Dahved Levy "rocking you"'s Blog – April 2010 Archive (29)

SEOUL, South Korea, Friday April 23, 2010 – Guyana’s President Bharrat Jagdeo has received the United Nation’s highest environmental award, and he isn’t keeping a cent of the prize money for himself. Jagdeo, who was among six people to receive the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) 2010 Champion of the Earth Award yesterday, will donate the US$40,000 to…

David L Stone (right), consul general at the US Embassy in Kingston, makes a point on Friday during a discussion with reporters while his deputy, Laurence Tobey, listens. (Photo: Bryan Cummings)

THE United States says the current row between Kingston and Washington over the contentious extradition…

MONTEGO BAY, St James — More than 12 gunmen went on a savage rampage in the tough Bird Hill area of Salt Spring early yesterday, killing five persons — two execution style — before fleeing the depressed community on foot. Up to press time one of the dead men was still unidentified.

Police gave the names of the others as: Cornel Brown, 20 years old and Elton Hines, 23, both of Bird Hill; Damion Brooks and 20-year-old Byron Powell,…

What’s Michelle Obama listening to on her…

The date by which the cash-strapped national carrier, Air Jamaica, is to be divested to…

Jah Cure found himself on the wrong side of the law again as he was arrested by cops in St Andrew North Police Division for smoking a ganja spliff.



The singer was granted $5,000 station bail and is scheduled to appear in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on Monday.

But seriously, what is one little ganja spliff, from our side it’s a total waste of…

The U.S. Treasury refreshes its currency every once in a while to stay a step ahead of counterfeiters, and this time they’re refreshing the $100 bill. The new bill will contain a security feature called Motion, where each bill will contain up to 650,000 microlenses embedded in the printing which will allow for an underlying image to shift when the bill is moved. Yep, good old Benjamin Franklin is getting a facelift and here it…

While promoting her Oscar-winning turn in "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," Mo'Nique admitted that she had been molested by her older brother, Gerald Imes, when she was a child.



On Monday (April 19), Imes sat down on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" to talk about the incident and apologize to his superstar sister.



"I'm here today to first acknowledge that I've been in denial for 37 years. ... I…

Jennifer Lopez is out on talk show circuit promoting her new movie 'The Backup Plan' which opens this Friday.



She chatted with David Letterman about the film and her 2 year old…

* PM Patrick Manning's party accused of mismanaging money

* Manning calls election early to renew party's mandate

By Linda…

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the mother of the late rapper Notorious B.I.G., which blamed the city of Los Angeles and the LAPD for her son’s death.



On Monday April 5th, Judge Jacqueline Nguyen dismissed the lawsuit without prejudice, after an eight-year wrongful death lawsuit in federal court.



Notorious B.I.G., born Christopher Wallace, was gunned down in…

First lady Michelle Obama, center, Haiti's first lady Elisabeth Debrosse, right, and Vice President Joseph Biden's wife, Jill Biden, greet children in Port-au-Prince (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

U.S. first lady Michelle Obama made a brief visit to Haiti Tuesday, three months after an earthquake devastated the Caribbean country.



Mrs. Obama arrived in Port-au-Prince Tuesday with Jill Biden, wife…

OPRAH WINFREY's cousin has accused the media mogul of embellishing stories of her poverty-stricken background, insisting her famous relative was "spoiled" as a child.



The media mogul has often claimed her family was so poor she was dressed in potato sacks and adopted cockroaches as pets growing up in rural Mississippi.



The TV titan's life comes under scrutiny in new book Oprah, by gossip queen Kitty Kelley, and the…

Prince George's prosecutors have begun a criminal investigation of three county police officers who beat an unarmed University of Maryland student with their batons after a basketball game last month in an incident that was caught on video and surfaced publicly Monday, authorities said



County police also ordered an internal affairs investigation of the three officers, Maj. Andy Ellis said. Ellis said the inquiry would also focus on a county…

Nas Breaks Silence On Kelis Abuse and Custody Battle …

Is He Still ''Above The Law'' ? Actor Steven Seagal Being Accused Of Hiring Woman As 'Sex Slave' In $1 Million Lawsuit Against Him

• Actress Regina Simons and Dutch former model Faviola Dadis held a press conference with their lawyer Lisa Bloom on Monday
• Simons accused Seagal of raping her at a movie wrap party…

Taking place in an urban American setting, the upcoming movie centers on a funeral ceremony that leads to the digging up of shocking family secrets, as well as misplaced cadavers and indecent exposure.



Uniting two top-notch comedians, Chris Rock and Martin Lawrence, “Death at a Funeral (2010)” also has “Star Trek” beauty Zoe Saldana among the cast ensemble.…