'Ban vulgar sessions' - Church body says public transportation, street dances promote lewd lyrics
The Jamaica Council of Churches (JCC) has become the latest addition to the ongoing debate surrounding the purification of Jamaican dancehall music, with the organisation calling for a further ban to be placed on street and community dances, which perpetuate the playing of sexually...
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Uneasy pon di gully side
Clabow! My heart jumped and my knees started to wobble. I was standing on a pothole-riddled sidewalk in the community known as Cassava Piece in St Andrew and started looking around for the source of the sound, all the time ready to hit the pavement, should it become...
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Obama unveils US$75b mortgage relief plan
Seeking to tackle "a crisis unlike any we've ever known," United States President Barack Obama unveiled an ambitious US$75 billion plan Wednesday to keep as many as nine million Americans from losing their homes to foreclosure. Announcing the plan in Arizona - a state...
West Indies staring at defeat
ST JOHN'S, Antigua (CMC): West Indies face a huge challenge to save the third Test, after England set them a highly improbable, if not impossible, target of 503 for victory yesterday.West Indies were 143 for three in their second innings, with Ramnaresh Sarwan not out...
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EDITORIAL - Sagicor's good lesson for teachers
Change is not usually easy, so we do not expect Richard Byles to find easy embrace of his plan to introduce a performance-based remuneration system at Sagicor Life Jamaica.Indeed, there will be active resistance among some employees, accustomed as they are to fixed...
LETTER OF THE DAY - Dangers of dictating tastes for others
The Editor, Sir: While I fully support the ban on daggerin' songs in relation to radio (certainly for terrestrial but not satellite) and free-to-air TV, I do not agree that it should apply to cable...
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Scorpio 21 shines in production
Behind the scenes, breathing life into some noteworthy music video, is the talented producing trio of Scorpio 21. Rachelle Mayers and Renais Marshall, two television producers from HYPE TV, founded the company in September 2007.
Sweet remedies of lime (lemon)
For many rural folk, going to a doctor for 'minor' ailments was the last resort, especially if their grandmother had worked her magic with something from her kitchen cupboard on them first.
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