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 Wednesday, June 01, 2016     ATTORNEYS representing Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller and three People’s National Party (PNP) officials in the long-standing Trafigura matter yesterday filed an appeal seeking to halt the proceedings after High Court Judge Justice Lennox Campbell ordered that subpoenas be issued for them. “I’ll be going to court on Monday. A court order will be shown to the judge, and that should end the matter for that day. An appeal has already been filed and the court order is a consequence of that appeal,” Queen’s Counsel K D Knight told the Jamaica Observer  when contacted yesterday. Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn, QC, yesterday explained that the subpoenas were issued after Simspon Miller, Robert Pickersgill, Phillip Paulwell, Colin Campbell, and businessman Norton Hinds failed to appear in court.  The witnesses were required to give sworn testimony regarding the investigation by the Netherlands Governm...

BY TANESHA MUNDLE Observer staff reporter mundlet@jamaicaobserver.com  Monday, May 30, 2016     IT’S been years since some residents of the inner-city community of Rema in St Andrew Southern have been waking up to the unpleasant sight and smell of raw sewage settling in their backyards and seeping into their houses. Daphne says she wants something done about the mosquito-infested drains in Rema. Now they are tired of it and are calling for the intervention of Minister of Local Government and Community Development Desmond McKenzie, since efforts to get help from the local representatives in the People’s National Party (PNP) stronghold have so far failed. “A long time wi a face dis, but dem seh dem ago fix it and all now. It look like a politics... a politics mek wi a suffer,” declared one resident, who gave her name only as Shaneka. She said that most of the people who live in the problem area are supporters of the ruling Jamaica Labour Party. “Check the smell...

By  JACQUES STEINBERG Published: December 18, 2009 DANBURY, Conn. — Ray Crouch, a senior at Danbury High School, logged onto the computer in his family’s living room just after 5 p.m. on Tuesday and entered the Web site of the  Yale  admissions office. Enlarge This Image Christopher Capozziello for The New York Times Kenny, Martina, Ray and Carol Crouch have until May 1 to decide whether to attend the same college or to branch out. Readers’ Opinions  Post a Comment on The Choice »  |  Early Admission Figures Enlarge This Image Christopher Capozziello for The New York Times Kenny, Martina, Ray and Carol Crouch have collectively made more than 30 applications to college, and not to all the same places. Suddenly the screen turned blue — Yale blue — and an image of a bulldog, the university mascot, appeared, followed by “Welcome to the Class of 2014.” Ray, 18, had been offered a spot in the next freshman class, under ...

BY ALICIA SUTHERLAND Staff reporter sutherlanda@jamaicaobserver.com  Sunday, May 29, 2016   MANDEVILLE, Manchester — Ironically, it was his quest to find a job which landed 29-year-old Alwayne Smith in his present predicament, where he barely has an income. In 2011 he was mysteriously and severely burnt at a house where he was staying, after leaving his home in Oxford, north western Manchester, for a job interview in the hotel industry in Montego Bay. Alwayne Smith In December last year, months after returning home following his prolonged stint in hospital for a second time, he was shot by gunmen in what was allegedly a case of mistaken identity, while returning from a river in his community where he went for a bath. He said the gunmen attacked him and another member of his community, but he received more injuries because he could not move as quickly when the shots were being fired.  Multiple surgeries later, he said that he is still recuperating from the bu...

BY ALDANE WALTERS Sunday Observer writer  Sunday, May 29, 2016     WHEN news broke on April 26 of the heart-breaking suspected suicide of 13-year-old J’Quan Forbes the night before, it shocked people who knew him and many others across the island. Bernard Forbes is being comforted by his aunt, Jasmine, as he mourns the loss of his son J’Quan, during the funeral  service for the 13-year-old Wolmers’ Boys’ School student at Swallofield Chapel yesterday.Michael Gordon  Yesterday, that shock and disbelief permeated the air at Swallowfield Chapel in Kingston where a thanksgiving service was held for J’Quan’s life. The service was characterised by the intermittent stroll of family members up to the front of the church to pay respect to the Wolmer’s Boys’ School student, whose body lay in a glass-topped casket decorated with a collage of his image. His mother, Kimesha Pottinger, sat and wept to herself and toward the end of the service hugged the casket, lou...

Friday, May 27, 2016 | 1:05 AM     KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Police have just confirmed that two men were shot and killed and two others were injured on Hughenden Avenue in St Andrew in what the law officers are surmising as a drive by shooting last night (Thursday). The name of the men who were killed and those injured have not been released as yet. The OBSERVER ONLINE reporter on the scene is reporting that one of the men killed was a car dealer and the other is from May Pen in Clarendon. The two injured men are receiving treatment in hospital.

BY RACQUEL PORTER Observer staff reporter porterr@jamaicaobserver.com  Thursday, May 26, 2016    THE body of 13-year-old Brittanie Cohen, who was swept away by raging floodwaters in St Thomas on Tuesday night, was found wrapped around a tree along the Golden Grove main road yesterday. Brittanie, a seventh-grade student of Paul Bogle High School, and two of her peers were trapped by floodwaters as they made their way home from school, during heavy rains induced by a trough that has been lashing the eastern section of the island since early Tuesday — badly damaging roads and homes. The bus that was transporting the students from Golden Grove to Dalvey, where Brittanie lived, had to abort the trip because of rising floodwaters, residents alleged. Residents told the  Jamaica Observer  that Brittanie and two of her peers attempted to make the journey home by foot, when she attempted to cross the flooded road at Hampton Court, and was swept away. The other tw...

BY EDWIN STATS HOUGHTON PHOTOGRAPHS BY ERIC RAY DAVIDSON May 23, 2016, 8:01 am ET In a rare photo shoot,  GQ Style  caught up with Bob’s living legacy: the Marley sons, daughters, and grandchildren who are  keeping  Tuff Gong  tougher than ever. Cedella Marley 48 y-o Damion "Jr. Gong" Marley, 37 y-o Ziggy  If the world's expectations ever fazed Bob's firstborn son, he's never let it show. “I don't carry any weight,” he says. “This is a family. Whatever we are is the same way we grow up—nothing has changed, really. Each individual role is important.” He sees himself less as a patriarch than as a “voice of reason.” Still, there's a clear “hierarchy of the elders, the adults, which is Cedella, me, and Sharon (the  oldest). Stephen is a bridge to the younger ones, who wasn't around Bob a lot.” If anything, his siblings' success—both in their own ventures and in shepherding the Marley brand—has freed him to be more personal in the studi...

 Jean Lowrie Chin  Monday, May 23, 2016    In the quiet district of Duanvale, Trelawny, is a lady whose life has crossed three centuries. She was six months in the making at the turn of the 20th century and her parents, Elizabeth Riley (who lived to 96) and John Mosse, welcomed into the world their daughter, Violet, on March 13, 1900 — born on the same premises where she still lives, 116 years later. 116-year-old Violet Mosse Brown “I live by the grace of God and I am proud of my age!” declares Mrs Violet Mosse Brown, the world’s second-oldest living person according to the  Guinness Book of Records  and  Wikipedia . Mrs Mosse Brown exudes peace and contentment as she sits on her cool verandah, enjoying the comings and goings of the district. Beside her is her 96-year-old son, Harold Fairweather, incredibly youthful in appearance and widely believed to be the oldest person with a living parent.  He lived in England for many years but ...

 BY RENAE DIXON Observer staff reporter dixonr@jamaicaobserver.com  Monday, May 23, 2016 TYRONE Taylor proudly displayed the more than 40 goats, mainly Nubian-bred, that he now owns as he spoke with the Jamaica Observer North and East about the value of hard work and commitment. The farmer from White Hall in St Mary said he started out with only one goat and has worked at growing his stock significantly over the last three decades. “One goat mi start wid, but anywhere the goat breed, mi find them,” Taylor said, adding that he did not own only one goat for long. “Man no haffi tief ennuh... Mi sell about four times this amount already as mi did have up to 60 goats at one time,” he explained.  “Farmers from St Ann, Clarendon and Portland buy from me because of the types of goats mi have; mi get buyers from all over,” he told  Observer North and East . Many of the farmers know about Taylor as a result of his participation in the various agricultural shows in...

Bolt Getting Treatment For Hamstring Injury In Germany Published: Wednesday | May 18, 2016 | 12:00 AM File Bolt KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC): Published 5/18/16 Usain Bolt is being treated in Germany for an "aggravated hamstring injury" following his first race of the season, his coach Glen Mills has disclosed on national radio. The two-time Olympic 100m and 200m champion tweaked the hamstring during Saturday's Cayman Invitational, Mills revealed during an interview on Jamaica's Hitz 92fm radio station on Monday. "If you noticed in the race, he was grimacing towards the end," Mills told Hitz 92fm radio. However, Mill said Bolt's injury is unlikely to stop him from racing in Friday's meeting in Ostrava, the Czech Republic. Bolt is being treated by Hans-Wilhelm Muller-Wohlfahrt, the Munich-based doctor who has attended to him for years. He raced to an ordinary ...

BY HOWARD CAMPBELL Observer senior writer  Tuesday, May 17, 2016   Despite cancelling the last two shows on his 40th anniversary Blackheart Man Tour due to illness, Bunny Wailer will go ahead with North American and European dates this summer. His manager, Maxine Stowe, said an itinerary for the mostly festival gigs should be disclosed this week. The month-long, 16-city Blackheart Man Tour celebrated the 40th anniversary of Wailer’s landmark album of the same name. Wailer, 69, played club dates on the United States east and west coasts, the south and Pacific Northwest. The flu forced him to cancel shows in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on May 6 and Atlanta on May 8.  According to a story in Fort Lauderdale’s  The Sun Sentinel  newspaper, Wailer was advised during a ‘routine consultation’ that ‘it would be harmful for me to continue under these conditions’. It was Wailer’s first expanded US tour in 20 years. Stowe said the shows, which opened April 13 i...

CNN Updated 5:47 PM ET, Mon May 16, 2016 By Debra Goldschmidt and Nadia Kounang,  (CNN)  Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital performed the first U.S. penis transplant, they said Monday, calling it a "landmark procedure." Thomas Manning, 64, is recovering well after the 15-hour procedure performed by a team of over 50 surgeons, doctors and nurses, this month, according to the hospital. Manning, of Halifax, Massachusetts, had his penis amputated after he was diagnosed with penile cancer in 2012. The procedure, also described by the doctors as a "surgical milestone," is called a gentitourinary vascularized composite allograft, or GUVCA. It involves "surgically grafting the complex microscopic vascular and neural structures of a donor organ onto the comparable structures of the recipient." Put another way, "surgeons connected the intricate vascular and nerve structures of a donor penis with those of the 64-year-old transplant recipient," t...

NEW YORK (AP) — Lena Horne, the enchanting jazz singer and actress who reviled the bigotry that allowed her to entertain white audiences but not socialize with them, slowing her rise to Broadway superstardom, has died. She was 92. Horne died Sunday at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, according to hospital spokeswoman Gloria Chin. Chin would not release any other details. Horne, whose striking beauty and magnetic sex appeal often overshadowed her sultry voice, was remarkably candid about the underlying reason for her success. Lena Horne “I was unique in that I was a kind of black that white people could accept,” she once said. “I was their daydream. I had the worst kind of acceptance because it was never for how great I was or what I contributed. It was because of the way I looked.” In the 1940s, she was one of the first black performers hired to sing with a major white band, the first to play the Copacabana nightclub and among a handful with a Hollywood contract. In 1943, ...