CaribbeanFever.Com's Blog – August 2011 Archive (68)

Beyonce is a master of commanding an audience and that's just what she did on the first night of her four sold out New York City concert dates.



According to Billboard, the r&b diva performed for 90 hit filled minutes at the Roseland Ballroom.



Check out some of the performance below.…

International Reggae Superstar, Buju Banton whose real name is Mark Anthony Myrie is being transferred to a Federal correctional facility in Mississippi to serve his ten year sentence. The Adams County Prison has the capacity to house 2,232 male prisoners and is owned by the corrections management provider, CCA.

Buju’s attorney David Markus, stated “The judge recommended that he serve his…

IN A MOVE that arguably underlines the shifting of economic and political power in the region away from the US, China will this year acquire a substantial ten percent stake in the crucial Atlantic LNG plant at Point Fortin in a $5.5 billion deal.

The China Investment Corporation (CIC), the special-purpose company which manages China’s sovereign wealth fund, is to acquire the ten percent stake from…

A couple of weeks ago Drake talked about how much he missed Nicki Minaj, since they both became stars. The two reunited, at least for a day Saturday (August 13) during Britney Spears' Femme Fatale tour stop in Toronto.



Minaj brought Drizzy out and treated him to a lap dance. The duo also performed "Moment For Life."…

TERRIFYING: The moment audience members witness the stage coming down, dozens of people were injured







(CNN) reports: -- In a few minutes, the festive mood of a summer concert turned tragic after a massive burst of wind tore down a stage at the Indiana State Fair on Saturday night, killing at least four people and…

Even as Emeline Matthew faces partial blindness after her son struck her with a beer bottle, the 76-year-old still found it in her heart to forgive him yesterday. However, the Victoria Street, La Romain, woman, whose head was heavily bandaged with her right eye bloodied and swollen, said: “I don’t want to see him again.” Yesterday, Matthew’s son, Wilbur, 49, a former Coast…

The airport in Trinidad’s sister isle had to be closed after a Virgin

Atlantic plane blew a tyre in a closed off section of the taxiway. (File photo)

The ANR Robinson International Airport in Tobago was closed last night and an investigation launched after a Virgin Atlantic aircraft entered a closed section of the taxiway and blew a…

Jamaican sprinter Steve Mullings has tested positive for a masking agent, two weeks before the start of the IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Daegu, South Korea. Mullings now faces a minimum ban of four years and could be removed from the sport for life.

Last month 50 Cent announced plans to feed 1 billion Africans in need over the next five years.



"I want to impact people's lives more," he wrote on Twitter at the time. "I've set a new goal for myself. I want to feed a billion people in Africa over the next five years."



Today we know exactly…

There was no immediate information on how much of the mission's goals were achieved.

The launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, 130 miles northwest of Los Angeles, was the second of two…

It happens to the best of them, but that still doesn't make it any less embarrassing.



Kanye West became the latest entertainer to take a tumble while performing in concert. Yeezy was performing "All Of The Lights" at the Koengen concert in Bergen, Norway when he tripped on something. The rapper bounced right back up though and…

Barbados - The new regional budget airline, REDjet, today announced it was expanding its service to Antigua and began selling tickets for flights between Trinidad and Guyana, just days after securing licences under the terms of a bilateral 'open-skies' air services agreement.…

Drake is one of those artists who isn't afraid to show emotion in his records. That's not unusual for r&b artists, but in hop it's rarely, if ever seen. His fans obviously dig it because his debut album 'Thank Me…

St. Eustatius – Commissioner of Culture Clyde van Putten has said that there is no way the Government of St. Eustatius will implement the law allowing people of the same sex to get married. He put that position forward in a recent meeting with the Dutch Minister of Social Affairs Henk Kamp in the Netherlands.

Kamp has said the Dutch government will create an emancipation program to assist with…

As public awareness about the dangers of sugar has increased, many people now use artificial sweeteners to satisfy their sweet tooth. By far the most popular artificial sweetener found in restaurants, groceries, supermarkets and in our own kitchens and on our dining tables is aspartame. It is marketed under trade names like NutraSweet, Equal or AminoSweet.

In fact, you can hardly buy a stick…

Dame Dash: 'Jay-Z Tried Very Hard To Get Aaliyah'

• Photos from a Fourth of July party in 2000 were obtained exclusively by DailyMailTV showing Aaliyah and Jay-Z getting cozy 
• A source who was at the party in the Hamptons confirmed that Jay-Z, who was 30 at the time, appeared besotted with the then 21-year-old star
• 'They were hugging…