CaribbeanFever.Com's Blog – September 2010 Archive (64)

NEW YORK – Bob Marley's family lost a lawsuit seeking the copyrights to several of the late Jamaican reggae singer's best-known recordings.



U.S. District Judge Denise Cote in Manhattan said the UMG Recordings unit of Vivendi SA's Universal Music Group is the rightful owner of copyrights to five albums that Marley had recorded between 1973 and 1977 for Island Records.



The albums "Catch a…

MediaTakeOut is at it again and this time they are offering congratulations to Olympic double record hold Usain Bolt.



Yes, according to the gossip site’s insider source he and his girlfriend - Jamaican Beauty Queen MILAN have decided to get engaged.

Well there is a photo on the site of her sporting the rock on her finger (take a…

Floyd Mayweather Jr. was in a fit of jealousy over a basketball player when he allegedly attacked his baby mama, Josie Harris and threatened to kill the pair ... this according to the police report obtained by TMZ.



According to the report, Mayweather read text messages on Josie's phone ... which included messages from C.J. Watson (pictured below), who plays for the Chicago Bulls. According to the report, Mayweather…

For a while now sprinter Asafa Powell and beauty queen Yendi Phillips has been one of Jamaica’s favourite couple.

At first the two were extremely secretive about their relationship, but has been more open in recent times. These days you rarely see one without the other…

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Lady Gaga will have a hard time topping this one.



At last night's MTV Music Awards, Gaga rocked a dress made of meat, which she paired with a “meat purse” and shoes wrapped in meat, wrapped in butcher’s twine.



According to Styleite.com, Franc Fernandez…

Former boxing world champion Ricky Hatton has been filmed apparently taking cocaine in a ten-hour drink and drugs binge.

Hatton, an MBE, was secretly recorded snorting seven lines of the illegal drug in a Manchester hotel room.

The 31-year-old is clearly seen taking a wrap from his shoe, pouring the white powder it contains onto a table top, then…

If you want to live to a ripe-old age or better yet have a long quality life, Bernando La Pallo, can give you something advice you can chew on. He is an author who has written a book called “Age Less and Live More”, and is in the process of writing another. At 109 years old, he’s regularly giving speeches around the country, and asked to speak around the world. He can…

The anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States is a time for Americans to remember they are "one nation under God" — no matter what that God is called, U.S. President Barack Obama said Friday.



Saturday will mark nine years since the deadly attacks, committed by Islamic militants, which killed nearly 3,000 people in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Shanksville, Penn.



In recent months, events like the…

A former soldier arrested after a hostage incident at a military base in Georgia faces multiple charges that include threatening to kill President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton, according to federal court documents filed Tuesday.





Robert Anthony Quinones, 29, of Hinesville, Georgia, was arrested Monday after the two-hour hostage situation at Winn Community Hospital on Fort Stewart, about 45 miles from Savannah, according to…

The youngest child of reggae legend Bob Marley has admitted growing marijuana in her Philadelphia-area home.



according to the Daily news reports, 29-year-old Makeda Jahnesta Marley pleaded guilty Tuesday to having nearly a dozen large marijuana plants inside her home in Caln, about 30 miles west of Philadelphia.



Marley was arrested in 2008 after police say they found her removing plants from her basement when officers…

A lion lunged at a trainer at the MGM Grand giving spectators and another trainer a fright. Watch the video footage of the attack and see a lioness try to stop the attack. Quite impressive!

New York: Beauty pageants are blazing hot right now, and the most eye-popping of them all, the classy Miss Black Nude America Pageant 2010, is taking place in Jamaica from September 26 to October 3.



The venue is the hypnotically lush paradise resort of Hedonism 11 in Negril, located on the far end of the town’s seven mile white sand beach.





The Miss Black Nude America Pageant as seen on the HBO Real Sex series will bring together the…

We don't know exactly what started the fight between Junior Reid, a member of the peace-loving Rastafarian order and church-going artiste Bounty Killa.



But all we know is that all hell bruk loose at Hot Mondayz when One Blood rolled into the Alliance.



Word is that Junior Reid doubled his fist and unleashed a killa tump in Bounty's stomach. Killa reportedly fired back by draping up JR and that is when Alliance henchman, Sawfie got…

Andrew Tosh, the son of the late reggae superstar, Peter Tosh, will on September 28 release his seventh studio album, Legacy, the follow up to his most recent effort, Focus.



Describing the 10-track set as “‘something different and fresh”, Tosh explained that Legacy is an acoustic CD which features covers of the elder Tosh’s more popular recordings.



According to Tosh , it was his manager, Dawn Simpson who came up with…

Mel Cooke, Gleaner Writer

There are still some offices, especially much older, more heavily trafficked ones, which have vinyl on the floor. Cap Calcini's 58 Dumbarton Avenue, St Andrew, office has vinyl on the shelves. Lots of vinyl.

Of course, there is a world of difference between vinyl made to protect the flooring from feet and vinyl designed to be put on a record…

(CNN) -- The decomposed body of a California doctor was found lodged in her boyfriend's chimney, several days after she had apparently attempted to get inside his home, police said.



Internist Jacquelyn Kotarac, 49, had been reported missing on Thursday, Bakersfield, California, police said in a statement Tuesday. Her body was found lodged in the fireplace flue on Saturday.



Kotarac was last seen…