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A policeman and a senior director of Shocking Vibes, the promotions company for popular entertainer Beenie Man, were among three people shot dead in Kingston on Tuesday night...



News Source: Jamaica Observer

Shurwayne Winchester said yesterday that his Road March victory was a gift to Tobago. The Tobago-born artiste is from Signal Hill. Winchester’s 2004 soca hit ‘Look De Band Coming’ was played 255 times over Carnival Monday and Tuesday, leaving Destra Garcia in a distant second position with ‘Bonnie & Clyde,’ which was played 103 times.

Double tragedy struck a Claxton Bay family after two of their relatives, brothers, were killed in an accident in the United States last Thursday. Kevin ‘Nicko’ Sooknanan, 21, and his younger brother, Keegan, 17, died after the car they were in reportedly skidded off an icy road around 9.30 pm off the Southern State parkway in Bay Shore, hours after they visited relatives at Brent Wood, Long Island, New York.

Foreigners tried to flee Haiti on Wednesday, some guarded by U.S. Marines, as looting erupted in the capital and pressure mounted for international intervention in the 3-week-old uprising against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide...



News Source: USA Today

The road manager for music producers, Shocking Vibes Production, was shot and killed Tuesday night. The police report that Paul Tyrell was in his car on Constant Spring Road, in the vicinity of the Dunrobin Avenue intersection, when he was shot by a gunman.

CARICOM chairman, Prime Minister P.J. Patterson, has written to the United Nations (U.N.) Security Council, requesting the intervention of a U.N.-led peacekeeping force in the ongoing civil unrest in Haiti...



News Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Geovanni Simms, a 14 year-old student of the White Marl Primary and Junior High School was killed yesterday and three of his schoolmates injured when a pick-up truck ran into them while they stood under a tree near their school along the Mandela Highway in St Catherine.

Barbados’ Foreign Affairs Minister Kerrie Symmonds on Monday said his Ministry knew about the existence of the 2003 Memorandum of Understanding between Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela, but did not know the contents.

Legends led the way once again at the Parade of the Bands competition in Port-of-Spain. By the time the five-time Band of the Year winner had crossed the Queen’s Park Savannah stage with its presentation, Freedom, the only question was whether the other bands could catch up.

AS was his strategy on Carnival Monday, Shurwayne Winchester was out on the music trucks gathering support for his Road March contender, "Look De Band Coming." However, Winchester faced stiffer competition on Carnival Tuesday as Destra Garcia ("Bonnie and Clyde") and Machel Montano ("Craziness") ensured that their respective tunes also got some attention.