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Michael Jackson, pop music legend, dead at 50
Posted by ShopinJA in International News on June 25th, 2009
By Todd Leopold | CNN
(CNN) — Michael Jackson, the show-stopping singer whose best-selling albums — including “Off the Wall,” “Thriller” and “Bad” — and electrifying stage presence made him one of the most popular artists of all time, died Thursday, CNN has confirmed.
He was 50.
He collapsed at his residence in the Holmby Hills section of Los Angeles, California, about noon Pacific time, suffering cardiac arrest, according to brother Randy Jackson. He died at UCLA Medical Center.
Lt. Fred Corral of the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office said an autopsy would probably be done on the singer Friday, with results expected that afternoon. Watch crowds gather at Jackson’s hospital »
“Michael Jackson made culture accept a person of color,” the Rev. Al Sharpton said. “To say an ‘icon’ would only give these young people in Harlem a fraction of what he was. He was a historic figure that people will measure music and the industry by.”
Jackson’s blazing rise to stardom — and later fall from grace — is among the most startling of show business tales. The son of a steelworker, he rose to fame as the lead singer of the Jackson 5, a band he formed with his brothers in the late 1960s. By the late ’70s, as a solo artist, he was topping the charts with cuts from “Off the Wall,” including “Rock With You” and “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough.” Watch Jackson perform at a 1988 concert »
In 1982, he released “Thriller,” an album that eventually produced seven hit singles. An appearance the next year on a Motown Records 25th-anniversary special cemented his status as the biggest star in the country. Timeline: The life of Michael Jackson »
For the rest of the 1980s, they came no bigger. “Thriller’s” follow-up, 1987’s “Bad,” sold almost as many copies. A new Jackson album — a new Jackson appearance — was a pop culture event. iReport: Share your memories of Michael Jackson
TWIN OF TWINS ARRESTED
Posted by ShopinJA in Entertainment Buzz on June 25th, 2009
Dancehall duo held on reasonable suspicion of fraud
Twin of Twins - Contributed Photo
Paul and Patrick Gaynor, more popularly known as the dancehall duo, Twin of Twins, were yesterday taken into custody by the Half-Way Tree police on reasonable suspicion of fraud.
The brothers are accused of taking $50,000 from an upcoming artiste, under the guise that they were able to give him the opportunity to travel to the United States of America to perform.
It is alleged, however, that they failed to deliver on their promise and subsequently refused to return the complainant’s money. The act is alleged to have taken place earlier this year and was reported to the police in February.
The brothers were arrested yesterday along Half-Way Tree Road and are now in custody awaiting an interview.
The duo are known for their comedic routines featuring witty social commentary and jabs at popular figures in the entertainment and political worlds. Their latest release, Trial and Crosses, has been getting rave reviews from fans.
Source: The Jamaican Star
Deadly cellphone fight
Posted by ShopinJA in Breaking News on June 25th, 2009
Really Sad to read about something like this, more so that it resulted in the death of a student. Back in my school days, one would never imagine the day when a cell phone would be allowed in schools, to the point where ‘every’ student has a cell phone, yeah its convenient, but something like this should be done in moderation, and them beyond that, seems every student has a knife now 
One auto school student killed, second serious in hospital
BY KIMMO MATTHEWS, Observer staff reporter matthewsk@jamaicaobserver.com | Thursday, June 25, 2009
A student from the Kingston-based Jamaican German Automotive School died in hospital yesterday while another was battling for life last night following a late morning dispute over a cellular phone at the school.
Students exit the Jamaican German Automotive School on Maxfield Avenue, Kingston, yesterday morning. Classes at the automotive school were suspended yesterday after a fight between two students over a cellphone left one dead and the other battling for life at hospital. (Photo: Bryan Cummings)
Up to press time yesterday the name of the deceased was not released, but a school official gave the ages of the students involved in the fight as 18 and 19 years respectively.
Jamaica Importing Beef Patties?
Posted by ShopinJA in Breaking News on June 25th, 2009
Heard on the news that various companies were given the OK to import frozen beef patties into Jamaica 
I’m not saying this is odd, but on the reals, the beef patty is one of the many trademarks of Jamaica, and i honestly think importing it into the country is rather ridiculous in some aspects. Here is an Article on the matter from the Jamaica Gleaner.
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Gov’t rejects JMA’s patty concerns
Published: Thursday | June 25, 2009
The Government has dismissed concerns raised yesterday by the Jamaica Manufacturers’ Association (JMA) about the importation of frozen patties, arguing there was nothing illegal about persons engaging in such trade.
“What we can do is lament the fact that patties are brought in here on a competitive basis but we can’t prevent people from importing anything into Jamaica,” said Karl Samuda, minister of industry, investment and commerce. “We can’t stop it because we are an open market.”
Samuda was responding to alarms raised by the JMA about imported frozen patties out of the United States being sold by a Corporate Area supermarket.
The JMA had raised the issue at its annual general meeting yesterday morning.
“There is Juici Beef, there is Tastee Patties producing and Jamaicans are purchasing imported patties and I find this totally ridiculous,” said Omar Azan, re-elected president of the JMA.
Granny abuses child for stealing credit?
Posted by ShopinJA in Breaking News on June 22nd, 2009
A 65-year-old woman was slapped with criminal charges following the beating of her 12-year-old grandson, who allegedly stole credit from her phone.
The incident happened in Cross Keys, Manchester.
According to the Area Three police, the information they have so far received suggests that the child was beaten after he is said to have transferred $200 worth of credit from the woman’s cellphone to his girlfriend’s cellphone.
The grandmother was charged with assault and cruelty to a child on Wednesday.
“So far, what we have is that the boy was beaten after he stole some credit from his grandmother’s cellphone and sent it to his girlfriend. That is actually what he said. He had bruises all over his boy and he also had an injury to his head,” Inspector Martin Howell of the Area Three Police Division told THE STAR.
Single mother loses against RIAA, has to pay $2.4m
Posted by ShopinJA in International News on June 19th, 2009
A US jury has ordered a 32-year-old woman to pay $US1.92 million ($A2.4 million) in damages for illegally downloading 24 songs in a high-profile digital piracy case.
Jammie Thomas-Rasset, a single mother of four from the US state of Minnesota, was found liable for using the Kazaa peer-to-peer file-sharing network to download the songs over the internet.
The jury took just under five hours to reach its verdict.
It ordered Thomas-Rasset to pay $US1.92 million dollars - or $US80,000 ($A100,000) per song - to six record companies: Capitol Records, Sony BMG Music, Arista Records, Interscope Records, Warner Bros. Records and UMG Recordings.
Thomas-Rasset had been convicted previously, in October 2007, and ordered to pay $US220,000 ($A275,000) in damages but the judge who presided over that trial threw out the verdict calling it “wholly disproportionate” and “oppressive”.
The Recording Industry Association of America and major music labels have brought suit against thousands of people for illegally downloading and sharing music, with most agreeing to settlements of between $3000 and $5000.
Bolt’s house robbed
Posted by ShopinJA in Breaking News on June 18th, 2009
Thugs steal items while track star abroad competing | By: Marlon Vickerman, Star Writer
Shameless scoundrels yesterday broke into the Lady Musgrave Avenue, St Andrew house of triple Olympic record holder Usain Bolt, making off with electronics valued at more than $100,000.
Speaking with THE STAR yesterday, Deputy Superintendent Michael Phipps of the St Andrew Central police said that the Olympic champion’s brother, Sadeke Bolt, who lives at the premises as well, made a burglary report to the station after the incident.
laptop valued $90,000
Reports are that the criminals broke into the house between 12 a.m. and 4.am. yesterday and stole digital cameras, cellphones and a laptop said to be valued at some $90,000.
The police said that scene-of-crime personnel have since examined the premises and investigations into the theft are already under way.
Attempts to contact the sprinter’s brother were unsuccessful.
JLP wins NE St Catherine by-election
Posted by ShopinJA in Breaking News on June 17th, 2009
A Mair victory
JLP wins NE St Catherine by-election | BY ERICA VIRTUE Observer writer virtuee@jamaicaobserver.com | Wednesday, June 17, 2009
RIVERSDALE, St Catherine - It was expected.
Jamaica Labour Party candidate Gregory Mair (right) and supporters celebrate his victory in yesterday's by-election for the North-East St Catherine seat outside his constituency office in Riversdale last night. (Photo: Joseph Wellington)
The Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP’s) Gregory Mair was re-elected member of parliament for the St Catherine North Eastern constituency in yesterday’s by-election, defeating the People’s National Party’s (PNP’s) Granville Valentine by more than 2,600 votes.
Last night, after all votes in the 99 boxes were counted, Mair ended with 6,329 ballots compared to Valentine’s 3,672. Mair won yesterday’s contest with 265 more votes than the 6,064 he polled in the September 2007 general elections to beat the PNP’s Phyllis Mitchell who received 5,105 votes.
Last night, the PNP’s deputy general secretary, Julian Robinson, extended congratulations to Mair and the JLP for what he said was a resounding victory.
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