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DOCUMENTARY: GAY MEN LIVING IN JAMAICA

March 17, 2014

Maurice Tucker visits gay men and prostitutes living in Kingston Jamaica to find out more about their lives. I get the impression old Maurice here isn’t entirely comfortable with the subject matter judging by the choice of song chosen to open the documentary and this short synopses: This is a documentary on gay men living in Jamaica as male prostitutes. It is a taboo to be gay and living in Jamaica thus these men face daily reprisals allegedly from the police and […]

UK TV: BIG REUNION STARS DAMAGE SET TO APPEAR IN ‘FLY ON THE WALL’ TV SERIES

March 9, 2014

Digital Spy reports that hit R&B group Damage (minus Coree Richards) will star in their own fly on the wall television series. Jade Jones, Andrez Harriett, Noel Simpson and Rahsaan J Bromfield – will be followed by cameras as they try to continue their musical comeback. Damage apparently also want to use the TV show to give viewers a glimpse inside their private lives, and to ‘give people who don’t get a chance to come into this industry a foot up’. ‘It’s […]

UK THEATRE: PRODUCER GOLDIE AND FORMER EASTENDERS STAR CHARLES VENN TO STAR IN ‘KINGSTON 14’

February 24, 2014

Hit producer Goldie and former Eastenders star Charles Venn will star in the new theatre production KINGSTON 14, written by BAFTA award-winning and Olivier-nominated playwright Roy Williams (Offside – BBC, Suckerpunch) and directed by Clint Dyer (Olivier-nominated The Big Life, The Westbridge). The play also stars Brian Bovell, Ashley Chin, Gamba Cole, Derek Elroy, Trevor Laird and Tyson Oba. Story: Set in modern day Jamaica, KINGSTON 14 follows the story of James, a British police officer, who is sent to Kingston to investigate the murder of a UK tourist. James struggles to lead a proper investigation when […]

VIDEO: COMMUNITY IN ACTION AGAINST EXORBITANT AIR FARES TO JAMAICA WITH LOVENA BROWN

February 15, 2014

Lovena Brown and members from the FFBJ (Facilitators For A better Jamaica (FFBJ) Sylbourne Sydial and Malik Muhammad discuss the international lobbying campaign aimed at British Airways and Virgin Atlantic regarding the exorbitant airfares from the United Kingdom to Jamaica. The aim is to work in conjunction with both airlines to achieve two major changes: 1. To see average airfares from the United Kingdom to Jamaica being reduced to around £500. 2 . To see an increase of baggage allowance from one(1) to two (2) […]

UK NEWS: FORMER FRIEND FOUND GUILTY OF ACID ATTACK ON NAOMI ONI

January 23, 2014

Mary Konye has been found guilty of hurling acid in to the face of her former friend Naomi Oni. Mary Konye, 21, dressed in a veil and attacked Naomi Oni after following her home. Ms Oni, 21, a former friend of her attacker, was left scarred and needed skin grafts after the incident in Dagenham, on December 30 2012. Konye, of Canning Town, denied throwing acid but a jury at Snarebrook Crown Court returned a guilty verdict after more than seven hours of deliberations. […]

NEW TV CHANNEL ‘LONDON LIVE’ COMMISSIONS HIT BLACK BRITISH WEB SERIES AND A NEW SITCOM

January 23, 2014

London Live has commissioned series 1 and 2 of the hit black British web series Brothers With No Game and new sitcom The T-Boy Show. The T-Boy Show: stars YouTuber Don’t Jealous Me (aka Tolulope Ogunmefun) in a multi-cultural sitcom following the exploits of T-Boy (Tolu), a rich young Nigerian who comes to live with his cousin and aunt in London. Brothers With No Game: a comedy drama series based on the hit YouTube show of the same name. It follows four young Londoners […]

TWITTER UK ISSUES STATEMENT ADDRESSING ONLINE ABUSE

January 22, 2014

In the wake of the racism and threats received by former footballer turned pundit Stan Collymore, social media giant Twitter has issued the following statement: We cannot stop people from saying offensive, hurtful things on the Internet or on Twitter. But we take action when content is reported to us that breaks our rules or is illegal. We have features that allow people to block accounts from following them, unfollow accounts they don’t want to see and filter the replies they receive […]

UK NEWS: ACTOR NOEL CLARKE FURIOUS WITH THE GUARDIAN OVER MISLEADING ARTICLE

January 12, 2014

A misleading article published on The Guardian website has angered actor Noel Clarke. According to blogger and film critic Ben Child, Clarke’s horror flick Storage 24 was America’s lowest grossing film of 2013. Child wrote: A British horror set in a self-storage facility from actor and film-maker Noel Clarke was the poorest performing movie at the US box office last year with a paltry £44 ($72) haul.  Storage 24 was shot on a reportedly tiny budget of around £1.6m and was Clarke’s first film to appear in American […]