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A Florida appeals court is ordering a new trial for a woman sentenced to 20 years to prison after she fired a warning shot at the ceiling during a dispute with her husband. Marissa Alexander, 32, said she fired a bullet at the ceiling because she was afraid of her husband. No one was injured but …
Idris Elba’s film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival to a standing ovation for the cast, which features Idris in the title role. At a press conference for the film, Idris said he was unable to meet with the man he portrays due the South African icon’s fragile state. “Like everybody, …
Trayvon Martin killer, George Zimmerman is back in the news again, this time for threatening his wife with a gun. ABC reports that Shellie Zimmerman called 911 shortly after 2pm today (9 September) and reported that her husband assaulted her father, Colin Morgan, and was waving a gun around and threatening her and her relatives. …
A man accused of shooting his wife and then posting a photo of her body on Facebook pleaded not guilty at a court hearing in Miami. 31-year-old Derek Medina was formally charged with second-degree murder three weeks after the death of his wife, Jennifer Alfonso. Medina wrote to his “friends” on Facebook, “I’m going to …
Thirty protesters picketed the Jamaican High Commission in London on Wednesday, 28 August, in protest against the mob murder of teenage cross-dresser Dwayne Jones and a 41-year-old gay man, Dean Moriah. Mariah was a popular entertainment coordinator in Jamaica’s north coast tourism industry. He was fatally stabbed, and his house was set ablaze on Tuesday, …
Pint sized child prodigy Carson Huey-You will be beginning full-time college courses at Texas Christian University in Dallas where he will be studying to become a quantum physicist. Carson is only 11-years-old but he speaks Mandarin Chinese, plays the piano and solves calculus equations for relaxation. He’s the youngest college undergrad in the school’s history. …
Thanks to Miley Cyrus twerking is now a worldwide phenomena. All over the web news outlets have been reporting on her crazy (and some have said disgusting) display at the MTV Video Music Awards (VMA). It’s such a big thing that ABC News had to call in a scientist to explain it. What is Twerking? …
Prison Break actor Wentworth Miller came out as gay and gave a polite but firm up-middle finger to an invitation to St Petersburg International Film Festival as a “guest of honour”. According to Reuters Wentworth was invited to attend the Russian festival but turned it down because of Moscow’s new anti-gay laws. The actor posted …
Reports from the Associated Press claim that Jamaica could face a ban from the Olympics if the government don’t respond to accusations from a former insider who alleges drug-testing procedures are lax. Former Executive Director of the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission, Renee Anne Shirley said the island agency had no shortage of “troubling” problems during her …
Happy Independence Day fellow Jamaican’s at home and abroad. It’s 51-years since Jamaica made a break from Britain. The Country is still within the Commonwealth and has the Queen as head of state. Jamaica’s Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller has published her Independence speech on the Jamaican Government website. It’s all very heart-warming but she failed …
It was good news for Lewisham Hospital campaigners today as the High Court quashed Jeremy Hunt’s decision to downgrade Lewisham Hospital saying that the Secretary of State for Health acted unlawfully. Below is the full report that comes from Leigh Day, the Law firm acting for the Lewisham Campaigners: The High Court today (31 July …
If you were wondering if Jamaica is still the most homophobic country in the world the story of 17-year-old Dwayne Jones should set you straight. On 22 July, gender non-conforming teen Dwayne Jones was attacked by a crowd of party-goers who chopped and stabbed him up then dumped what was left of his body in …
Musician Wiley launched an attack on the county of Cumbria after being booed off stage at music festival CockRock on Saturday (20 July) night. Cockermouth Rock Festival organisers in Cumbria have confirmed that they will take legal action against Wiley after he walked off stage during his set. The London-based rapper/grime artist left the stage …
They (whoever they are) say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and another branch of ‘they’, say that beauty is only skin deep. Which bunch of ‘they’ do we believe? Are they both right? As humans, we just can’t help challenging other people’s perceptions of beauty. We get an idea in our …
It’s been reported that Trayvon Martin killer, George Zimmerman and another rescued four people from a car in Florida last week. The alleged rescue came four days after he was acquitted of Trayvon’s death. Zimmerman was said to be one of two men who helped free four family members trapped in an overturned Ford Explorer …
It’s been a long time coming but Rapper Lil Wayne finally apologised to the family of murder victim Emmett Till. Wayne caused controversy earlier this year when it emerged he had made a crude reference to Till, a black teenager who was murdered in 1955, in a remix of Karate Chop, his collaboration with Future. …
US neighbourhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman who shot dead unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, is now a free man. Protesters have taken to the streets in the US as black community leaders demanded that the authorities pursue a federal civil rights case against Zimmerman. In Los Angeles, police fired non-lethal beanbag baton rounds after demonstrators …
Former world 100 metres record holder Asafa Powell and Olympic 4×100 metres relay silver medallist Sherone Simpson tested positive for the same banned stimulant, oxilofrine. Powell, 30, was the last man to hold the individual 100m record before countryman Usain Bolt broke it in 2008. Powell later helped Jamaica to win 400m relay gold at …
Experts and pundits are speculating that George Zimmerman is likely to walk free. Zimmerman case judge, Debra Nelson, has allowed jurors to consider a lesser charge of manslaughter as well as the main charge of second-degree murder, both strongly denied by Zimmerman, who says he shot the unarmed teenager in self-defence. Zimmerman could walk out …
Let me get this straight: Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson is featured on the front cover of Essence magazine. Some folks are up in arms, saying he shouldn’t be on the front cover because he doesn’t date black women. Does that sum it up? Actor and former wrestler Dwayne Johnson who is bi-racial (black and Samoan), tops the “Baddest Brothers” …
Women who work night shifts for 30 years or more are more than twice at risk of developing breast cancer, says a new Canadian study. The research, led by Queen’s University in Kingston found that nurses, care workers, call-centre handlers, cleaners, some shop workers, and others who work night shifts for a long time can …
No stranger to complaints about his airline, Sir Richard Branson was tickled to read a complaint letter to Caribbean airline LIAT which has a partnership with Branson’s Virgin Atlantic. The sarcastic open letter was written by Arthur Hicks and first appeared in The BVI Beacon, a newspaper in the British Virgin Islands, in April, but …
Jamaica is set to become the latest country to impose a public smoking ban. Health Minister Fenton Ferguson announced on Tuesday that smoking will be prohibited in public places beginning 15 July. Ferguson says businesses will have six months to post “No Smoking” signs, and all tobacco products will have to include new warnings about …
Rihanna‘s Diamonds World Tour touched down in Amsterdam at the weekend and the star immediately treated herself to the delights of the city. On Saturday, RiRi posted several photos on Instagram documenting her blunt smoking adventures with one of her BFFs Jennifer Rosales. Everyone’s dissing on RiRi’s pink veiled beanie but I love it. You …
