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The alleged lesbian lovers have never officially confirmed they're a couple, but now they've been rumored to have been planning to wed in an intimate ceremony for family and close friends to attend.
Marriage definitely is on the card for Queen Latifah. The alleged lesbian is said to have been planning to wed her rumored fiancee, personal trainer Jeanette Jenkins, soon now that California recognizes gay marriage.

MediaTakeOut cited the National Enquirer as reporting the actress-singer has been planning to marry her female lover Jeanette in an intimate ceremony with close family and friends. Wedding date and venue have yet been set at this point.

Being informed by a family insider, the National Enquirer claimed, "Queen is very busy with her career, so she wants to wait to set a date until she has time for a honeymoon." The family insider went on adding, "The two are being very secretive about the upcoming ceremony and have only told immediate family members. Queen is concerned about her career. She knows people's attitude toward gay relationships and marriages are changing, but there is still some resistance, so she wants to keep a low profile."

Never comes out of the closet with her sex orientation, Latifah was rumored to be dating Jeanette. They were claimed to have engaged though they never officially confirmed their alleged romance.

Early December last year, the same-sex lovers were hit with marriage reports. Latifah was quick to put the brake on the reports, telling the press "There ain't gonna be no wedding. When you're famous these days, it's just part of the deal - unfortunately. People will make up all sorts of things that are not true."

Vicious new AIDS strain

World's first case of drug-resistant strain found here

BY FRANK L****ARDI
DAILY NEWS CITY HALL BUREAU


City Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden uses charts yesterday to explain devastating impact of newly discovered HIV superstrain that can evolve into full-blown AIDS in only two months.

What you need to know
A previously unknown superstrain of the virus that causes AIDS has been diagnosed in the city, sparking fears among health officials and the gay community.

So far only one case has been found in the world - a New York man in his mid-40s who had unprotected sex with multiple men in October.

City and federal experts believe it's the first time this mutated strain of HIV has been reported anywhere.

It is virtually drug-resistant and progresses in a matter of months from HIV infection to full-blown AIDS, a process that normally takes 10 or more years. In this man's case it took only two months.

"I've been living with HIV since 1981, and I was dreading this day, because I knew this day would come when multidrug-resistant strains of the virus would begin to enter into the community," said Dennis de Leon, president of the Latino Commission on AIDS.

The virus is known technically as a strain of three-class antiretroviral-resistant HIV, or 3-DCR HIV. Simply put, that means it's resistant to three of the four classes of drugs used to treat HIV.

Usually a cocktail of drugs from the four classes is needed to keep the virus in check.

Those most vulnerable to the virus would be gays and intravenous drug users who share needles. But it could easily spread to the heterosexual community.

"Potentially, no one is immune," city Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden said.

The new superstrain virus can turn into AIDS in two to 20 months, Frieden said.

The man diagnosed with the virus, who is not being identified by officials, has AIDS and his prognosis is bleak.

An intense investigation is underway to located his sex partners to track the source of the virus and stem its possible spread.

The infected man had repeatedly tested negative for HIV over the past decade, including as late as May 2003.

Last October he was involved in "multiple episodes with multiple partners" of unprotected sex while binging on crystal methamphetamine, a popular party drug known as the poor man's cocaine, Frieden said.

In December the man developed flulike symptoms and his doctor diagnosed HIV. Further tests by the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in Manhattan turned up the superstrain virus.

Jay Dobkin, medical director of the AIDS Center at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, said:

"Many of us here remember the dark days before there was any effective treatment for HIV, and I think ... [this] should at least be a reminder that those days could come back."

Frieden and a battery of local HIV/AIDS experts said the best way for people to c****at the new strain is to practice safe sex and be tested regularly for HIV. Anti-retroviral medications have helped to sharply reduce the number of deaths in the city related to HIV. At the peak of the AIDS epidemic there were 7,102 deaths in the city in 1994, compared with 1,656 in 2003.

Advocates for the gay community said this is a wakeup call about the complacency created by breakthrough treatments.

"It debunks that sense of false comfort we were resting on," said Ana Oliveira, executive director of Gay Men's Health Crisis.

There are more than 88,000 New Yorkers who know they have HIV, the city Health Department says, and it's estimated another 20,000 have it and don't know it because they haven't been tested.



What you need to know


How is this new strain different from previously known strains of HIV?

The time between infection and developing full-blown AIDS appears to be two to three months, as opposed to years. The new strain is also resistant to three of the four types of drugs currently used to treat HIV/AIDS.

Can it be treated?

No. Because this strain is multi-drug resistant, the relatively effective "cocktail" treatment of drugs cannot be used.

How many people have been diagnosed with the new strain?

So far, only one - a gay man in his mid-40s.

Who is at risk?

Anyone who has unprotected sex, especially unprotected anal sex, which increases the odds of transmitting all types of sexually transmitted diseases.

Could this be the start of a new epidemic?

Yes. But it also could be an isolated incident.

Originally published on February 11, 2005

What u must have in life?

SOME GROUPS within the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) say they would support recommendations to have cops with a history of indiscipline or poor performance retired early.

While this is not a recommendation in the recently unveiled JCF Strategic Review led by president of Northern Caribbean University, Dr Herbert Thompson, the police say there is room for this measure to be implemented.

The early retirement of underperforming officers was previously recommended in the 2002 report of the National Committee on Crime and Violence, chaired by then Minister of National Security K.D. Knight. The proposal was aimed at promoting confidence in the leadership of the JCF and to allow room for the advancement of younger cops.

Suggests change in culture

While not recommending the early retirement of police officers, the recent JCF Strategic Review suggests a change in culture at the top level of the force to reflect intolerance to corruption. The review team anticipates this attitude would filter down to the lower ranks, forcing them to modify their behaviour or 'self-select' themselves out of the JCF.

Assistant Commissioner of Police Justin Felice, who is in charge of the anti-corruption unit, welcomes a policy of retiring police officers in the interest of the force. He has further called on the Government to pass legislation which would allow the commissioner of police to dismiss members of the force in whom he has lost confidence.

"If there is information about the integrity of officers, and officers who are not performing at the required level, if these persons don't have the commissioner's confidence, then there should be a method where the commissioner can dismiss or remove them from the workforce," Felice tells The Sunday Gleaner.

Superintendent Michael James, chairman of the Police Officers Association, was also in favour of early retirement. He, however, believes the process should be such that both parties are treated fairly.

"We believe in due process; when this is in place we know that there will be the time to sever connections with some officers, as long as there is the assurance of fair play and equity," he says.

"I understand that when there is transformation, you will have to ask persons who are not in line or in sync with the organisation's mandate and view to leave," James adds.

Focus on policing themselves

Corporal Hartley Stewart, general secretary of the Jamaica Police Federation, which represents rank-and-file members of the JCF, says the JCF "should focus on what we are already doing, which has been highlighted by this commissioner and the previous one - police ourselves in a more robust way, where the atmosphere is uncomfortable for officers for whom corruption is an aim or manner of operation".

Referring to the Police Service Regulation of 1961, Stewart argues that the Police Service Commission (PSC) already has powers to ask police officers to retire in the public's interest. Stewart says if a matter cannot be dealt with properly by the JCF's internal Court of Enquiry, the PSC can follow a certain procedure and ask the individual to retire.

Minister of National Security, Trevor MacMillan, says while there is room for poor performers and undisciplined cops to be retired early, he "can't say that it is being considered at this point in time. Not from an official perspective."

Bounty takes mature stance

Teino Evans, Entertainment Coordinator

Having achieved so much in life and in his musical career, Rodney Price aka Bounty Killer says he is satisfied.

"I can live with what I've got, I don't have no crave right now, I've filled all my craves so it's just long life and prosperity right now," Bounty told The STAR yesterday.

Come June 12 this year, the self-proclaimed 'Grung God' will celebrate his 36th birthday and already he is taking a more mature outlook on life.

"Musically mi achieve it, an it still going on strong, an people still demanding, because they still looking to Bounty," he says.

"Because Beenie can't do without the competition and he is my arch-rival, suh people always looking to Bounty to do the things that he (Beenie) is doing. But my spot is not up for competition," he said.

Bounty says he is happy with life and the way his career has unfolded over the years and feels less pressured to put out a major hit.

Instead he says, "Mi mek like Mavado dem an Kartel dem come run it fi a five year an di Jamaican people really show appreciation fi di yutes dem wey mi help buss. An mi really appreciate di Jamaican people dem bawl forward fi di regular artistes, but they salute di General."

Bounty says he doesn't have to have the hottest song out there, "I jus have to do a good song... I think these people just have an extraordinary love and appreciation for di Killer and I really appreciate it. Only thing wi need some more fun-filling things in the music, that's why mi not even a sing too much again, cause my thing is very aggressive, an wi nuh really need dat right now."

As a matter of fact, the Killer says he is not pleased with some of the songs he has done in the past. He used his latest response to the Monster Empire, Kill Dem All, as an example.

"Mi nuh happy wid some a di throw word song dem wey mi do, but I have to do it, because di people dem jus insist. Dem nuh stop play dem song pon radio, suh I jus had to do back one," Bounty said.

However, Bounty says he is more mature than that now, "Suh mi cyan waste my lyrics pon eeediat! All di johncrow wey a sey me an Mavado a drive di same truck an not even own a car ... him can't even afford fi drive a Kingfish."

Now, the Killer is looking toward the finer things in life like travelling to places he has never been before.

"There are places that I have never been, like Africa, and people been calling for me to go there and I think that it is time I take a trod to the Motherland," he says.

In the meantime, Bounty is getting ready to have a splash, as he says he plans to have a birthday party with a difference this year.

Instead of It's Tha Party, Bounty says the event will be called It's Tha Pool Party.

The party is scheduled to take place on Sunday, June 15 at 9 Norberry Drive in Norbrook.

According to Bounty, "It's formerly the home of House Party and we'll have music by Colin Hinds, Stone Love, Jazzy T, Liquid, DJ Kareem, *lo**line, Nemesis and Sky Juice."

He added that women wearing bikinis will have free admission. "Guys have to pay like two grand to see them and women without bikini pay $500. It's going to be from 12 to 12, no long drawn-out ting - this one is going to be more fun-filling, music, vibe and spirits, likkle competitions an ting and it's not an all-inclusive party."

Sponsors for the event include Solid Agency, Hi Print, Magnum, HypeTV, RETV, Alliance Enter-tainment, Wysynco and Katana Express restaurant in Loshusan supermarket.

In addition, Bounty says, "On June 12, I'll be at the Asylum, that's the actual birthday, so we'll be celebrating there with the Asylum family."

Bounty Killer, celebrated his 35th birthday at 'Itís Tha Party' at the Rockfort Mineral Spa in Kingston last year. He will celebrate with 'Its Tha Pool Party'

he Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows Barack Obama attracting 46% of the vote while John McCain earns 42%. When leaners are included, Obama now leads 48% to 45%. Leaners are survey respondents who initially do not favor either candidate but indicate their support on a follow-up question. One week ago today, McCain had the edge over Obama, 46% to 43%. The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll is based upon interviews with 1,000 Likely Voters each night and reported on a three-day rolling average basis. This is the first update based entirely upon interviews conducted since Obama clinched the nomination. The results suggest a modest bounce for Obama in recent days. On Tuesday morning, Obama and McCain were tied. A week ago, McCain had a three-point advantage (see recent daily results). Obamas bounce is primarily the result of Democrats beginning to unify behind his candidacy. For the first time all year, Obama is supported by 80% of Democrats over McCain. In recent months, his support from Democrats has typically been in the high-60s or low-70s range. McCain is supported by 84% of Republicans and holds an eight-point lead among unaffiliated voters. The bad news for McCain is that there are a lot more Democrats than Republicans. Obamas party now enjoys a ten-percentage point advantage in terms of party identification. See other recent demographic observations. Both men are viewed favorably by 55% of voters nationwide. Forty-two percent (42%) have an unfavorable opinion of Obama while 43% offer a negative assessment of McCain. However, opinions are more strongly held about Obama. Thirty-three percent (33%) have a Very Favorable opinion of the presumptive Democratic nominee while 28% hold a Very Unfavorable opinion of him. For McCain, 18% have a Very Favorable opinion and 20% hold a Very Unfavorable opinion (see daily results). Tracking Poll results are updated daily at 9:30 a.m. Eastern. There is little enthusiasm for John McCain reaching across party lines to select Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman as his running mate. Just 18% of all votersand only 19% of Republicanssay McCain should take such a step. An Obama-Clinton ticket narrowly defeats a McCain-Lieberman ticket in current polling. Other recent polling shows that 41% of voters believe that Obama is too inexperienced to be President while 30% say McCain is too old. Fifty-one percent (51%) of Democrats believe Hillary Clinton should be named as Obamas Vice-Presidential running mate. Additionally, 78% of all voters say they could vote for an African-American for President. But, only 56% believe their family, friends and co-workers are willing to do the same. Economic issues have muscled past national security issues as a voter concern with significant implications for Election 2008. Fifty-nine percent (59%) of Americans say that talks with Iran should not take place until that nation stops developing nuclear weapons. Voters see a clear distinction between the two leading candidates on the issue of Iraq. Eighty-one percent (81%) say Obama is more interested in getting troops home from Iraq than finishing the mission. Seventy-four percent (74%) say that McCain is more interested in finishing the mission (crosstabs available for Premium Members). An earlier survey found that 52% of voters say getting the troops home is the higher priority. Forty-three percent (43%) of voters say McCain is a better leader than Obama while 38% hold the opposite view. When asked which candidate has personal values closer to their own, 43% name McCain and 42% say Obama (crosstabs available for Premium Members). Forty-four percent (44%) trust McCain most when it comes to economic issues and managing the economy while 40% prefer Obama. On national security issues such as the War in Iraq and the War on Terrorism, 51% have more trust in McCain while 37% prefer Obama (crosstabs available for Premium Members). The Rasmussen Reports Balance of Power Calculator shows Democrats leading in states with 200 Electoral Votes while the GOP has the advantage in states with 189. When leaners are included, the Democrats enjoy a 260-240 Electoral College lead (see summary of recent state-by-state results). Data from Rasmussen Markets gives Democrats a 63.0 % chance of winning the White House in November (results are updated on a 24/7 basis by market participants). Daily tracking results are collected via telephone surveys of 1,000 likely voters per night and reported on a three-day rolling average basis. The margin of sampling error is +/- 2 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Results are also compiled on a full-week basis and crosstabs for the full-week results are available for Premium Members. Rasmussen Reports is an electronic publishing firm specializing in the collection, publication, and distribution of public opinion polling information. The Rasmussen Reports ElectionEdge Premium Service for Election 2008 offers the most comprehensive public opinion coverage ever provided for a Presidential election. Scott Rasmussen, president of Rasmussen Reports, has been an independent pollster for more than a decade.

Information reaching the offices of 876radio.com has just informed us that head of the Alliance, the Warlord, Bounty Killer is slated to perform at the Asylum Night Club in New Kingston next week.

According to the report Bounty Killer will be the headline act for a show scheduled for next Thursday, June 12, 2008 inside the popular night club, coincidentally that is the same night he celebrates his official birthday.

when 876radio.com spoke to members of the Club management they also hinted at the possibility of a few cameos from other members of the Alliance.

Over the past few months the management of Asylum has resurrected their popular concert series dubbed 'One Night Only' which has seen performances from both Beenie Man and his estranged wife D'Angel to pack houses and they anticipate no less when the Warlord graces the club.

On another note the warlord will be hosting his official birthday party on Sunday June 15, 2008 at 9 Norberry Drive in Norbrook. According to Bounty he will be having a Pool Party, hence the signature name will be tweaked to adapt the moniker "It's Tha Pool Party" instead of the original "It's a Party". Ladies in Bikini enter FREE ($500 without), while the males will have to dig deep for a whopping J$2000 to gain admittance.

Three Indian men face deportation after being found working illegally during a UK Border Agency raid at a KFC restaurant in Northamptonshire. The UK Border Agency carried out the raid on the fast-food restaurant in Silver Street, Kettering, after acting on a tip-off. Three Indian men aged 28, 30 and 31 were arrested after it was found that none of them had any right to work in the UK. One of the men had overstayed his visa, while the other two had entered the UK illegally. The KFC owner was issued with an on-the-spot notice, warning that he faces a fine of up to £30,000 for employing illegal workers. Gail Adams, regional director of the UK Border Agency Midlands and East of England, said: "The UK Border Agency is determined to put a stop to illegal working in "We have teams visiting businesses across the county to make sure they are not breaking the law."

A JUDGE sparked outrage yesterday by ruling that an illegal immigrant who sexually abused a young girl for three years was not dangerous and free to stay in Britain.

 

Pervert Nurul Islam will cost taxpayers more than £200,000 after being jailed for 5½ years.

Indian-born Islam, 35, of Oxford, began preying on the victim when she was 12.

He admitted ten counts of sex acts on a child.

But Judge Julian Hall told him at Oxford Crown Court: I do not make a recommendation for deportation and I do not find you are dangerous.

This is not a man who is going to go out on to the street looking to cause harm.

The Home Office says criminals from outside Europe should be deported if jailed for more than 12 months.

The judges decision was slammed as outrageous by UKIP MP Bob Spink last night.

He said: This man has broken the law to get into the country, then broken the law while he is here.

Mark Wallace, of the Taxpayers Alliance, added: This sends out an awful message.

Judge Hall previously jailed a rapist for only two years, saying his ten-year-old victim was dressed provocatively.

The sentence was doubled by Appeal Court judges last year

Sad news to report. Patrick Swayze, the always charming, dirty dancing, clay massaging late '80s acting stalwart (and star of everyone's favorite SNL skit), has allegedly just received news that his previously diagnosed pancreatic cancer has spread. According to the National Enquirer, doctors have told him he has approximately five weeks to live:

"[Swayze] has lost more than 20 pounds in the past few weeks and is restricted to a liquid diet because he has trouble keeping down solid food, added the insider. 'It's time to start praying for a miracle.'"

Our thoughts and prayers go out to one of the nicest actors in the biz.

THESE sickening CCTV photos show a 78-year-old man being hit by a car then IGNORED as he lies paralysed.

Pensioner Angel Torres strolled into a busy street while glancing back to his left, where he might expect approaching traffic.

 

Then two cars headed straight for him from his right as they overtook other motorists.

The first clipped Angel and the second hurled him into the air.

He crashed on to the street as the two cars sped off.

But it was what happened next that shook Americans even more.

Contorted

Passers-by did no more than GLANCE at Angel as he lay with multiple injuries and paralysed from the neck down.

When a group did venture towards him they simply watched as one of them took a sick photo of the old mans contorted figure.

 

Meanwhile, TEN cars drove past but no one stopped to comfort or help Angel.

A man on a scooter did a U-turn around him only to gawp before riding off.

A bystander said as police arrived: It was as if he was a dog left in the street to die.

The pictures were released by appalled cops in Hartford, Connecticut, where Angel was still critically ill last night.

Police chief Daryl Roberts said: Weve got to look at ourselves and understand our moral values have changed.

We have no regard for each other. There was a time they would have helped that man across the street. Now anything goes.




if u hav not seen the video i posted it yesterday
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A FOOTBALLER has been arrested by police investigating a motorway crash that killed two boys.

Goalkeeper Luke McCormick, was held by police after two boys, aged eight and 10, were fatally injured in a collision on the M6 in north Staffordshire this morning.

In a statement, Plymouth Argyle Football Club said: "The club is aware of an incident involving one of our players that occurred on Saturday morning on the M6."

Staffordshire Police would not identify the man held on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.

The 24-year-old from Coventry is a former England youth international and was twice voted the clubs young player of the season, according to Plymouth Argyles website.

A Staffordshire Police spokeswoman said officers were still questioning a man held earlier today in connection with the collision, which involved a black Range Rover and a Toyota Previa people carrier.

The force confirmed the 37-year-old Toyota driver taken to the University Hospital of North Staffordshire with serious injuries is the father of the two boys who died.

He remained in a serious condition in hospital this afternoon but his injuries are not life-threatening.

The other occupants of the people carrier were a 49-year-old man and two boys aged 15 and eight.

It is thought the party were travelling from Manchester to Silverstone, in Northamptonshire, when the crash happened shortly before 5.45am near junction 16 of the motorway.

CHINA is offering free ops to reverse the sterilisation of parents who lost children in the countrys earthquake so they can have more babies.

 

The government is sending medical teams into the disaster zone to perform the procedures and offer IVF treatment.

 

Chinas one-child policy meant 7,000 of the youngsters killed in the May 12 quake in Sichuan were only children.

 

Beijing has been under pressure from grieving parents who blame the shoddy construction of schools for the loss of their children.

 

At least 69,000 people died in the quake

A LAD of eight hanged himself after his mum and grandad died of cancer inside eight months.

Joshua Aldred was rushed to hospital after his gran found him in his bedroom but he died an hour later.

Distraught dad Jason said yesterday: "It was a cry for attention."

Joshua was rocked by the prostate cancer death of grandad John last July.

When mum Sarah, 42, died of breast cancer in March he was devastated again. Jason, 41, said: "In his very short life Joshua had faced a double tragedy.

 

"His sadness at the loss at such a young age has resulted in this tragic accident. The family are sure he expected to only injure himself slightly and are devastated this cry for attention resulted in the loss of such a beautiful boy."

Jason who as Johns son has lost his dad, wife and son said: "Outwardly he coped admirably. He missed his mum and spoke of her often. Our very close relationship was of immense support to us both."

Joshua, of Lytham St Annes, Lancs, died in Blackpool Victoria Hospital on Thursday.

A spokesman at his school, King Edward VII and Queen Mary in Lytham, said: "Joshua was a delightful little eight-year- old. Hell be very sadly missed."

Police have yet to confirm the cause of death but say it is not thought to be suspicious.

A BRITISH holidaymaker survived a 50ft plunge from a hotel balcony because he was DRUNK.

Theo Paget, 20, has been dubbed rubber band man by doctors after his miracle escape.

He jumped up and ran off after the fall.

Doctors say he should have died in the third-storey fall but his muscles were so relaxed from a cocktail of booze and drugs that he absorbed the impact.

Pals and hotel security in Marmaris, Turkey, searched for him for two hours before he strolled back into the lobby complaining of a sore back.

Theo, of Leicester, was taken to hospital and found to have a spinal fracture.

He said: They were amazed I lived to tell the tale. I was like a rubber ball and just bounced

Man dragged along by getaway vehicle

A store manager was dragged along and then thrown from a moving car as he tried to stop a group of persistent shoplifters in Northamptonshire.
Gordon Hutchinson was bitten, punched and kicked before being thrown from the car's window as he tried to stop a shoplifter at the Co-op in Manor Road.

Caroline Brown, aged 32, was jailed for 18 months at Crown Court after she admitted injuring the manager as she tried to flee with £150 of alcohol and food.

Matthew Lowe, prosecuting at  Crown Court, said: The defendant is a persistent shoplifter. On October 25 last year, the defendant, another female and a male went out on a shoplifting expedition in Brackley.

As a Renault car was parked near the entrance, Brown loaded a trolley with alcohol, food and goods before leaving it at the exit.

Her female accomplice then took the trolley back to the car and was loading up the stolen goods when Mr Hutchinson confronted them.

Mr Lowe said: "The store manager reached through the window to try to take the keys from the ignition. The defendant who was in the driver's seat started the vehicle and began driving off. As she accelerated, the effect was to pull the manager further into the vehicle.

"The defendant bit him on the hand while the male punched and kicked him and he was eventually pushed out. He was injured but not particularly badly."

Brown, of Golding Close, Daventry, was identified from the store's CCTV and arrested soon afterwards.

Judge Charles Wide QC said: "The courts have tried and tried and tried with you and so have the probation service. You have breached community order after community order and have simply not taken the abundant help offered to you time and time again."

Brown pleaded guilty to assault with intent to resist detention and theft as well as three further shoplifting offences which happened at the BP Garage in Northampton Road, Brackley, stealing more than £1,200 of alcohol in January and February. She was also found guilty of jumping bail in March when she did not turn up at court.

Claire Howell, defending, said Brown had been spending £250 a day to feed a heroin habit.

A meeting to resolve the strike by some Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) employees ended abruptly yesterday when male workers allegedly threatened to shoot the company's chairman, Douglas Chambers.

The meeting, which was being held at the Ministry of Labour in Downtown Kingston between JUTC management, representatives of the University and Allied Workers Union (UAWU), the Union of Clerical, Administrative and Supervisory Employees (UCASE) and Ministry of Labour officials, was eventually moved to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in New Kingston late last night.

This Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) worker sings Daniel's God surely will deliver as she and her colleagues wait on the premises at the Twickenham Park depot in St Catherine yesterday, after receiving their lay-off letters when they showed up for work. (Photo: Lionel Rookwood)

Yesterday, drivers and conductresses stopped working to protest against the company's decision to send home 250 workers.

An official source told the Observer that the meeting ended when some of the 150 workers who attended became boisterous, resulting in the JUTC management leaving without any further discussion.

Communications manager in the transport ministry, Reginald Allen, confirmed that the meeting ended prematurely after issues unrelated to the ongoing strike were raised and later escalated into physical confrontation.

Stranded commuters sit in a section of the Half Way Tree Transportation Centre yesterday, after JUTC workers withdrew their service to protest the company's decision to send home 250 workers.

"JUTC chairman Douglas Chambers, who was the target of the assaults, eventually left the venue with his team members as a result of the aggression that was coming from some of the over 150 company employees who attended the meeting," Allen said.

However, following that failed meeting, junior minister for labour and social security, Andrew Gallimore, called a second meeting between the JUTC management and the union representatives in an attempt to resolve the strike.

However, Allen said, Chambers made it clear that the talks would only resume if the workers returned to work.

Following the breakdown of the earlier meeting, Allen said the company's Rockfort and Spanish Town depots remained closed up to late last night. The Portmore depot, however, was operating normally.

"The Rockfort complex had been closed by the company based on information reaching the management of plans to disrupt the service and damage buses in downtown Kingston," said Allen.

He said that at Spanish Town, early morning agitation among some of the company's employees escalated and a bus which was exiting the depot was damaged, prompting the closure of that complex.

Yesterday, drivers, in solidarity with the conductresses who were laid off from work for 119 days, parked their buses and converged at the gates of the three depots in St Catherine and Kingston.

Union delegate Fitzgerald Lewis told the Observer that while the union has no problem with the company's decision to cut its workforce, proper procedure as laid out under the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) must be followed.

He said if this was done, the company would have had to write to the MOU monitoring committee informing them of the decision to lay off the workers, following which the committee would have met with the company and the union.

The workers said many were not notified of the lay-off until they showed up to work on the staff bus at 3:00 am. "Those whose names were on the list were turned back through the gate at that time of the morning," a worker said.

Lewis said if the company is letting the workers go they should be made redundant and given whatever remuneration is due.

"If this is the case, pay off the people and let them go home," he said.

One conductress at the Twickenham Park depot said she didn't object to being sent home but wanted to be made redundant so she could receive a full remuneration package.

"I came in and signed this morning and is that time the dispatcher telling me that ah not supposed to go on the road because me name is on a list," she said, adding that they do not know what will happen after the 119 days since there would be no need for their services if the buses are converted to single operator units.

"Dem need to pay we off and let we go," said another conductress.

Another worker burst into a lively chorus, singing: "Daniel God surely will deliver" even as her colleagues insisted that the JUTC chairman must go.

The Observer was also told that the mechanics at the Portmore depot went on strike after a confrontation with a new supervisor. Another worker was heard telling those at Rockfort not to agree to be sent to the Portmore depot to work.

The angry workers said their grouse was not only about the lay-offs but the deductions which were taken from their salaries but have not been paid over to the respective institutions.

THE panel commissioned by the former government last year to undertake a review of the Jamaica Constabulary Force has recommended sweeping changes to the force, including a change of name, uniform, insignias and culture and that the force adopts a zero-tolerance approach towards corruption.

The 53-member team, which was headed by Northern Caribbean University (NCU) President Herbert Thompson, among its recommendations, said there should be extraordinary security vetting of personnel in the force. These include automatic polygraph testing of senior officers and staff in 'sensitive positions'.

It also suggested that the constabulary be renamed the Jamaica Police Force (JPF).

The report, which has been released on the heels of the *lo**iest month of criminal violence in recent history in which 200 people were murdered, drew on the Wolfe Report; Corporate Strategy presented by former police commissioner Francis Forbes, the KPMG/DFID report, and the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) report.

It said the backlog of some 500 cases involving disciplinary measures against members of the force should be processed as a matter of urgency, and that community-based policing models should be further developed and rolled out in as many communities as possible.

Retired Columbia University Professor Gertrude Neumark Rothschild has filed a complaint against Sony, Samsung, Nokia, and almost 30 other companies for their use of light-emitting and laser diodes over which she claims to have patent.

Since Rothschild complained to the US International Trade Comission, this has the potential to stop all international sales from these companies until or unless they settle with the kindly old lady.

There is precedent in this case, as Rothschild already filed a suit against Philips and other companies which was settled out of court. Yes the format war may be over, but there is a chance that one day we will all have to pay a little old lady royalties to watch 300 on a Blu-Ray disc.

-- Edited by DekaNo at 15:29, 2008-03-22

Parents converge on ministry offices for GSAT results

BY ALICIA DUNKLEY & JODY-ANNE LAWRENCE Observer reporters Saturday, June 07, 2008

THE Ministry of Education will today open its Region One office in Kingston between 10:00 am and 3:00 pm today to continue issuing results to parents who sat the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) in March without a birth certificate.

At the same time, the ministry said it had planned to open late yesterday evening to process results for students in its Region Three office in St Ann.

Frustrated parents gather at the entrance to a section of the Ministry's Region One office at Heroes Circle in Kingston yesterday, demanding to see their children's exam results. (Photo: Karl McLarty)

According to the ministry, checks with its other regional offices revealed that except for minor hiccups, most parents who turned up for their children's results were processed.

The education ministry was forced to work overtime yesterday after scores of frustrated parents converged on its Region One office in Kingston and its Region Three office, demanding the placement results for their children who took the GSAT.

The ministry on Thursday announced that 48,733 students had been placed and issued the results to schools islandwide, but several students in Region One - Kingston and St Andrew and parts of St Thomas, and Region Three, which covers schools in St Mary, St Ann and Trelawny were not among that number.

At the Region One office at Heroes Circle in Kingston, parents complained bitterly that some schools said they had no record of the examination results because their children's birth certificates were not submitted, as required. They said the schools had indicated that the ministry would be withholding the results until the document was submitted.

Some of the parents, however, accused the ministry and the schools of being inefficient, arguing that they had in fact submitted the birth certificates and could not understand why they were being told they had not done so.

"Is two months them hold on to this (birth certificate).," one woman told the Observer while holding a copy of the document aloft to murmurs of agreement from other parents.
It was, however, a long wait yesterday for persons when a number system, which had been set up to deal with the large crowd failed, and was replaced by an alphabetical system.

When that too failed, security personnel reverted to the numeric system, drawing further protest from the parents.
"Is just because them nuh organised," said one parent, who gave her name only as Latoya. She said that she had been waiting from 9:00 am and was still there after 1:00 in the afternoon. Several other parents said their children were anxious and distressed over not knowing the schools that they had been placed.

Detectives examine clues found at the scene of a murder along Washington Boulevard in Kingston on Thursday, in which one of the alleged killers was cut down by police personnel who responded to the attack. The police, as part of its crime fighting initiative, have announced plans to intensify their presence in a number of hotspot communities.  However, for some residents, this is a process that is taking too long to come to fruition. Pushed on edge as a result of the frequent murders and violent drive-by shootings, residents in communities such as Waterhouse, Drews Avenue and Allman Town in the Corporate Area, say they are living in fear. Over the last two weeks, more than 15 persons have been killed in the above areas, police data has shown. In sections of Drews Avenue and Waterhouse, large boulders, old furniture and debris have become permanent fixtures in the streets.  This, the residents claim, is not only an indication of the lack of police monitoring their area, but also evidence of what they were forced to do to protect themselves from frequent drive-by attacks.  The local authorities say they have been working around the clock to bring the situation under control, but according to the residents, the criminals are out of control.  They lurk and hide when the police is in our community, but as soon as the authorities leave, they (criminals) come down on us.  Sometime they use the cover of darkness, on other occasions they use other means, one resident from Drews Avenue said.  Over in sections of the Allman Town, where there is still a tense calm, the residents say the wanton disregard for life or authority by criminals is ever present. They claim that a display of this was seen in the community three weeks ago, when just minutes after the police left the area, criminals went to the same location where they had murdered two persons the day before, to kill a woman. National Security Minister, Col. Trevor MacMillan, recently said the security forces are looking at ways to curtail violent crimes and part of this move was to introduce a number of measures to address the problem.  Some of the measures are: Intensification of efforts to dismantle criminal networks; The strategic deployment of law enforcement personnel into communities that have been under attack from criminals; Renewed focus on hotspots policing, and increased co-operation between the police, the military and citizens, to promote the free-flow and confidential exchange of information.

Mathematics and sex may make odd bedfellows, but this fun, flirty look at the relationship between the two subjects shows that they are closely related. Revealing the ways in which math can help unlock the secrets of love, lust, and life's search for the ideal partner, this intriguing text covers topics such as dating services, dating as game theory, the mathematical logic of affairs, and the numbers behind orgasms.

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There are rumor that the AIDS virus was a scientificly engineered caos gone wild, and was used as a millitery weapon in biological warfare. I believe that some of it is true but I dont have the facts straight. Do you think that this came about naturally? How Really did this whole eppidemic came about?
  

-- Edited by titus at 00:32, 2008-06-07

Back in the 1990s when Easton Douglas was Minister of Housing, he promised an anti-squatting plan that would address 650,000 squatters island-wide. Operation Pride, which was designed to address the problem, put a dent in this growing social menace.  But from all indications, squatting has gained momentum and is now moving like a runaway train across the country. In general, squatters fall into two broad categories.  There are those who, desperate for somewhere to live, take the chance of occupying any empty land they see.  The other category is comprised of persons who are professional squatters.  These are persons who go from community to community, parish to parish, occupying mainly government land, usually prime land, with the hope and expectation that government would regularise their occupation of these lands by providing utilities like light and water and infrastructure, including roads and curb walls. Criminals These communities usually need criminals to protect them from members of adjoining communities that might oppose their presence.  They also need criminals to protect them from political opponents, and in some instances, to protect them from the owners of the lands on which they are trespassing.  A squatter community is usually a safe haven for criminals.  The irregular development comprising initially of blue tarpaulins, zinc fences, winding tracks, lack of streetlights, lack of roads, lack of street names and absence of addresses and, indeed, proper names for occupants, all create a mixture of impossibilities and nightmare for policing. The police cannot patrol these communities with motor vehicles or even with motorbikes.  They are therefore required to enter on foot and to do that at nights, bearing in mind there are no streetlights, is often akin to a suicidal mission. Over the years, squatter communities have chalked up impressive records as breeding grounds for dons, extortionists, prostitution rings and drug peddlers.  Guns are stored in these communities and intelligence reports indicate that they are used as dispatch points for criminal gangs to neighbouring communities, where they carry out extortion activities, demand protection money, commit robberies, shootings, rapes and murders.  It is all but impossible to trace and monitor members of these criminal gangs in the squatter communities.  There is also a culture of silence either out of fear or because some of the members of these communities are beneficiaries of the proceeds of crimes. Politicians It is a well-known fact that in Jamaica, some of the squatters consciously squat on the best lands in the area, and this is done with the sole intention of acquiring expensive lands. Mammee Bay in the Ocho Rios area, where squatters are perched on lands with beautiful ocean view, is one of several examples.  These are lands which in any country where the authorities are serious about development, would never have been surrendered to squatters. It is felt in some quarters that politicians on both sides of the fence encourage squatting as a means of bolstering their electoral support, and in some instances, guaranteeing the start of a garrison comprised of a block of voters who will always vote uniformly for them. Squatter communities are the ones primarily responsible for deforestation and soil erosion in the Ocho Rios area.  These activities contribute to flooding even if the rainfall is not significantly heavy.   The April rains which flooded Ocho Rios and closed the town, lasted no more than five hours, but within that time the town was covered with boulders, soil and debris washed down from the hills of Ocho Rios, which have been deforested by squatters.  The improper disposal of human waste also leads to contamination of the water sources, including streams, rivers and drains.  Social cost  There is also a serious social cost imposed by these squatter communities, such as the illegal use of water and electricity. Currently, squatters on the Steer Town/Windsor property are less than 300 metres from Protocol House, the Prime Ministers retreat at Roaring River, St. Ann.  These squatters are located on hills from where they can disturb the quiet of Protocol House with loud music or with more dangerous means, such as shooting.  In such eventuality, the property would likely cease being used for the purpose it was intended.  That would spell out just how badly the society has failed to deal with squatting in its midst. Observers in St. Ann and its environs believe that the government should do the following:  establish a register in which all squatters are required to be listed.  The onus should be on them to do the registration.  Assess squatter settlements, following which, one of three decisions should be made.  These are: (a) Development and formalisation of the squatter community. (b) Relocation of the squatters.     (c) Eviction, especially for those who (i) have alternative accommodation; (ii) are multiple squatters, i.e. those who squat on several pieces of land; (iii) where it is inappropriate and makes poor business and community sense to give such land to squatters.     Finally, the government needs to provide incentives and make it easier for members of the private sector to build houses in the resort areas.

PATNA, India (Reuters) - A rich 80-year-old Indian widow has spent thousands of dollars on a feast for 100,000 people in the hope it would please the gods and open the doors of heaven for her, local officials said. People from surrounding villages and towns were fed lunch over two consecutive days by Phuljharia Kunwar, who lives in the eastern state of Bihar and has no family or relatives. Kunwar spent $37,500 (19,186 pounds) on the feast. Local officials said she spent lavishly on the meal because she had no one to bequeath her property. "She told us she could now begin her final journey and her soul could rest in peace in heaven," Ajay Kumar Bulganin, a local lawmaker who attended the feast, held over Wednesday and Thursday, said. "She was worried that no one would care about throwing a feast after her death."

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Mendocino County's reputation as a marijuana haven of California may be going up in smoke. Voters on Tuesday leaned toward repealing a law allowing home marijuana growing, according to preliminary results of a ballot measure vote released on Wednesday. Critics say a cottage industry had grown out of control. California in 1996 voted to allow possession and cultivation by residents of marijuana for medical purposes, despite federal law which declares it illegal. Mendocino, a rural county north San Francisco, in 2000 approved marijuana cultivation for recreational use as well, voting to let residents grow up to 25 marijuana plants, compared with the state limit of six. With about a third of the vote counted, 52 percent supported repeal, the county clerk said. The tally may not be complete for up to four weeks. "We thought Ma and Pa growers would be able to grow a little bit," said Dave Bengston, the county's agricultural commissioner, who supported the repeal. "The legalization of marijuana sent a message to organized crime that they could set up shop here, and we got people with automatic weapons growing marijuana in large quantities." Supporters of local marijuana growing say repeal will hurt legitimate growers, while organized drug cartels will be ignored. "(The measure) doesn't target the problem of criminals growing," said Laura Hamburg, a spokesperson for a campaign against repeal. Mendocino Sheriff Thomas Allman said local law enforcement officers seized 334,000 marijuana plants last year. "We're not trying to break last year's numbers," Allman told Reuters. "We are not targeting legitimate growers, just commercial marijuana."

Not good for country'

It is very clear that we have had enough. I am not surprised that the country is in no mood for a general election. We need to rebuild our country now and anything that would speak to uncertainty, as a general election would do, is not good for the country.

- Len Anglin, executive chairman of the Church of God in Jamaica.

'Gov't needs time'

There are more pressing issues facing the country at this time. We have a serious crime problem that both parties need to sit together and find solutions to.

I think, also, that there is a general feeling that the ruling party needs time to do the job it has been elected to do, and the opposition needs time to regroup after 18 years in government.

- Roger Bent, president of the Guild of Students, University of the West Indies, Mona

'People are election-weary'

I don't think people not wanting an election has to do with the performance of the present government. It has more to do with the fact that people are election-weary. They believe that campaigning brings with it the possibility of violence. If there are to be elections people would rather the by-elections than a general election, as it is seen as the lesser of the evils.

- Wayne Jones, acting president of the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions

'Could intensify political tensions'

The country is already doing a delicate balancing act to deal with the harsh external and internal shocks and keep above water. A general election could dump unwanted water into the boat and, regardless of the outcome, it would spell catastrophe. A by-election would prove to be of a lesser ordeal, given the scale of the activity.

- Charlene Sharpe-Pryce, political analyst/ lecturer at the Northern Caribbean University

MP5 Eotech - Photo courtesy www.lenaburgs.net/images

The plan to remove M16 rifles from the hands of local police and replace them with the less powerful MP5 sub-machine guns moved closer to reality last week when 1,000 of the new weapons arrived in the island.

Well placed sources on Friday confirmed that the new guns were here, but said the distribution of the weapons would not begin for some time. Training in the use of the MP5s will begin within the next week or two, the sources added.

According to the sources, the signature of each weapon is now being recorded in the Integrated Ballistic Identification System (IBIS). The IBIS allows investigators to track and analyse firearms and bullets gathered at scenes, and should put the investigators in a position to determine which weapon was fired in cases of police shootings.

Effort to curtail

The decision to replace the M16s with MP5s was announced three months ago by Police Commissioner Hardley Lewin as part of what he described as an effort to curtail the use of deadly force by members of the force.

At that time, Lewin said the move would reduce collateral damage caused by the high-powered nature of the M16s. He also announced that only members of the Mobile Reserve - the special squad formed to deal with civil unrest or national emergencies - would be allowed to continue using the M16 rifles.

The announcement was greeted with loud applause from local human rights groups and other sections of civil society which have repeatedly expressed concern about the level of police shootings, which average 150 per annum.

Benefits

The move was also welcomed by the Jamaica Police Federation, which represents rank-and-file members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force. The federation argued that the benefits of using the less-powerful MP5 far outweigh the disadvantages.

But several members of the police force have quietly expressed their displeasure at the change, arguing that they will be facing criminals better armed and willing to shoot. The cops have also complained that they were not consulted before the decision.

Well aware of the complaints, the police chief urged members of the force not to be daunted nor agitated by the decision. He claimed that no policeman was going to be asked to go out and put his/her life in danger, and urged the police to adopt a more intellectual approach to bringing down criminal elements.

MP5 facts

Calibre - 9mm

Weight - 2.88kg (6.34lb)

Modes of fire - Single shot/three-round burst

Maximum effective range - 75 metres

Muzzle velocity (speed of travel) - 1,312 feet per second

Length - 325mm (12.8 in)

Barrel - 115mm (4.53 in)

Magazine capacity - 30 rounds

Make - German design - Heckler Koch (HK)

 

HOW DEM EXPECT DI POLICE FI MANAGE WHEN THE CRIMINALS HAVE BETTER WEAPONS THAN THEM

THE PARLIAMENTARY Opposition, the People's National Party (PNP), says it is willing to talk about the transformation of garrison communities when it starts bipartisan talks with the Government this week. Last Sunday, Prime Minister Bruce Golding said he anxiously wanted to resume the Vale Royal talks with the Opposition with a view to discussing Jamaica's pressing crime problem.

Speaking with The Sunday Gleaner, Opposition spokesman on National Security, Dr Peter Phillips, says the removal of criminality from politics is an effort the PNP has always supported in principle.

Willing to look at proposals

Phillips says while the PNP has proposals of its own, it would be willing to look at others, including legislative measures, but only if these can be appropriately defined within the ambit of the Jamaican Constitution. He notes, though, that Jamaica might not necessarily need new legislation to deal with its crime problem. What it needs is competent enforcement, argues Phillips.

Political garrisons are characterised by dominant electoral support for a political party, often through the use of force and intimidation.

"If you are saying that somebody uses force improperly against people (for the purpose of rallying votes), then that is something that is already against the law. So then, there is no reason to find another law. What you really need are competent enforcers, and that is why you need police reform," Phillips argues.

"I am willing to see how far legislation can go, but there is a lack of clarity about many of these concepts (political garrisons) because some people, including columnists in the newspapers, have defined garrisons as anywhere there is a preponderance of voting one way or the other. That is nonsense!" he adds.

"We need to remove any element of force; the use or threat of force from the political process itself, which is what I suspect people mean when they talk of the notion of garrison," he says.

Most 'garrisons' vote pnp

Most of the constituencies identified as political garrisons over the last 30 to 40 years strongly support the PNP. Of the 11 core garrisons that have been identified in Jamaica, seven are allied to the PNP.

About three quarters of the over 700 murders committed in Jamaica since the start of the year have taken place in political garrisons, police data show. The St Andrew South division, which is responsible for known garrisons such as South West St Andrew and most of South St Andrew, recorded the highest number of murders up to May 11, with 82 people killed.

HAVANA - Cuba has authorized sex-change operations and will offer them free for qualifying citizens, an official said Friday. The move is the latest in a series of changes implemented by President Raul Castro since he succeeded his elder brother, Fidel, in February. Raul Castro's daughter, Mariela, heads Cuba's National Center for Sex Education, which strongly backs the new policy. Health Minister Jose Ramon Balaguer signed a resolution approving sex-change surgery, said an official at the center who spoke on condition of anonymity because the measure has not been formally published. The resolution will be posted on the Internet on Saturday, the official said. The procedure would be available to Cubans for free as part of their country's health-care system. The sex education center has said previously that 28 transsexual Cubans have asked to undergo the surgery and that Cuban doctors have trained with physicians from Belgium to prepare for the procedures. According to the center, a clinic for transsexual health will be created to perform the procedures, but it was not clear when it will start operating. Cuba carried out a successful sex-change operation in 1988, but future surgeries were canceled because it sparked a negative public outcry. Since becoming Cuba's first new president in 49 years, the younger Castro has done away with bans that kept most Cubans from owning cell phones in their own names and renting hotel rooms and cars. His government also has decentralized the floundering state agricultural sector, raised pensions for retirees and hiked salaries for some state employees, among other changes.

BERLIN (AFP) - If you ever fancied lunch in the Tower of Babel, visiting an "original size" Noah's Ark or a multimedia depiction of the final battle between Good and Evil, you may not have long to wait Under plans announced by a group of Swiss evangelical Christians and reported by the German press on Wednesday, Genesis Park, a theme park based on the Bible, will open at a yet to be chosen site in Germany by 2012. It will group some 40 attractions over an area the size of 70 football pitches encompassing all areas of the Christian story, according to the organisers' website. The centrepiece will be what the organisers call an "original size" Noah's Ark which is 150 metres (490 feet) long and surrounded by water. Other attractions will include two roller coasters -- one giving an idea of the Great Flood and another on the theme of heaven and hell -- a miniature version of Biblical-era Israel and a Roman amphitheatre. Visitors will be served food at the City of Enoch, a Tower of Babel panorama restaurant, an Old Testament-era desert tent, and a mock-up of Jerusalem at the time of Jesus -- also the location for the main shopping mall. "We would like to transmit the story and the message of the Bible in an active and exciting way, so that many people in our society may have the opportunity to experience up close the most wonderful and fantastic love story of all, the love story of our Creator and Jesus Christ," the website said. The project is well short of the necessary 120 million euros (185 million dollars), but organisers are talking with German investors and hope to raise enough by the end of the year, according to the Frankfurter Rundschau daily.

KOOL, MI NEED TO GET DIS TING DONE, SOUNDS WEIRD AND DAT, BUT MI NUH KNOW WHO ELSE WILL A DO IT

I NEED SOMEONE TO HOLD UP A SIGN SAYING...

"STAMINA MAN
VIP2
BIG BROTHER"

AND TAKE A PHOTO, IF SOMEONE CAN DO DIS FOR ME, AND SEND ME DI PHOTO, I WILL GIVE U A RAPIDSHARE OR MEGAUPLOAD ACCOUNT TO USE.

MI HAFFI GET DIS

CAN ANYONE A DO DIS FOR ME?

STEPHEN SELL OFF PON THA ONE YAH. THE TING MAAAAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  f**kING & SHOOTING

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Hello again Mediazone and all the affiliated members...Let me get right to the point..Would one say MOVADO have become an artist who cannot be stopped no matter how many visa refusal and caribbean islands banning? He have got a nike deal, game deal with GTA and veteran people in the music industry such as Clyde Mckenzie and dean fraser all saying MOVADO is the best out there...even the biggest music legend magazine rolling stone gave him respect and love for his talent...I would like the views of everyone about Movado..His he UNSTOPPABLE? or is unstoppable out of the question but rather he is getting what every true talented yute from Jamaica deserve?

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P*ssy Splash Hot Again after Beenie/Police Saga

By Krazy Katty
OutAroad.com Writer

One of Jamaicas hottest street dances, P*ssy Splash, is now back on track after receiving a two week suspension by law enforcement officers for breaking the Night Abatement Act.

According to an eyewitness who was at P*ssy Splash when the incident happened, The Doctor was onstage entertaining the patrons when the cops arrived and ended the event.

Beenie Man came on the microphone and was advising the people dem fi stop drink Red Stripe and that other artistes need to do the same because Red Stripe is not doing anything for the music or communities. Right now a di music a help the communities because look how P*ssy Splash let the war stop inna Water House, Beenie was quoted as saying.

However, before Beenie Man finish saying thing like this (P*ssy Splash) unnu need fi support, he was draped by the notorious Cow Boy (Police), who viciously pushed the artiste in the jeep. Upon driving away several patrons flung bottles at the cops damaging their vehicle.

OPERA AND INTENET EXPLORER

AFTER READING A COUPLE SCRIPTURES FROM REVELATION MI START WONDER IF D WORLD REALLY A COME TO AN END IT MENTION PRACTICALLY EVERYTHING THAT IS HAPPENING IN THE WORLD NOW WAR, FOOD CRISES, CHILDREN GETTING PREGNANT ETC. WHAT U THINK?

We don't know what it is about Nokia's 8800, but fashionistas and high-end designers just can't seem to keep their fingerprints off of it. Enter Thomas Heyerdahl, the same artisan who gussied-up an iPod shuffle earlier this year. This fellow has crafted a version of the handset laced with 112 authentic diamonds, and it's said that only 100 of the coveted (and individually numbered) mobiles will be made available. All told, you'll find 0.7 carats of United Nations-approved diamonds per phone, and while the bulk of these things will be sold in select outlets for 30,000 Norwegian kroner ($5,933), numero uno is set to be auctioned for charity to the highest bidder. Pony up, son!

5 QUESTIONS

Tuesday, June 03, 2008

1. Who going buy the Mavado sneakers?

2. Did you see when Lightning Bolt struck and shattered the record?

3. Ja have di first and second fastest man inna di worl', unnu feel as proud as me ?

4. Are we as excited about the Reggae Boyz as we were in 1997?

5.Why yuh say one ting pon di radio an' a nex' ting a di party?

 

ALL THE TALK ABOUT END OF DAY AND THE WORLD IS ABOUT TO END.....
TAKE A LOOK AT WHATS TO COME AND POST YOUR VIEWS




-- Edited by Gangsta Natz at 23:02, 2008-06-06

-- Edited by Gangsta Natz at 23:03, 2008-06-06

One Question that stood out of my mind for a while was weither or not Gays(homosexuals, Faggets, Batty men), should have the right to raise children?  

What do you think about that?

Brighter days for Mavado
06 Jun 2008 | by K'riq

Jamaica's Director of Public Prosecutions, Paula Llewellyn QC, this morning signed a letter stating that the Crown is not continuing criminal proceedings against David Brooks AKA Mavado. The letter was presented to the Gun Court and the matter against him dismissed. Mavado has been de-processed and his fingerprint destroyed. Freed of all charges, Mavado is looking forward to continuing his positive rise in Jamaica and on the world stage.

We said from day one that we have all faith in the Jamaican justice system that Mavado will be vindicated in this matter, manager Julian Jones-Griffith told One876Entertainment.com. Give thanks to God for bringing a brighter day, and to the legal team of Tom Taveres-Finson and Antoinette Haughton. When Mavados US visa was cancelled it was on the grounds that he had an ongoing case before the courts. As this matter is now cleared up we will be approaching the US Embassy at the earliest opportunity to reapply for his work permit, once we have gathered all the necessary documentation from the courts etc.

The charges arose out of an incident that took place in July of 2007. Statements were taken at that time and despite no new evidence emerging, Mavado was not arrested until March of 2008. He was charged with Illegal Possession of Firearm and Shooting with Intent but the Crown went on to decide that there was a lack of evidence against Mavado so they could not proceed with the trial and it collapsed in court.

Mavado is thankful this chapter is now closed and he can continue what he does best, making hits and connecting Jamaica.

Since the start of the year the murder toll in Jamaica is now close to the 700 mark. The murders seem to be escalating on a daily basis. It's time Jamaicans hold the powers that be responsibly to effectively deal with this new crisis facing Jamaica. Now is not the time to have conferences and talk about solutions, it's time to address the deep root of the problem so that Jamaica can once again go back to the beautiful country it once was. Politicians and residents must stop providing a safe harbor for criminals, they have to come clean with what they know and help the police to effectively deal with it. Cops must stop getting in bed with the same people they claim they are trying to capture. Unless corrupt cops realize the image of the country is far more important than making deals and padding their pockets, their co-workers will always be at risk. Residents instead of protesting and shielding criminals must help the police in the fight to clamp down on these killers. Girls who enjoy the thrill of spending and profiling with *lo** money, while washing the *lo**ied clothes must share the blame too. This wave of crime affecting the country must stop...it's not a sole crusader job, it's an effort that must be shared by everyone. Of course citizens needs to once again have confidence in the police, but how can they when witnesses are disappearing on rapid, the fear is rampant that the same people they make the report to are selling them out to the perpetrators. One thing is for certain, this cannot continue, it's time for all to play their part in curtailing this spiraling problem.

Nike has been jus said to have signed a deal with movado - more info at Jahkno

this comes after charges have been dropped, and also a large deal with Grand theft auto game makers

Is this the biggest deal in dancehall history????????????

This is one of the most exciting news since Chris and Rhiana started their young puppy love. Word is that one of the patrons called Rihanna out of her name - and Chris came to her rescue and went gangsta on the nigga.

Chris Brown fighting in a German club.

how would it affect your life?