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 BY RENAE DIXON Observer staff reporter  Monday, October 24, 2016     The gruesome murder of 76-year-old Herbert Johnson in his bed last Thursday morning has left members of the Battersea community in shock. Johnson was shot multiple times, including in the face, after two gunmen invaded his home minutes after midnight. A distressed Caneta Johnson recalls the final minutes with her husband of over 40 years. Family members and residents of Battersea which spans two parishes, Trelawny and St Ann, said the death of the farmer was a big shock to the community. “Why? What? Those are the questions everybody asking,” Timarley Johnson, one of Johnson’s seven sons said. “The way how them deal wid mi father, mi no think him deserve that kind of death,” Johnson continued. Timarley said if his father had died from natural causes, it would be easier for the family to accept his passing. “When mi hear say daddy dead mi no feel nervous, because mi a say him up in...

Thursday, October 13, 2016 Excerpt from Jamaica Observer MARVIN ‘Fat Man’ Campbell, who was wanted by the police for incest and later listed as a ‘person of interest’ in last Sunday morning’s grisly March Pen Road attack which left three children and two women dead in Spanish Town, St Catherine, surrendered to the police yesterday. CAMPBELL… was accompanied by pastor Campbell turned himself over to members of the high command at the Office of the Commissioner of Police accompanied by Bishop Rowan Edwards. Superintendent Stephanie Lindsay, head of the Corporate Communications Unit, told the  Jamaica Observer  last night that the police were making arrangements for Campbell to be questioned this morning. She also reported that he was handed over to senior investigators from the Major Investigations Division (MID) and was being processed. Campbell was asked to surrender to police by midday on Monday following Sunday’s gruesome murder-arson attack in which his ...

OK! Magazine Janet Jackson is gearing up to become a mother for the first time with husband Wissam Al Mana and amid their preparations, the lovebirds have committed to the most important part: the name! A source told OKMagazine.com exclusively that the 50-year-old mother-to-be and billionaire businessman have chosen a moniker for their unborn baby and it’s going to a tribute to Janet’s late brother, Michael. “They have already chosen a name,” said the source who added the baby’s “first or middle name” will be Michael. Janet is due in “late November,” said the source, and they’re all ready for the baby with a nursery, clothes and toys. “They are both thrilled right now and they have everything ready,” said ... Read more

Tues day, October 11, 2016  | 11:12 PM Excerpted Jamaica Observer KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) – The Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport has commissioned the production of statues of several track and field athletes, in honour of their outstanding contribution to the development of Jamaican track and field. Four statues will be made of track and field stars Usain Bolt, Veronica Campbell-Brown, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, and Asafa Powell over the next two years. They will be as part of a wider planned development of the stadium complex, which includes the National Sport Museum. Bolt, Fraser-Pryce, Campbell-Brown, Powell Sport Minister Olivia Grange, who provided details of the Government's programme of activities to celebrate the nation’s Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic heroes, at Spanish Court Hotel in Kingston, today said the first two statues – Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce – will be completed in time for the Jamaica 55 Independence celebration...

By TANESHA MUNDLE Observer staff reporter mundlet@jamaicaobserver.com  Monday, October 10, 2016 THREE children and two of their mothers were killed in March Pen, St Catherine, early yesterday morning, after gunmen swooped down on their houses, sprayed the homes with bullets, and set the structures ablaze. Family members identified the victims as Salesha Evans, 24, and her nine-year-old son Revaughn Evans; Venisha Bartley, 22, and her two-year-old daughter Koyandra Wynter; and 14-year-old Marvin Campbell Jr. The police have named a relative of one of the victims as a person of interest in the incident. Police say that he is also wanted for incest and in connection with a recent triple murder in the area. He is being asked to make himself available to detectives at the Spanish Town CIB by midday today. The five were reportedly killed after a group of heavily armed men, estimated about 15, including some dressed in police uniforms and masks, went to a section of the communi...

LES CAYES, Haiti — A hospital now a shambles, its floors swamped with garbage and water, absent electricity. People living in the streets, camped in front of their broken homes. Buildings smashed into splinters. Farm fields flattened, portending a hard year ahead. “For me, Roche-à-Bateau is not a place to live anymore,” said Warens Jeanty, 26, a tourism operator surveying the beach towns and picturesque port hamlets that dot  Haiti ’s coast. “People have nowhere to stay.” As Haiti picks through the detritus left by Hurricane Matthew, more bodies are turning up every hour. Some estimates said that more than 800 people had died in the storm, more than double what the government has reported, though it acknowledged that the toll was unknown. In one part of the country’s southern peninsula, nearly 30,000 homes were destroyed and 150 lives lost, officials said. And a full accounting of damage has not even started. “I had never seen anything like this,” said Marie Yolene Gateau,...

10/07/2016 04:45 pm ET |Huffingtonpost  An audio recording from 2005 features Republican presidential nominee  Donald Trump  making lewd comments about women during a conversation with then-”Access Hollywood” host Billy Bush.  Excerpts of those remarks appear uncensored below. On the recording ― a video in which Trump can be overheard talking with Bush while on the way to film on the set of a soap opera ― Trump claims he tried to have sex with a married woman and says he can grab women “by the pussy” because he is a celebrity.  The Washington Post  and NBC News published the recording on Friday. Donald Trump “I did try and fuck her,” Trump can be heard saying on the video in reference to an unnamed woman. “I moved on her very heavily. In fact, I took her out furniture shopping,” Trump continues. “She wanted to get some furniture. I said, ‘I’ll show you where they have some nice furniture.’” “I moved on her like a bitch, but I couldn’t get t...

10/01/2016 11:04 pm ET Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump declared a $916 million loss on his 1995 income tax returns and the large tax deduction may have allowed him to avoid paying federal income taxes for up to 18 years, the   New York Times reported   on Saturday. Donald Trump The Trump campaign, in a statement responding to the Times report, said that the tax document was obtained illegally and that the New York Times is operating as an extension of the presidential campaign of Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. The Times said it had obtained Trump’s 1995 tax records and that they showed he received the large tax benefits from financial deals that went bad in the early 1990s. The newspaper said that tax experts it hired to analyze Trump’s records said tax rules which are especially advantageous to wealthy filers would have let Trump use his $916 million loss to cancel out an equivalent amount of taxable income over an 18-year period. The Times said t...

The Police have launched an investigation into the murder of a man at a premises reportedly owned by prominent attorney-at-law Patrick Bailey yesterday. The body of the dead man, identified only as 'Gully', and who was reportedly a caretaker of the premises, was found at about 4 a.m. with multiple stab wounds and what appeared to be a bullet wound to the head. The dead man was reportedly in his early 50s. Up to late yesterday afternoon, hours after police had processed the crime scene and left the property, the Constabulary Community Unit (CCU) had still not issued a report on the incident that caused a shutdown of the usually busy Barbican Road in St Andrew in the morning rush hour yesterday. CRIME SCENE "What I can confirm is that the police responded to a crime scene at the Barbican premises where a man was said to be stabbed to death," offered Senior Superintendent Stephanie Lindsay-Clarke, head of the CCU. Up to late yesterday morning, long after the...

09/30/2016 06:50 pm ET |  By Rebekah Kebede KINGSTON, Jamaica (Reuters) - Hurricane Matthew surged in power on Friday to become the Caribbean’s first major hurricane in four years as it moved towards Jamaica and Cuba with winds of up to 160 miles per hour (260 kph) powerful enough to wreck houses, forecasters said. Matthew was about 440 miles (710 km)  southeast of Kingston, Jamaica, Matthew was about 440 miles (710 km) southeast of Kingston, Jamaica, and the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) designated it as a Category 5, the strongest on the Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane intensity. The strongest hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean since Felix in 2007 was forecast to make landfall as a major storm on Monday on Jamaica’s palm-fringed southern coast, home to the capital and Jamaica’s only oil refinery. It could affect the island’s main tourist areas such as Montego Bay in the north. “The government is on high alert,” said Robert Morgan, Director of Communications...