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| Caribbean Fashion Awards nominees announced |
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| www.sknvibes.com/Enterta... - BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - A Young and Upcoming Designer Award has been introduced for the second annual Caribbean Fashion Awards (CFA) to be held on April 11 at the Hilton Hotel in Barbados. Designers who will be up for that award are Andrew Harris of Guyana, Jaumark Pierre of Trinidad, Sha Creations of St. Lucia, Tamika Browne of St. Vincent and Toni Thorne of Barbados. more... () |
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| Zimbabwe Dancehall/ragga battle for supremacy hots up |
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| www.zimdaily.com/news/wi... - ZIMBABWE - HARARE - Zimbabwe’s most popular dancehall artist Winky D has sent a diatribe directed at his archrival Badman whom he accuses of being a copycat as the battle for supremacy hots up. more... () |
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| Jamaican jailed for cocaine and money laundering |
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| www.radiojamaica.com/con... - A Jamaican at the centre of an immigration row has been jailed in the UK for dealing in cocaine and money laundering. The man, 39-year-old Garnet Brown on Friday admitted to possessing Class A drugs with intent to supply. more... () |
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| Jamaica set for huge win |
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www.jamaica-gleaner.com/... - Jamaica, led by a hundred from Carlton Baugh Jr, fortified their standing in their 10th round match of the WICB regional four-day competition, when they set Barbados 515 for victory yesterday.
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| Athletics: Bolt starts with a win |
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| www.skysports.com/story/... - Triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt was victorious in his first 100 metres race of the season on home soil in Jamaica. The 22-year-old ran a wind-assisted 9.93, catching and passing Antiguan Daniel Bailey just metres from the finish line. more... () |
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| Easy Star All-Stars reinvent classic Beatles album |
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| www.aspentimes.com/artic... - ASPEN — When Ras I-Ray was invited on-board the Easy Star All-Stars’ intriguing trip — to reinvent classic-rock albums as reggae music — he liked the concept. But he was more impressed by the talent: In Easy Star, he would be surrounded by musicians he had seen perform as part of Toots & the Maytals and Sister Carol’s band, along with saxophonist Jennifer Hill, an integral part of Burning Spear’s Burning Horns. more... () |
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| CIDA donates Shaggy curriculum book to basic schools |
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| www.jamaicaobserver.com/... - "It's great to get the awards, but there is no greater reward than seeing the smiles on the children's faces!" was Grammy-winning artiste Shaggy's response when he received praises from the Dudley Grant Memorial Trust. Shaggy was witnessing the presentation ceremony of almost 700 copies of his children's CD and Storybook, Shaggy Parrot and the Reggae Band, featuring the voice of Shaggy, to Corporate Area early childhood institutions. more... () |
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| Serani joins Common on Metro PCS 5 Borough Takeover Tour |
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| www.sknvibes.com/Enterta... - Basseterre, St. Kitts- DANCEHALL singer Craig ‘Serani’ Mash, who recently signed on to Universal Republic Records, is currently on tour with US Hip-Hop artiste Common and singer Jazmine Sullivan. According to 876radio, Serani, who headlines the tour, said it was an honour for him to be on bill with such great artistes. more... () |
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| Details revealed on Rihanna and Chris Brown's new love song |
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| latimesblogs.latimes.com... - Multi-platinum-selling record producer Polow da Don has exclusively confirmed to The Times that he has been in the studio recently with Rihanna and Chris Brown, recording an as-yet-untitled love song that is scheduled to appear on Brown's new album later this year more... () |
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| Antigua arrest pair's new charges |
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| news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_n... - Two men on Antigua charged with killing a newly-wed couple from south Wales are facing three further murder charges. Catherine and Benjamin Mullany, both 31, were shot in a suspected robbery at their honeymoon bungalow on the Caribbean island last July. more... () |
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| Police: Gunmen kill 4 in Jamaican nightclub |
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| www.iht.com/articles/ap/... - KINGSTON, Jamaica: Jamaican police say four people were killed and four others injured when gunmen showered the dance floor of a crowded Montego Bay nightclub with bullets. more... () |
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| Chris Brown Charged With Two Felonies |
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| www.muzikspace.com - The R&B singer Chris Brown was charged with two felonies on Thursday — assault likely to cause bodily injury and making criminal threats citing court documents. The charges stem from an incident that occurred in Los Angeles early on the morning of Feb. 8 in which Mr. Brown fought with a female passenger in his car. more... () |
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| Mavado's 'Special' brand of dancehall justice |
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| latimesblogs.latimes.com... - Bailed-out bankers should be thankful that the Jamaican dancehall singer Mavado doesn’t run U.S. economic policy. On his latest single, “So Special,” one of the rare dancehall records to spend time on recent Billboard Hot 100 R&B/Hip-Hop charts, he paints himself as an avenging angel of the poor and dispossessed. “Fire it 'til wet pon dat / you betta help poor people” he wails over a minimalist stutter-step beat. “Every dirty work, Jah shall show dem a sign,” perhaps one where the “special” is of the .45 variety he mentions in the song. more... () |
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| Violence Against Women Continues To Be A Problem In The Caribbean |
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| www.caribbeanworldnews.c... - Allegations of domestic violence against Grammy singer Rihanna by her boyfriend Chris Brown may have put a more public face on the plight, but according to the latest human rights reports by the U.S. State Department, the scourge continues to affect many women across the Caribbean. more... () |
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| Caribbean slow to plug cruise ship pollution |
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| www.msnbc.msn.com/id/294... - SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Miles from shore in the open Caribbean Sea, cruise ships are dumping ground-up glass, rags and cardboard packaging. But vessels in other waters such as the Baltic and North seas are prohibited from throwing any solid waste overboard other than food scraps. more... () |
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| 700 police fired in Dominican president's war against corruption |
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| www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/a... - Dominican Republic President Leonel Fernandez fired 700 police officers Sunday and forced the retirement of 31 military and police generals, two days after he promised in a state-of-the-nation speech to cleanse the government of corruption. more... () |
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| Zimbabwe: Dancehall Music Scene Turns Into a War Zone |
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| allafrica.com/stories/20... - Harare — MAN OF THE MOMENT Wallace "Winky D" Chirimuko believes his unprecedented rise to stardom has resulted in jealousy colleagues in the dancehall music industry plotting his downfall. however, Winky D says he is not a worried man and this week he declared that he will take whatever they throw at him as he's confident all his rivals will sink into oblivion. more... () |
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| Flight 3407: Tribute Slideshow & Latest Passenger List |
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| www.wgrz.com/news/local/... - Shawn Mossop (12), his parents Dawn (48) and Donald (42) Mossop of Bloomfield, NJ. and Dawn's sister Ferris (44) Reid. Donald was a repair technician at Xerox. Dawn was a senior administrative assistant at Schering-Plough pharmaceutical company. Reid was a traveling nurse who lived with her sister and brother-in-law. Shawn was in the sixth grade. They enjoyed traveling together and had planned to drive from Buffalo to Toronto to visit family. more... () |
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| Skeptic accuses Chi Ching of stealing his dance style (Bob Marley Rock) |
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| www.jamaica-star.com/the... - According to Skeptic, Bob Marley rock was inspired by the legendary singer and follows his moves onstage but with a slightly different twist. Skeptic said, "in October of last year, I was at this show and a dance, mi have some slang wid crocodile and dem talk deh, then Chi Ching Ching tek it up seh it's a crocodile year." more... () |
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| Jamaican Boxer Glen Johnson Pounds Out Decision Over Daniel Judah |
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| www.8countnews.com/news/... - Heading into his bout with Glen Johnson, Daniel Judah appeared to be on an emotional high as he spoke about his past battles throughout life and what a victory over Johnson would mean to him. For as much as Judah wanted this fight, Glen Johnson proved to serve him a heavy dose of reality in their anticipated rematch at the Hard Rock Casino on Friday night. Starting early, Johnson caught Judah with a beautiful right hand that had the Brooklyn native down and against the ropes towards the end of the first round. more... () |
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| Canadian Forces Assist Drug Busts Valued at $272M |
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| www.msnbc.msn.com/id/294... - OTTAWA, ONTARIO - Canadian Forces' Operation Caribbe is seeing some early successes in 2009 after supporting drug busts in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific Ocean that stopped some $272 million worth of cocaine from reaching the streets of North America. Since 2006, CF ships and aircraft have been participating in U.S.-led multinational counter-drug operations off the southern approaches to North America. more... () |
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| Rihanna and Chris Brown Are Back Together |
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| www.usmagazine.com/news/... - "They're together again. They care for each other," says the source. The on-again couple are currently spending time together at one of Sean "Diddy" Combs's homes. Adds the source: "While Chris is reflective and saddened about what happened, he is really happy to be with the woman he loves." more... () |
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| Dancehall artist Mr. Vegas splits from Irish and Chin |
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| www.jamaicaobserver.com/... - Dancehall artiste Mr Vegas has parted ways with his management Irish and Chin. Garfield 'Chin' Bourne of Irish and Chin said the parting of ways was a mutual one and he harbours no hard feelings for Vegas' decision. "The artiste said he wanted more control of his career. I still hold Vegas in high regard as an artiste and I wish him all the best," said Bourne. more... () |
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| Carnal abuse conviction for landscaper |
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| www.jamaica-gleaner.com/... - A man who said he honestly believed that a 14-year-old girl with whom he was having an intimate relationship was 18 years old was recently convicted of carnal abuse. Christopher Hibbert, 38, landscaper of 4 Erald Avenue, Kingston 11, said in his defence that the girl told him that she was 18 and he believed her. more... () |
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| Reggae Aritst Luciano Beaten with an iron pipe |
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| www.jamaica-star.com/the... - Studio engineer Freckles said that it was more than 10 years of pent-up frustration that caused him to attack and beat Rastafarian singer Luciano with a piece of metal pipe last week. more... () |
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| Celebrity Crash Victims Recovering in Miami |
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| www.cruisecritic.co.uk/n... - Fourteen Celebrity Summit passengers, injured in Monday's vehicular accident on Dominica, were flown to Miami late last night aboard three air ambulances and an additional aircraft -- chartered by Celebrity Cruises -- and were transferred to Jackson Memorial Hospital. more... () |
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| Violence spreads in Caribbean island strikes |
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| www.timesonline.co.uk/to... - Fort-de-France Vandals burnt cars and looted shops in Martinique as violence spread to a second French Caribbean island in protests over high prices, low pay and alleged neglect by Paris. About twenty people were detained after the outburst in Fort-de-France, the capital. more... () |
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| Body under bridge sparks murder probe |
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| www.guyanachronicle.com/... - POLICE yesterday began a murder investigation after the battered body of Munilall Mangaru, 42, of Lot 134 Mon Repos School Road, East Coast Demerara, was discovered under the Agriculture Road bridge. The dead man was wearing a green hat, a muddied white t-shirt, three-quarters denim pants and a pair of slippers. more... () |
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| A 21-year-old mother was raped by two men on Monday night, in San Fernando. Her 6 year old son was forced to watch. |
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| www.muzikspace.com - Mother and son were believed to be returning to their San Fernando home after carnival celebrations when the incident occurred. Police reports said that about 7.30 pm the mother and son were walking through the pathway of Paradise Cemetery commonly used as a “shortcut” when two men hiding in the dark pounced on them. The men, in the presence of the six-year-old boy, proceeded to sexually assault the woman. After the ordeal, the men ran out of the cemetery leaving the terrified mother and her son behind. Reports added that the woman managed to make her way to the San Fernando Police Station where a report was made. more... () |
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| Man, 21, in relationship with 13-yr-old girl |
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| www.stabroeknews.com/200... - A 21-year-old self-employed man was remanded to prison after being charged with the abduction of and carnally knowing a 13-year-old schoolgirl. Deo Ganpat of Parika, East Bank Essequibo was not required to plea to charges of abduction and carnal knowledge of a female under the age of 15 years and was remanded to prison by Magistrate Fazil Azeez at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court on Friday. more... () |
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| Trini-American shot dead in city |
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| www.stabroeknews.com/200... - A Trinidadian national, a naturalised American citizen, was shot dead in Port-of-Spain on Sunday morning, all because he wined on another man’s girlfriend. Leevurn Lyons, 29, formerly of Junction Road in Boys Town, Sangre Grande, was pronounced dead on arrival at St Clair Medical Centre, after being shot about the body from point-blank range. The incident occurred around 8.30 am on Sunday on Cipriani Boulevard, Port-of-Spain. more... () |
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