allegations against Cantrell, a state witness. Texas Child Protective Services said it would be "common" for the agency to investigate.
The Rev. Tim Letsch is opening a church in the yellow-plastered building where the children were abused. He acknowledges that building a congregation might be difficult because of the stigma attached to the property.
"You got to decide whether you're willing to forgive those kind of things," Letsch said. "It's a hard deal. Especially for a spiritual person to walk in and say, 'This happened here."'
İ2008 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, rewritten, or redistributed. Since the bitter split between Vybz Kartel and member of the Bounty Killer led Alliance, there has been a lingering question on the minds of many. Will Bounty ever forgive Kartel for leaving the Alliance, and if so would he be reinstated as the prodigal son?. The reason 876radio.com ask these burning questions are based on a series of events over the past few months. Even though there has been some harsh verbal exchanges between the two the tides are slowly changing along with their attitude towards each other. Just weeks ago at the British Link-Up party held at La Roose, Portmore, Kartel was quoted as saying "when yuh a war sometimes yuh lose some and sometimes yuh win some" immediately following that statement he 'bigged up' popular selector Jigsy and paid homage to Bounty Killer. Bounty on the other hand was quoted in two recent television interviews as saying "Mi not running down nuh top spot like some a dem, Mi set inna life so mi a leave di business to Busy, Mavado and Kartel fi run it". When asked about the title of Deejay of the Year he said "If anybody shoulda get it ah would ah.. Mavado or Busy then Kartel, only dem three deh qualify". At last Sundays' staging of his Birthday pool party in Norbrook where members of the Alliance were in full flight, Kartel's song 'Trailer Load A Money' received arguably the biggest forward of the night and even got the nod of approval from the Warlord and his protege Mavado. Now with all these chains of events one cannot help but wonder if there is even a glimmer of hope that the two may one day reconcile their differences and crusade as a united front for the greater good of Dancehall. Thankfully the process has already started with Kartel and Mavado calling a truce to one of Dancehalls' biggest feud in recent times. |
The police are urging east Kingston residents to be on the lookout for a dog rapist who is on the loose.
Detective Constable Phillip Lawrence of the Area Four police told THE WEEKEND STAR that residents have made at least six reports in the last three weeks, claiming that in addition to items being stolen form their yards, their dogs have also been molested.
The constable, who said veterinarians have confirmed that the animals were assaulted, pointed out that the first report came from a resident of Duncaster Avenue. The resident is said to have reported that she left her home for a weekend and upon returning, discovered that several items were missing from her yard.
She also noticed a used condom in her yard, after which she realised that her pet, a German Shepherd, had been molested.
The police said they received another report of a similar nature a few days later.
"About two or three days after the first report, we received another. The situation was pretty much the same, items were said to be missing, a condom found in the yard and the dog found to be raped," he explained.
The second incident reportedly occurred on Dunoon Road, a stone's throw away from where the first incident occurred.
The last reported incident occurred last week on lower Mountain View Avenue.
The report was similar except that no condom was found in the yard in that case.
When contacted by THE STAR, two of the complainants confirmed the reports.
"It bad enough dem come a mi yard come tek wah dem fi tek, but dem rape all mi dog? A wah kind a worl' wi a live inna?" questioned one woman.
In the meantime, the police believe they are making progress in capturing the culprit as in one of the cases residents were lucky to have seen the man.
"...In one case, residents of Lexington Road chased and almost caught up with a man whom they saw coming from a yard with a number of items in a bag...The dog in that yard was also said to be raped."
Under Jamaican law, any case of buggery with mankind or any form of animal warrants a sentence not exceeding 10 years.
A woman accused of forging a lottery ticket to collect a jackpot valuing over $7 million pleaded not guilty when the matter was mentioned in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's court on Wednesday.
Jean Ebanks told the court that she bought and presented a legitimate ticket and that any illegality regarding her ticket must have occurred on the part of the lottery company.
Ebanks explained to the court that she saw the lottery numbers in the newspaper on June 7 while she was standing at a bus stop in Montego Bay, St James, and, after matching them against her ticket, she realised she had won.
She said she then went to the lottery sales person close to the bus stop and he took the ticket and put it in the machine and told her she had won. She said he made a copy of the ticket, took her telephone number and said he would send it on to the head office in Kingston. Ebanks said the dealer then gave her back her ticket.
She said she later received a telephone call from the head office, an appointment was made with her for Friday June 13 at 11 a.m. Ebanks said she went to the office and completed all the paperwork given to her. She said the office confirmed that she had a winning ticket prior to interviewing her and had not said anything to her about any irregularities with her ticket. She also told the court that she purchased her lottery ticket in Trelawny.
The court was told that Ebanks allegedly altered some numbers on the lottery ticket and turned it in to collect the jackpot. She has been charged with forgery, uttering forged documents and attempting to obtain.
After listening to her explanation Resident Magistrate Glen Brown told the accused that computers were able to track the whole process and so could determine where the winning ticket was purchased.
A mention date of June 26 was set for the matter and her fingerprints were ordered taken. Ebanks bail was also extended.
Since the dismissal of former Gunit member young buck, he took it opon himself appoligize to Gunit enimies like Fat Joe and The Game , to team up against gunit and to its members. In out rage buck jokes about Gunit members, saying that they are gay and that 50 made a big mistake and also dissing the whole the whole label.
Do you think that Young Buck is doing the right thing by teaming up with these people, just to slander Gunit label?
The body of a man who was dug up hours after being buried Friday was to be used as part of a scam to trick an insurance company, police investigations have discovered.
The body was to be burnt and passed off as that of a policyholder so insurance money could be collected, the police said.
Up to late last night, police had not charged any of the five men taken into custody for the exhuming of the body, identified as that of 70-year-old retiree, Irvin Sinclair, which was found in the back of the vehicle the five men were in.
Sinclair who resided in Portmore, St Catherine, died in the University Hospital on Sunday June 8, and was buried in a cemetery at the St Jude's Anglican Church in Pratville, Manchester.
However, hours after his burial, men with shovels and prepared concrete, allegedly dug up the body, removed it from the coffin and resealed the grave.
Police conducting an operation about 3:45 a.m. Saturday morning on the Greenvale Road in Mandeville, signalled a convoy of three vehicles to stop. Two of the cars reportedly sped off leaving the other vehicle, a white Toyota Corolla which had stopped.
During a subsequent search of the car, the body was reportedly found in the trunk. It was reportedly taken to the Lyn's funeral home for storage.
Subsequent investigations by detectives led them to the spot where Sinclair was buried. It was then discovered that the vault was sealed but there were signs that it had been tampered with. When the grave was opened the casket was empty.
The body has since been re-interred in the same grave.
"The family is traumatised, some of us live abroad and came specifically to bury Uncle Irvin. He was buried about 4 p.m. on Friday at the Church and we thought that was final," said relative of the deceased, Barry Smallhorn who lives in Miami.
"We learnt the Saturday morning, that men had dug up his body and resealed the grave.When we visited the Lyn's funeral home the body had a rope around the neck and the clothes was very dirty. We had to clean him up and re-inter him that same afternoon."
Investigators had initially theorised that the body was to be used in a demonic ritual or had drugs hidden inside, however, based on investigations, it was discovered that the men intended to burn the body and misrepresent an insurance policyholder.
A girl has 7 kids before her 17th BIRTHDAY!! How you ask? Wellshe had asingle birth (boy) at 14. Then at 15 gave birth to Triplet
Girls, thenat 16 gave birth to another set of TRIPLET girls!!
How's that for being fertile? And the worst part is that NONE ofthebaby daddies are around or have 'owned' up to it.
A woman accused of tricking two men into believing that they were both the father of a two-month-old baby she took from a friend, appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday.
Natanya Chickory, 27, and the biological mother Dahlia Spence, 23, have been slapped with charges of conspiracy to human trafficking, human trafficking, child abandonment and creating public mischief. Both were granted $20,000 bail and will return to court on July 3.
Allegations are that two weeks after the baby was born, Spence agreed to give her baby to Chickory since gunmen had killed her (Spence) baby's father three months before she gave birth. It is also alleged that Chickory wanted to use the baby to get maintenance money from her 'fiancé' in England and her boyfriend in Jamaica.
When Spence returned home after giving birth, the people in the community began to mock her and said she "gave away her baby like a puppy". Spence went to Chickory and told her she wanted to borrow the baby for a few days. Chickory allegedly told her that the baby's father in Jamaica would not allow her to do so.
Spence then reported the matter to the police and following investigations the women were arrested and charged.
The child is now in the State's custody and a warrant was issued for Chickory's 'fiancé'.
"I am so convinced now how women are wicked, I have heard of women giving men 'jackets' and the stealing of babies, however this is a new method to extract money from men," Senior RM Glen Brown said when the allegations were outlined.Six teenagers were shot, two fatally by gunmen on Salt Spring Road in St James on Saturday.
Dead are Neil McDermott 18, of Poinciana Drive, Rosemount, St James, and 17 year-old Trevorn Fisher of Salt Spring Road.
Those injured are two 16 year-old girls and two boys ages 17 and 19 all of St James addresses.
Reports are that about 11:30 p.m., the teenagers were among a group of persons on Salt Spring Road when a white Toyota Corolla motor car drove up.
Three men posing as police officers alighted from the vehicle and immediately open fire hitting the six teens. They were taken to hospital where McDermott and Fisher were pronounced dead and the others were admitted in a serious but stable condition.
Head of the St James police, Superintendent Steve McGregor, told THE STAR that the police are now working with residents of the community as they try to establish a motive for the attack.
According to McGregor, there is the need for some serious investigations as the community has been at peace for the past year and a half.
"I personally went on the scene and the residents are willing to work with us in our investigations ... The community has been at peace for quite some time now so an incident such as this calls for serious investigations, there has to be someone who saw something ... We will be looking to see if this was just a one off case or if there is more to it," DSP McGregor said.The battle between 50 Cent and ex-girlfriend Shaniqua Tompkins mother of the couple's 11 year-old son, Marquise, whose house burned down in a suspicious fire earlier this month heated up on Thursday when Tompkins took out a temporary restraining order against the rapper. The legal order, which requires 50 to forfeit all firearms and stay at "curbside" when picking up and dropping off Marquise, also bans 50 (born Curtis Jackson) from being on any property where Tompkins is, according to her lawyer, Paul Catsandonis.
"Threats have been made against my client and she needs to take the proper safeguards to protect herself and her family," Catsandonis told MTV News. While the lawyer said the threats came from "Mr. Jackson," he would not go into specifics.
One reason he declined to elaborate on the alleged threats was because 50 has filed a defamation lawsuit against Tompkins, who has accused him of being involved in the fire last month, which burned down the $4 million New York home owned by the rapper that she was living in with their son. The fire, which officials called "highly suspicious," sent Tompkins and the child to the hospital for treatment for smoke inhalation.
Following the fire, TMZ.com aired footage of Tompkins stating that 50 was "obsessed" with her and that he'd recently threatened her life. "If he can't have me, no one can," Tompkins said. "He said that he was going to have someone come kill me, and see what he does. This is what he did." An attorney for 50, Brett Kimmel who could not be reached for comment at press time said at the time of the fire that, "any suggestion that [50] had anything whatsoever to do with the fire at his home is outrageous and offensive." 50 had tried to evict Tompkins from the property last month unless she began paying rent, Kimmel said, and the couple had been fighting in court over the property for several months.
Explaining the defamation suit, which was to be filed on Friday in New York, Kimmel reportedly told New York's Daily News, "there comes a point where you can no longer sit on your hands and listen to her spread these falsehoods. Besides hurting his reputation, they have a damaging impact on their son."
Catsandonis confirmed that he'd been served with the defamation papers, which he said alleged that his client was engaging in a "character assassination" of the rapper as a result of her comments following the fire. "They're seeking $20 million in the defamation suit and also seeking enforcement of the visitation order from family court," he said. As for the restraining order, it is temporary now, but Catsandonis, who called the defamation suit "baseless and retaliatory in nature," said he will argue in court next month for a permanent order.
In responding to the defamation suit, Catsandonis said he is also considering filing a countersuit claiming defamation against his client.
876radio.com has learnt that the police has refused to grants the promoters of the highly publicized event 'Finish Line -The Summer Edition' a permit because of fears of violent clashes that may ensue between supporters of headline acts, Mavado and Portmore Empires' front man Vybz Kartel. According to Superintendent Assan Thompson of the Eastern Kingston Police Division "I have received intelligence that persons appearing on the event are likely to have violent clashes which might result in firearm usage and affect the security and safety of the Norman Manley International Airport," However he added that he was made aware of the event 24 hours ago but that was not sufficient time for the lawmen to provide proper security detailing for an event of that nature, so it was on this basis that the permit was denied. Thompson said he is open for discussion with the promoters but they would to assure him that the event would be void of any form of violent activity. The event was slated to take place later today (June 21st) at the Palisadoes Go-Kart Track in East Kingston which ironically is also within close proximity to the Norman Manley International Airport. |
A 24-year-old mother of three who is accused of beating her six-year-old child until he bled profusely, was given a stern warning before being granted $60,000 bail in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate's Court.
Investigating Officer, Kirk Roache of the Guanaboa Vale police, told the court that on June 10, members of a police party received numerous phone calls of a child being beaten severely by his parent. A team went to the address and was taken aback, when the mother barged out of the house and said, "Mi beat him and so wah?"
The detective said the child came out of the house shortly after and was observed with wounds to the neck, back, shoulders and other parts of his body.
With several visitors to the court sighing and policemen having to shout for order, an officer said that when the child was taken to the Spanish Town Hospital, the doctor expressed concerns and could not count the number of cuts on his body.
The RM Marcia Dunbar-Green asked Roache why the mother was only being charged with assault occasioning bodily harm and not child abuse, but the mother quickly pointed out she was not guilty of child abuse.
"I only beat him because I told him not to go to the basic school before coming home in the evenings. I did not want to cut him," she said. But the RM said she seemed to be filled with anger and that was not the way to deal with a child. She warned her that her child could be taken away.
The RM told the probation department to do a social enquiry report and set the matter for mention on July 15. She said the child's grandmother who has all the children should continue to keep them.Cameron Sands, 19, of Fort Worth kicked in the door of the house and then shot himself in the stomach as he pulled a gun out of his pants to shoot the homeowner, Grand Prairie police said. The homeowner was not injured.
After Mr. Sands shot himself, he dropped the gun and ran out of the home. Police found his body around 5:30 a.m. in the driveway of the home in the 2800 block Garden Grove Road, said Lt. John Brimmer, a Grand Prairie police spokesman.
This is the first that Ive heard of a robbery suspect killing himself as he is drawing a gun out of his waist band, Lt. Brimmer said. The criminal evidence points to that. It certainly isnt common.
The Tarrant County Medical Examiner has ruled the death an accident.
"Yu nah go si mi face again," cried a mother of five who tried to smuggle drugs out of the island to earn money to finance her children's graduation, to Resident Magistrate Winsome Henry, as she begged for leniency.
Ivy Brown, 37, of Kingston 13, pleaded guilty with explanation to charges of possession, dealing and attempting to export ganja before the Montego Bay RM Court on Thursday.
An emotional Brown said her twin daughters were graduating from primary school and would be entering a prominent high school in Kingston. She said she had no money to finance their graduation, let alone their high school needs.
She explained that she was introduced to someone who gave her the contra-band to take to Curaçao.
She was granted $10,000 bail with surety and is to report to the Hunts Bay police on Tuesdays. She returns to court on July 30 for sentencing.
On June 15, Brown checked in at the Sangster International Airport to board an Air Jamaica flight to Curaçao. During a routine check, she was searched and two parcels of ganja - one strapped to her groin area and the other taken from her vagina - were seized.Cuba is to abolish its system of equal pay for all and allow workers and managers to earn performance bonuses, a senior official has announced.
Vice-Minister for Labour Carlos Mateu said the current system - in place since the communist revolution in 1959 - was no longer "convenient".
He said wage differentiation should improve production and services.
President Raul Castro has introduced a series of reforms since succeeding his ailing brother Fidel in February.
Writing in the communist party newspaper Granma Mr Mateu said workers would receive a minimum 5% bonus for meeting targets but with no ceiling on salaries.
Managers could earn a 30% bonus if the team working under them increased production, he said.
The minister pointed out that the current wage system sapped employees' incentives to excel since everyone earned the same regardless of performance.
"It's harmful to give a worker less than he deserves, it's also harmful to give him what he doesn't deserve," the newspaper article said.
Challenging Marxist orthodoxy
But the impact in terms of purchasing power will be limited, the BBC's Michael Voss in Havana says.
Raul Castro has brought in a series of gradual social reforms |
The average wage in Cuba for everyone - from doctors to farm labourers - is about $20 (£10) a month.
Even before the recent sharp rise in oil and food prices Cuba was spending billions of dollars on imports, and that bill is likely to rise sharply, our correspondent says.
So far most of the reforms announced since Raul Castro took over the presidency have involved lifting restrictions such as the bans on mobile phones and computers.
The latest change is a more fundamental challenge to Marxist economic orthodoxy, our correspondent adds.HUNDREDS of UFO sightings over Wales were reported yesterday after a mystery craft threatened a police helicopter.
The Sun was b****arded with calls from readers who also saw the UFO on the SAME night as the chopper drama in Cardiff.
And the mystery deepened as experts revealed airline pilots have spotted hundreds of UFOs over the nearby Bristol Channel this year.
We exclusively revealed yesterday how the helicopters three-man crew took evasive action to avoid being rammed by the UFO.
Scare ... The Sun yesterday
They then chased it to North Devon before giving up as fuel ran low.
Dawn Williams, 45, feared an Independence Day-style alien invasion when she spotted a sinister shape in the sky above Aberdare Country Park hours earlier, on June 8.
She said: It came over the horizon and was travelling for about a minute and a half before it disappeared.
It was circular and had a dome on top it looked like a planet with rings. I didnt say anything at the time because I didnt think anyone would believe me.
Cabaret duo Katy Cunnion and Russell Quinn said a weird light in the sky FOLLOWED them on the A5 near Shrewsbury an hour after the copter scare.
Katy, 25, said: It was hovering. At first I thought it was a helicopter, but every time I changed direction it was in the same place.
"It disappeared, then I got a bit freaked out when the light came back close enough for us to see it was saucer-shaped with lights which flashed from one to another in a chain.
Scene of sightings ... Bonnybridge Triangle
It looked like no plane or aircraft I had ever seen.
It finally zoomed off like a shooting star after an hour.
Katys description of the UFO matches the one given by the helicopter cops.
Expert David Coggins, who has studied UFOs for 30 years, revealed: Im told that in the past three months airline pilots have been reporting at least two or three encounters a week with UFOs over the Bristol Channel.
Many of them will have rational explanations, but the probability is around 15 to 20 per cent cant be identified.
The Ministry of Defence, which investigates UFO sightings, said it was still awaiting the police report on the helicopter incident.
In a recent publication of the Jamaica Star, the energetic entertainer, whose real name is Calvin Whilby, refused to reveal details regarding the split, but confirmed that they were officially separated.
"If I share a relationship with someone, I believe that is private. There's no way I will speak about the person. I don't wish to do that, but I am separated." he told the local paper.
Even though the split comes as a surprise to many, Prodigal said he has been under new management for several months now. While Joan said she has resigned as his manager and is currently filing for divorce
Local narcotics police are expressing concern about what they have described as a breakdown in the security system at the country's two international airports, especially the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston.
According to the police, since the start of June, the airports have been swamped by drug couriers, using novel and old methods to smuggle cocaine and ganja out of the island.
Ganja in bathrooms
"This morning [Saturday], we found 18 pounds of compressed ganja in one of the bathrooms at the Norman Manley International Airport. On Friday, we found another 40 pounds of compressed ganja in two buckets, inside one of the bathrooms," head of the Narcotics Division, Senior Superintendent Carlton Wilson, told The Sunday Gleaner yesterday.
SSP Wilson added that, on Friday afternoon, the police found a quantity of drugs at one of the warehouses at the Kingston airport."We believe some of the drugs was liquified cocaine. We arrested a man at the Norman Manley Airport this morning, after he was found with drugs going to Barbados," Wilson revealed.
The lawmen's concerns come two years after a high-level security system was implemented at the two international airports to facilitate the ICC Cricket World Cup championship.
"We believe there is a syndicate operating at the airports, facilitating the smuggling of drugs," Wilson said.
The senior officer based his comments on the significant increase of drugs moving through the ports. About two weeks ago, narcotics personnel apprehended a man at the Norman Manley International Airport, whom they said they had had under surveillance.
"When the man cleared the security checkpoint, we searched him thoroughly and found nothing. But when he landed in Barbados later, the authorities there detected several parcels of drugs strapped to his body," Wilson said.
The narcotics police believe that, after clearing the security check point, the man went to an area of the airport where he was assisted by workers to smuggle the drugs out of the country.
Bussa Buss talks about Wayne, Dre and his upcoming album. Check it out.
876radio.com understands that R&B singing sensation Mashonda recently teamed up with Jamaica's top flight female deejay Lady Saw for the hot new single titled, 'All or Nothing'. The song to be featured as a single on Mashonda's upcoming album 'No Panties' is scheduled for release in the latter part of this year (2008). and was produced by Tony Kelly. The American R&B singer is best known for the solo recordings 'Back of Da Club' and 'Black Out' and also collaborated with rapper Cassidy on a single titled 'Get No Better'. Mashonda, who was on the island just days ago for a cameo at the Pulse Caribbean Fashion Week is now separated from her husband of several years, music producer Swizz Beats. According to Mashonda she is gearing up to return to the island for the video shoot with Lady Saw. |
Why man so wicked? Mi de pon mi phone this morning ah talk to mi girlfriend about how ah her dutty man violate her and she was forced to mash up him vehicle and lick her best friend inna her face. Why? She walk into her apartment fi get her laptop and find her boyfriend and her best friend inna bed. Naked like two animal inna heat. My girl just wheel the laptop and mash up the gal face. And she go downstairs and fling a half a brick inna the BMW windscreen. See how some man no have no c principle? Thats why mi no waan no new friend and mi no allow my girlfriend dem fi too chummy wid my man. Mi no play dem game de, mi no de pon that. Time for the Wednesday Tea.
DJ CAUGHT INDULGING IN PUBIC ORATORY
Wah dat mi a read inna yesterday Chat about a certain deejay/comedian who always a bun out Mr. Lex who the police ketch ah dine down below last week outta Airport road? Will I bun dem out? Quite so! I remember quite clearly a particular impersonation of Mr. Lex that was quite funny and was a big hit on the last album but it appears that they - we don't know which one - are impersonating Mr. Lex in more ways than one. Let me elaborate, one of mi girlfriends dem who de wid a police tell me say a patrol squad frighten the deejay ah indulge in pubic oratory and threaten fi arrest him, and him peel dem a nice piece ah US fi forget about what they saw, but tongues are wagging. Who ah the famous mouth now? Who ah the stiff tongue yute now? Mi caan see oonu nowhere, watch the low profile ting.
MARC JOHNSON TO BE BURIED ON JULY 6TH
Marc Johnson will be buried on July 6th at a church in HWT. We dont have any details yet about the funeral service, but there will also be a ni-nite which will be held in a location that can allow Marcs colourful assortment of friends to attend and pay tribute to him. We ah go get more details soon.
WHITE LIGHTS AT RICH N HAPPY SATDAZE
Although DJ Flamez come down with a wicked hog flu this week and is not on air, she is at home resting and recovering but the plans are still in place for White Lights at the Destiny Mall in Portmore, St. Catherine. Ah mad ting, crazy dancehall, the dancers dem a go over de, Danielle, Stacious, Tifa, Lady G, everybody ah go over de. Ladies free, men pay $300.
SEX N THE CITY SATDAZE
Nikki Z kicks off her event this Saturday with Sex N the City Satdaze. She is going all out too with a full service dinner menu avaliable till 11:30 and also bottle service avaliable all night long.... Nico Bam Bam on the wheels of steel special mini Midnight concert series (one reggae R&B artist 3-4 songs) This Saturday, Chris Martin, will perform promptly @ midnight. Make sure you bring ya
boo for the live performance. Hip Hop, R&B,Dance, Alternative &
Dancehall, it will be an unforgettable experience.
BIG UPS
Big up Richie Spice, there is an album review in this moths issue of Vibe, the one with Mariah Carey on the cover, plus articles about Beres Hammond in Rewind and Joe Gibbs, MH in Boomshots. We love how oonu ah represent reggae.A MAN of 92 has been banned from marrying a girl of just 17.
The unidentified Saudi proposed to her on a holiday in Egypt, offering a dowry worth £14,000 plus gold jewellery.
Her poverty-stricken parents accepted the offer but Egypts justice ministry refused to register the marriage under a law to prevent wealthy Arabs from buying young Egyptian girls.
It forbids marriage when there is an age gap of 25 years or more. Their gap was 75 years.
But local press said 173 such marriages went ahead last year after foreigners paid cash into the Egyptian National Bank.
The good book reads, To whom much is given, much is required, and for Charmaine Munroe, better known to the world as Macka Diamond, it is quite clear that she not only knows this principle, but lives by it.
Just recently she again showed her kinder, gentler and more compassionate side by hosting an All School Beach Party at Ocho Rioss Margaritaville, with proceeds from the event going towards the enhancement of the music departments of schools in and around the area.
The all day, incident free Beach Party, which was held on the 24th of May, was the first of its kind at the venue, usually reserved for visitors to the island, but with its success and benefit to the community, Macka Diamond and her company, DiamondDistrict Ja. along with Margaritaville, Ocho Rios, have agreed to again partner on yet another beach party, the Remix- Summer Edition, scheduled to be held on July 12th, at Margaritaville Ocho Rios, with proceeds again going towards the enhancement of the music department in schools.
The presentation of funds to the schools was done on June 12th 2008, at Margaritaville, Ocho Rios, and was attended by both students and teachers from Iona, Oracabessa, York Castle, Ocho Rios and Marcus Garvey High Schools, who werent only grateful for the undisclosed financial gesture, but also enjoyed being up-close and personal with the Money Goddess herself.
Mr. Levermore, head of the music department at York Castle High School expressed heartfelt thanks to Macka Diamond and her Company on behalf of all the schools. He mentioned that York Castle will use the donation to purchase a much needed amplifier for the music department.