Earn money from just reading ads and emails

Robert Gregory Jnr and Dr Damian Ffriend, businessmen and high school friends, have created the Jamaica Advertising Advantage which will allow members the option of earning from a home base. Gregory Jnr is the company creative director and Kingston-based CEO of Designer Fragrances, and Ffriend assumes the role of managing director and is also a life insurance advisor. The latter is also a former manager at the Registrar General’s Department (RGD).

Members of the site will be paid for each ad that they view and 100 per cent of the individual earnings of each person they refer.

Those who sign up at www.jamaicaadvertisingadvantage.com [Refer username=awjm] will earn a minimum US$0.03 cents for reading ads and emails which amounts to a minimum J$150 for every hour spent viewing ads for one minute each. Additionally they will earn bonus equivalent to 100 per cent of the earnings of all the people they have recommended and who signed up using their referral or user name. So, earnings for an hour could be J$150 multiplied by twenty or J$3,000 if you have referred 20 others who use the site and are earning as well.

Now, if this is something you and your friends are prepared to do all day, the dollars could pile up!

“An income of between US$1,000 and US$10,000 is easily achievable depending on the member’s activity,” claims Robert Gregory.

The JAA hopes to have between 1 million and 1.5million members by August 2011 with a minimum of 500,000 by December 2010.

The site has an automated system which will allow members to withdraw their funds via Alertpay whenever they choose once their amount due is above the minimum payout figure of US$100.

The site will route persons to the advertiser’s website once they click on the ads, while it will send them to a landing page hosted by JAA if the advertiser does not have a website.

Gregory and Ffriend, partnering with UK company Eagle traders, are also prepared to give away thousands in US dollars to get the company going, as they have promised Jamaicans who sign up U$20 as a sign up bonus which will be immediately added to their account.

The JAA site is expected to provide companies in Jamaica with a new medium through which they can promote their goods or services.

According to Gregory, the JAA will provide these advertisers with a captive market which can be dissected according to demographics such as age, address, income, sex etc.

“The viewers will be persons motivated to read the ads or emails and to do the surveys where required because it will provide for them an excellent source of additional income.”

Dr Ffriend adds: “We are encouraging persons to go to the website and register now and earn US$20 immediately as this option will not be available for a very long time and eventually there will be a cost to become a member. They may use JAAadmin as their referrer’s username if none was given to them by anyone.”

Robert Gregory, Jr. is a Lifetime Entrepreneur - currently CEO, Designer Fragrances Ltd and Principal of companies in North America. A St. George’s College Old Boy, he is the Creative Director - EMS (in charge of team of graphic designers and promotions)

Damian Ffriend, Ph.D. is a Bishop, Counselling Psychologist, Life Insurance Advisor, Former Manager - Civil Registration, Marketing and Mobile Outreaches (RGD) and a St. George’s College Old Boy. He is Managing Director - EMS

Sign-up Today: JamaicaAdvertisingAdvatage
If asked Refer username = awjm

Source: Jamaica Observer

Gay won the race in a time of 9.84secs, with Bolt over a metre behind in 9.96secs. Both men made good starts, but from 20m, Gay was clearly in the lead, and Bolt was unable to make up the deficit. The two rivals embraced and Bolt congratulated the American before smiling for the cameras.

Tyson Gay beats Usain Bolt to win the 100m at the Diamond League meeting in Stockholm. Photograph: Scanpix Sweden/Reuters

The start of the race was disrupted by two faulty starts as the runners were forced to leave their blocks and restart their routine and the Jamaican triple Olympic champion admitted this was a distraction. Bolt also suffered a calf injury in May, but he refused to blame his preparation, saying Gay was the better man on the day.

“It’s just one of those days for me today,” Bolt told the BBC. “I got a good start but there was no power. But I was ready, I was focused.”

In reference to the faulty starts, he said: “It kind of gets annoying, but I can’t blame that, he (Gay) was ready, he was in better shape than me.”

Gay was equally gracious in victory. “I know what his limitations are, it’s his off-year, and I know he has a lot more left in the tank,” he said, adding that his aim now was to beat Bolt when both men were in top form.

Source: guardian.co.uk

Clarke... who would have turned 78 had he lived to see his birthday on July 17, suffered the first stroke on July 2

In his last days, the firm grip restricted to the left hand was one of the only ways that he could communicate to those around him…sending a message that he was willing to put up a fight for his life, despite a major stroke that had limited his movements.

He could not respond verbally, but the outstanding grip and squeeze of the hand convinced visitors at his bedside that he fully appreciated what was being said, and the messages of support that were coming in for his recovery.

His movement on the left side of his body made up for the deficiencies of the right, which was flattened by the stroke.

That firm grip and fight eluded his grasp shortly after 11 o’clock Saturday night, as he succumbed to his second stroke, at the Andrew’s Memorial hospital in St Andrew.

Interestingly, the death of the former Cabinet minister and vice president of the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) came on the same day that his first wife, Joy was buried at the St Andrew Parish Church, about two kilometres down the road.

Clarke’s second wife, Norma, with whom he spent his last 25 years, was among family members at his bedside when he took his last breath.

Clarke, who would have turned 78 had he lived to see his birthday on July 17, suffered the first stroke on July 2.

The politician had been experiencing serious health issues in recent years, but this did not prevent him from continuing with his private business activities.

Since his retirement from elective politics in 2002, Clarke, an accountant by training ran, among other things, the tourism and entertainment attraction Mystic Mountain with long-time American-born friend, Michael Drakulich in the north eastern tourist resort town of Ocho Rios. The 100-acre property, located beside the popular Dunn’s River Falls, began operating on July 19, 2008.

Born in the large farming community of Belfield in St Mary, Horace Antonio Clarke held the enviable record of not losing a general election, spread over a 30-year period between 1972 and 2002. This was broken only by the PNP’s boycott of Parliament between 1983 and 1989, when then Prime Ministrer Edward Seaga called a snap general election which the PNP said was in breach of a “solemn promise” to clean up the voters’ list before going to the polls.

Clarke served as Member of Parliament for Northern, East Central and later Central St Mary and also filled the Cabinet portfolios of Public Utilities, Mining and Natural Resources, Mining and Energy, and Agriculture under the Michael Manley-led administrations between 1972 and 1980, again from 1989 to 1992, and under PJ Patterson from 1993 until his retirement.

Since his retirement from active politics, Clarke remained involved in party activities on a limited scale, highlighted by his leadership of Dr Peter Phillips’ unsuccessful campaign for PNP leadership in 2006.

Source: Jamaica Observer

Kartel was detained last week Friday and underwent intense questioning after turning himself in to the Greater Portmore Police Station, some three days after the police named him and five other men as major persons of interest.

The artiste, whose given name is Adijah Palmer, was questioned in relation to criminal gangs in Portmore, St Catherine.

Chris Tavares-Finson, one of Kartel’s lawyers, said he was hopeful the deejay would be released.

“His detention order is up tomorrow. We are hoping that they will release him,” Tavares-Finson told the Observer moments ago.

If released, the artiste should be able to honour a booking he has to perform in Ocho Rios.

Kartel is also booked for a show in the Bahamas, Tavares-Finson said. The artiste is also slated to perform at Sumfest.

But Kartel’s release is not guaranteed. Security Minister Dwight Nelson can extend the entertainer’s detention on advice from the police under the current State of Public Emergency under which he was detained. The State of Emergency was called on May 23 as a result of the upheaval by gunmen loyal to accused drug lord Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke.

When Kartel turned in himself last week, his detention was extended from 24 hours to five days.

“Let’s wait and see,” said Tavares-Finson.

Source: Jamaica Observer

THE finance ministry was hit by further embarrassment yesterday, following news that the Auditor General’s Department has uncovered fraud totalling $21 million.

Ministry of Finance and Planning

The disclosure at yesterday’s sitting of the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament came on the heels of revelation that a director in charge of taxation policy at the ministry was slapped with several charges under the Corruption Prevention Act; the Customs Act; forgery; conspiracy to deceive and conspiracy to defraud.

Committee members lashed the Ministry of Finance (MoF) for its weak internal audit system, and chastised new financial secretary Dr Wesley Hughes.

Acting chief financial officer, Granville Green outlined the circumstances under which a powerful position was abused over a four-year period, leaving taxpayers $21 million in the red. Green did not name the person or persons responsible for the theft, but referred to the culprit as “she”, adding that she had fled the island.

“It was a situation wherein this unit was headed by what we call a SEG4 (senior executive group) and one would have thought that, ok, this person is in charge of this unit of about three persons and was authorised. She was the co-ordinator of the MOU secretariat and was liaison between the secretariat, the union, the various training institutions and all that. So she basically could authorise and approve documentations, expenditure, on a basically daily basis,” Green told the committee.

Exposing the weak internal controls, Green said that the fraud was exposed by the ministry’s accounting staff, noting that documents submitted to the accounts department were taken to be legitimate. “But unknown to us, this person was generating documents, invoices, for catering services, training, and various other things. She created even her own catering service.”

Committee chairman, Dr Omar Davies asked Green if the companies were fictitious or were in collaboration with others.

He replied that some were fictitious and in other cases they were in collaboration with legitimate companies.

Among the other entities caught in the fraudulent web are banks, and Green said that the police have zoomed in on a bank supervisor, who is likely to be arrested.

The affected division of the ministry, while it still functions, now requires authorised specimen signatures of signing officers, and only two officers are so designated.

“If their names are not on it, then it is returned,” said Green under pressure from a skeptical Davies.

The meeting was informed that the unnamed woman had also signed and collected cheques representing overseas travel allowances for senior officers, and which were only discovered after one individual who was entitled to the allowances made repeated inquiries about his allowances over a period of almost a year.

Investigations revealed that the monies had already been paid out, but not to the legitimate officer.

The meeting was also told that the millions were paid out to a company for the supply of desktop computers and laptops, the full order of which was yet to be received.

Later in the meeting, it was disclosed that the ministry wanted a messenger to return $38,000 in funds overpaid for messenger services provided to the ministry — through no fault of his own — Dr Davies suggested he be left alone.

Other members agreed with Dr Davies, given the disclosure that the $21 million was stolen and that the accused had fled the island.

To date none of that money has been recovered and no arrest has been made.

PAC members expressed frustrations over the deliberations on the MoF and member Tarn Peralto said that the repeated occurrences were wasting his time.

“I am more convinced that us sitting here is futile. I believe this example has made me realise that, because if it is that we are here to try to manage through the agencies, the expenditures and the methods of accounting through which the taxpayers’ money is protected, then I dare say we are wasting our time, because it is not,” Peralto charged.

Another member, Dr Morais Guy, also vented his frustration.

“I understand that this is a huge ministry. But we have one section of that ministry which is responsible for issuing procurement guidelines and it is the very same ministry that we have people who are, as the AG’s report is indicating, guilty for breaching the same guidelines,” he said.

Ministry officials will return to the PAC next week.

Source: Jamaica Observer

Organisers say the Olympic and world champion switched to the shorter race in Thursday’s event to avoid aggravating a sore Achilles’ tendon.

Athletissima spokesman Pierre-Andre Pasche says Bolt is recovering well from the injury but made the change after consulting his doctor in Munich.

Pasche says the IAAF has accepted the change.

Source: Jamaica Observer

“I can 100 per cent confirm that Usain will not be running at the Commonwealth Games,” manager Ricky Simms told the Times of India.

Simms said he was surprised Jamaica had entered Bolt’s name and urged the organisers of the October 3-14 Games not to raise hopes that the double Olympic and world sprint champion would run in New Delhi.

“Maybe this list was sent in some time ago,” Simms told the newspaper. “The Commonwealth Games is not on Usain?s schedule for this year.

“I do not understand why officials cannot just accept his decision and stop putting out more stories in the press. They should focus on the athletes who are coming to India.”

Bolt’s coach Glen Mills had also said last month that New Delhi was not on the sprinter’s agenda, but Games organisers insisted he would be the star attraction at the Games.

“Bolt will surely come,” organising committee spokesman Lalit Bhanot had told reporters, adding that the Jamaican authorities had included him in the preliminary entry list.

Organisers were hoping that Commonwealth Games Federation chief Mike Fennell, who hails from Jamaica, would convince Bolt to make the trip to New Delhi.

Bolt is currently recovering from an Achilles tendon injury which forced him to miss the Diamond League event in New York last month.

The Jamaican won the 100m and 200m gold medals in world record times at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and repeated the feat at the 2009 world championships in Berlin.

The Commonwealth Games, which feature 71 nations and territories of the former British empire, are India’s biggest sporting event since the Asian Games in 1982.

Source: Jamaica Observer

DANCEHALL deejay Adija Palmer, otherwise called Vybz Kartel, has been named together with five other men as, ‘major persons of interest’, by St Catherine South Police.

The six are all from the parish of St Catherine:

1. Adija Palmer, o/c ‘Vybz Kartel’ from Waterford, Portmore.
2. Omar Lawrence, o/c ‘Hommie’ from Anglin Lane, Newlands, Portmore.
3) Seymour Johnson, o/c ‘Bulb Eye’ from Braeton- Phase One, Portmore.
4) Paul Smith, o/c ‘Kerone’ or ‘Biggs’ from Big Lane, Central Village.
5) Oneil Myurrie, o/c ‘Neily’ from Little Lane, Central Village.
6) Damion Perry o/c ‘Tillyman’ from Old Harbour Bay.

They are asked to turn themselves in at any Police Station in Portmore or any Police Station across the island.

Source: Jamaica Observer

The Late Karl Young

The announcement was made at a thanksgiving service in this town for Young, who is better known as ‘Chief’. Young died in a hospital in Chicago, United States on June 10 after ailing for some time.

Minister of Sports, Culture and Entertainment Olvia ‘Babsy’ Grange made the announcement before hundreds of mourners who turned out to celebrate Young’s life and work at the cruise ship pier in Ocho Rios, the same town where Irie FM is based.

Minister Grange did not say which award would be conferred on Young. However, she said his family had agreed to accept the award, even though Young had repeatedly turned down previous offers to be rewarded for his work.

Grange was among a throng of relatives, friends, employees, media representatives, politicians and well-wishers who paid tribute to the business icon during a nearly three-hour prelude to the official service.

“Karl had been recommended many times for a national honour and every time I think of Karl’s response he was too humble, he didn’t want any recognition,” Grange told mourners.

Members of Karl Young’s family seated in the front row at Saturday’s thanksgiving service for his life in Ocho Rios.

“Today, we want to show Karl’s family that Jamaica loves Karl, that we recognise his work, that the Government wants to pay the highest tribute it can to his work and his memory and so Karl will receive a national honour,” she said.

In a tribute from the Media Association of Jamaica, Chairman Gary Allen said the media fraternity had lost a true son who was dedicated to the growth and development of media in the island.

Allen praised Young for revolutionising the media landscape through the creation of both reggae radio stations, even as he reflected on fond memories of Young whom he described as a very colourful individual.

“He was loyal in his support,” said Allen. “Karl has demonstrated loyal support to the industry for as long as he was a part of it. Karl Young is respected by all of us in the media.”

He described Young as frank and forthright in his approach and said that the media fraternity was saddened by his passing.

Several tributes were paid to Young in song and dance by members of the entertainment industry, including the Cari-Folk singers, AJ Brown, Jabez and L’Acadco Ensemble.

Source: Jamaica Observer