Caribbean Fever's Blog – July 2018 Archive (105)

• James Shields, 39, killed his ex-wife Linda Olthof, 47, and their son on Monday 
• He then shot his current wife Saskia before turning the gun on himself 
• Shields, who was a physiotherapist, also slit his own throat
• He left a suicide note which read: 'I had a perfect life, and now it’s all screwed…

• Robert Maxfield, now 38, has been released from prison after serving 12 years for the murder of Yetunde Price, whose mother was the sisters' mother Oracene 
• Price, 31, was hit in the back of the head with an AK-47 and died instantly during a drive-by shooting in Compton, California in September 2003 
• Both tennis stars were extremely close…

• Zynea Barney, 26, met Danueal Drayton, 27, on the dating app 'Plenty of Fish'
• The couple dated for six months before she decided to call off the relationship
• Drayton tried to strangle her and was eventually arrested before being…

A total of seventy-seven (77) alleged victims of Trafficking In Persons (TIP) were rescued between the start of the year and earlier this month.

This was disclosed by Minister of Social Protection, Amna Ally, who said that 60 of the 77 victims rescued between January 5 and July 3 were placed in protective care, while some were assisted with job placements, educational and training opportunities…

• Top modeling agencies Wilhelmina, Next, Major, Elite, MC2 Models, and Click have been slapped with a newly filed class-action suit by their model clients 
• In the explosive lawsuit obtained by DailyMail.com, several models claimed their agencies ordered them to lose weight or see a plastic surgeon and withheld pay 
• Model Vanessa Perron, was instructed to 'have a…

LeBron James declares opening school in Ohio will be one of greatest moments of his life

BPSA AND GODDARDS GROUP CHAIRMAN CHARLES HERBERT (RIGHT) SPEAKING TO THE MEDIA AFTER HE AND CHRISTOPHER ROGERS (LEFT) EMERGED FROM COURT TODAY.

Two prominent businessmen, including one who heads the Barbados Private Sector Association (BPSA), were today each granted BDS$400,000 (US$200,000) bail when they appeared in court charged with possession with…

• Actor Ving Rhames was featured on an episode of The Clay Cane Show Friday
• When asked about his personal experience with racism the 59-year-old revealed Santa Monica police held him at gunpoint in his own home earlier this year…

• Barbara Carroll, 78, filed a suit last week against Wells Fargo and claimed that she had been racially discriminated against 
• In November 2017, Caroll stated that she had gone to a Fort…

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The court in Kenya, Africa last week sentenced Ruth Wanjiku Kamande to death for "deliberately stabbing Farid Mohammed 25 times."…

Tina Turner, 78, spreads her late son Craig Raymond's ashes in California after his suicide at 59... as she gushes 'he'll always be my baby'

• Tina Turner married blues musician Ike Turner in Tijuana, Mexico, aged 22
• She reveals how she was forced to watch a live sex show on her wedding…

• Protestors for and against President Donald Trump got into a brawl on Thursday
• The fight broke out at the scene of his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
• It was started by an argument over an anti-Trump individual using…

• Earlier this week, the CDC tweeted a reminder to not wash or reuse condoms 
• The agency added that they reiterate this warning because 'people do it' …

• A woman has shared a video to social media of a 'rat-worm' at her home 
• She hoped that one of her friends on social media would know what the bug was
• People quickly commented it that it could have been a 'rat-tailed…

An increase in local demand for the United States (US) dollar in recent weeks has resulted in further depreciation in the value of the Jamaican dollar against the US currency.

It now costs about J$133 to get US$1.

MINISTER WITHOUT PORTFOLIO IN THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE AND THE PUBLIC SERVICE,…