Englishchic's Blog – May 2010 Archive (63)

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Celine Dion is pregnant with twins, a rep for the star confirmed to Access Hollywood.

The singer's husband and manager, Rene Angelil, announced the baby news to People on Sunday.

"We're ecstatic," he told the mag.…

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada – Two members of the “Grenada 17” are back at the Richmond Hill Prison, this time as civil servants, documents presented in Parliament show.

Former army chief General Hudson Austin has landed a job as building supervisor while Leon “Bogo” Cornwall has been hired to work with the prison’s education programme.

Both Austin and Cornwall were among the last batch of prisoners…

RETIRED tough cop Reneto Adams is urging the police not to rule out searching the homes of politicians affiliated with the Jamaica Labour Party and individuals who he termed "society people" in their effort to nab alleged narcotic and gun fugitive Christopher 'Dudus' Coke.

Coke, who has been on the run since last Monday when the security forces launched a massive operation in his…

With some 600 prisoners to deal with – a result of the military assault on the stronghold of the drug baron Christopher 'Dudus' Coke – the authorities in Kingston have followed the lead of Augusto Pinochet, who used the football stadium in Santiago as a temporary prison during the bloody aftermath of the 1973 coup in Chile.

MEULABOH, Indonesia (AP) - Authorities in a devoutly Islamic district of Indonesia's Aceh province have distributed 20,000 long skirts and prohibited shops from selling tight dresses as a regulation banning Muslim women from wearing revealing clothing took effect Thursday.

The long skirts are to be given to Muslim women caught violating the dress code during a two-month campaign to enforce the regulation, said Ramli Mansur,…

Reputed Jamaican druglord Christopher (Dudus) Coke, the subject of an islandwide manhunt, has reportedly volunteered to surrender himself to officials in New York.

After attempts to arrest him in Kingston turned into urban warfare that left dozens dead, Coke began negotiating with…

The drive into Kingston's Tivoli Gardens was surreal. We rode on buses laid on by Jamaica's tourism ministry, emblazoned with the cheerily familiar phrase "have a nice day."

But our guides were stern-faced, heavily armed soldiers. We were told the bus would pull up, and that the assembled pack of international journalists would then be taken on a brief walking tour…

Alicia Keys had a definite glow about her at a charity gala in London last night, and now it's clear why.

The 29-year-old confirmed today she is pregnant with her first child.

The Grammy award-winning singer and her boyfriend Swizz Beatz, 31, are also engaged to be married, a spokesperson said.

A friend of the couple told Mail Online the pair are 'very happy' with the news.The couple are expected to wed in a private…

RESIDENTS of Whitfield Avenue in St Andrew are pleading with the authorities to remove three burnt out bodies which have been lying in the community since Monday.

The rotting remains are those of three family members who were killed during an arson attack which was launched on a house in the area by thugs.

The residents claim they have been unable…

[Confirmed Report] The Bank of Nova Scotia located in Kingston, Jamaica on Constant Spring Road was held up today [May 26 2010] Sometime today after 2pm .. No reports of Any injuries ... Poilce are now in the area on location doing an Investigation ---- STAY CLEAR !!!!!!

Colourful retired Senior Superintendent of Police Reneto Adams has called for the security forces to expand their operations to 80 other communities in Jamaica, which, he says, are besieged by criminal gangs.

"I want them (…

Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, the No. 1 target which sparked an unprecedented assault by the Jamaican army on Tivoli Gardens and other crime havens, is still missing, even as dozens of fatalities were reported from gunfights across Kingston in three days of intense urban warfare.…

THE number of civilians confirmed killed in the security force operation in West Kingston has reached 44.

Political Ombudsman Herro Blair, speaking on RJR 94 FM, said that he had counted 35 at the morgue with another nine bodies awaiting collection.

Meantime Public Defender Earl Witter is questioning the disparity between numbers killed and the number of firearms seized. Security forces have so far…

AS tension continued to mount in downtown Kingston yesterday, gunmen in St Catherine sought to capitalise on the mayhem, committing several murders in that parish.

Shortly before noon, armed thugs travelling in a white Nissan Sunny motorcar shot dead three men and injured a teenager at a bar and wholesale on Old Harbour Road, near the McCook's Pen community.

The dead men were identified as Peter McDean, 39;…