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Dahved Levy "rocking you"'s Blog – December 2009 Archive (13)

Percy Sutton, attorney for Malcolm X and Chairman Emeritus, Inner City Broadcasting ( WBLS, WLIB ) dies at 89

Political heavyweights share the stage:(l. to r.) Rep.Charles Rangel, Percy Sutton and Mayor David Dinkins

Dahved Levy: Percy Sutton was a HEAVYWEIGHT with a LIGHTWEIGHT approach, because of him there was an outlet for Frankie Crocker, because of Frankie Crocker there is Dahved Levy.

Percy Sutton, the pioneering civil rights attorney who represented Malcolm X before launching successful careers as a political power broker and… Continue

Added by Dahved Levy "rocking you" on December 27, 2009 at 2:00pm — 8 Comments

‘Restaveks’ a name given to slave children in Haiti, it's reported that they are more than 250,000 children as slaves and most of them abused!

Poverty has forced at least 225,000 children in Haiti's cities into slavery as unpaid household servants, far more than previously thought, a report said Tuesday.

The Pan American Development Foundation's report also said some of those children — mostly young girls — suffer sexual, psychological and physical abuse while toiling in extreme hardship.

The report recommends Haiti's government and international donors focus efforts on… Continue

Added by Dahved Levy "rocking you" on December 23, 2009 at 2:39am — 4 Comments

Prime Minister Skerrit wins landslide vote in Dominica, giving the DLP a third term

Skerrit wins landslide vote in Dominica

The Dominican.net Newsdesk

The Dominica Labour Party (DLP) have won a landslide victory in the 2009 general elections winning 17 of the 21 seats in the country's parliament.

Prime minister Roosevelt Skerrit won his second consecutive victory at the polls taking 4 additional seats previously held by the opposition United Worker Party.

The DLP won the constituencies of Roseau… Continue

Added by Dahved Levy "rocking you" on December 19, 2009 at 4:30am — 2 Comments

Imagine Being Locked Up 35 Years for a Crime You Didn't Commit! ( VIDEO )

James Bain used a cell phone for the first time Thursday, calling his elderly mother to tell her he had been freed after 35 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit. Mobile devices didn’t exist in 1974, the year he was sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping a 9-year-old boy and raping him in a nearby field. Neither did the sophisticated DNA testing that officials more recently used to determine he could not have been the… Continue

Added by Dahved Levy "rocking you" on December 19, 2009 at 3:41am — 16 Comments

CARIBBEAN BUSINESS – Still a struggle

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Added by Dahved Levy "rocking you" on December 15, 2009 at 2:30pm — 1 Comment

Nobel Peace Prize after party with Will Smith, Wyclef Jean, Natasha Bedingfield and Toby keith all put down some Rappers Delight

Will Smith, Wyclef Jean, Natasha Bedingfield and Toby Keith rocked out some classic rap at an after party for the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Norway earlier this week -- yes, the Nobel Peace Prize has an after… Continue

Added by Dahved Levy "rocking you" on December 15, 2009 at 1:51am — No Comments

Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi Is Bloodied By Attack [Video]

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been hit in the face and knocked to the ground after a political rally in Milan.

Pictures showed Mr Berlusconi, 73, with blood around his mouth and on his face. Reports suggested he had either been punched or hit with an object.

Mr Berlusconi was taken to hospital. A first medical report said two teeth were damaged, with one broken.

A man, who reportedly has a history of mental… Continue

Added by Dahved Levy "rocking you" on December 14, 2009 at 1:56pm — No Comments

Former Grenada Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell Threatens To Sue Local Media Houses

Former Grenada Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell is threatening to sue local media houses who published stories about his wife being caught with a diplomatic passport in her possession at the Maurice Bishop International Airport last month.

The warning follows a government statement accusing Mitchell`s wife, Marietta Mitchell, of failing to surrender the diplomatic passport issued to her by his administration, which was voted out of office… Continue

Added by Dahved Levy "rocking you" on December 12, 2009 at 12:36am — No Comments

GROWING DOME: Scientists monitor Montserrat volcano, can EXPLODE at any time

Scientists monitoring the Soufriere Hills Volcano said Monday that a recent increase in activity has resulted in a large lava dome that is growing quickly.

Director of the Montserrat Volcano Observatory (MVO) Paul Cole said in an interview on local radio that while there has been a slight decrease in activity over the past 24 hours, “the new lava dome is growing quite quickly”.

He told residents that pyroclastic flows of hot… Continue

Added by Dahved Levy "rocking you" on December 11, 2009 at 10:30pm — 5 Comments

Have mobile phones increased brain cancers? click here and find out

There has been no substantial change in the number of adult brain tumours since mobile phone usage sharply increased in the mid-1990s, Danish scientists say.

The Danish Cancer Society looked at the rates of brain tumours among 20 to 79 year olds from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.

They found that trends in cancer rates had not altered from the period before mobiles were introduced.

But they say longer follow-up studies are… Continue

Added by Dahved Levy "rocking you" on December 8, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments

Football star Dwight Yorke launches his book Born to Score in Trinidad

T&T football star Dwight Yorke signs a copy of his autobiography ‘Born to Score’ at the book-launch at the National Library on Abercromby Street, Port-of-Spain, last Thursday. PHOTO: NICHOLAS CLARKE

T&T football star Dwight Yorke officially launched his autobiography Born to Score at a news conference at the National Library on Abercromby Street, Port-of-Spain, on Thursday. The book chronicles Yorke’s life from growing up in a… Continue

Added by Dahved Levy "rocking you" on December 7, 2009 at 11:59am — 2 Comments

World Cup 2010 is ready for South Africa and the Groups Are Set, what country do you think will win the world cup?

USA opens play against England, while Brazil finds itself in the Group of Death with Portugal and Ivory Coast

Who do you think will win it all?

Added by Dahved Levy "rocking you" on December 5, 2009 at 7:21am — 4 Comments

5 Jamaican artist including BUJU got NOMINATED for the REGGAE GRAMMY, who do you think will win it? Also check out some of the other NOMINEES.

Music awards shows may come and go, but the original Grammys remain The Oscars of the music industry representing the entire music spectrum from classical, country and gospel to rock, rap and reggae.

This year's nominees were announced during a primetime entertainment broadcast, "Grammy Nominations Concert Live: Countdown to Music's Biggest Night" which aired live on CBS from Los Angeles' Club Nokia on Wednesday, December 3, 2009 at 9PM… Continue

Added by Dahved Levy "rocking you" on December 3, 2009 at 2:30am — 20 Comments