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www.muzikspace.com - Bounty Killer is in trouble with the police again. Authorities have charged him with marijuana possession after a traffic stop in New Kingston. The entertainer whose offstage name is Rodney Price already is being prosecuted on previous charges of illegal possession of a firearm and unlawful wounding and assault. Police said in a statement Sunday that Price was found with a small bag of marijuana on Thursday. more...()
www.muzikspace.com - Costa Rica’s Fernando Aguilar was the expert on duty for an ITTF Basic Umpires and Referees Course, organized under the auspices of the ITTF Development Program, in the Caribbean island of Barbados in early October 2009. more...()
www.muzikspace.com - W's charmed run of touring India but avoiding Indian teams has continued for the second round of the Champions League Twenty20. Reigning Indian Premier League champion Deccan's inability to defeat Trinidad & Tobago on Wednesday night sealed the Chargers' exit from the tournament, which pleased Blues coach Matthew Mott. more...()
www.muzikspace.com - A general strike in Puerto Rico by public workers protesting government layoffs gripped the capital's financial district on Thursday, shutting many businesses and schools and disrupting some official agencies. Labor unions in the U.S. Caribbean island territory called the 24-hour strike to protest the firing of thousands of workers by the government, which is trying to shrink a $3.2 billion budget deficit. more...()
www.muzikspace.com - Deejay Buju Banton yesterday met with four members of San Francisco's gay community in what is being seen as a move to discuss the continued cancellations of the gigs at various points on his Rasta Got Soul tour of the United States, due to pressure from gay rights groups. more...()
www.muzikspace.com - The fastest man in the world is a slow walker. Usain Bolt is tired, understandably, after an early-morning flight from Kingston to New York. He drags his tall bones along Broadway, past commuters and tourists who have no idea that this is one of two men who rescued the Beijing Olympics. Bolt won three golds in Beijing. Michael Phelps won eight. Both men set records, captured our imagination. Phelps won more races. Bolt won them with more flair. They have never met, although Bolt says he and Phelps will cross paths finally at a Jamaican Super Party in December. more...()
www.muzikspace.com - Prime Minister Bruce Golding yesterday broke his silence on what seems, at least from the outside, a Jamaica stand-off with the United States over that country's extradition request for Tivoli Gardens area leader Christopher "Dudus" Coke on drugs and gun-related allegations.
Golding, who was addressing Jamaica Labour Party supporters at the Jamaica Conference centre in Kingston, said to thunderous applause that the country had a right to protect its citizens. more...()
www.dailymail.co.uk/trav... - St Lucia's carnival clogs the streets of its principal town, Castries, for the best part of 24 hours, snaking like some sinuous bejeweled serpent through its heaving streets.The colors are dizzying, the heat broiling and the din head-spinning, and we all enjoy it: that's middle-aged Iain and me, plus Amy and her friend Megan, both 17, who are courteously propositioned by posses of local boys all afternoon. more...()
www.muzikspace.com - He admitted he was out of gas and "running on fumes" but it was still enough to power Usain Bolt to a runaway victory at the World Athletics Final on Sunday night. more...()
www.muzikspace.com - The Net International Reserves (NIR) of the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) was boosted to some US$2 billion, or 16 weeks worth of imported goods and services, Tuesday (September 1), after an injection of J$3.6 billion in budget support grants from the European Union (EU). more...()
www.muzikspace.com - After being pushed close to the finish line in the 100 on Sunday by Tyson Gay as Bolt won in a record-setting 9.58 seconds, Bolt had to do the pushing himself in the final straightaway of the 200 on Thursday. Running alone — strikingly alone — in lane 5 in the final straightaway, he showed no interest in cruising to the finish. Instead, he sprinted through, and the result was a time of 19.19 seconds: 11-hundredths of a second faster than the world record he established a year ago at the Beijing Olympics. more...()
www.muzikspace.com - Jamaican superstar Usain Bolt confirmed his status as the fastest man on the planet by powering to gold in the World Championships and smashing the world record in Berlin.A year to the day in which he stunned the world by sauntering to the Olympic title, Bolt was once again a cut above his nearest rivals and the stars of yesteryear as he crossed the line in a stunning time of 9.58 seconds in the fastest 100m race of all-time. more...()
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IRIE JAMBOREE North America's Award Winning Premiere Reggae Festival welcomes HUMBLE
North America's premiere festival the award winning Irie Jamboree welcomes Canada's Artist of the Year Humble to their 2009 lineup. Making his name and music known internationally Humble stood out as a "Must Have" for this years multi award winning festival stage.
Garnishing Canada's most prestigious award for the "Best Reggae Recording", Humble holds the 2009 Juno along with his most recent award presented at the 3rd Annual Reggae Music Achievement Awards. Recognized as the "Artist of the Year" this proved to be a fitting title for Humbles music and success.
Humble has performed on all the major festival stages in Canada and looks forward to performing for all his loyal fans that support and requested his presence in NYC. Proud to be chosen for this years 2009 lineup Humble will share the stage Labor Day Sunday with Sean Paul, Mr Vegas, Chino, Assassin, Laden, Spice, Queen Ifrica, Tony Rebel, Freddy McGregor, Bush more...()
www.muzikspace.com - Hundreds of Jamaican entrepreneurs will be joined by other Caribbean and US small businesses, major corporations, industry buyers, investors, and marketing professionals to view the exhibits, sample various products, discuss business partnerships, network, learn about projects that are ripe for investment, and how to do business with Jamaica. more...()
www.wwlp.com/dpp/news/lo... - SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) - Springfield had a burst of West Indian flavor Saturday, as a part of the city’s Caribbean week. Hundreds of people came out to State Street in Springfield to see the annual Caribbean parade. Dana Brathwaite of Springfield comes to the Caribbean Parade every year with her family. She told 22 News this cultural tradition is very meaningful to her. more...()
www.nydailynews.com/ny_l... - A stretch of Sixth Ave. became a sea of red, white and blue Dominican pride Sunday as thousands turned out for the Dominican Day Parade.
Cheering crowds lined the route wearing shirts and bandannas emblazoned with the Caribbean nation's national colors. more...()
www.digicelfootball.com/... - Brooklyn, New York: Digicel, the largest mobile operator in the Caribbean and recent entrant to Central America, last night announced details of its three-year sponsorship of the Digicel Caribbean Cup New York. The tournament is in its 18th year and features 12 representative teams from the Caribbean and South America. It is currently entering the playoff stages of the tournament, with Jamaica and St. Vincent leading the build up to the final, which takes place on Sunday, September 6th in Brooklyn, New York. Digicel will provide much-needed funds to the staging of the weekly rounds of the tournament, as well as marketing support and investment in player development. more...()
uk.reuters.com/article/i... - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said on Sunday he would lead an international trade mission of private investors to Haiti in October to pursue energy and other development amid signs the nation is stabilizing. Clinton burnished his credentials as an elder statesman last week when he visited North Korea to retrieve two American journalists who had been held in the communist-ruled Asian nation and met with its reclusive leader Kim Jong-il. more...()
www.muzikspace.com - Jamaicans in the Diaspora are being encouraged to become more actively engaged in transforming the country. "If you believe in Jamaica, give yourself to the process of national building in Jamaica and help the nation pull through to her capability, as belief demands action," urged Pastor of the Fellowship Tabernacle in Kingston, Rev. Dr. Merrick 'Al' Miller. more...()
www.muzikspace.com - Jamaicans across Canada are gearing up to celebrate Jamaica's 47th year of Independence, with activities such as flag-raising ceremonies, and church services, under this year's theme: 'I Believe in Jamaica'. more...()
www.jamaica-gleaner.com/... - An Air Jamaica Airbus A320-200, flight JM-15 from Kingston (Jamaica) to New York JFK,NY (USA), was enroute already overhead Cuba, when the right hand windshield developed a crack. The crew decided to return to Kingston, where the airplane landed safely. more...()
in.reuters.com/article/s... - Sprinter Sheri-Ann Brooks, one of five Jamaican athletes to test positive for a banned stimulant in June, has been cleared for the world championships due to an 'irregularity' in testing for her second sample. more...()
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_n... - A fresh warning about violent crime in Caribbean island of Trinidad and Tobago had been issued by the Foreign Office after a Somerset couple were attacked with a machete. Peter Green, 65, and his wife Mirium, 59, who are originally from Reading and live in Wellington, Somerset, were seriously hurt in Saturday's attack. more...()
www.telegraph.co.uk/news... - A British couple were left for dead after being attacked with machetes at their Caribbean holiday home. Peter and Murium Green have both undergone emergency surgery following the attack in Tobago.
The alarm was raised after Mrs Green, 59, who suffered severe facial injuries, crawled from their home into the street pleading for help. more...()
westorlandonews.com/2009... - Over 50,000 convicted Caribbean-born criminals, who have called the U.S. home for many years, have been shipped back to the Caribbean in the past decade under tough U.S. immigration laws, a CaribWorldNews analysis of new Department of Homeland Security data reveals. more...()
www.muzikspace.com - The concept isn’t new. As far as we knew Beenie Man had already crowned himself King of the Dancehall with his 2004 hit titled just that. Plus we’ve been jamming to his Caribbean beats since “Who Am I” hit airwaves in the late ’90s. But Jamaica had to make it official. more...()
www.muzikspace.com - Elephant Man won’t be performing on Saturday, Aug. 1, at the Caribana festival in Toronto. The Jamaican dancehall musician is known for lyrics that advocate for the torture and murder of gay men and lesbians. more...()
www.muzikspace.com - A boat carrying Haitian migrants capsized and sank off the Turks and Caicos Islands and up to 85 people are missing, the U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday. One survivor said the boat struck a reef as it tried to elude police. more...()
www.muzikspace.com - Sources in Jamaica have named the banned substance that five Jamaican athletes tested positive for at the national trials last month as methylxanthine, a decongestant. If taken as a performance-enhancing drug it could assist in getting oxygen into the lungs. more...()
www.telegraph.co.uk/spor... - A year after Jamaica's athletes ruled the world by winning six gold medals at the Beijing Olympics, the country was reeling on Friday from the news that five of its leading sprinters had tested positive for a banned substance. more...()
www.muzikspace.com - The Royal Navy has seized cocaine worth £33million from a speedboat off the coast of South America. HMS Iron Duke was just a week into its latest Caribbean deployment as part of a multi-national task force to counter drug smuggling in the region. more...()
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