Caribbean Fever's Blog – August 2014 Archive (54)

Joan Rivers Passes Away At 81. Investigation Launched Into Clinic Where She Was Having Throat Surgery When She Stopped Breathing *UPDATE* Video Added

• Legion of notables shows up at New York's Temple Emanu-El to remember the legend, who died at 81 on Thursday
• Among the crowds: Kathy Griffin, Whoopie Goldberg, Howard Stern 
  
  
• In her…

• Ailina Tsarnaeva, 24, charged with aggravated harassment targeting a 23-year-old Harlem resident 
• Tsarnaeva's boyfriend and the Manhattan resident are locked in a custody battle over their three children 
• Ailina and her sister, Bella,…

BREAKING NEWS: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have FINALLY got married after nine years together

• Angelina didn't tell her actor father Jon Voight about the wedding
• The couple married at their $60 million Chateau in Nice, France
• There…

 

A police sketch of the suspect. (NYPD)

A man pretending to be a taxi driver picked up a woman and her three kids early Sunday morning and drove them to a secluded location behind a Forest Hills building, where he attempted to sexually assault the woman. According to the NYPD, the suspect picked up the family at 207th Street in Manhattan around 2:45 a.m., and, claiming to be a cab driver, took them to 7900 Queens Boulevard. The children…

Prime Minister Perry Christie says his administration will discuss new initiatives to deal with criminal activities in the Bahamas after gunmen shot and killed his press secretary Latore Mackey on Monday.

Mackey, the former Deputy Director of the Bahamas Information Service (BIS), was shot multiple times in his government registered vehicle and police are working on the theory that an argument inside a nearby…

Oprah Winfrey has been cast to play Richard Pryor's grandmother in an upcoming biopic about the legendary comedian. As we previously reported, Mike Epps landed the role of Pryor.

Pryor's widow, Jennifer, told TMZ that Oprah lobbied hard for the role of Marie Carterbecause she wanted to show another facet of her acting ability.…

The Bahamas government has paid tribute to Latore Mackey, the former Deputy Director of the Bahamas Information Service (BIS), who was found dead on Market Street on Monday.

Foreign Affairs Minister Fred Mitchell said he was “saddened” by the murder, adding that Mackey, on joining the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) worked “like a fish in water.

“He carried out excellent…

ISRAEL BERRÍOS BERRÍOS, 58, WAS ARRESTED AT HIS RESIDENCE ON MAY 13 

The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency says a suspended Catholic priest has pleaded guilty to child exploitation charges for taking a minor on a cruise with the intent to engage in criminal sexual conduct.

Israel Berrios-Berrios who pleaded guilty in court on Thursday was arrested on…

Living reggae legend John Holt collapses onstage in UK

Veteran Jamaican reggae singer John Holt died in a London hospital on Sunday. He was 69.

Copeland Forbes, Holt’s manager since 2006, confirmed the entertainer’s passing.

“John died at 2:40 am English time. His [John’s] nephew informed of his death,” Forbes told OBSERVER ONLINE.…

The 2014 MTV Video Music Awards aired Sunday night, August 24th. The big winner on the evening was Beyonce. The superstar singer took home three awards, includingBest Video with a Social Message for "Pretty Hurts."

Miley Cyrus won Video…

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A group of Siberian dancers have become a global twerking sensation with their YouTube video generating more than 30 million views.

A recent story in the UK’s Daily Mail reports that “the international spotlight on Yelena’s school came as a result of a video made by Zhenya Remizovskiy, which has now amassed more than 30 million hits on…

Lauryn Hill decides to release a sketch of a track that's been sitting in her vault entitled"Black…

Four people were killed when a twin engine Cessna plane crashed as it approached Freeport on the island of Grand Bahama on Monday, police have confirmed.

They have not released the identity or nationalities of the four men on the Cessna 340 that had taken off from Florida, pending notification of their families.

Assistant Commissioner of the Royal Bahamas Police…

The NY City Subway IS safe: De Blasio holds press conference to insist that there is no terror threat after Iraqi PM's claims that ISIS will launch strike {VIDEO+PICS}

An Islamic State group video released Sunday purports to show extremists beheading a dozen Syrian soldiers and ends with a militant claiming to have killed U.S. aid worker Peter Kassig, the latest slaughter proudly broadcast by the group on the…

Moment Michael Brown was shot dead 'caught on audio recording': FBI handed potentially damning tape of ELEVEN rounds being fired - including final volley of 'kill shots'