CaribbeanFever.Com's Blog – June 2011 Archive (70)

 

Sprint queen Veronica Campbell-Brown and former men's world-record holder, Asafa Powell, won the respective 100 metres titles, at the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association/ Supreme Ventures Limited National Senior Championships at the National Stadium last night.Campbell-Brown produced a strong run over the last 50 metres to win in a fast 10.84 seconds, as she powered away from joint Olympic silver medallist, Kerron Stewart, who clocked…

Jacqueline Samuels-Brown is expected to complete her submissions today.

Government prosecutor…

PROMINENT journalist and playwright Barbara Gloudon yesterday lamented the increasing levels of corruption in Jamaica and urged dishonest individuals to clean up their act for the sake of the country.

The lack of personal integrity was one of a number of concerns raised by the veteran journalist during an address to editors and reporters at the Observer's weekly Monday Exchange at the newspaper's…

The not-guilty verdict in the recently concluded sexual abuse case involving the Reverend Paul Lewis is nothing short of a national disgrace, and if our country has any semblance of shame and outrage left in us, we should all be crying out with a loud voice about the barefaced travesty of justice that we have just witnessed.…

ANXIETY is increasing among close friends and key supporters of Grammy Award-winning Jamaican reggae artiste Buju Banton as the reggae singer's sentencing date draws closer.

The artiste, whose real name is Mark Anthony Myrie, will on Thursday be sentenced in the Sam M Gibbons Federal Court in Tampa, Florida. The sentence comes four months after Banton's conviction on drug-related charges…

Jack Warner quit as a FIFA vice president Monday, and soccer's governing body dropped a bribery investigation of him.

Warner and Asian soccer chief Mohamed bin Hammam were suspended by FIFA last month after they were accused of offering $40,000 cash payments to Caribbean voters during bin Hammam's presidential campaign to unseat Sepp Blatter.

Warner spent 28 years on…

Scikron/Big Yard CEO Robert Livingston has confirmed that he and reggae/dancehall icon Shaggy are moving on after almost two decades during which…

WELL, I'm writing this from 36,000 feet, returning from the 99th board meeting of the Caribbean Association of Industry and Commerce (CAIC), and the sixth Annual Private Sector Conference both held in St Kitts. I have mixed feelings about the future of trade within and outside of the region, and although this feeling is not rampant in the OECS and the Southern Caribbean, it is certainly so within Jamaica, and there is a lot of information being…

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SHORTLY before 10 p.m. on the final night of Best of the Best, a reggae and hip-hop concert held over the Memorial Day weekend in Veterans Park in Miami, DJ Nuffy, the master of ceremonies, began to introduce the dancehall reggae artist Vybz Kartel. But Vybz Kartel wasn’t actually in the park, in Miami, or even in the United States. He was more than 500 miles away at Jamaica Jamaica, a fancy nightclub just outside Ocho Rios, because he has been…

 Entertainers are finding out that you really have to watch what you say in a public forum these days.



Just a couple of weeks after comedian Tracy Morgan found himself in hot water because of a homophobic rant during a stand-up comedy performance, singer Cee Lo Green is facing a similar situation for something he tweeted on Friday (June 17).



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