CaribbeanFever.Com's Blog – April 2010 Archive (49)

Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- In Chris Harrison's ideal world, mobile phones would be the size of matchbooks. They'd have full-size keyboards. They'd browse the Web. They'd play videos.

And, most importantly, you'd never have to touch them.



Sound like too much to ask? Maybe not.



Harrison, a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University and a former intern at Microsoft Research, has developed a working prototype of a system…

CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) -- Venezuelan world lightweight boxing champion Edwin Valero committed suicide on Monday in his prison cell, the day after being arrested over the murder of his young wife, police said.



Valero, 28, who hanged himself by making a rope out of his clothes, was apparently still alive when guards found him but died shortly after arriving at hospital from asphyxiation.



The boxer was detained on…

Zim Diaspora reports Jamaican Reggae superstar and new Mugabe praise singer Sizzla Kalonji has been offered a farm in Mashonaland West province in exchange of doing Zanu PF public relations worldwide, Zimdiaspora can…

CASTRIES, St Lucia — ST LUCIA has become the latest Caribbean Community (Caricom) country to place a ban on Jamaican dancehall singer, Vybz Kartel, who had been scheduled to perform here at the end of the month.

A statement from the St Lucian government today noted that in deciding whether or not to grant a work permit to the singer, the government had deliberately refrained from rushing to a judgement by…

Dancehall artiste Rodney 'Bounty Killer' Price may think that it was divine intervention why he was granted bail on Friday, and so, attended church yesterday to give thanks.

Bounty Killer was arrested almost two weeks ago on a warrant by officers from the Constant Spring Police Station.

The court heard that on March 30…

After collaborating with everyone from Lil Wayne and Usher to Mariah Carey and Robin Thicke, rap's newest booty queen is shaking things up with her debut album.



Q: What can women get away with in hip-hop that men can't?

A: I have a lot of freedom to be crazy. I can rap in a London accent, make weird faces, wear spandex, wigs, and black lipstick. I can be more…

Jake Shields' win at the Strikeforce World Championship Saturday night was overshadowed by a brawl that was never meant to happen.



CBS' telecast of the mixed martial arts competition ended in an unscheduled fight that broke out after Shields defeated Dan Henderson.



The fight started when Jason "Mayhem" Miller called for a rematch. Shields started to pummel Miller, only to be separated and have his spot taken by…

The London High Court yesterday dismissed a lawsuit filed by Digicel, which initially sought at least US$50 million in damages alone from Telecommunications Services of T&T (TSTT) and several Cable & Wireless (C&W) companies for allegedly delaying Digicel’s interconnection in T&T.

In an immediate response, Digicel expressed disappointment over the court’s decision…

Two Bahamian pilots were arrested and jailed in the Dominican Republic after they reportedly attempted to smuggle five Dominicans to the Turks and Caicos Islands with false documentation, media reports indicate.

According to the Associated Press (AP) the pilots, Kennett Courdero Whymns and Marvin Dennis Cabral, were ordered on Friday to remain in jail in the Dominican…

Shaquille O'Neal's estranged wife claims the basketball star recently ordered their son to deliver death threats to her new boyfriend ... this according to documents obtained by TMZ.



Shaunie O'Neal's lawyers just fired off a letter to Shaq's people, claiming the bball star "interrogated" the couple's children to tell him everything they knew about her new man ... "to the point…

InlandSoCal: When the lineup for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival came out in January, there was a lot of grumbling about the headliners, including Friday night's opening anchor, Jay-Z.



However, the hip-hop mogul proved why he was a…

GUNMEN yesterday afternoon shot up a public passenger bus travelling along Slipe Road injuring three students from Kingston high schools in a brazen display of brutality that left commuters shocked and worried.

"At about 3:00 pm two gunmen opened fire on the bus as it reached close to the Torrington Bridge after the driver failed to follow their orders to stop," Inspector Steve Brown of the Constabulary…

Talk about damage control: The morning after Whitney Houston bombed at Birmingham's LG Arena in the U.K., Sony Music issued a glowing press release in an attempt to cover up the singer's latest mess.



"Whitney Houston is back!" the e-mail reads. "Whitney has showed the world she is back in full force with a strong show to entertain her fans."



Not so, says — well, nearly everyone who attended the…

Yvonne Davis' outrage upon hearing that a third-grader handed out bags of heroin at her grandchildren's Wilkinsburg school was tempered only by the fact that none of the children sampled the drug.



"Oh my Lord Jesus, there but by the grace of God these kids are all right," said Davis of Wilkinsburg, PA, whose two granddaughters attend Turner Elementary School. "It's very scary to hear that this…

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Colombian pop star Shakira met child survivors of Haiti's earthquake on Sunday as her charity prepared to build a school in the disaster-stricken Caribbean country.



The singer, who has already joined Hollywood actors and other global celebrities to raise funds for the victims of the January 12 earthquake, flew into the wrecked Haitian capital Port-au-Prince aboard a private jet.



At the…

Florida authorities released video of Tennessee man, Shaun Mills, who got off a bus and was hit by a passing car in February. Local media reports say Mills was severely injured, but has been released from a rehabilitation facility. (April…

Security was tight on the New York City subways after the bombing attacks on the Moscow subways earlier this year.

Chilling new details about the foiled Al Qaeda plot to…