While thousands of fans worldwide cannot get enough of Asafa Powell's recent displays of the local 'Nuh Linga' and 'Gully Creepa' dance moves, his two biggest fans, his parents, are not pleased at all.Recent indulgence The Reverend...
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Vybz Kartel finally divorced!
DJ Vybz Kartel a.k.a Addi the Teacha is now officially a single man, joining the ranks of eligible celebrity bachelors, as his divorce has been granted by the Supreme Court of Jamaica. The decree absolute for the dissolution of marriage was granted on September 9, 2008. Attorney-at-law, Seymour Stewart, filed it. XtraNews obtained official documents which stated that the marriage be “dissolved...
Motorised Patrol? Why? - MoBay business community upset at McGregor's transfer
HORACE HINES, Observer West reporterThursday, October 09, 2008 Superintendent Steve McGregor MONTEGO BAY, St JamesThe Montego Bay business community is angry at the police high command's decision to transfer commander of the St James Police Division, Superintendent Steve McGregor from that post to head the Motorised Patrol division, come Monday."I think the whole situation has been very badly handled...
Gramps injured - Morgan Heritage cancels club tour of Europe
Thursday, October 09, 2008 Reggae group Morgan Heritage, which kicked off their world tour earlier this year, has cancelled their highly anticipated club tour of Europe.The six-week sojourn, part of the promotion for the group's critically acclaimed album, Mission In Progress, was scheduled for the beginning of November to the middle of December."We were really looking forward to touring behind the...
Soldier dies in road accident
KIMMO MATTHEWS, Observer staff reporterThursday, October 09, 2008 The mangled wreck of a Jamaica Defence Force jeep beside a Jamaica Urban Transit Company bus with which it collided along Washington Boulevard in St Andrew, yesterday. One soldier died and two others were injured in the accident. (Photo: Lionel Rookwood) A Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) soldier yesterday died and two others injured when...
Shaw in health scare - Finance minister falls ill during meeting with PM, cabinet colleagues
BALFORD HENRY, Observer writer Thursday, October 09, 2008 SHAW... fell ill and had to be admitted to the University Hospital of the West Indies Minister of Finance and the Public Service Audley Shaw gave loved ones and close associates a scare yesterday when he fell ill suddenly and had to be admitted to the University Hospital of the West Indies, Mona.However, members of the Cabinet - who were...
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Welcoming home our Olympianspublished: Sunday | October 5, 2008 Gleaner photographers Norman Grindley and Peta-Gaye Clachar captured scenes from the motorcade which paraded Jamaican Olympians who participated in the recent Beijing Games through the streets of the Corporate Area on Friday, as well as from the sports gala held in their honour at the National Stadium yesterday. At that event,...
Housing fallout - Jamaicans overseas lose homes amid US crisis, crash of local investment schemes
published: Tuesday | October 7, 2008 Shelly-Ann Thompson, Staff ReporterA NUMBER of Jamaicans living in the United States (US) have lost their homes after mortgaging properties and investing the money in risky Jamaican alternative...
'Waite' is over - Arnett coach quits after string of poor DPL results
By Howard Walker Observer staff reporterTuesday, October 07, 2008 Jerome Waite became the first coaching casualty of the Digicel Premier League season when he was replaced by Fabian Davis as head coach at Arnett Gardens yesterday.Waite,...
723 kids missing - Over 1,000 people unaccounted-for since January
KARYL WALKER, Crime/Court co-ordinator Monday, October 06, 2008 Jullene Edwards, 15, missing since September 9. (Photo: CCN) More than 700 children have been reported missing since the start of the year, according to figures released by the Constabulary Communication Network (CCN) last week. The figure represents 65 per cent of the 1,112 persons listed as missing between January 1 and September...
DPP office bungle - Boy charged with carnal abuse is 13, not 11 years old
BY PAUL HENRY Observer staff reporter Tuesday, October 07, 2008 A charge of carnal abuse against a schoolboy was not withdrawn in the Home Circuit Court yesterday because the youth is not 11 years old as was earlier reported by the...
Friday, October 3, 2008
Billions in arms - Police say lottery scam funding weapons purchase in St James
published: Friday | October 3, 2008 Nagra Plunkett, Assignment Coordinator Assistant Commissioner of Police Denver Frater, officer in charge of the Area One Police Division. - Photo by Noel Thompson WESTERN BUREAU:DESPITE POLICE efforts to break the back of the lottery scam in St James, the scheme remains vibrant and is reportedly pumping billions of dollars into the criminal underworld."If you look...
Lottery scammers go regional
Lottery scammers who operated out of St James have reportedly moved their operations to other Caribbean islands because of increased pressures from the authorities here. Police intelligence has revealed that several suspected lottery...
Jamaicans eating less of what they grow
PATRICK FOSTER, Observer writer Friday, October 03, 2008 (L-R) Inter-American Institute for Co-operation on Agriculture representative in Jamaica, Cynthia Currie; permanent secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, Donovan Stanberry; and Dr Dunstan Campbell, Food and Agriculture Organisation representative in Jamaica, field questions at Tuesday's launch of World Food Day at the ministry's Hope Road,...
Back a yard! - Jamaican Olympians return for week of celebration
Howard Walker, Observer staff reporter Friday, October 03, 2008 Jamaica's Olympians strike a pose in the VIP Lounge at the Norman Manley International Airport yesterday after arriving for the 10-day Olympic Homecoming Celebrations. From left are Dwight Thomas, Veronica Campbell-Brown, Maurice Smith, Kerron Stewart and Richard Phillips. (Photo: Garfield Robinson) TWO-TIME Olympic 200 metres champion,...
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
9-month-old boy dies after being sodomised by male relative
KARYL WALKER, Crime/Court co-ordinator Wednesday, October 01, 2008 A nine-month-old boy is now dead after being viciously sodomised by a 21-year-old male relative in the community of Arnett Gardens in South St Andrew on Monday night.The...
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Brutal murder - Headless body found in Red Hills believed to be that of missing 11-year-old girl
TANEISHA LEWIS, Observer staff reporter lewist@jamaicaobserver.comMonday, September 29, 2008Nordia Campbell (left), mother of 11-year-old Ananda Dean, is consoled by a family friend after looking at the remains of a body believed to be that of her daughter. The body was found in Belvedere, St Andrew. (Photo: Karl McLarty)SCREAMS of anguish bellowed throughout the community of Belvedere in Red Hills,...
Sunday, September 28, 2008
A family grieves for two young children - Boy accidentally kills 3-year-old sister with licensed gun
By KIMONE THOMPSONSunday, September 28, 2008GLEN Green last spoke to his three-year-old daughter Gabrielle yesterday morning. She called him and said she had something to tell him which she couldn't tell anyone else.But before Glen got to hear the secret, he got news that his baby girl, also called Gabby, was dead. She had been shot in the face.A distraught Orinthia McCalla, grandmother of three-year-old...
Orlando 'bomber' said to be on
BY TYRONE S REID Sunday, September 28, 2008THESE days, Lucille Rodney is longing for one thing. She wants her 'son' Kevin Brown to be reunited with his family.The April 2008 mugshot taken of Kevin Brown, shortly after being taken...
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Kartel, Deva Bratt at odds - Deejays claim rights to 'Portmore Empire'
( L - R ) Deva Bratt, Vybz Kartel - FileIncarcerated deejay Deva Bratt has verbally lashed out at fellow deejay Vybz Kartel, accusing the artiste of stealing his 'Portmore Empire'.In February of this year Deva Bratt, real name Sheldon Smith, was taken into custody in connection with an alleged case of carnal abuse, committed against a 14-year-old girl. He was picked up by police from...
SPOUSE SHOOTS COP IN NECK - Man was playing with girlfriend's service firearm
A policewoman was admitted to hospital last Friday after she was accidentally shot by her boyfriend who was playing with her service firearm, police told THE STAR yesterday.The incident happened at the common-law couple's Toronto...
Bail for cop charged with colleague's rape
published: Saturday | September 27, 2008A policeman who is accused of raping a policewoman at her home on August 18, appeared in the Home Circuit Court yesterday.He is 22-year-old Detective Constable Adrian Johnson.He has been granted...
PM wants new designation for Caricom states Points to peculiar needs, exposure to natural disasters
Saturday, September 27, 2008PRIME Minister Bruce Golding yesterday called for Jamaica and other Caricom states to be recognised as "small vulnerable and highly Indebted middle-income countries", instead of their current international...
More than $48 m spent on school furniture
Saturday, September 27, 2008Chief procurement officer in the Ministry of Education, Leon Fraser, has disclosed that more than $48 million has so far been spent on the issuance of contracts to manufacture school furniture, some of...
Thursday, September 25, 2008
MORE BEENIE DRAMA - child's mother accuses him of being a deadbeat father
Krista Henry, Staff ReporterAs if Beenie Man does not have enough to deal with, the mother of his five-year-old son, who lives in England, has decided to air her grouses about the deejay over the popular Internet site, YouTube.In...
Usain BOLTS through Sherwood Content
KERIL WRIGHT
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Triple Olympic gold medalist, Usain Bolt, sure knows how to have himself a grand time - on and off the track.
Easily the star of his homecoming celebrations held on the weekend at his alma mater, the William Knibb High School in Trelawny, the 22-year-old partied the night away alongside an impressive line-up of Reggae/Dancehall stars and leading street...
Ja slips 12 places on corruption index
Thursday, September 25, 2008Jamaica has been ranked the 96th most corrupt country in the world by the German-based Trans-parency International (TI), down from an 84th ranking last year.The organisation surveyed 180 countries for...
JLP politician on murder rap
KARYL WALKER, Crime/Court co-ordinator walkerk@jamaicaobserver.comThursday, September 25, 2008Police will today interrogate Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) politician Lennox Hinds, who was on Tuesday arrested and slapped with murder,...
Drug conspiracy - Security personnel, customs, port officials in narco trade
published: Thursday | September 25, 2008Glenroy Sinclair, Assignment CoordinatorA recent narcotics intelligence report has linked a number of police personnel, customs officials and employees at the seaports to the growing illegal...
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
US$2,100 hotel bill lands foreigner in jail
Wednesday, September 24, 2008MONTEGO BAY, St James - An Estonian man, Stan Puust, a 26-year-old construction worker, is facing charges of obtaining credit by fraud after he found his way into an all-inclusive hotel where he allegedly...
Cop arrested for rape of colleague
published: Wednesday | September 24, 2008A policeman has been taken into custody for the alleged rape of a woman colleague.Assistant Commissioner of Police Les Green told The Gleaner that the policeman was interviewed yesterday and...
Falmouth: Comrades call for MP's resignation
FALMOUTH, Trelawny - Approximately 30 People's National Party (PNP) supporters yesterday converged at the constituency offices of North Trelawny Member of Parliament, Dr Patrick Harris, calling for his resignation.The demonstration...
More PNP resignations - Party dissolves Council of Opposition Spokespersons
Wednesday, September 24, 2008Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller (2nd left) listens to a point being made by MP Lisa Hanna while Phillip Paulwell (left), sitting in the seat usually occupied by the leader of Opposition business, and Dr Omar Davies peruse documents in Parliament yesterday. (Photo: Joseph Wellington)THE Opposition People's National Party (PNP), rocked by the resignation of several...
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Beenie to be a granddad - 17-y-o daughter pregnant - Another deejay said to be the father
It appears that Moses 'Beenie Man' Davis is soon to be a grandfather. The deejay's daughter, who turned 17 last week, is rumoured to be pregnant for popular deejay Aidonia. Aidonia has, however, denied that he is the father. When contacted, Aidonia's manager and brother, Lav said, "He is not the babyfather. She is only 16-year-old, so why would Aidonia be involved with somebody that young? Furthermore,...
Eleven persons killed over the weekend
Kimmo MatthewsMonday, September 22, 2008 Police yesterday reported that a total of 11 persons were killed in separate incidents over the weekend, nine by the gun and two by the knife, keeping the murder tally on track for another...
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