March 31, 2009
Via BBC News Reggae singer Luciano has been charged with harbouring a fugitive who shot and wounded three police officers, Jamaican police have said. Police Superintendent McArthur Sutherland said the 44-year-old – real name Jepther McClymont – was charged and released after posting bail. The stand-off last week ended with the fugitive gunman, Andrew Senior, being killed at Luciano’s home in Kingston. Two of the injured officers are still being treated in hospital. Oh dear….smh….
March 7, 2009
Via BBC News The wife of Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has been killed in a car crash in which he was also slightly hurt, party officials say. Susan Tsvangirai was travelling with her husband south of Harare when their vehicle was in collision with a lorry. Mr Tsvangirai, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party, formed a unity government with President Robert Mugabe last month. Mr Mugabe and his wife have visited his former long-term rival in hospital. Speaking […]
September 23, 2008
This will either go straight to DVD or cable television…..
September 21, 2008
‘Playa Hater’ is taken from Biggie’s sophomore album ‘Life After Death’. When I first heard this track I could not stop laughing, and Puffy’s contribution kills me every time. I’m just sorry that Biggie didn’t live to make a video for this track, and to drop it as a single. Reading some of the comments on YouTube it’s clear that ‘Playa Hater’ has gone over some folk’s heads (how I do not know). They actually think that Biggie and Puff were being serious when they recorded this track. LOL SMH.. Favourite line: “Wake up, take off […]
September 20, 2008
DJ AM and Travis Barker Former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and DJ AM were critically injured Friday night after a Learjet crashed in South Carolina, killing four other people. Two plane crew members and two passengers were slain in the accident just before midnight following an performance. Barker and DJ AM (real name Adam Goldstein) have been admitted to an Augusta, Georgia burn unit. Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said air traffic controllers saw sparks coming from the plane shortly before […]
September 18, 2008
Motown songwriter and producer Norman Whitfield, whose credits include hits I Heard It Through The Grapevine and War, has died in Los Angeles. Whitfield – believed to be 67 – worked at the legendary label in the ’60s and ’70s, adding a rock edge to soul music. Many of his hits were co-written with Barrett Strong, with whom he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002. The pair won a Grammy in 1972 for Papa Was A […]
August 12, 2008
Antigua’s government will introduce the death penalty for crimes involving weapons in the wake of the murders of a British honeymoon couple. Catherine was killed and Ben Mullany died later in hospital in Swansea The new sentencing legislation will be introduced for anyone who uses a gun or knife in a crime which results in death or serious injury. The inquest into the fatal shootings of honeymoon couple Ben and Catherine Mullany has been opened and adjourned. Three forensics staff from the […]
June 10, 2008
A passenger aircraft has burst into flames while landing at the main airport in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. Sudanese officials say about 100 people are believed to have been killed out of the 203 passengers and crew on board. The plane was landing in stormy weather when an engine caught fire, the airport’s director told Sudanese TV. Sudanese officials said it was a Sudan Airways flight from the Jordanian capital Amman via Damascus, Syria. TV footage showed the wreckage consumed by flames […]
May 20, 2008
Rosimeiri Boxall plunged 30ft to her death A vicar’s daughter leapt out of a window and plunged to her death in a desperate attempt to escape teenage bullies, police believe. Rosimeiri Boxall, 19, fell 30ft as she tried to get away from her ordeal in a bedsit used as temporary accommodation for homeless people. At first police believed the teenager had been pushed or thrown from the third-floor window of the Victorian building near Greenwich, south London, but are now confident she […]
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