Jamaica
Passport picture of Arleme Lym (Observer)
Executive Assistant of GraceKennedy in Jamaica and her mother Dorothy Lym were the victims of a vicious murder early yesterday morning at their Queen's Way home in Kingston 10.
According to the police, Arlene Lym had gone outside to perform her routine morning exercise while her mother was having breakfast.
The younger Lym was attacked and stabbed by a man who was apparently hiding in the washroom at the back of the complex. On hearing her daughter's screams, Dorothy Lym went outside to investigate and was also brutally attacked and stabbed.
Neighbours found both women outside the back entrance to their building.
After days of speculations, it turns out Young Money’s Nicki Minaj will not be appearing on music competition reality show “The X-Factor.”
According to TMZ, the “Your Love” rapper will NOT be taking a gig on the show.
“Rumors of Minaj’s participation on the show have been spreading like wildfire … with Simon Cowell himself fanning the flames … but sources connected to Minaj tell us she won’t be a judge on the show …adding, “There’s nothing going on with [X Factor].”"
JAMAICA'S former Honorary Consul to Barbados Marlon Gordon says his staunch advocacy on behalf of Jamaican nationals who are being discriminated against in that eastern Caribbean country cost him his post.
Gordon resigned in a huff as Jamaica's consular representative in that country in January, and the Barbados government had been less than welcoming of him because of what he says is his 'no-nonsense' stance on their wholesale disdain for Jamaicans.
"The Barbados government is upset because I talk up. They have made the post vacant in circumstances which have now exposed the Jamaican public to abuse. It is quite obvious that the government doesn't want anybody to stand up," he told the Observer.
Gordon was responding to queries by this newspaper about the treatment of his countrymen in Barbados after Jamaican Shanique Myrie recounted a horrific experience at the Grantley Adams Airport earlier this month.
She told the Observer she was subjected to a humiliating body search, bad-mouthed and locked up before being booted out of the island without explanation.Jamaica
The landlord who removed the roof of his tenant's dwelling, causing her possessions that were left inside the house to be damaged by rain, has now fully reimbursed the complainant after he paid over $27,000 in court yesterday.
A no order was then made against Glenmore Compass in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court after he made his last payment towards the $98,000 compensation amount.
However, as it occurred on previous court appearances into the matter, there was another twist in the case, as Compass told the court that the complainant has been maligning him on the road.
"She's embarrassing me on the road," he explained to the court.(Peep the track “Ready Fi Dem” below)
Jamaica's Dancehall General Bounty Killer is not known to be shy when it comes to speaking his mind through his music.
The dancehall heavy weight recently drop a hard hitting track called “Ready Fi Dem” in which the Killer called out long time nemesis Beenie Man as well as Sting promoter Isiah Laing.
Voicing on the “Run Di Place” Riddim, Bounty Killer said, “Wi a di rum blood, gimmi back mi Hennessy, if di one Beenie ever call mi name again yo si, mi naan do no more Sting, all the one Laing yo si.”