Caribbean Fever's Blog – March 2017 Archive (109)

• Anikqua A.E. Williams, 22, has been jailed in Columbus, Ohio for a shooting
• Williams shot Daneshia Elmore, 23, on Thursday afternoon, according to police
• The two women knew each other but did not expect to see each other at the Victoria's Secret PINK store in Easton Town Center on Thursday
• Apparently the shooting took place after a verbal and physical…

CNN commentator Angela Rye had no patience for former Congressman Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) when he said the bar was lowered for President Barack Obama because of his race.

“I’m not talking to bigots,” Rye said during a CNN segment Wednesday.…

• Florida woman Bree, 24, decided to try Uber driving because her boyfriend told her that he was flying to New York to visit his mother who was in the hospital
• Bree picked up a female rider who said she was in town to see her own boyfriend
• Bree couldn't believe her eyes when her…

Former President George W. Bush was not a fan of President Donald Trump’s inaugural speech.

According to three people who spoke to New York Magazine on Wednesday about the inauguration, as Bush was leaving the dais, he said of the speech that Trump had given, “That…

Jamaica’s obesity problem just keeps getting bigger.

Obesity rates among adults have climbed from 45 per cent in 2002, to 54 per cent in 2008, and up to the end of last year, the rate stood at 60 per cent.

It’s a major worry for Professor of Public Health and Nutrition Fitzroy Henry who told the Jamaica Observer that obesity is at the root of a growing epidemic of…

• Everyone is mesmerised by the oddly compelling video of a chair being cleaned
• The short clip has been shared online and called 'satisfyingly gross' 
• As the vacuum is see-through viewers can watch as the huge amount of dirt is sucked up through it …

• A male customer launched a tirade of abuse at a woman on a neighbouring table
• He claimed  Lebohang Mabuya's daughter attacked his in restaurant play area
• Three-minute clip, filmed by a diner at Texamo Spur steakhouse in Johannesburg on March 19, shows children backing away as the…

NEW PRESIDENT OF THE PEOPLE’S NATIONAL PARTY (PNP) DR PETER PHILLIPS (LEFT) AND HIS PREDECESSOR PORTIA SIMPSON-MILLER. (PHOTO: JAMAICA OBSERVER)

Jamaica’s opposition People’s National Party (PNP) has welcomed a new leader who says topping his priorities is a plan to enlist young people to fight against poverty and other woes holding back the country.

“There is still more to be done,” Dr Peter Phillips…

Police Officer Gwendolyn Bishop, a Brooklyn police officer, is in hot water with the NYPD after responding with #BlackLivesMatter to a post on the department’s Twitter feed.

According to the…

Bill O'Reilly 'slammed his wife into a wall and dragged her by the throat down a staircase after she caught him having phone sex while naked from the waist down', claim court documents

• Bill O'Reilly agreed to personally pay Lis Wiehl $32million in January this year
• Wiehl, a legal analyst, had threatened to sue him over alleged sexual harassment 
• When Fox renewed O'Reilly's…

In a very significant and historic move, the Jamaica Travel Channel via Instagram has included marijuana / ganja as one of the reasons visitors should come to the island.

In a picture posted recently, the Jamaica Travel Channel showcased three marijuana joints and a grinder with the words Jamaica carved in it. The picture was captioned "Come for an irie time mon!"

Many…

• Five medics were filmed mocking a man on a surgery table in Bolivar, Colombia 
• Doctors and nurses laugh as they dance around the unconscious, naked patient 
• The patient was awaiting surgery on the operating table during video…

THE US STATE DEPARTMENT SAYS THE EASTERN CARIBBEAN HOSTS ABUNDANT TRANSHIPMENT POINTS FOR ILLICIT NARCOTICS.

The Eastern Caribbean has been branded a “transit point for drug traffickers going to the United States and Europe” by the US State Department.

The department’s International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR), released this month, claims that the Eastern Caribbean hosts abundant transhipment…

The white supremacist who killed 66-year-old Timothy Caughman, a beloved can collector, said that he wanted a “rush” but instead of getting a thrill, he was left in a “daze.”

“He said he wished he had did it…

Ted Koppel had some bad news for Sean Hannity.

The retired “Nightline” host told Fox News’ Hannity to his face that he is “bad for America” in a TV interview that aired Sunday.

Koppel spoke with Hannity in a “CBS Sunday…

• Driver Lee O'Donnell landed the stunt at the Monster Jam World Finals  
• On Sunday, he landed the impressive flip in front of a stunned crowd 
• Though the sport is known for its reckless driving, it was the ever first front flip…