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Princess Diana Wednesday, August 31, 2016 Princess Diana died from serious injuries in the early hours of August 31 1997 after a terrible   car   crash in Paris.   Her tragic death led to a huge outpouring of grief among the British public who laid masses of floral tributes in her memory. As Britain marks the 19th anniversary of her death on Wednesday, here is a selection of photographs from her life.  Diana, Princess of Wales   (Diana Frances; [a]   née   Spencer ; 1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997), was the first wife of   Charles, Prince of Wales , who is the eldest child and   heir apparent   of Queen Elizabeth II . Princess Diana Diana was born into a family of  British nobility  with royal ancestry as  The Honourable  Diana Spencer. She was the fourth child and third daughter of  John Spencer, Viscount Althorp and  the Honourable   Frances Roche . She grew up in Park House, situated o...

BY BRIAN BONITTO Associate Editor -- Auto & Entertainment bonittob@jamaicaobserver.com  Wednesday, August 31, 2016  Luciano’s United States visa was cancelled by American law enforcement officers last weekend. The artiste, who was scheduled to perform on the Philadelphia Jerk Festival at Fairmount Park on Sunday, took to social media to advise promoters and fans of the development. Luciano “I regret to announce that whilst crossing the border from Canada into America by air on August 25th, 2016, I underwent an abnormal interrogation during which my personal hand luggage was searched. During the search, a mixture that I normally use as a herb medicine for my throat was found and after numerous tests it was claimed to be illegal because it contained cannabis extracts. The herbal liquid was a very small amount (less than one gramme), but as a result my visas were revoked and I was denied entry into the US. “I sincerely regret the inconvenience and disappointment ...

BY TANESHA MUNDLE Observer staff reporter mundlet@jamaicaobserver.com  Wednesday, August 31, 2016   Portia Simpson Miller yesterday said she was unaware of the campaign funding scandal in which her People’s National Party (PNP) has been mired for more than a week and which has triggered a fresh round of conflict within the ranks of the fractious political Opposition. However, she told the press that she would check on it as soon as she got home. Simpson Miller was speaking to journalists following her foundation’s presentation of $4 million in scholarships and bursaries to 42 students at The Courtleigh Hotel in New Kingston. SIMPSON MILLER... I’ll have to check it when I get home “What missing funds?” she asked with a puzzled look on her face in response to questions about PNP Treasure Norman Horne’s report that some of the party’s candidates in the last general election collected money from donors but have not accounted for the funds. “I don’t know ab...

Published:  Aug 29, 2016 6:09 p.m. ET The GOP is traditionally known as the party of Wall Street, but this year investors, for the most part, are betting against the Republican standard-bearer. The stock market is predicting Hillary Clinton to win in a landslide . “The market appears to have decided not only that [Hillary] Clinton will win, but that it won’t be close,” David Woo, a strategist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, said in a report distributed Monday. “Investors like landslide victories.” Woo noted that the S&P 500 has risen more than 4% since July 5, which marks the beginning of the 90-trading-day countdown to the election on Nov. 8. During years when presidential candidates won by a margin of more than 80% of Electoral College votes, the S&P 500 posted average returns of 8.4% in the 90 days leading up to the election, as this chart illustrates:  The last time stocks outperformed the current rally at the halfway point was when Ronald Reagan won...

August 24, 2016 -NEW DELHI (AP): Doctors in northern India have surgically removed 40 knives from the stomach of Police Constable Surjeet Singh who had swallowed them over the past two months, one of the physicians said on Tuesday. The 42-year-old man is recovering in a hospital in Punjab state after undergoing surgery last Friday in which doctors removed the knives - some folded and some with exposed blades up to seven inches long. Police Constable Surjeet Singh lies under a table displaying the 40 knifes  removed from his stomach as he recuperates in a hospital in Amritsar, India, yesterday. Dr Jatinder Malhotra, who assisted during the five-hour operation, said Singh was apparently suffering from a psychiatric disorder and is now being counselled. Malhotra said he had never before heard of a case of a person swallowing knives. "In my 20-year career, and in all the medical literature that we checked, there has never been a case like this one, where a person has sw...

  Cristina Criddle     23 AUGUST 2016 • 10:56AM U sain Bolt has been photographed in bed with a Brazilian student in Rio amid rumours he would be marrying his girlfriend Kasi Bennett after the Olympics. Jady Duarte (right) shared photos taken with  Usain Bolt on Whatsapp   CREDIT:  JADY DUARTE/WHATSAPP Jady Duarte, 20, shared pictures of the topless athlete on Whatsapp as more photographs emerged reportedly showing Bolt kissing a second woman at the club. The Olympic champion is seen   kissing the mystery brunette, who was wearing a  lanyard with Olympic branding, in the VIP area at the venue, according to the   MailOnline .  M iss Duarte tweeted in Portuguese to say her night  with the sprinter was "not a big deal" and "normal", admitting she had not realised who the athlete was until her friend pointed it out. One photo shows  the Jamaican gold medallist  kissing the woman's cheek an...

BY TANESHA MUNDLE Observer staff reporter mundlet@jamaicaobserver.com  Wednesday, August 03, 2016   It wasn’t a daily chore. But occasionally the three St Catherine farmers whose bodies were pulled from a cave in Dunbeholden yesterday would go there to get water for their crops. Last Friday, 48-year-old Richard King, 36-year-old McGray Sergon, and Alfred Succan, believed to be about 36, died during that quest for the precious resource. According to family members, the men died after inhaling toxic fumes from a pump they were using to fetch the water. A fourth farmer, whose identity the  Jamaica Observer   did not ascertain, escaped the tragedy and was taken to Spanish Town Hospital where he is being treated. On Monday, police reported that they had launched a search and rescue operation for the men who, they said, were trapped in the cave after they got into difficulties. But yesterday, the dead men’s families rubbished that report as they, along with fir...

MONTEGO BAY, St James — Heavy rains associated with Tropical Storm Earl yesterday caused severe flooding in sections of the resort city of Montego Bay. Among the areas affected were the newly developed Fairview Shopping Centre, where a number of motor vehicles were observed submerged in rising flood water. Sections of St James Street, Dome Street and Rosemount were also flooded, which caused a slowdown in commercial activities. Mayor of Montego Bay Councillor Glendon Harris attributed most of the flooding that affected the city, especially on Dome Street, to the clogging of silt traps by garbage. " The garbage [has been] blocking silt traps, therefore the water can’t run off as it is supposed to, so you get a build-up (of flood water) with the persistent, heavy rain,” Harris said. Officers from the parish council, he said, went into the town after the rain to determine work that needs to be done to prevent further flooding.