Mavado to be on obama mixtape

The 'Gangsta for Life', aka Mavado, has broken the boundaries for dancehall music. He has been included in a mixtape for United States presidential candidate Barack Obama, which is being produced by Russell Simmons and Green Lantern, and will be used by Obama for the duration of his campaign. Guess which song has been included? None other than the MAR tune that AHPN I'm on the Rock. Other artistes on the mixtape include Kanye West, Jay-Z, Common and Mos Def. In other news, the video for the 'Gully God's single, Last Night, directed by Little X, has finally been released, and has been in rotation on Hype TV. The track can be found on the popular video-sharing site, Youtube. Mavado is expected to release his sophomore album later this year, and plans are under way to shoot the video for I'm On the Rock, which may feature an appearance from American Gangster Jay-Z, if all goes well.

A female suicide b****er struck Shi'ite worshippers in the holy city of Karbala on Monday, an official and a witness said, killing at least 43 people and leaving pools of *lo** on the street leading to one of Iraq's most revered mosques.

The blast was the deadliest in a series of attacks that left at least 72 Iraqis dead, including six youths killed when mortar rounds slammed into a soccer field in eastern Baghdad.

Two US soldiers also were killed Monday in a roadside b****ing north of Baghdad, bringing the American death toll closer to 4,000 as the US-led war enters its sixth year. At least 3,990 members of the US military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Condemned attack

The violence marred overlapping trips by Vice-president Dick Cheney and Senator John McCain to Baghdad. Their visits were aimed at touting recent security gains and stressing Washington's long-term commitment to fighting insurgents in Iraq.

The American Embassy and the military issued a joint statement condemning the "barbaric attack" and blaming it on al-Qaida in Iraq.

The Karbala attack came after the worshippers had gathered at a sacred historical site about a kilometre (half a mile) from the golden domed shrine of Imam Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Muhammad who was killed in a seventh-century battle.

A police officer, speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorised to release the information, said the attacker was a woman - as did a witness.

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WASHINGTON - "Race doesn't matter," the crowd chanted after Sen. Barack Obama's sweeping victory in the South Carolina Democratic primary, made possible by heavy black support and a solid showing among white voters. ADVERTISEMENT But in the seven weeks since, race has mattered more and more in his presidential struggle against Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, threatening to dent his lead. On Tuesday, Obama addressed it head-on in a speech that bluntly described a history of injustice to blacks, acknowledged the resentments of whites, and ended with the hope that his campaign can help heal racial divisions. Like any full-blown discussion of the sensitive topic, Obama's speech carries risks. Some whites may feel he did not do enough to distance himself from a fiery Chicago preacher who has depicted the United States as a racist society. The speech also could unleash wider discussions of race in the campaign rather than reduce its role as a "distraction" from more important issues, a term Obama used several times. But a recent series of unsettling events convinced the Illinois senator that a full-bore address was needed, and now. They include a trend of white Democrats voting more heavily for Clinton while blacks vote overwhelmingly for him; the resignation of a major Clinton supporter who made racially contentious remarks; and, above all, intense media focus on the most inflammatory statements of Obama's longtime minister, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Just six days ago, Obama suggested that overt discussions of race were a frustration and unwelcome diversion in his campaign. "We keep on thinking we've dispelled this," he said, speaking of the notion that he relies too heavily on black support. On Tuesday in Philadelphia, however, he said discussions of race have "taken a particularly divisive turn" recently, and it was time for a bold and frank airing. "The comments that have been made and the issues that have surfaced over the last few weeks," he said, "reflect the complexities of race in this country that we've never really worked through." Obama, the son of a white mother and black father, then addressed both racial communities in turn. He urged blacks to embrace "the burdens of our past without becoming victims of our past." "It means taking full responsibility for own lives," he said, "by demanding more from our fathers, and spending more time with our children." He called on whites to stop denying the prevalence and continuing harm of racism. He said whites should acknowledge "that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people." The legacy of discrimination, he said, "and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past, are real and must be addressed," in part by building better schools and other facilities in black neighborhoods. At the same time, Obama said whites are partly justified in fearing that good jobs or college slots, which they qualify for, might go to blacks under programs giving minorities "an advantage." "To wish away the resentments of white Americans, to label them as misguided or even racist, without recognizing they are grounded in legitimate concerns, this too widens the racial divide," he said. Rarely has a black politician directed such remarks to a national audience. They come as one of Obama's key assets his image as a biracial candidate who can bridge cultural differences and largely transcend race threatens to become a liability. Comments from Clinton supporters and others have fueled discussions of race lately, and some white voters in Ohio and elsewhere seem to be turning against Obama partly because of his race, according to exit polls. In the speech, Obama seemed eager to regain control of the debate and his image. He addressed all races and communities in calm but lightly admonishing tones, and tried to steer the conversation back to his chief themes of hope, unity and progress. Some Democratic activists think he largely succeeded. "No other person in this country, black or white, could have given a speech like that," said Stephanie Cutter, who was John Kerry's spokeswoman in the 2004 presidential campaign. Perhaps the trickiest part of Obama's 37-minute speech dealt with Wright, his longtime friend and recently retired pastor. Wright has said, among other things, "God damn America" for its racism and "for killing innocent people." Obama sharply condemned such remarks Tuesday. But he defended Wright's overall ministry, and tried to put it in context for uncomprehending whites. He said Wright has expressed views "that denigrate both the greatness and the goodness of our nation; that rightly offend white and black alike." Wright's comments "weren't simply controversial," he said. "They expressed a profoundly distorted view of this country, a view that sees white racism as endemic" and unabating. But Wright "has been like family to me," Obama said. The minister knows all too well a "legacy of defeat" among many blacks, stemming from the days of Jim Crow and de facto segregation, he said. The legacy "was passed on to future generations those young men and increasingly young women, who we see standing on street corners or languishing in our prisons," Obama said. For those in Wright's generation, he said, "the memories of humiliation and doubt and fear have not gone away; nor has the anger and the bitterness of those years." "And occasionally it finds voice in the church on Sunday morning," he said, even though "many people are surprised to hear that anger" from a pulpit. Most of the speech was fairly high-minded, with few if any overt appeals for votes. Obama doubtlessly raised eyebrows in many circles, however, with a populist pivot that named a new villain in the racial divide. "Black anger" and "white resentments," he said, have "distracted attention from the real culprits of the middle-class squeeze: a corporate culture rife with inside dealing, questionable accounting practices and short-term greed."

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DON'T DRIVE THAT FISHING BOAT TOO FAST!

So you thought YOU had a bad day at the office. . .

OK, all you medics. . . .
Top this one. .. . .

This is an actual emergency room photo of a fisherman who lost control of his High Speed Bass Boat in West Virginia . The warden's believe that he was traveling at a speed of approximately 75 mph at the time of the accident. He was unable to negotiate a curve in the narrow waterway and unfortunately for him, upon striking the shoreline, he was ejected from the boat and landed on an old fence post. You can probably picture what happened next, but this photograph really says it all. The good news is after about 6 months, this man made a full recovery after suffering a shattered hip, broken leg, several broken ribs, internal injuries and soft tissue damage. The doctors credited his recovery to the fact that the post lodged itself so tightly that there was little or no *lo** loss.

A Montego Bay man, who was caught in possession of chairs valued at $85,000 belonging to the Holy Trinity Church, was remanded in custody when he appeared before the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court on Tuesday.

Desmond Hewitt, a resident of Westgate Hills in St James, is to be interviewed for legal aid to be assigned to him for his next court appearance on April 1.

Hewitt pleaded not guilty to receiving stolen property and explained to the court that he "saw a man stashing the chairs and took the opportunity to get something out of it".

While he acknowledges that he was wrong to have taken them, he denies playing a part in the actual removal of the chairs from the church.

However, RM Winsome Henry remanded him in custody and stated that offences of this nature, in which churches and schools are robbed, are very serious.

Allegations are that he was seen close to the Charles Gordon Market in Montego Bay with 17 chairs. An investigation revealed that the chairs belonged to the Holy Trinity Church.

Hewitt, under caution, allegedly told the police that he knew they belonged to the church but said he was not the one who stole them.

The case against a St James policeman charged with conspiracy to kidnap and breaches of the Corruption Prevention Act was adjourned until April 4.

On that day, his attorney is expected to make a bail application before the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court.

When the matter was mentioned in the court on Thursday, 31-year-old Constable Omar Gordon, who is represented by attorney-at-law Dalton Reid, did not enter a plea. He was remanded in custody.

The constable was charged on Tuesday, following a ruling by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

The charges stem from an incident in June last year in which 44-year-old Howard Timothy Pattico was kidnapped from his home in Bogue Village, Montego Bay. He has not been seen since.

Allegations are that on Wednesday, June 13, 2007, Pattico and a woman were at his house in Bogue Village when men armed with guns and wearing bullet-proof vests and caps marked 'POLICE' entered the house and robbed the couple of an undetermined sum of money. The men also took Pattico with them.

It is said that the kidnappers sped away in a getaway car, which was allegedly driven by Constable Gordon.

 music producer, who tried to obtain a passport using a fraudulent driver's licence felt a major pinch in his pocket after he was fined, $250,000 for the foiled attempt.

The accused, 31-year-old Okley Malcolm of Granville in St James, pleaded guilty to uttering a forged document when he appeared before the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court.

The facts are that on March 20, he went to the passport office in Montego Bay and presented a driver's licence, a birth certificate and an application for a passport to an immigration officer. Checks revealed that the driver's licence was fraudulent.

He subsequently told the officer that he paid a man at the depot $15,000 and then met with someone at the Inland Revenue Department to get the licence.

Malcolm told the court that he had no idea that the document was fraudulent and that he lived in the United States for five years but chose to return to Jamaica because of music.

When asked which artistes he produced, he responded: "a lot of artiste".

The court was subsequently filled with laughter after RM Winsome Henry told the accused, "well that means you have a lot of money", before slapping him with the hefty fine.

If the fine is not paid, he will spend six months in prison

A mentally-challenged teenager who burnt down a house he shared with another person, had the matter against him dismissed after he made restitution in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court on Thursday.

Collin Walters, 19, who was facing an arson charge, was let off with a warning from RM Winsome Henry after making a final payment of $7000 from an agreed $20,000 to the complainant.

The RM urged him to behave himself or the next time he could be sent to prison.

Walters was charged in June 2007 after a witness alleged that he saw the accused pour liquid on a door of the house before setting the house ablaze. The complainant allegedly lost all her belongings in the blaze.

When he was arrested on the day following the incident, he allegedly said, "every time mi turn on the TV, mi see a whole heap of people on it."

The complainant decided to settle the matter accepting the above-mentioned sum to do away with the court proceedings.

A St James woman, who is accused of stealing a cellular phone during a bus ride, was offered bail in the sum of $50,000 in the Green Island Resident Magistrate' s Court in Hanover, on Wednesday.

Pauline Hamilton-Mitto of Unity Hall in St James pleaded guilty to charges of simple larceny. RM George Burton gave her an April 15 date to return to court.

Allegations are that the complainant, Norma McKenzie, was travelling in a bus when she lost her Motorola phone. When she asked the driver if he saw the phone, he gave her information that led to the accused woman.

It is said that the complainant's phone was discovered after Mitto was subsequently found in the Lucea Bus Park and searched by the police.

During her court appearance, Mitto told the judge that she found the phone on a seat in the bus.

Faith in God and religious issues are mainly about relationships. That's the thinking of moderator of the United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, the Right Reverend Henley Bernard. The church leader believes that the subject is centred on the right relationship with God, and relation-ships with our fellowmen. "Even if we are not able to heal anybody, and that is not to say that I despise healing, but I am simply saying that beyond all of that and the clothing, and the giving of drink to the thirsty, is to have this caring concern and committed expression of care towards all people," explained Rev Bernard. He added that he longs for a community in which persons learn to be neighbourly. Like the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King said in years gone by, 'The world has become a neighbourhood, but we have failed to become neighbours'. Bernard, who supports that view, said the greatest witness that we as a people can exert as a nation is to be neighbours. Reverend Bernard thinks that his sense of call to the ministry pre-dates infant school. According to him, his walk with God can be easily attributed to illness bordering on death during his early life. He said his father's comment was that due to the state of his son's health which was next to death, it was part of the bargain with God for him (Henley) to start serving the Master from an early age. "He prayed for my survival and some kind of commitment for me to move in that direction. But even without that being said to me, somewhere along the line, I am told that, from earliest time, I expressed the desire to be a minister," said Bernard. UTS graduate The United Church leader, who is a past student of the United Theological Seminary, did his training at that institution between 1975 and 1979. Upon leaving, he started his pastorate in the Giddy Hall Charge in St Elizabeth, while overseeing five churches. He worked in that charge for about 18 months and was ordained in May of 1980. After his tenure there, Bernard was transferred to Kingston and he worked at St John's United Church as the associate minister for two-and-a-half-years before he was called to the North Street United Church. He spent nine years there before going to the Ebenezer- Andrews Charge in Manchester, where he worked for eight years. Reverend Bernard, who has been involved in theological education over the past two years, lectures in systematic theology. He also has other responsibilities, including being privileged to be the moderator of the United Church. In addition to his duties, he has to play the role of being Warden for United Church students at the United Theological College. "The moderator is largely pastoral. You literally become pastor of pastors or pastor to the pastors. That is largely what my thing is. But there is also the ceremonial and the representative functions that I have", explained Rev. Bernard. Reverend Bernard is married to Patricia and has two daughters, Heather and Peta-Ann. In addition to all those roles, the pastor also gets invitations to preach to various congregations. All this, according to the church leader, is done through lots of planning and time management. Now going 29 years in ministry, Reverend Bernard said he has been having a good time serving God and humanity. He noted that if he were to live his life again, he would choose to be involved again in ministry, because it is not so much that he has chosen the ministry, but that ministry has chosen him.

Looks like the first NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX cards have made their way out in the world -- officially announced or not -- and TweakTown's got the benches. Performance gains seem marginal in triple-SLI over dual, but hey, those drivers probably aren't finished and these cards aren't official, so we recommend withholding judgment until it's all legit.

Weekly charts for the best-selling recorded music in the United States as they appear in next week's issue of Billboard magazine. Reprinted with permission. (Platinum signifies more than 1 million copies sold; gold signifies more than 500,000 copies sold.):

Billboard Hot 100: Top 10

(Compiled from a national sample of sales reports collected, compiled and provided by SoundScan; radio playlists; and monitored radio by Broadcast Data Systems)

1. Bleeding Love, Leona Lewis. SYCO/J/RMG.

2. Love in This Club, Usher feat. Young Jeezy. LaFace/Z****a.

3. Sexy Can I, Ray J & Yung Berg. Knockout/Deja 34/Koch/Epic.

4. With You, Chris Brown. Jive/Z****a. (Gold)

5. Love Song, Sara Bareilles. Epic. (Platinum)

6. No Air, Jordin Sparks Duet With Chris Brown. 19/Jive/Z****a.

7. Low, Flo Rida feat. T-Pain. Poe Boy/Atlantic. (Platinum)

8. Don't Stop the Music, Rihanna. SRP/Def Jam/IDJMG.

9. Lollipop, Lil Wayne feat. Static Major. Cash Money/Universal Motown.

10. Shawty Get Loose, Lil Mama feat. Chris Brown & T-Pain. Familiar Faces/Jive/Z****a.

Just before the finals of Television Jamaica Schools' Challenge Quiz on Thursday night, the results of a call in-poll suggested that St Jago would take home the victory.

The public was right, as the team from St Catherine were indeed victorious, defeating their opponents from Glenmuir 45-39, in an impressive comeback.

With less than five seconds to go and more than four points separating them from their opponents, the St Jago team began to celebrate their victory. Their outstretched arms and eyes firmly fixed on the clock showed that they knew it was over.

Greig Drummond, captain of the winning team, told THE STAR, "We are used to the pressure. Glenmuir did this to us in a few practice matches and last year we came from behind to beat them in the third round. We did some practices with KC, too, and we want to thank their coach Valmore Stewart. He helped us a lot and he motivated us."

Di money nuh dead, di money nuh run out, money still deh bout," declared dancehall artiste Money Gad, whose real name is Sheldon Andrews.

According to Andrews, a rumour had been circulating that he was dead and although much has not been heard from the deejay since his 2005 hit song, A Me Name Money Gad, Andrews says the artiste Money Gad is still alive and kicking.

"Mi si one article wey a sey Money Gad dead, shot by unknown assailants, an a bare phone call, cause people a check sey a me di artiste. All Kiprich a call mi a sey a wah dat, people from all overseas a ask if mi dead fi real, people all a shed tears dada. But it look like a one yout wey hear mi song an call himself Money Gad did get shot," he explained.

Andrews says, "Mi jus waan di people dem know sey mi deh yah same way an mi a work hard pon mi career same way, cause mi nuh buy mamma house pon di hill yet. But a whole heap a tings mi have a work pon yah now. Mi have some songs out yah now, Richest Man and Nah Guh Down."

Family tries to come to grips with 12-yr-old's apparent suicide

MARK CUMMINGS, Observer senior reporter cummingsm@jamaicaobserver.com Saturday, March 29, 2008

A teary-eyed Tessa Allen (second left) hugs her daughters, Allian Gordon (left) and Alison Gordon at their Hart Street tenement yard yesterday. Inset: A young Alia Vernon. (Photo: Allan Lewin)

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Family members and friends of 12-year-old Alia Vernon were yesterday still trying to figure out if a dispute with one of her sisters over a pair of shorts on Thursday could have led her to take her own life.

Alia's (affectionately called "Leia") lifeless body was found hanging by a piece of cloth from a beam in a section of a two-room board house at about 5:45 pm, at a tenement yard in Hart Street, Montego Bay, where she lived with her mother, Tessa Allen, and two sisters.

The gruesome discovery was made by Allen within an hour after Alia strongly expressed her disapproval of her 11-year-old sister, Alison Gordon, wearing her pair of shorts. It came also shortly after she was reprimanded by her mom for her stance.

A grade seven student of the Maldon Comprehensive High School in St James, Alia, reportedly locked herself in her room and turned up the volume on the stereo after the scolding.

"When I went to check on 'Leia', I see the door to her room locked, so mi beat the door and beat the door, but mi hear no answer. Mi den get in a rage and kicked the door open, and when mi look, mi see her hanging from the ceiling by a red blouse and *lo** running down her nose," Allen recounted. "Mi then lift her out of it, and mi see seh she dead," she added, bursting in tears.

She said Alia was later taken to the nearby Cornwall Regional Hospital where she was pronounced dead.

Yesterday, scores of family members and neighbours converged at the tenement yard to offer their condolences.
"Mi really sorry fi hear what happen; mi still can't believe it," a neighbour said.

She added that Alia was a very quiet little girl, who spoke seldomly.

"Most of the time she don't talk; if she have any problems it would be hard for us to know," she said.
Another family member told the Observer that Alia, had in the past threatened to "kill herself".

"Mi hear she seh sometimes that she going to run away and kill herself," she said.

Alia, however, has been described as a hard-working student who gave "no trouble in school".

"She do her school work; she don't give trouble at school, but she suck her finger a lot," one of her classmates said

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All set for a healthy start Minister says all is well for April 1 start of free health care

TANEISHA LEWIS, Observer staff reporter editorial@jamaicaobserver.com Saturday, March 29, 2008

An Observer file photo of a gun violence victim being removed from a police ambulance at the Kingston Public Hospital. Thousands more people are expected to utilise public hospitals and clinics when user fees are removed on April 1.

THE Ministry of Health, boosted by the injection of $100 million from the government, says all is set for the April 1 removal of user fees at public hospital and clinics, which will make health care available for thousands more Jamaicans.

Health Minister Ruddy Spencer, who said yesterday that everything was in place for the implementation of the new policy, told a press conference at his ministry in Kingston yesterday that $60 million had already been disbursed to the regional health authorities to carry out immediate upgrading of some public health facilities and to purchase additional chairs, filing cabinets and tents to accommodate the projected 30 per cent increase in patients expected on April 1.

The remaining $40 million, he said, has been earmarked to purchase small equipment and medical supplies such as suction machines and nebulisers.

"They are being purchased utilising the emergency procurement mechanism to ensure that the health facilities will have the supplies that are necessary to provide quality care to patients," Spencer told reporters.

Spencer, at the same time, dismissed criticisms that the government would not be able to support the new 'no-fee' policy.

"All the records that I have looked at. there is no year where we have been able to collect more than 15 per cent of that total cost. In other words, the 85 per cent had to be found somewhere else by the government," he said.

The minister said it would cost the government $3.85 billion to support the new policy. "What essentially we are picking up is the 15 per cent we used to collect," he said.
Nevertheless, Spencer admitted that critical shortage of key workers would prove a challenge in the implementation of the new policy and could result in additional workload for the island's health workers. However, he said while the gap cannot be filled in short order, regional health authorities have been instructed to take the necessary steps to employ suitably trained persons on a temporary and sessional basis.
"The human resource need is some 1,562 persons, including critical areas such as pharmacists, nurses, doctors and community health aides," he said.

Some 4,402 medical personnel currently work in the public health sector.

Under the new regime on April 1, at least 16 clinics across the island will be opened between 7:00 am and 8:00 pm, while some will be opened on Saturdays. But Spencer gave his assurance that employees who work overtime would be remunerated adequately.

"This is why we have to encourage all doctors, all nurses, community health aides to work additional hours," he said. "Let me express, without any reservation, the ministry's position, those who have volunteered to do additional work for the system to be successful, my instruction is that those people must be paid and must be paid on time."

Meanwhile, user fees will remain in place for private patients, patients with health insurance and non-Jamaica residents. Public patients with health insurance will not be required to co-pay, but the insurance companies will be billed.
Additionally, persons will be required to pay for morgue services, except for those services carried out for quality assurance or litigation purposes, and administrative fees for food handlers permits and immunisation, and medication for international travel.

Keyshia Cole will be performing live at the Miss Jamaica Universe Coronation show, come April 12, at the National Indoor Sports Arena.

Pageant producers confirmed this week, that the starlet would indeed be in the island to perform some of her chart-topping hits.

 

A striking mix of sugar, spice, sexiness and sass, Keyshia Cole burst on the music scene with a powerhouse album The Way It Is, in 2005. From this album, Cole belted hits such as I Just Want It To Be Over, I Changed My Mind, I Should Have Cheated and her greatest solo hit Love. To further promote the album, Cole was a star of her own show in her own six-episode reality show, Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is.

 

 

In 2007, her compilation entitled Just Like You, debuted at #2 on the Billboard chart, selling about 281,000 copies in its first week. It has been certified platinum in the US and has sold over two million copies worldwide.

The first single, Let It Go, featuring Lil' Kim and Missy Elliott, became her first #1 on Billboard's R&B chart, and her biggest hit on the Hot 100, peaking at #7. Keyshia's current release, I Remember, is her second #1 on the Billoard R&B charts.

 

Her performance at the pageant is to be highly anticipated and the R&B star is sure to deliver.

 

 

Attractive and articulate, the selected 25 MJU beauties are equally poised to win. However, only one lucky girl will get the chance to represent Jamaica at the world's most celebrated beauty spectacle - Miss Universe.

 

Miss Jamaica Universe 2008 will drive away in style, courtesy of Stewart Motors, in a brand new, fully loaded 2 litre BMW 120i hatchback, receive one million ($1,000,000.00) dollars in cash, courtesy of title sponsor World Wise Partners, plus gifts and other prizes totaling approximately ten million dollars in value.

We know Apple's had its Inkwell handwriting recognition software in OS X for years now, so we might have otherwise just totally glossed over this Handwriting Recognition Engineer job listing on Apple's site. Except for the part that reads: "The recognition technology you create may extend beyond Mac OS X to other applications and the iPhone." They always love to throw those little tidbits in there, don't they?

No March payout - Cash Plus can't meet obligations
published: Saturday | March 29, 2008

sp_handson.jpg" align="right" border="1" hspace="4" vspace="16" />There's depressing gaming stories, and then there are outright travesties. Unfortunately, this case falls squarely into the latter category, as a 7-year old cancer patient had his beloved PlayStation Portable swiped -- right along with his medical records, a backpack full of medication, his games and even his homework -- while en route to a chemotherapy treatment for a tumor in his brain. Apparently the boy's family had stopped at a restaurant while traveling from Oklahoma to Texas, and while inside, thieves had their way with what was left inside the vehicle. Thankfully, authorities from the Dallas police department came to the rescue by purchasing a brand new PSP and raising over $1,000 to repurchase the goods that were lost, and as for the crooks, we'll just trust karma to handle the rest.

$200,000 bail for Mavado

CHAMPION! - St Jago whip Glenmuir to take 2008 Schools' Challenge title

The St Catherine North homicide unit is now investigating a case in which a woman was shot and killed after refusing to have sex with the occupant of a vehicle in which she was given a ride.

Reports are that about 4 a.m. yesterday morning, Kenesha Grant, 23, of Byles District, Kitson Town, was shot and killed by unknown persons.

Grant was reportedly in the company of another female when they were offered a ride home from a nightclub in Spanish Town. During the ride, occupants of the vehicle began asking the ladies to go to their place. It is alleged that there was a disagreement and Grant was taken from the vehicle along the Bellevue Heights main road and shot in the head. The other female was shot in the neck

When THE STAR visited the place where Grant was killed, several persons were expressing their grief.

"A caan believe seh them kill mi child as she was a nice person, but them ya gunman ya no have no heart," Derita Witter, Grant's aunt said.

The other young woman in the incident was hospitalised.

A clause in Google's Terms of Service actually means that no one under 18 is allowed to use Google or any of its services (search, GMail, YouTube). "You may not use ... Google's products, software, services and web sites ... and may not accept the Terms if ... you are not of legal age to form a binding contract with Google." Thing is, all of the 50 states require a person to be at least 18 to form a binding contract. Therefore, if you're under 18, get off that Google. You're breaking the law! A Google spokesperson responded, saying: "We're not in a position to verify the age or legal status of any user, given the tremendous number of users accessing Google services. That said, when we become aware of a user who is violating our Terms of Service, including not being of proper age to accept the Terms of Service, we take appropriate action, which could include the termination of the user's Google Account." Hopefully, this will lead to less YouTube spam. The less video blogs of 14 year olds who thinks they're the best thing in the world... the better off we are as a society. Of course, there's little chance this will actually be enforced and is most likely there for legal reasons to protect Google from certain things.

Ce'Cile will be a guest judge on the first live airing of Kings and Queens. - contributed

The audition rounds have been completed and Magnum Kings and Queens of the Dancehall will be heading to Weekendz for its first live show on Saturday.

The final audition was held in Kingston and Melloquence and Senita were the chosen princes while Cinderella and Lady Bling were the princesses.

Publicist for the competition Robert Morgan says the live show will be an exciting one.

"This is the real nitty gritty stage. Stone Love will be selecting and there will be dancehall fashion, real comedy and the best contestants from the audition shows will be showcasing their talent," said Morgan.

He added, "Jamaica can expect a great show with the quality and style that Magnum Kings and Queens of the Dancehall is known for."

In the first show, dancehall singer Cecile will be the guest judge who will help to determine the fate of 10 of the 20 selected contestants. There will be a comedy section and a dance choreographed by Kameica Reid, as well as a fashion show with designs from Balla Shaun.

The first live show seems as if it will be exciting but assistant producer Sanjay Iamanand says the public does not have to worry about expletives because all material had been approved prior to the show. He says they have also been given guidelines that they are expected to follow.

He says the public can also win tickets to the competition at Asylum on Tuesday, Weddi Weddi on Wednesday and Bembe on Thursday.

Impressive comeback gives St Jago the title

Whaa gwaan wid deva bratt. mi a hear seh portmore empire not even go look fi him since him get lock up. (him come out yet). I even heard talks of him being dismissed from the crew (portmore empire) if he is found guilty of the charges! Man coulda salt so!!!!

fat woman kill di baby...

After a week full of Red Bulls, Fruit by the Foot and dreams of In-N-Out, the mighty Sony VAIO loaded with Linux stood as the only machine unhacked by the end of the PWN 2 OWN hacking contest at CanSecWest. As you're well aware by now, the MacBook Air on display was seized in two minutes by the presumably well prepared Charlie Miller, and after two full days of work, Shane Macaulay and a few of his 1337 associates managed to crack the Vista rig on Friday. Reportedly, Shane and his pals weren't expecting to do battle with the extra protected SP1 version of Vista, and while the exact loophole won't be divulged, we are told that it was a cross-platform bug that "took advantage of Java to circumvent Vista's security." In the end, it was reported that some folks on hand had discovered bugs in the Linux OS, but many of them "

FIRST THINGS FIRST:

IF YUH CAN'T BOTHER WID CHOPSTICKS, f**k IT, USE FORK.

Hold your chopsticks towards their end, and not in the middle or the front third. When you are not using your chopsticks and when you are finished eating, lay them down in front of you with the tip to left. Do not stick chopsticks into your food, especially not into rice. Only at funerals are chopsticks stuck into the rice that is put onto the altar. Do not pass food with your chopsticks directly to somebody else's chopsticks. Only at funerals are the bones of the cremated body given in that way from person to person. Do not spear food with your chopsticks. Do not point with your chopsticks to something or somebody. Do not move your chopsticks around in the air too much, nor play with them. Do not move around plates or bowls with chopsticks. To separate a piece of food into two pieces, exert controlled pressure on the chopsticks while moving them apart from each other. This needs much exercise.

They say hell hath no fury like a woman scorned and ain't that the truth where Lindsay Lohan and her ex-boyfriend are concerned.

YardFlex understands she went ballistic after a photograph from a sex tape the pair allegedly made surfaced on the web.

Reports claim the actress made a series of phone calls to Best, the son of late football legend George, after a blurry clip from the video of the pair made appeared online.

A source, claiming to have overheard Lohan, said the actress was furious.

Macka gives sex advice to church

The STC Macka Diamond hasn't necessarily been preaching 'bun him', but she has been teaching women how to keep the spice in the bedroom. According to reports, Macka Diamond was contacted by a church, City of Praise, to TDTD about sex to the ladies and give them advice.

The talks were held under the theme, Angel by Day, Monster by Night. Macka's publicist said she had initially turned down the offer, but the pastor was so persistent, saying that the ladies were losing their husbands because they were too timid in the bedroom, that they had to reconsider. He needed someone that wouldn't be shy to talk to them about sex, and Macka topped the list.

Celebrity photographer Ken Ramsay is dead


Saturday, March 29, 2008



RAMSAY. appeared to have died in his sleep
Jamaican celebrity photographer Ken Ramsay was found dead at his home in Portland yesterday morning.
Police said that Ramsay, who lived alone, was found by his gardener at about 9:00 am.

"The house was locked up and the gardener had to force open the door to get in," Senior Superintendent of Police Derrick Shand told the Observer. "Mr Ramsay was found in his bed and the house was intact," he added, suggesting that Ramsay had died in his sleep.

Shand, who is in charge of the police's Area 2 Headquarters, said that Ramsay was seen by a doctor recently.

At the time of his death, Ramsay was a freelance photo-journalist with the Observer and had recently made plans with the newspaper to cover the involvement of Jamaicans and other West Indians in the Barack Obama campaign in the United States.

In the past, he covered major sporting and celebrity events overseas for the Observer, including the summer and winter Olympics, Wimbledon, the US Open, the West Indies cricket tour of South Africa in 1998 and gave special focus to the Williams sisters (Venus and Serena) on the international tennis circuit.

Ramsay, known for his signature riding boots and scarf, studied photography at Harrow College, London, and Germain School of Photography in New York in the 1960s, after which he worked for a short time with New York fashion photographer Peter Basch.

He returned to Jamaica in 1969, and the following year concentrated his efforts on classic black and white photography, earning international fame with his creations, among them The Head.

In the 80s, he did a lot of work with Pulse model agency and eventually in 1994 published his first book, Dare to Dream with co-publisher Verlag R****ach of Freiburg, Germany.
In 1997, Ramsay published his second book, The Dream lives on - a range of black and white photographs of late Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley.

Between 1999 and 2000 he started working on a series of black and white photographs featuring Jamaica's ethnic diversity.

Ken Ramsay, brother to late defence attorney Ian Ramsay, is survived by his wife Pat Ramsay, one of Jamaica's foremost educators and charity fund-raisers.

what do you think

The gods of dancehall have grown in number, dominating everything from energy, money and gullies.

Bounty Killer is well known for using 'godly' slangs.

'Grung Gadd' is only one of dancehall veteran's many monikers and shows the need of some artistes to be seen at the top of their game.

The deejay has changed his titles many times, often putting himself in a position of ever evolving authority whether as the 'warlord', 'poor people's defender' moving up the ranks to the 'five star general', 'ghetto gladiator' and most recently above everyone as the 'grung gadd'.

In a single Caan Dis Ground God he reasons: "If Beenie Man is the King of Dancehall, he is the Ground God (on earth only)."

Counteraction

Beenie Man followed with a counteraction for the single with the song, (Watch it Mek Mi) Step Pon a Ground God. Bounty Killer in an act of lowering Beenie Man's status rebuts with comments like How can a Tongue God kill a Ground God?

"I respect and love God, when I say I am a grung gadd, I spell it different fi mek the distinction, my own spell G-R-U-N-G G-A-D-D. As men, we govern things, that is why I say I am a grung gad, we are all grung gads because we govern things on the earth," Bounty said in a recent interview.

With growing popularity or notoriety, Mavado's has transformed from the 'Real McKoy' to emulate his mentor Bounty Killer by calling himself the 'Gully God.'

In his recent song Don't Worry he takes on unearthly powers as he sings "di gully side been best to mi, mi uplift di gully side dats part of mi destiny" he continues "every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess to me." The vibe is carried on On The Rock , which borrows from a gospel song of the same name, where he opens "my name is so excellent."

Elephant Man has long been known as the 'Energy God'. However Elephant Man has never used it to elevate himself to a god-like status. More often than not, it simply speaks to his high-energy performances.

"Dat name was given to me by the promoters of Sting and the Jamaican fans for all the energy I have on stage. They put the god on it because I am so great at what I do, All a wi a god pon earth," Elephant Man said.

According to writer and lecturer at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Dr. Donna Hope, positioning themselves as gods of the dancehall gives the artiste a 'Hollywood bad man persona.'

Dr Hope told the STAR, "People find methods to elevate themselves, the idea of being a god means you have a certain level of dominance. Its a kinda effort they use to uplift, or elevate themselves in that regard. There is a certain connotation of being in a contest so they take their activities to a certain level."

Money goddess

More recently Money-O's Macka Diamond has evolved to the 'money goddess.' However she does not use it as a means of power according to Macka Diamond for her its really about the hype.

She told the STAR, "Last year I went to New York with Kool Face and went into a store to buy a costume with the US dollars on it. The tag in it said Money Goddess. Kool Face seh mi fi start call miself dat. So fi di new year mi start pressure it an' it work

Rappers Remy Ma and Papoose are moving forward to get married, even though Remy Ma now faces up to 25 years in jail.Papoose denied the story claiming they were merely friends after AllHipHop.com reported the nuptials earlier this month.Now, the rappers have confessed they lied to the press simply to protect their privacy during the turbulent trial, which ended in a conviction on four counts of assault associated with a firearm.Initially, Remy Ma shared her wedding plans with Egypt and Papoose has followed suit sending a statement to the BET personality, which was then sent to AllHipHop.com.We always wanted to keep out personal lives personal so that's why we never went public with our relationship [until] right now, Papoose said. I just feel like she gotta live through me. Yes, we were scheduled to be married on a yacht April 27th but due to circumstances beyond our control we are now making arrangements to be married in prison.
The couple intends to fight the conviction voraciously. Remy Mas attorney has already revealed plans to appeal the conviction.Also, Papoose revealed the couples plan for a concerted gra**roots approach to fighting the guilty verdict, which was levied on March 27.Papoose requested people that feel that Remy Ma had a positive influence on their life to ask the judge to give the Bronx-bred rapper the least sentence possible.Remy Ma, born Remy Smith, was accused of shooting her friend Makeda Barnes-Joseph in a July 2007 dispute over $3000.She was convicted on Thursday, March 27 of two counts of first-degree assault, attempted coercion, and criminal possession of a weapon.She was found not guilty of gang assault and witness tampering.

 

 

i recently saw mavado put in a great performance in the UK on the same show as Bounty Killer. Mavado took the show by a mile..

does he have what it takes to MAINTAIN (year 2 year) a billboard status, or is his time running out??

Bless

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Santa Fe Springs, Calif. (March 27, 2008) Swann Communications, the global leader in security monitoring solutions, is proud to announce their latest innovation in DIY security: USB 2.0 DVR Guardian. This compact, portable system turns any notebook computer into an advanced surveillance system capable of monitoring any home, office or retail space.

The Swann USB 2.0 DVR Guardian is easily installed by simply plugging it directly into any computers USB port. The DVR supports up to four channels, so the user can choose to display and record live video from one to four cameras. With an easy to use graphical interface, the USB 2.0 DVR Guardian can be programmed for recording at a specified time, set for motion detection or set up to auto e-mail a notification to the users e-mail account upon motion activation. Furthermore, the entire security system can be viewed and controlled remotely via the internet. Swanns latest DIY security solution offers flexibility in terms of viewing options; users are able to view their security system through their PC and remotely via the internet and mobile phone*.

Following the success of our PC based monitoring and recording solution (PC DVR4-Net Security Guardian), we wanted to create a similar solution for our customers who use notebook computer users, remarked Guy Pithie, Swann Communications Vice President North America. Since the USB Guardian records directly onto the computers hard drive, managing recorded data is a breeze. All files are organized with an index of date and time stamping so the user does not have to waste time tracking down the event they are looking for. This surveillance system is powerful enough to secure small to medium-sized businesses, but easy enough to use that any home owner can install it.

The USB 2.0 DVR Guardian has a MSRP of $99.99 and is available from Brandsmart USA, MicroCenter, J&R Music, Amazon.com, B&H Photo, London Drugs and more.

pick one

I am a 19-year-old young man who recently left Jamaica to come to the United States to live with my dad. When I just got here things got off to a great start, I received a respectable job in less than two months and even bought a car. After a couple of months, I met a half sister of mine who I've known as my so-called sister, because it was in question whether or not she is my father's child.

We look nothing alike, but we have so much in common in terms of what we like or dislike. So we went out had drinks, lots of fun and I've been with her sexually. From that I don't look at her as my sister and I can't. If I try, it feels like I am going to die.

Please help me because sometimes I feel like I going crazy over her. I know I love her more than I ever love any other girl and did things for her that I've never done for any other girl. She tells me the feeling is mutual.

Please pray for me and tell me there is a way to work this out. Because when family members try to tell me that she is my sister, I would get angry. They don't understand I am attracted to her and I can't revert to see her as my sister. Breaking us up makes me feel like I am dying and want to run away.

Please touch me with your prayers before I go crazy and do something stupid.

In Love with Sister, USA


Dear In love with sister,

You are trying to justify the wrong that you are doing. You have been having sex with your sister and you are trying to excuse yourself by saying that your sister might not be your sister because she does not resemble your father. The girl is your sister and you know it.

Both of you got carried away after having drinks. Tell me that both of you were drunk and you had sex. Regardless how it happened, it is still wrong and I am begging you now to desist from what you are doing. It is gross. The Bible condemns it. The Bible says a man should not uncover the nakedness of his sister.

Pray and ask God to help you to stop lusting after your sister and having sex with her. Tell your sister that you are sorry that both of you got involved and that both of you should not be alone until you are able to resist the temptation to have sex.

Finally, I must ask you to seek the help of a psychologist. Both of you should get professional help. Don't damn your soul, young man. Desist from going to bed with your own kin.

Pastor

Rap superstar Rick Ross was in full command during the Shorts Circuit show at the Tropical Beach park in Montego Bay on Sunday night. http://www.one876entertainment.com/gallery/index.php?album=2008__Short_Circuit
Dressed in a simple white t-shirt and black pants, Ross's super-size kingpin persona seemed to wow the crowd as he did the popular  Push It to the Limit. He gave a shut-out to Vybz Kartel who would later close the show, and to Danielle aka  DI, DJ Hollywood and Bobby Valentino who had all appeared earlier.

He then asked the crowd: If you from Jamaica, put your hands up. If you have love for the legend Bob Marley, put your hands up.

Our music is taking over the world, you cant stop it, thats why we make music, we represent the struggles, the ghetto, the projects, thats who we represent in Miami, the hustlers, he said, before he launched full throttle into We Taking Over and the beach was a sea of hands and lighters.

Its time to make some money, all the people who trying to get a million in the 08, let me see your hands, he said, as the familiar crunching chords of the epic track "Hustlin'" kicked up.

The whole beach seemed to rock under the spell of Ross booming voice and his catchy Thrilla shout-outs and incantations. Dont take Rick Ross lightly. He's had two number-one albums now, which makes him one of the few rap stars left in the game.  He outsold Miley Cyrus, Snoop Dogg and Fat Joe last week to make Thrilla the number one album on the Billboard 200 album charts. He is definitely the biggest boss that you seen thus far.

Next up was Vybz Kartel who seemed to be in the mood to perform well that night. Dressed in a sophisticated-looking long-sleeved shirt with purple and red colours and black straight pants, he hit the stage with a medley of his older hits, Mi Nah Climb Pon.., Send On and PJaw to a large ovation from the audience of mostly teenagers and twenty-somethings.

He took time to big up all the girls with the tight vagina before doing I Neva. The next tune by saying, when dem come ah St. James, yu tink yu a get lass chap, no.

Yu diss Mobay, yu get gunshot! he said, and the 3,000 strong crowd gave up a mighty roar.  He then gave the crowd one of his signature phrases baby.  The girls screamed, and he smiled broadly.Ah long time mi no forward a Montego Bay, respect, mi love you, this ah my place, he said.

He then barreled headfirst into the girls section of his set, doing a medley of songs such as Fatter than a Pound, Seductive Wine and Hickey the Breast.

He then informed the crowd that if my woman gimme trouble, me nah go box her, hear wah mi a go do. Then he deejayed a line from P PDeserve a Beating.

However, he got the biggest forward when he deejayed Daylight, just the line three o clock inna the morning and the beach seemed to lift up with a massive forward.

Flankers, Gully, Norwood, Hopewell, we murder people inna broad daylight, he declared. The crowd roared its approval.

He also got massive forwards for his current chart-burner, Money Fi Spend and Empire Army.

Blak Ryno represented well from the Portmore Empire doing his hits,  Mek Di Paper, Evil People and a new song which he recently voiced for Stephen.  Shawn Storm got a forward when he deejayed diss Mobay, yu get a fat shot. Sassy D, Baby Doll, the Merital Family, Avalanche and Doza Medicine also performed.

DefJam Recordings artiste Bobby Valentino thrilled the ladies with his caramel-coated voice. One lucky young lady to sit on a chair while he serenaded her onstage. Not bashful by any stretch of the imagination, the young lady openly fondled him while he gyrated his hips and crooned a love song for her. Afterwards, he had the crowd rocking with his rendition of Georgia and his monster hit, Slow Down where he had the audience singing in unison impress me with your beauty, cutie.

Danielle, dressed in a revealing top that showcased her impressive breasts and a tight pair of jeans that put her most precious assets in clear profile, hit the stage and immediately declared what she was all about.

Ironshore, Canterbury, whe the man dem who know say a strictly p__p__m dem a deal wid? she said. Then she did Rudey a capella before seguing into Beat It.

She also got extremely lewd when she sought to give the crowd a hygiene lesson based loosely around what she called two types of vagina, or as it is known in the local vernacular, p-mp-m.

Ladies, yu have two type a p-m p-m, the clean one and the not-so-good, dutty p-m p-m. So all the gal dem who know say it proper, this ah fi yu, she said, before doing a

She then asked for the Ole Axle riddim, and deejayed her radio hit, Man Weh Mi No Need. The audience looked a bit bewildered at first as she began to lyrically crush DAngel, but then she got the forward when she asked come on girl, where is your pride? She closed her set with a new song with an old-school flavour called Ready Body where she also got a few forwards and lighters held aloft to signal approval.

The event was organised by Yardie Media Promotions based in Montego Bay.

HANDBAGS... 


Have you ever noticed girls who set their handbags on
 toilet floors, then go directly to their dining
 tables and set it on the table? Happens a lot!
 It's not always the 'restaurant food' that causes
 stomach distress. Sometimes "what you don't know will
 hurt you"!



 Read on.............
 Mom got so upset when guests came in the door and
 plopped their handbags down on the counter where she
 was cooking or setting up food. She always said that
 handbags are really dirty, because of where they have
 been.


 It's something just about every woman carries with them. While we may know what's inside our handbags, do you have any idea what's on the outside? Women carry handbags everywhere; from the office to public toilets
 to the floor of the car. Most women won't be caught
 without their handbags, but did you ever stop to think
 about where your handbag goes during the day.



 "I drive a school bus, so my handbag has been on the
 floor of the bus a lot," says one woman. "On the floor
 of my car, and in toilets." 

 "I put my handbag in grocery shopping carts and on the
 floor of the toilet," says another woman "and of
 course in my home which should be clean."

We decided to find out if handbags harbor a lot of
 bacteria. We learned how to test them at Nelson
 Laboratories in Salt Lake, and then we set out to
 test the average woman's handbag.


 Most women told us they didn't stop to think about
 what was on the bottom of their handbag. Most said at
 home they usually set their handbags on top of kitchen
 tables and counters where food is prepared.
 Most of the ladies we talked to told us they wouldn't
 be surprised if their handbags were at least a little
 bit dirty. 



 It turns out handbags are so surprisingly dirty, even
 the microbiologist who tested them was shocked.
 Microbiologist Amy Karen of Nelson Labs says nearly
 all of the handbags tested were not only high in
 bacteria, but high in harmful kinds of bacteria.
 Pseudomonas can cause eye infections, staphylococcus
 aurous can cause serious skin infections, and
 salmonella and e-coli found on the handbags could make
 people very sick.


 In one sampling, four of five handbags tested positive
 for salmonella, and that's not the worst of it. "There
 is fecal contamination on the handbags" says
Amy.


Leather or vinyl handbags tended to be cleaner than
 cloth handbags, and lifestyle seemed to play a role.


People with kids tended to have dirtier handbags thanthosewithout, with one exception.


The handbag of one single woman who frequented
 nightclubs had one of the worst contaminations of all.


 "Some type of feces, or possibly vomit" says Amy.
 So the moral of this story is that your handbag won't
 kill you, but it does have the potential to make you
 very sick if you keep it on places where you eat.


 Use hooks to hang your handbag at home and in toilets,
 and don't put it on your desk, a restaurant table, or
 on your kitchen countertop. Experts say you should
 think of your handbag the same way you would a pair of
 shoes. "If you think about putting a pair of shoes on
 your countertops, that's the same thing you're doing
 when you put your handbag on the countertops." 


Your handbag has gone where individuals before you
 have walked, sat, sneezed, coughed, spat, urinated,
emptied bowels, etc!


Do you really want to bring that home with you? 
The microbiologists at Nelson also said cleaning a
 handbag will help. Wash cloth handbags and use leather
 cleaner to clean the bottom of leather handbags. 

-- Edited by So_InTriCat3 at 20:39, 2008-03-22

The gods of dancehall have grown in number, dominating everything from energy, money and gullies.

Bounty Killer is well known for using 'godly' slangs.

'Grung Gadd' is only one of dancehall veteran's many monikers and shows the need of some artistes to be seen at the top of their game.

The deejay has changed his titles many times, often putting himself in a position of ever evolving authority whether as the 'warlord', 'poor people's defender' moving up the ranks to the 'five star general', 'ghetto gladiator' and most recently above everyone as the 'grung gadd'.

In a single Caan Dis Ground God he reasons: "If Beenie Man is the King of Dancehall, he is the Ground God (on earth only)."

Counteraction

Beenie Man followed with a counteraction for the single with the song, (Watch it Mek Mi) Step Pon a Ground God. Bounty Killer in an act of lowering Beenie Man's status rebuts with comments like How can a Tongue God kill a Ground God?

"I respect and love God, when I say I am a grung gadd, I spell it different fi mek the distinction, my own spell G-R-U-N-G G-A-D-D. As men, we govern things, that is why I say I am a grung gad, we are all grung gads because we govern things on the earth," Bounty said in a recent interview.

With growing popularity or notoriety, Mavado's has transformed from the 'Real McKoy' to emulate his mentor Bounty Killer by calling himself the 'Gully God.'

In his recent song Don't Worry he takes on unearthly powers as he sings "di gully side been best to mi, mi uplift di gully side dats part of mi destiny" he continues "every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess to me." The vibe is carried on On The Rock , which borrows from a gospel song of the same name, where he opens "my name is so excellent."

Elephant Man has long been known as the 'Energy God'. However Elephant Man has never used it to elevate himself to a god-like status. More often than not, it simply speaks to his high-energy performances.

"Dat name was given to me by the promoters of Sting and the Jamaican fans for all the energy I have on stage. They put the god on it because I am so great at what I do, All a wi a god pon earth," Elephant Man said.

According to writer and lecturer at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Dr. Donna Hope, positioning themselves as gods of the dancehall gives the artiste a 'Hollywood bad man persona.'

Dr Hope told the STAR, "People find methods to elevate themselves, the idea of being a god means you have a certain level of dominance. Its a kinda effort they use to uplift, or elevate themselves in that regard. There is a certain connotation of being in a contest so they take their activities to a certain level."

Money goddess

More recently Money-O's Macka Diamond has evolved to the 'money goddess.' However she does not use it as a means of power according to Macka Diamond for her its really about the hype.

She told the STAR, "Last year I went to New York with Kool Face and went into a store to buy a costume with the US dollars on it. The tag in it said Money Goddess. Kool Face seh mi fi start call miself dat. So fi di new year mi start pressure it an' it work."

Munga a d lyrictitionist.....him a d bosss.....him versatile....deva a clown.....him caan dj so its betta him rest him tongue.....

Gunmen kill Clarendon couple in vicious attack

Friday, March 28, 2008

RUTHLESS gunmen early yesterday morning shot dead a Clarendon woman and her common-law husband after invading the couple's home in Savannah Cross district.

Indra Coleman, 26, and her 49-year-old common-law husband, Carl Ellington, were awakened about 2:30 when the men kicked open the door to their small house and shot them. They died on the spot.

Coleman's aunt, Julia Israel, said several items of furniture and appliances were missing from the home when she visited after the murder. She said the criminals also stole a gold tooth from Ellington's mouth after bashing it out with a stone.

Israel also told the Observer that the bodies of both Coleman and Ellington appeared to have knife wounds in addition to gunshot wounds.

She said, too, that based on her observation of the bodies, the couple may have attempted to fight back during the invasion.

"It look like him (Ellington) was fighting back because of how him hand cut up. It look like he probably grabbed onto the knife or something; he had lots of stabs in his face and it looks like they cut his throat," she said.

"And I know my niece is a determined girl, so I know she will fight back," she added.

The police said Ellington had returned to Jamaica from overseas on Sunday.

"The man dem (criminals) probably see him and think him have money because him come back from foreign," one policeman said.

Israel also told the Observer that Coleman and her two children, aged two and 11, moved in with Ellington at the house on Sunday, shortly after he returned to the island.

".We taking it hard you know, because them really do her bad. They took out one of her eyes," Israel said. "I don't know if is a knife them use or it get shoot out, but one of her eyes gone."

We understands that Deva Brat was not granted bail when he appeared in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate's Court today after his lawyer failed to appear in court.

"The lawyer was supposed to appear on Deva's behalf, but he never came, we don't know what happened. We are trying to get in contact with him right now to find out what happened, but we are not pleased," one representative of Deva's camp said.

He will next appear in court on May 1.