MediaZoneJA.com has received a realease from Lutan Fyah commenting on arson charges laid against him recently and his release from lock up yesterday.

The public may have heard of my recent arrest on the charge of arson. This comes out of an incident in Spanish Town which I was accused of being involved in.

I would like to state that I am innocent of all charges and find this conspiracy misleading and wanton. I have constantly contributed to the development of youths in Spanish Town and would never get myself involved in such activities. Lutan Fyah symbolises positivity and upliftment of the people and the music.

2007 was a good year for Lutan Fyah, Indeed I was able to spread my message world wide and bring reggae music to new peoples. I understand my obligation to my fans, Jamaica and the music and would never under any circumstance manifest such evil behaviour.

I continue to give praises to my supporters for their continued faith in my music and I look forward to continuing the positive trend that I am known for.

-Lutan Fyah

Meth Deposited in ATM, Woman Jailed

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In yet another slow week for Hip Hop and R&B, Alicia Keys is again dethroned from the top spot, this time by the debut albums of Jack Johnson and Sheryl Crow who claimed the coveted #1 and #2 positions, respectively. Keys is stil slated to reach triple platinum by next week. Mary J Blige holds strong in the top ten, still slipping down one spot to #7 while the Step Up 2 Soundtrack [which includes Flo Rida's commerical smash hit "Low'] debuted at #13 selling 32k.

Keyshia Cole and Chris Brown, though both experiencing a %3 decrease in sales, hold the #11 and #12 spots. J. Holiday's Back of my Lac finally hits gold in its 19th week on the charts (505k), while The Dream, who wrote both J. Holiday's "Bed" and "Suffocate", has made it to just past the 200k mark in his 9th week.

Top 200 Album Sales (Top 5 Hip Hop/R&B)

Rank	Artist	Album	This Week	Total
3	Alicia Keys	As I Am	80,172	2,987,631
7	Mary J Blige	Growing Pains	44,592	1,177,054
11	Keyshia Cole	Just Like You	35,366	1,131,109
12	Chris Brown	Exclusive	32,267	1,248,205
13	Various	Step Up 2 Soundtrack	31,445	31,521

Hip Hop continues its agonizing dry spell with the highest ranking rap artist (Soulja Boy) coming in at #36. Lupe Fiasco [despite winning his first Grammy Award this weekend] still slowly inches towards his golden plaque. Currently, Fiasco has sold 317k. Raheem Devaughn, despite some glowing reviews for album Love Behind The Melody, has still been unable to crack 100k.

Other Notables

Rank	Artist	Album	This Week	Total
36	Soulja Boy	Souljaboytellem.com	18,603	764,571
54	Lupe Fiasco	The Cool	14,767	316,819
57	Raheem DeVaughn	Love Behind The Melody	14,350	90,309
63	Jay-Z	American Gangster	12,994	978,362
64	Kanye West	Graduation	12,976	1,983,188

Next month, legend Pete Rock drops his highly anticipated New York's Finest, along with new albums by Erykah Badu, Rick Ross, Akrobatik, and many more. It's getting warmer this February, but will the charts reflect it?

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-- Edited by Casino at 14:20, 2008-02-14

Thursday, 14 February 2008 Jamaican jockey Shaun Bridgmohan is in a good position to secure the first ever Caribbean success in the Kentucky Derby on May 3^rd at Churchill Downs, home of the Kentucky Derby.

Bridgemohan's prospective mount Pyro was the early 5 to 1 favourite for the US$2 million Kentucky Derby purse, ahead of the undefeated War Pass, who was next at 6 to 1 odds.

Pyro, an impressive winner of last weekend Risen Star Stakes, finished second to War Pass in both the Breeders' Cup Juvenile and Champagne Stakes last year.

However, Bridgmohan, 28, expects the trend to change in the current season.

A POLICE force has sent Valentine's cards to 160 bail dodgers in a bid to encourage them to hand themselves in.

West Mercia Constabulary sent the red cards to those wanted on warrant for not appearing in court or not paying fines.

The card features the rhyme roses are red, violets are blue, we cant wait to get our hands on you.

Officers will also be visiting their homes and escorting those offenders found straight to court.

Chief Inspector Garry Higgins, from the West Mercia Local Criminal Justice Board, said: The message to offenders is if you have failed to turn up at court, time is running out.

"Give yourself up before you get a visit from the police.

Adidjah Palmer popularly known as Vybz Kartel has once again found himself on the wrong side of the law. This time his mouth has put him in trouble. Performing at the Amnesia nightclub in Ocho Rios he was warned by police to stop his use of indecent language...but the DJ paid no attention to them and continued his expletive laced performance. His refuse led to his being arrested by the Ocho Rios police with bail granted yesterday morning and the DJ set to face Ocho Rios Resident Magistrate Court on February 5. YardFlex would like to offer a solution to get these DJs to comply, stop fining them a measly $1000...let them clean up the streets in front of their fans...or give them some real embarra**ing jobs to do!

Shooting at U.S. university



A GUNMAN has opened fire in a classroom at Northern Illinois University outside Chicago.

At least 18 people were shot by a man armed with a shotgun and pistol, local media have reported.

A hospital near the campus said it expected to receive up to 15 people wounded in the incident.

A posting on the university's website said "the gunman is no longer a threat".

He is believed to be either in custody or dead.

One student told local radio that roughly 140 students were in a geology classroom when the man opened fire.

Another student said he was sitting in the class taking notes when the gunman entered from behind a curtain, firing a shotgun.

"He was just shooting, and people were screaming."

The 25,000-student campus, 65 miles west of downtown Chicago, has been shut down and classes cancelled.

New Orleans rapper Juvenile was caught riding dirty and arrested yesterday (Feb. 12) after cops pulled him over for an expired tag. Authorities found a small amount of marijuana in the vehicle and hauled him in, according to the Associated Press. He was stopped on Interstate 20, near Meridian, on his way back to New Orleans from Atlanta. "A small amount of marijuana was seized and he was placed under arrest," Lauderdale County Sheriff William Sollie said. Juvenile (born Terius Gray) was charged with a misdemeanor, jailed and released later the same day. At least one other person was in the car, but no one else was charged. The rapper has a history of minor brushes with the law, including failure to pay child support, and resisting an officer at a Florida mall in 1999. In 2003, Juvie pleaded guilty to felony battery when he hit a man over the head with a champagne bottle. The rapper got off with 75 hours of community service. He has been arrested at least four times, but most charges were dismissed. Juvenile first made a name for himself as a member of the New Orleans rap group The Hot Boys, of which Lil' Wayne also hails. They haven't performed together in almost a decade, but Wayne at a concert in September that the group was reuniting and Hot Boy Turk confirmed the news. "I talked to them the other day and they told me to tell y'all something...We back," Weezy exclaimed during the show. "So whoever started liking this group... or that group. Nope. We back. And the members are, of course me, a guy I know named Juvenile, and another guy I know named B.G. and my best friend Turk."

Andrew and Wada *la*hd recently left the island to perform 4 club dates, alongside their father, Junior Reid, in Texas and New Orleans. Fully equipped with their youthful energy and exuberance, the duo took along with them copies of their brand new mixtape, One *la*hd Family presents Andrew and Wada *la*hd Volume 5. They had the intention of giving them away, but while there, they were faced with a slight dilemma.

We took 4,500 copies of the mixtape with us cause we wanted to give them away. But while we were there, people kept asking if we were selling them, so we decided to, said a smiling Andrew. Everything sell off; none no give way, he finished.

The mixtape has 18 tracks and was done for JR Productions, the familys label. We were surprised that we didnt even come home with one. I mean, by the time we got to the third show, we never have none lef, commented Wada.
We dont have a hit song yet and we arent receiving that much airplay, I wasnt expecting it.

The duo rocked sold out crowds at Dallas, Houston and Austin in Texas, as well as Baton Rouge in New Orleans. On Saturday, March 1, Andrew and Wada *la*hd will bring their high energy set to Atlanta, Georgia.

Miguel Collins popularly known as Sizzla appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on Thursday to answer to a marijuana possession charge. According to reports on January 4, Collins was driving a BMW motorcar, which he parked at 121 Windward Road. The vehicle was searched and a transparent plastic parcel with vegetable matter resembling marijuana was found under a floor mat in front of the driver's seat. He was arrested and charged. Christopher Townsend Collins Lawyer begged RM Glen Brown to keep the DJs record free. He implored that a tarnished record would blight He told the court that a tarnished police record could affect the entertainer's chances of being able to perform in countries like The Cayman Islands and certain states in America, where work permits are only offered to individuals with clean police records. No heed was paid to his plea and the artiste was ordered by the RM to have his fingerprints taken and fined a puny $100.

yo pree dem friggery yah da police yah do


Tampa, Florida - The Hillsborough Co. Sheriffs Office held a press conference at 10:30am regarding the deputy who can be seen on video dumping a man in a wheelchair onto the ground.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYMKyJRAabE

Bill Bars Web Traffic Discrimination


Associated Press

WASHINGTON -
A Democratic lawmaker on Wednesday proposed legislation to stop network providers from playing traffic cop on the Internet.
Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee's subcommittee on telecommunications and the Internet, introduced the bill to promote the principle, known as "Net neutrality," of treating all Internet traffic equally.

Markey, who introduced similar legislation in 2006, says his bill doesn't regulate the Internet, only makes sure the rules of online engagement remain fair. A Markey spokeswoman said he wanted to defuse critics' arguments that the bill amounts to regulation, which she called inaccurate.

"It does, however, suggest that the principles which have guided the Internet's development and expansion are highly worthy of retention, and it seeks to enshrine such principles in the law as guide stars for U.S. broadband policy," he said.

The Internet Freedom Preservation Act, which is co-sponsored by Rep. Chip Pickering, R-Miss., requires the Federal Communications Commission to assess whether broadband providers are "blocking, thwarting or unreasonably interfering" with consumers' rights to access, send, receive or offer content, applications and services over networks.

The FCC would also be required to determine whether providers charge extra for certain services and if it's lawful.

The bill also requires the agency to hold at least eight summits around the country to get input from various groups about Internet service competition and services.

The bill was drafted in response to reports that some companies, including Comcast Corp., are unfairly stifling communications over the Internet.

On Tuesday, the Philadelphia-based company, the country's second-largest Internet provider, told the FCC in formal comments that hampering some file-sharing by its subscribers was a justifiable way to keep Web traffic flowing for everyone.

Consumer groups, lawmakers and other critics have complained that Comcast violated Net neutrality.

An Associated Press report on Oct. 19 detailed how Comcast Corp. was interfering with file sharing by some of its Internet subscribers. The AP found instances in some areas of the United States where traffic was blocked or delayed significantly.

Hop star Lil Wayne pleaded not guilty to felony drug and weapons charges by a grand jury on Friday (February 9).

Lil Wayne, born Dwayne Carter Jr., was officially charged with possession of dangerous drugs, possession of a narcotic for sale, misconduct involving weapons and one count of possession of drug paraphernalia.

The charges stem from a January 22 incident near Dateland, Arizona, when the rappers tour bus as stopped at a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint.

Federal agents searched Lil Waynes bus and found over three ounces of marijuana, an ounce of cocaine, 41 grams of Ecstasy and drug paraphernalia.

Lil Wayne is due back in court on March 7.

In related news, Lil Wayne is going beyond to the mic to influence young fans with the creation of a new charitable organization.

The rapper will officially launch his One Family Foundation at a private V.I.P. reception on Thursday (Feb.14) in New Orleans.

The organization will work to empower urban youth by providing opportunities to cultivate their talents and skills.

In addition, youth will learn to become productive and economically self sufficient while being motivated to become successful.

Those working with the One Family Foundation hope to instill self-confidence self-determination, family orientation, values and personal success standards in those who utilize the organization.

News of the foundation's launch comes as Lil Wayne also prepares to reunite with his Hot Boys group members, Juvenile and B.G., as well as producer Mannie Fresh during the NBA's All Star Weekend in New Orleans.

The rapper will also join forces will boxer Floyd Mayweather for a grown and sexy party that will be hosted by Disturbing tha Peace leader Ludacris and held that same weekend.

When 'Follow Di Arrow' began at Mango Valley St Mary in 1999, promoter Dexton Ennis had no idea it would one day become one of the most anticipated events in Eastern Jamaica. The show emerged out of a need to provide top class entertainment to the North Eastern section of Jamaica but has now grown to the level where it even attracts a large overseas contingent yearly.

'Magnum Follow Di Arrow' for this year will feature performances from as a slew of proven veterans and current stars. This year's show will be held at James Bond Beach in St Mary, Jamaica on March 1 and boasts one of its best line-ups in its eight year history.

Headlining 2008's 'Magnum Follow Di Arrow' will be the Alliance Crew headed by the Grung Gad Bounty Killa and supported by Mr 'Gully Side' Mavado, Wayne Marshall, Busy Signal, Bling Dawg, and Bad Boy recording artiste Elephant Man. The show will also feature Assassin who is riding high with the recent release of his 'Gully Sittin Album,  Ninja Man, Mr Vegas, Bugle, Warrior King, Macka Diamond, Anthony B  and the ever tempting Lady Saw.

This years Magnum Follow Di Arrow will also feature a special segment dubbed 'Touch of Magic', this segment is dedicated to the veterans of dancehall. 'Touch of Magic' will feature Josey Wales, Professor Nuts, General Trees and Terror Fabulous among others. There are over 30 performances scheduled for 'Magnum Follow Di Arrow' 2008 backed by the Ruff Cut and Kaution bands while GT's Aggregation along with Sound Wave and Rock Away Movement will be juggling.

"What we are doing is blending the old with the new. We are making every effort to ensure that this year's staging is the best we have ever had. We have fine tuned the production, reworked the venue and put together some of the best entertainers that Jamaicans love. Being the first major dancehall event for the year we have to set the trend" Dexton Ennis CEO Decky Promotions.

Magnum Follow Di Arrow', which borrowed its name from a song of a similar title by Bounty Killa, has for many years been able to attract the best of what Jamaica's entertainment industry of the past and present has to offer.

It was in 2004 Magnum Tonic Wine saw the opportunity to collaborate with Dexton Ennis and fulfil the brand's vision of bringing authentic gra**roots entertainment to a national audience. Previously held at Mango Valley, the partnership with Magnum enabled 'Follow Di Arrow' to grown to the level where it had to be moved to a bigger and better location at James Bond Beach in 2006.

"One of the aims Magnum Tonic Wine is to develop authentic Jamaican culture and 'Magnum Follow the Arrow' is one such effort. We have done the same with Magnum GT's Extravaganza which was today (February 13) voted the best show for 2007 by IRIE FM listeners. Magnum Tonic Wine symbolizes quality and that's what we bring to our events. Magnum wants to contribute to the development of the entertainment industry in St Mary and to that end we maintain our commitment to Magnum Follow Di Arrow" Gary Dixon, Brand Manager Magnum Tonic Wine.

With an endorsement from Magnum Tonic Wine, 'Magnum Follow DI Arrow' has been energised and continues to provide quality top class entertainment to the masses.

Heartbreaker! 90th-minute goal eliminates 'Junglists' from Jackie Bell KO

By Ainsley Walters, Freelance Writer

Arnett Gardens' Fabian Davis (left) and Cornel Chin-Sue didn't have much to smile about as they were booted from the Jackie Bell Knockout by Waterhouse in last night's semi-final at the Harbour View Mini-Stadium. - Peta-Gaye Clachar

FORMER Arnett Gardens striker, Leon Strickland, struck at the death last night for Waterhouse, booting his old team out of the Jackie Bell Knockout semi-finals with a 90th- minute goal at the Harbour View Mini-Stadium. Under pressure from Arnett for most of the game, Waterhouse got their winner seconds from extra time when substitute Damion Powell broke free on the left side of the box and fired a shot, which goalie Julian McLeish parried into the path of Strickland. The former Arnett Gardens striker, who left the 'Junglists' during January's transfer window, made no mistake from close range, poking the rebound past McLeish, who had an otherwise brilliant night between the sticks. Waterhouse, who won the Premier League second-round final last Sunday, beating Tivoli Gardens 1-0, will face defending champions Harbour View in this Sunday's final, starting 5:00 p.m. at Harbour View. Tough loss In the opening semi-final, Clifton Waugh netted a penalty in the sixth minute and Kemar Petrekin tapped in a goalmouth effort in the 65th to book Harbour View's spot in the final. It was a tough loss for Arnett, who had the better of exchanges for the entire first half, exploiting Waterhouse's vacant wing-back positions. Goalkeeper Maurice Evans was repeatedly tested by Fabian Davis whose free kicks had the Waterhouse 'keeper scrambling. Onandi Lowe first tested Evans in the ninth with a low but powerful shot from 21 yards, which the 'keeper failed to collect cleanly. Davis twice threatened with his free kicks, the second of which, a curving effort to the far post from the left flank, had Evans going full stretch to palm away for a corner in the 26th minute. Arnett's fans thought Cornel Chin-Sue had sent them ahead in the 37th minute but his goal was called off-side. The Junglists ended the half in style with Davis' 40-yard free kick in stoppage time, extending Evans to the top left-hand corner as he parried for a corner. After the break, Strickland wasted a grand chance to put Waterhouse ahead. Sent clear by Jomo Gordon on the right side, he failed to compose himself and rushed a high shot over the bar. Waterhouse afterwards made two changes which, unlike Arnett, brought fresh legs to the game, making a world of difference. Coach Wayne Fairclough summoned Roberto Fletcher for Jonathan Williams in the 57th and called on the veteran Powell for Gordon in the 75th. Arnett started showing signs of fatigue and McLeish was called on to deny Strickland on the goalline in the 66th. However, needlessly playing a man short after Fabian Smith was injured, the brilliant Arnett goalie could do nothing to keep out his former teammate in the dying moments, after blocking Powell's effort at his near post.

GOOD OLD JAMAICAN DAYS.... Memba wen you do all you homework at school so dat as yuh reach home you ramp so til you hear smadddy shout out "yuh madda a ccooooommme!" and yuh dash inna yuh house and change yuh school uniform as yuh would surely get a beaten fi inna yuh uniform at 6pm. Memba wen kick poopah lick and bu'st out you pants and you get beaten Memba 10 cent bulla and jackass corn. Memba when you turn on the tv at 4pm and wait till JBC sign on at 5pm, stand at attention sing the national anthem, and den sit back and watch some cartoon. And dont figet di Big Bwoy story whey you did haffi hide and tell. MEMBA WEN!!! Memba wen yu a come fram school and stop fi pick Mass John cherry off 'im cherry tree and dawg run yu dung. Memba wen yu madda sen yu fi tek the clothes fram affa di line but yu wait til night den yu fraid fi go by yuself. Memba wen yu fraid fi go a shop by yuself a night because Miss Matty jus' dead and yu tink yu might si har duppy. Memba wen yu and yu fren dem decide seh unu a go run a boat, the biggest cart wheel dumplin yu eva si! Memba wen coming fram school ina di rain and yu tek off yu shoes and walk barefoot all the way home a race board horse inna di gutter water. Memba wen dem use fi gi weh free milk powder and bulga rice a school, an' yu play milk powder war all the way home. Memba wen dem good rice and peas and chicken Sunday dinna with a nice refreshing glass a carrot juice. Memba wen yu 'ave roast breadfruit and ackee and salt fish breakfast jus' barely a day afta yu Saturday Peas soup wid cho-cho, turnip, carrot an'punkin. Memba wen teacha beat yu because yu neva do yu homework. Memba marning time wen yu reach a school jus in time fi devotion and yu betta mek sure yu ave yu hym book and yu bible, yu pleat dem betta in order and yu khaki well starch. Memba dem good ole starch uniform ( coudda stan up by demself ) and yu nice shine brown or black shoes. Memba when yu madda use fi seh "Go pick a switch mek a beat yu". Memba Christmas time wen everybody a mek a suit fi gran market night, mama stay up a bake cake, draw sorrell, cook curry goat, don't figet the case a D&G soda and red stripe beer weh unda the bed. Memba when a ginnep seed fly dung yu throat and smaddy 'ave fi lick yu back fi mek it fly back up. Memba when yu swallow chewing gum & dem seh yu ago ded cause it ago tie up yu tripe Memba a come fram school and stap fi get the last piece a Miss Brown toeto and a sky juice. Memba dem seh nuh buy nuh sky juice fram Mr. Tom because 'im ave sore foot. Memba when dem seh nuh buy bun & cheeze from juicie cause him use di knife cut & clean him toenail. Memba saving part a lunch money fi buy ice cream fram creamy weh come pan Sunday. Memba a fling stone fi lick dung ginnep and the stone bus yu bredda head. Memba the peanut man...the jackfruit lady...the orange man... the sarda-pan man Memba a play marble wid yu bredren dem. Memba a go a bush wid yu fadda. Memba a go undaneat the cellar fi the fowl egg Memba a jump rope wid yu fren dem....One two Beeny...lick im mek im feel eh, mek im know yu mean eh, yu mean eh, yu mean eh. Memba playing "Miss Mary Mack Mack Mack, All Dressed In Black Black Black " Memba a kick foot ball wid yu fren dem roun' a ball grong Memba when Cristmus come and we watch JohnCunu jump up and down and we get fraid? Memba yu madda sen yu go a shop and yu sing the list all the way deh "one pint milk, one bread, 1 lb a flour. But wen yu reach deh, yu tell the shop keeper yu want "1 pint of bread, 1 lb of milk & a flour. Memba when yu last yu madda money and yu fraid fi go back home because she might beat yu. Memba settin up the roosta dem fi fight Memba all dem good duppy story, and nancy story wi 'ear growing up. Memba how yu use to fraid fi walk a night cause yu tink sey black-heart-man wodda tek yu weh. Memba when bokkle cut yu foot bottam dung a gully. Memba when yu use to stone Missa Smith mango tree dem, and we use to tink seh him have gun. Memba when yu left all day and go a rivva an go cook and when yu come home yu get a beaten. Memba when yu unifarm get dirty Monday marning, and Yu madda beat yu ina di evening. IF YU MEMBA ANY OF THIS, YU OLD TO RAHTID!!

FAKE FRIENDS: Never ask for food.
REAL FRIENDS: is the reason you have no food

FAKE FRIENDS: Call your parents Mr / Mrs
REAL FRIENDS: Call your parents DAD/MOM


FAKE FRIENDS: bail you out of jail and tell you what you did was wrong
REAL FRIENDS: Would sit next to you saying 'Dawg ... we screwed up... but that was fun!'


FAKE FRIENDS: never seen you cry
REAL FRIENDS: cry with you



FAKE FRIENDS: Borrow your stuff for a few days then give it back
REAL FRIENDS: keep your stuff so long they forget it's yours

FAKE FRIENDS: know a few things about you
REAL FRIENDS: Could write a book about you with direct quotes from you



FAKE FRIENDS: Will leave you behind if that is what the crowd is doing
REAL FRIENDS: Will kick the whole crowds butt that left you

FAKE FRIENDS: Would knock on your front door
REAL FRIENDS: Walk right in and say 'I'M HOME!'

FAKE FRIENDS: Are for awhile
REAL FRIENDS: Are for life



FAKE FRIENDS: will talk bad to the person who talks bad about you.
REAL FRIENDS: Will knock the person out that talked bad about you

FAKE FRIENDS: Would ignore this
REAL FRIENDS: Will send this to all their real friends and hope to get it back!

If you were killed today, I'm sorry I wouldn't be able to come to your
funeral, because I'd be in jail for killing the person who did it.

Can anyone Differentiate between the two.

TO: MI FAMILY [MZJA]

Valentines Day is like two days away and we know that MZJA thugz know how to charm the ladies and the ladies know how to make their tugz know that they are the #1 tugz [cuz bun is inevitable]. So this is what I propose:

Lets have a contest to see who can write the best poem.

Mi know ppl want motivation so this is what i suggest.
In order for one to enter, one has to pledge a 100 credit...
and the winner(s) will walk away with all the credit dem...

scenario:

stainless          (enter - pledge 100)
linko                 (enter - pledge 100)
warhawk         (enter - pledge 100)
DJ OP               (enter - pledge 100)
weedempress (enter - pledge 100)

and lets say stainless win (we know dat nah go happen still..but) den him wuda get $400 credit...
dat sound fair to unu?

So the more persons enter, the more credit the winner get to call dem valentine on thursday.

To find the winner we MZJA family will vote tomorrow night.

PPL How me sound?

So writers, sharpen unu pencil and get writing.
A no gyow ting...dont enter if unu know seh unu cant afford fi pay d winner a simple $100 if unu lose!!!

Submit unu poems by replying in the post.
Poems gotta be ORIGINAL....
if unu find dem online dat nah go work...

Former Digicel Rising Stars champs, One Third, now have a bonafide hit on their hands with their latest single, 'Garrison Anthem' on the Fraction Entertainment label. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TRACK

However, the group's fans may be a little perturbed at the hardcore content of the song even though it is earning forwards at a number of the dances across the country.

One Third has been spotted campaigning hard on the local dancehall circuit, putting in appearances at Weddy Weddy, Passa Passa, Dutty Fridaze and even Chi Ching Ching Tuesdays in Stony Hill. The group bussed the Amnesia nightclub during the recent Vybz Rum party with the song as well.

People like it, but are a little taken aback because of the content, but the song gets a lot of love in the dance, we are getting requests, some from as far as Japan, for copies of the song. Kurt Riley say it mash up Barbados the other day, so that is a good sign, manager Ray Alexander said.

Garrison Anthem samples Justin Timberlake and One Republic's Too Late To Apologize, substituting the R&B's lightly veiled Britney Spears disses for hardcore Jamaican bad-man lyrics.

Check it:
Any bwoy violate end up 6 feet unda ground Ah call wi name to di Feds full clip ah guh throw yuh down They are violate Tivoli gonna cut yuh down to shreds Spain, Village, East, Mountain View Nah guh ramp fi soun di ting dem

Selectors such as Little Richie, Hotta Ball, Chris Diamond, CD Master, Moschino, the selectors at Standpipe have been giving us a lot of support. Little Richie was the first to start playing the song and his endorsement has sent us to the next level. We haven't really got much love from Bembe, but mi know eventually, dem ah go realize and love it too, Mr. Alexander told MediaZoneJA.com.

There are plans to shoot a music video for another Fraction Entertainment single, Take My Breath Away on a one-drop reggae rhythm. Asher/Ghetto Child directed the video.

It should premiere soon on RE, HYPE and local television, Mr. Alexander said.

One Third has also been making frequent appearances at corporate functions and parties. They have also been recruited to participate in the series of shows that the Ministry of National Security is hosting to boost violence prevention and encourage dispute resolution in economically challenged area. The group was particularly well received in the area known as 'Russia' in Savanna-La-Mar, Westmoreland.

It was like it was the first day after they won Rising Stars, they had to be escorted from the stage to the vehicle because the young ladies were going wild, Mr. Alexander said.

The group recently appeared on the Jenny Jenny's extremely popular 'Blast Off' programme on Hitz FM, and they also appeared on Full House Friday. One Third is one of the headline acts for a Valentine's show in the Turks and Caicos on Valentine's Day on February 14th.

 

Hmm, exactly what would life be like without black people? For those who want to belittle the contribution of blacks then this humorous story should be an eye opener...read and learn!

A group of people was fed up with African Americans, so they joined together and wished themselves away.

They passed through a deep dark tunnel and emerged in sort of a twilight zone where there is an America without black people.

At first these people breathed a sigh of relief. At last, they said, No more crime, drugs, violence and welfare.

All of the blacks have gone! Then suddenly, reality set in. The "NEW AMERICA" is not America at all-only a barren land.

1. There are very few crops that have flourished because the nation was built on a slave-supported system.

2. There are no cities with tall skyscrapers because Alexander Miles, a black man, invented the elevator, and without it, one finds great difficulty reaching higher floors.

3. There are few if any cars because Richard Spikes, a black man, invented the automatic gearshift, Joseph Gambol, also black, invented the Super Charge System for Internal Combustion Engines, and Garrett A. Morgan, a black man, invented the traffic signals.

I don't think English can truly express the deep emotions of our Jamaican people. When we are really passionate about something "wi draw fi di the patwa"(we speak Patois). Patois is Jamaican creole and it is a hybrid of the African and the English language, essentially resulting from slavery. Slaves and indentured workers brought to the island, carried with them their native tongue and, mixed with the language of the colonizers resulted in the hybrid Patois. Patois has been made popular world wide by persons such as Miss Lou, and various Reggae, Dancehall artistes

Here are some basic Patois to English translations:

Patois	English	Sentence
mi	me, I	mi waan go (I want to go)
yuh	you	yuh nuh hear? (dont you hear?)
dem	them, they, forms all plurals	call dem (call them) car dem (the cars)
wi	we	wi want justice (we want justice)
cyan	cant	mi cyan bodda (I cant be bothered)
deh	there	go out deh (go out there)
a go	am going to	mi ago a dung deh ( I am going down there)
a fe	its for	a fe him own (it is his)
outa doh	outside	go outa doh nuh (go outside)
inna	in	she inna di house (she is in the house)
madda	mother	mi madda a call yuh (my mother is calling you)
fada	father	mi fada a go come now (my father is on his way)
pickney	child	pickney stop nuh (child, stop)
mek	make	mek me set (let me see it)
di	the	di man cyan come now (the man cannot ocme now)

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Portmore is a coastal city in southern Jamaica in Saint Catherine, southwest of Kingston. It is located at around 17°580N, 76°520W.

With a population close to 175,000 (unverified), Portmore began as a large area for schematic residential development in the late 1960s, as the WIHCON organization built thousands of prototype housing units in an effort to alleviate the over-population of Kingston. It has since grown as a suburban city to Kingston, as its large population travels via the Causeway Bridge into Kingston daily, for work, schooling, and many other essential services. Portmore was granted Municipality status recently, and has its own City Council and Mayor, following the British-based model of other Jamaican cities' governments. While Portmore is not marketed as a tourist destination for the millions of incoming travellers to Jamaica every year, there are many places for entertainment, eating, relaxing and enjoyment.

US Congress honours Jamaican-born pilot

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

JAMAICAN-BORN Barrington Irving was yesterday presented with a resolution by the United States Congress, in recognition of his feat in becoming the youngest and first black pilot to fly solo around the globe.

Barrington Irving during his visit to Jamaica last year. (Observer file photo)

The resolution was passed unanimously by Congress in December, several months after Irving completed his 27-day 26,800-mile flight in June. The resolution encourages initiatives like Irving's non-profit organisation, Experience Aviation, which encourages underprivileged youths to seek careers in the aviation and aerospace industries.

"Barrington Irving is one of the greatest young heroes of our time," said Representative Alcee L Hastings.

"When the younger generation is looking for a role model and hero, they need to look no further than Barrington Irving," added Representative Kendrick Meek. "This young pilot proved that when you dream big dreams and work hard, the extraordinary is possible."

Born in Kingston, Jamaica and raised in innercity Miami, Irving said his motivation behind the flight was to inspire innercity and minority youths to pursue their dreams in life, no matter their current circumstances.

He is now offering hands-on educational programmes for students at his Experience Aviation Learning Centre in Miami.

 

Monday, February 11, 2008

Murder convict Donald 'Zeeks' Phipps is scheduled to appear before the Court of Appeal later this month to apply for bail, pending the hearing of his plea against his conviction and life sentence in 2006.

The bail application for the reputed Matthews Lane strongman is set for hearing on February 19. A date for the murder appeal is not yet scheduled.

Phipps was convicted on April 12, 2006 for the murders of Rodney Leroy Farquharson and Dayton Williams, of Bayshore Park in Eastern Kingston. He was sentenced to life on May 30 of that year and ordered to spend 30 years behind bars before being considered for parole.

The burnt remains of the men, with gunshot wounds to the heads, were found in an open lot along Rose Lane, Downtown Kingston on April 15, 2005.

Phipps said in his appeal that his trial was unfair and amounted to an abuse of process of the court and that there were actions in the case that amounted to a deliberate violation of his rights as an accused, among other things.

February 13th, 2008 | Author: Slava Kuperstein

25-year-old rapper Lil' Wayne, real name Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., was indicted by a jury with one count each of possession of a narcotic drug for sale, possession of dangerous drugs, misconduct involving weapons, and one count of possession of drug paraphernalia.

According to the Associated Press, Wayne pleaded not guilty at his arraignment on Friday in Yuma, Arizona. His attorney, James Tilson indicated that the rapper's tour would continued unchanged. Wayne currently has a March 7 court date for a status hearing.

Lil' Wayne's tour bus was stopped Jan. 22nd at a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint near Dateland, Ariz. Federal agents found nearly four ounces of marijuana, over an ounce of cocaine, 41 grams of Ecstasy and drug paraphernalia, according to authorities.

Authorities also found a .40-caliber pistol registered to Wayne, who has a concealed weapons permit in Florida.

According to a report in todays edition of The Times-Picayune, Corey C-Murder Miller will in fact still stand trial for the shooting death of 16-year-old Steve Thomas on January 12, 2002.

Yesterday, the judge presiding over the 36-year-old rappers case denied a request made by Millers lawyer, Ron Rakosky, to throw out the charge. The defenses motion, filed in December of 2006, stated that the prosecution presented witnesses to the grand jury (who indicted Miller in February 2002 for second-degree murder) who knew nothing about Thomas murder, and whose testimony was in the defenses opinion presented "for no purpose other than to poison the deliberations of the grand jury.

In a brief hearing on Monday 24th Judicial District Court Judge Martha Sassone quickly dismissed that suggestion by denying the motion.

"What are we doing today?" Sassone asked the attorneys in the case. Assistant District Attorney David Wolff named the three defense motions, to toss out the indictment and to suppress evidence and witness identifications of Miller.
"All those will be denied," Sassone said bluntly, offering no elaboration. "What's next?"
Rakosky objected, but Jefferson Parrish prosecutors defended their indictment of his client by arguing that Rakoskys claims of jury poisoning were not grounded in Louisianas code of criminal procedure. Rakosky alleged in his motion to quash the indictment that the five witnesses presented to the grand jury testified about the August 2001 incident at Club Raggs in Baton Rouge (in which Miller is awaiting trial on charges of trying to shoot a nightclub owner and a security officer), and not the shooting of Thomas. Rakosky also argued that prosecutors failed to share information with the grand jury that would have been favorable to Miller, including the inconsistency of some of the witnesses testimony.

In one of the three defense motions that was denied yesterday, Rakosky unsuccessfully attempted to bar from trial items seized in April 2002 from Millers jail cell at the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center, along with clothing recovered from an apartment in Harvey, Louisiana that is believed to have been worn by
Miller the night Thomas was murdered.

In another one of the three failed defense motions, Rakosky challenged the means by which detectives got witnesses to identify Miller in photographs.

Miller was originally convicted in September 2003 for the slaying of Thomas, but Sassone granted a defense request for a new trial months later on grounds that prosecutors at the time improperly withheld from the defense attorneys criminal background information on three state witnesses. The Louisiana State Supreme Court upheld that ruling in March 2006, allowing for this retrial.

C-Murders new trial is set to begin June 9^th. If convicted he faces a mandatory life sentence. He is currently under house arrest as a condition of his half-a-million dollar bond.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates suffered a fractured shoulder after slipping on ice Tuesday night at his Washington home, the Pentagon said.

Gates, 64, didn't seek treatment until Wednesday morning when he checked into Walter Reed Army Medical Center, said Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell.

"I think he's in a lot of pain," Morrell said.

Gates apparently slipped as he returned from dinner, he said.

Gates will continue to perform his duties as defense chief, Pentagon officials said.

Gates won't be able to appear Wednesday for a hearing on the Pentagon's budget before the House Appropriations Committee. Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England will testify in his place.

A ice storm hit the Washington area Tuesday, snarling traffic and preventing some voters from casting ballots in the presidential primaries in the District of Columbia, Virginia and Maryland.

Tampa, Florida - The Hillsborough Co. Sheriff's Office held a press conference at 10:30am regarding the deputy who can be seen on video dumping a man in a wheelchair onto the ground.

They've announced that Deputy Charlette Jones has been relieved of her duties without pay pending the outcome of an investigation. She has not officially been terminated.

Jones has been employed by the Hillsborough Co. Sheriff's Office since 1996.

Chief Deputy Joe Docobo watched the video for the first time last night and said he found himself in "disgust" and was "appalled at every level."

Docobo also announced that two corporals and a sergeant involved are now on administrative leave with pay, and the jail supervisor on duty did not have knowledge of the incident.

Brian Sterner broke his neck almost 14 years ago and is a quadriplegic.

Sterner, who can drive, was arrested on a traffic violation. When he was booked into the Orient Road Jail last month, Sterner couldnt believe what happened.

He says a deputy looked at him and didnt believe he was a quadriplegic. She walked behind him, took the handles on the back of the hospital-grade wheel chair and dumped it forward.

Sterner says he tried to roll as he was going down, but hit so hard he thought he had broken two ribs. Then, while he was on the floor, deputies frisked him and tried to get him back into the chair.

Sterner says he told them how to pick him up and put him back into the chair, but because he cant feel anything from his breastbone down, he says he was injured and didnt know it. Sterner thought he had broken two ribs, but jail x-rays showed that wasn't true.

The Hillsborough Sheriff's Office didn't know anything about the incident until we showed them their own tape. Now an investigation is underway.

J.D. Calloway, a spokesman for the Sheriffs Office, says this has all come to light today, so this review is very active.

While we tried to get a written report about the incident, the major who runs the Orient Road Jail told us there is no incident report, because as far as they are concerned, they didn't have a problem with, or cause a problem to, an inmate in a wheelchair.

But dont tell that to Brian Sterner.

Sterner says it's incredibly degrading and its an example of how poorly trained the Hillsborough Sheriff's Office is. He adds, if theyre trying to figure out if somebody needs to be in a wheelchair or not, there are many other ways to do it than to dump somebody on their face.

Chief Deputy Joe Docobo added at the press conference this morning, the sheriff's office will now try to "make things right for this gentleman."

Residents watch as morgue workers remove the bodies of two men who were shot and killed along St Johns Road in Spanish Town, St Catherine yesterday. - Ian Allen

Areas of St Johns Road in Spanish Town are now tense, following a double murder in the community yesterday, the second in a six-day period. Those killed in the latest incident are Ronald Robinson, 51, labourer and 21-year-old Omar Powell of St Johns Road addresses. Reports from the police are that about 8:40 a.m. Powell, who is known as 'Juicy', was at his fruit stall in an area known as Cleighton Heights, when he was approached by three men armed with high-powered weapons. The men started to fire shots, hitting him and Robinson who was standing nearby, Powell died on the spot, Robinson collapsed a short distance from the area. The Star visited the area and found residents expressing concerns. "Lawd mi God, mi ca'an come out of mi house again as them ya gunman not playing, ah Ash Wednesday them kill two man dun the road and this is what happen this morning," remarked a female resident. Meanwhile, Cynthia Thompson, Robinson's mother, wept uncontrollably. She was overheard shouting, "Mi waan the key fe mi pickney, him tell mi fe come check him fe something an this a what happen." Several residents claimed that the area seems to be returning to the time when gunshots were fired repeatedly. In the meantime, the St Catherine North Homicide is conducting an investigation in the matter, which is the 29th murder in the division since the start of 2008. On Ash Wednesday Brian Manzie and Christopher Warner were killed.

TINY Diff'rent Strokes star Gary Coleman has married a woman half his age in a secret mountain top ceremony.


The 4ft 8in star married 22-year-old Shannon Price in August in Nevada, US, but they have been keeping their vows under wraps, the pair told celebrity television show Inside Edition.


"Nobody was around but the minister, preacher, the videographers, the photographer, the helicopter pilot and us," Coleman, 40, said.


Coleman met Price on the set of the 2006 comedy Church Ball. Price said it was she who proposed to Coleman, but that he surprised her on her birthday by whisking her to a mountaintop to exchange vows.


She said they kept their wedding secret because she wanted to keep being seen as her own person.


"I just want my own identity as well because I don't want to be known as Gary Coleman's wife," she said.


Coleman played down their age differences, saying "I don't have issues with age, I have issues with intelligence...

"She's more intelligent than I am and that's what matters to me."


Price, who is 5ft 7in played down the height gap.


"That doesn't really matter to me," she said.

"He was 10 feet tall to me because he was sweet and I really liked his personality."

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- Broward County is the latest local government to provide civil rights protections to transgender residents.

County commissioners voted unanimously yesterday to add "gender identity" and pregnancy to a list of protected classes in Broward's anti-discrimination laws. That means it's now illegal to deny housing or jobs to transgender or pregnant residents. They are also protected from discrimination in public venues such as hospitals or restaurants.

Miami-Dade County officials passed a similar measure last month.

Critics say those protections are unnecessary and argue that it's wrong for people to try to redefine gender.

Tuesday, 12 February 2008   The alleged masterminds behind the multi-million dollar guns for drugs trade between Jamaica and Haiti were offered bail when they appeared in the Half-Way-Tree Criminal Court on Tuesday.

St. Elizabeth businessman Lumsden Legister otherwise called "Lazarus" and Luddy Banton were each offered $10 million bail.  

Five other men accused with the two chief suspects, Felix Dennis; Horace McKenzie; Richard Graham; Kenrick Bennett and Andrew Reid were each offered bail in the sum of $1 million.

All seven men were charged three weeks ago by members of Operation Kingfish following top level investigations into the illicit trade.

But in offering the men bail, Senior Magistrate Glen Brown imposed tough conditions on them.

Mr. Legister, a well known housing developer in St. Elizabeth and Mr. Banton were ordered to report to the Black River Police Station every day.    

The magistrate further decreed that the men cannot sell or dispose of any of their assets.  

The other accused, who are all fishermen, were told that they cannot be seen on any fishing vessel until the case is tried.

Government prosecutors reported that Jamaican authorities finally made a breakthrough in the illicit trade when the Cuban authorities intercepted a boat with Dennis, McKenzie, Braham, Reid and Bennett last year.

The men were reportedly transporting a shipment of firearms and ammunition back to Jamaica from Haiti, when they drifted into Cuban waters.

Ten illegal guns and 1,000 rounds of ammunition were seized by the Cubans after washing up on Cuban shores.

The five men were held for six months in a Cuban jail until they were handed over to the Jamaican authorities in December last year.

Friday, 08 February 2008   The autopsy carried out on the body of Antigua and Barbuda's late Agriculture Minister, Charlesworth Samuel revealed that he drowned.  

His body was found on a rocky north coast beach last week after he was reported missing for two days.

Mr. Samuel, who was 69-years old, will be accorded a state funeral on February 19^th following a joint sitting of the Senate and Lower House on February 18^th.

The coronor's inquest into his death is scheduled to resume next week.

POLICE have smashed a major drugs ring in an operation involving about 500 officers from Scotland Yard.

Officers used a JCB to force their way into the home of one suspect in a series of raids to wipe-out a £100million cocaine empire.

Up to 25 synchronised dawn raids were carried out - the biggest in the force's history


It is believed about 20 people and 100kg of cocaine has been seized as well as weapons.

At least one of the raids was carried out in Molesey at about 5.30am this morning.

Fifteen people were targetted in the swoops who were suspected of being involved in drug trafficking and money laundering.

At one of the addresses, a £3million house owned by a suspect, police used a JCB tractor to gain entry.

A police source said: "We believe these are people who are at the top of Britain's drugs empire.

"We suspect this is a well organised chain of experienced criminals and we are going to dismantle it so that it can't function any more."

A baby who died at the hands of her sadistic father could have survived had opportunities not been missed to identify signs of abuse, a report found today.

Tired of bearing the burden of extortion and the brutality of gangsters, route taxi drivers in Spanish Town say they will withdraw their service this morning to draw attention to their plight and in the hope that the authorities will act against the extortionists.

The drivers say they are being pressured and sometimes beaten by extortionists who operate near the Spanish Town Market at Young Street in the old capital.

"Dem walk with pick axe sticks and sometimes all eight of them beat you if you refuse to pay. Dem box up drivers, grab keys out of vehicles and make unreasonable demands. We can't take it no more," one taxi driver, who asked not be named, told the Observer yesterday.

"Don't care how old the driver is, you still get box and you eye fat up. Them throw all dirty water inside your car," the driver added.

The drivers say they pay two extortion fees daily to persons representing the rival One Order and Clansman gangs who operate at the market and the municipal bus park, respectively.

"It was $100 for extortion, but since December it raise to $150 at the bus park and we still pay $100 at the market," the driver said.

Extortion has long been identified by the police in Spanish Town as a multi-million dollar racket. The police have made repeated calls for persons who are being extorted to provide them with evidence.

But the drivers accuse the police of colluding with the extortionists.

"Don't care how near the police is, when the man a do dem ting, dem (the police), not doing nothing. Sometime the man dem switch off your car and say them impound yu vehicle and them same police friend get wrecker and tow it away," the driver alleged.

This morning's strike is expected to displace thousands of persons who commute between communities on the outskirts of Spanish Town.

Yesterday, Superintendent Terrence Bent, head of the St Catherine North police division, said the police were aware of the planned strike and had put in place measures to deal with any problems.

between kartel and movado on each riddim they are on who took marjority riddim like anger mangerment,airwave,ghost rider,tremmor,darck agian ect. unu know the rest. Who have the bigger tune on the riddims?

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Portmore Empire's First Lieutenant, Deva Brat will be heading to court tomorrow to answer charges of carnal abuse after it was alleged that he was present during the sexual molestation of a minor.

According to the police report, two men aligned to the deejay pulled a 14 years old girl into a house where she was raped and later released. It 's also alleged that the deejay was on the premises at the time of the incident, and may have been involved.

The deejay who has been in lock up since last week, has proclaimed his innocence and many of his cronies from the Westchester community has come out in his defense with a similar verdict.

Whatever the turn of event may be we at MeadiaZoneJA.com will keep you posted as the events unfolds.

Dr. Dre Fights For 'The Chronic'

Sunday, 10 February 2008

A U.S. District Court in California has agreed to hear Dr. Dres appeal regarding the dismissal of a lawsuit filed against Death Row Records, seeking potential millions in unpaid royalties. According to the Associated Press, Dr. Dre, born Andre Young, seeks to determine the amount of unpaid royalties Death Row may owe since the company filed for bankruptcy protection. The producer is seeking accounting information for his blockbuster 1992 album The Chronic. Dr. Dre seeks to have several documents relating to the labels finances handed over by February 29, while he seeks to have representatives for the label available for deposition by March 7. He claims that Death Row failed to properly compensate him and broke the terms of a distribution agreement when a third party began to distribute the record.

Gunmen yesterday morning opened fire on a taxi in Clarendon killing one woman and injuring the driver and a female passenger as they were travelling towards May Pen.

Dead is 44-year-old Jocelyn Thomas of Palmetto Pen, in Clarendon. Police reports are that shortly after six o clock yesterday, the three persons were on board a taxi which operates from Longsville Park to May Pen when a man signalled the driver to stop the car. The driver, however, refused and was fired on by the man and another person who came from the bushes. All three persons were hit. They were taken to the May Pen Hospital where Thomas was pronounced dead while the driver and the other passenger were admitted in serious condition.

November 24, 2007. PITTSBURGH (AP) - Pittsburgh police said a man accused of assaulting a 10-month-old girl last week has been charged with homicide in the baby's death.

Only 10 months old, Da'Niyah Marie Jackson, of Troy Hill, was assaulted last week in her Herman Street home, police said.

The baby died Saturday at Children's Hospital.

The Allegheny County medical examiner ruled the death of Da'Niyah a homicide.

CNN reports that the examiner said the autopsy showed the baby died of multi-system organ failure and blunt force trauma to the abdomen.

The mother told police she left the baby with her boyfriend, Clinton Smith, on Thursday morning when she went to her waitressing job.

Smith was also caring for his 2-year-old son.

Smith, 30, was charged with homicide, rape, aggravated assault, among other charges.

The mother returned from work and found her baby unresponsive at 9:30 p.m. and called paramedics. The baby had severe bruises on her face, arms and legs, as well as a bite mark on her chest, police said.

Doctors told police she had also been sexually assaulted.

"It was tragic," said Assistant Chief Maurita Bryant of the Pittsburgh Police Department. "As police officers, we all can see the ugly side of society and in this case, what happened to Dania absolutely tears our hearts."

A preliminary hearing for Smith was scheduled for Wednesday. He was awaiting trial on an unrelated June charge of simple assault, court records show.

In a separate September 2006 case, a woman who has two young children with Smith was granted a protection-from-abuse order against him after she said he attacked her and their daughter.
 
 

Nasty Low Down No Good For Nothing piece of SHIT ........


Right ya now...d way mi upset me not even know wat to say

who do u think have the baddest lyrics....in all the artis i like kartel an aidonia