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General Discussion / PNM ,UNC,COP .ORG.TT CHECK IT
« on: September 24, 2007, 10:16:45 AM »
Parties on the net
   

 
 By Lisa Allen-Agostini

ALL THREE major political parties have official Web sites where interested people can go to find party information and contact party representatives.

The ruling People’s National Movement can be found at www.pnm.org.tt; the Opposition United National Congress at www.unc.org.tt; and Congress of the People at congresstnt.com.

While each of the three sites incorporates basic elements such as the party's constitution, an archive of speeches and press clippings, they differ radically in layout and other content.

For example, the COP site is a simple one, with only one photo (of party leader Winston Dookeran) and simple graphics, while the UNC’s is loaded with images.

The PNM site includes a history of the party and biographies of its past leaders, but the UNC’s doesn’t. (Basdeo Panday has been the only UNC leader so far, and there is no bio of him on the site.)

However, it’s only on the UNC site you can find a link to the new and ever-popular social networking site Facebook.com, where you can join a UNC group.

UNC tops list

For sheer impact, the UNC site probably tops the list. It is bold yellow, with large photo-based graphics illustrating various campaign issues such as “Fighting crime our top priority,” and “Continuing our education reforms.”

It’s also the most up-to-date site, with its most recent posting on the home page placed on September 19, 2007.

The bold graphics don’t yield links to documents corresponding to their themes, and elsewhere on the site there is little indication of how the party intends to do what it says it will do on the relevant issues.

Instead, like the PNM site, the UNC site includes comprehensive lists of the party’s previous accomplishments.

The Web site makes no overt reference to the Alliance between the UNC and such parties as NAR, YesTT and the NDP, although the Alliance is referred to in the site’s press clippings and media statements.

COP details plans

Over at the COP site, the party has posted a long and detailed account of its plans in areas such as national security and crime, education, health, transportation and community and local government.

As the only leading party without a track record in government, it focuses heavily on what it will do, instead of what it has done, and compares its approaches with those of the PNM.

There is a comprehensive biography of party leader Winston Dookeran on the site, and the COP is the only party that lists its executive members on its Web site, along with the names of sitting party Members of Parliament.

At the top of the UNC home page is a donation form with pre-selected amounts from US $25 and up, while a similar section on the COP site starts with suggested donations of TT$10.

There doesn’t seem to be a donation form on the PNM site.

PNM site well-designed

On the PNM site, under the heading “Constituency highlights” in the index section “Newsroom,” there are only pictures from Diego Martin Central, Ken Valley’s constituency.

It is one of the few glitches in the site, which otherwise probably proves the best designed and most fleshed-out of the three.

Some of the most interesting spots on the site are the audio-visual section, in which one can view PM Patrick Manning’s speech from the party’s 40th annual convention—though it was posted there two years ago—and the party newsletter Magnum (posted in February, 2007).
 
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Trinbago, NBA & World Basketball / MIAMI HEAT IN PT FORTIN
« on: September 23, 2007, 08:44:33 AM »
« YESTERDAY’S CHILDREN — TRUE LEADERSARTHUR’S HEAT
Article: STACY MOORE   — Photos: DEVON BYRON

A DREAM court come true, many Fanny Village residents described the Miami Heat Arthur Joseph Fanny Village Basketball Court which was officially opened yesterday at a cost of TT$350,000. Residents came out in their numbers, young and old, to show their support and appreciation for Arthur, the Deal or No Deal winner. The court was officially opened to the public on August 29th 2007, as the Deal or No Deal winner himself, Arthur Joseph was present to cut the ribbon at Fanny Village, Point Fortin to open the basket ball court which was refurbished in Miami Heat style. With just only one day before Independence, the Fanny Village Community received a life time gift for generations and future generations.

“This gift would not have been possible if it was not for Arthur’s choice.” said Point Fortin Mayor, Victor Mitchell. Joseph won the “Deal or No Deal” NBC television game show and was given a deal of US$70,700. Also as part of the deal the 2006 NBA champions Miami Heat were to refurbish a basketball court in Trinidad, also naming it after Joseph. Subsequently, Fanny Village, Joseph’s hometown was chosen for refurbishment, after several visits to other courts across Trinidad.

The court was immediately refurbished by The Miami Heat as promised, fully equipped with a recreational area and new basketball equipment shipped from Miami. Heat director, of community affairs Ralph Leon said yesterday, he was thrilled to bring the Heat experience to Trinidad and Tobago. He also made mention of the challenge which was proposed to him which he accepted, but also released a challenge in return for Trinidad and Tobago.” Although we have already embraced the challenge, and the national instrument, the steelpan, will be played at NBA games. “My challenge to you all here is to make basketball here, just as important as cricket and soccer,” said Leon. “So, he said,” we could have reasons to come back to Trinidad.

The day at the new court was full of basketball activity, as Miami Heat forward Wayne Simien, together with ex-NBA player Wally Jones, interacted with the children of Fanny Village teaching and demonstrating basketball. And the Miami Heat Extreme team showed off their acrobatic skills to the villagers.

Also present for the opening ceremony were Miami Heat officials, the Miami Heat mascot, dancers, and Minister of Sports Roger Boynes. Joseph contribution, is now being described by many as a selfless act. His patriotism for his country is now being circulated internationally, said Leon. Joseph indicated that the decision he made, was an opportunity for him to give back something to Trinidad and Tobago. “It was a choice between either purchasing a house for my mom or refurbishing the court here in Trinidad. “After consulting my mother, we both decided on the refurbishment of a basketball court in Trinidad,” Joseph said.

Above article was extracted from the Newsday Newspaper with minor changes.

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General Discussion / INJUSTICE IN GEORGIA
« on: September 22, 2007, 10:34:55 PM »
Injustice In Georgia: The Case of Genarlow Wilson, Part 2
About Poll
Should Teenage Oral Sex Be Illegal?
 Yes, a felony. Period.
 Yes, a misdemeanor. Period.
 A felony if it's forced (not consensual).
 A misdemeanor if it's forced (not consensual).
 No, it's a matter for parents.
 No opinion.

 
Current Results
In January, I wrote about Genarlow Wilson, a Georgia teenager and honor student who was sentenced to 10 years hard time for consensual oral sex with another teenager .... because Georgia law at that time defined his "crime" as a felony, aggravated child molestation.
Fast forward to June. Georgia, my home, remains an unjust state.

Last year, the state legislature tried to wipe the mud off of the state's collective face by changing the law that penalized Wilson. Today, if two teens have consenual oral sex, it's a misdemeanor, not a felony -- just like consensual intercourse. (Yes, it Georgia it was a bigger crime against society to engage in oral sex than in intercourse.) Maximum jail time: 1 year.

However, some of the mud remained. The law was not retroactive. There was no clause to provide relief for Wilson.

This year, a Republican demagogue -- Senate President pro tem Eric Johnson -- blocked a bill (SB 37, pdf) that would have given judges in the state the authority to revisit last year's law and apply it to Wilson. Adding insult to injury, the "leader" lied about Wilson in his floor speech.

This week, a Monroe County Superior Court Judge, Thomas Wilson (no relation), called Genarlow's punishment "a grave miscarriage of justice." He changed Genarlow's sentence to a 12-month misdemeanor with credit for time served (2+ years).

Judge Wilson wrote, "Genarlow Wilson has spent two years in prison for what is now classified as a misdemeanor, and without assistance from this Court, will spend eight more years in prison."

The Georgia attorney general immediately (90 minutes later) announced an appeal, which keeps Wilson locked away, saying that Wilson had "absolutely no authority to reduce or modify the judgment of the trial court."

Probably Right
I am not a lawyer, but the AG's office is probably right. Without the change in law that the Georgia legislature left hanging this session, the Monroe County judge probably did not have the legal authority to do what he did.

However, I applaud his action -- because it finally appears that someone with a modicum of power is acting on moral -- just -- grounds. Certainly, the district attorney who chose to prosecute the case two years ago didn't.

The Republican sponsor of the original legislation doesn't think this is "just", either: "The law was designed to protect kids against really, really bad people doing very bad things... It was never intended to put kids in jail for oral sex."

However, the Judge's action highlights another potential injustice: "Georgia prisons currently hold 189 inmates who were sentenced for aggravated child molestation when they were 21 or younger." How many of them, like Genarlow, are in prison because the legal definition for their crime didn't match the crime? The public doesn't know -- but perhaps the AG's office does, and doesn't want to deal with additional appeals for justice.

A Demagogue Knows All
The Judge's action cannot erase the damage done by Sen. Johnson, who lied about Genarlow on the floor of the state senate. From a CNN Transcript:

ERIC JOHNSON, GEORGIA STATE SENATOR: Mr. Wilson participated in multiple sexual acts with a minor while she was unconscious.

CNN CORRESPONDENT RICK SANCHEZ: Wrong. The girl was not unconscious. The senator also said she was raped. That’s not even what the prosecutor thought.

So we called the senator and asked for an interview.

(on camera) Do you feel bad about the fact that you characterized this as a rape when you were talking yesterday in the Senate?

JOHNSON: No.

SANCHEZ: You don’t have any problem with that?

JOHNSON: No.

SANCHEZ: Because it wasn’t a rape.

JOHNSON: It’s a rape in my mind.

SANCHEZ (voice-over): Here’s what it was in the minds of the jurors. We know; we talked to them.

MARIE MANIGAULT, JURY FOREPERSON: When we viewed the tape, there was absolutely nothing in there that showed us that he in any way encouraged this person, even invited the person to come. Johnson sounds like several of my readers: he (and they) believes that his worldview/belief trumps the decision of the jury. See Thoughts On Justice and Punishment.

Unanswered questions:
If these minors were smoking marijuana, as news reports say, why were these "crimes" ignored in favor of a victimless one? Could it be because possession of less than one ounce of marijuana is only a misdemeanor and can be punished by a maximum of one year in jail and a fine?

If these minors were drinking alcohol, why didn't the law try punish the business or person that sold the alcohol to a minor? We can guess why the teens weren't charged: underage possession of alcohol only a misdemeanor and this DA seemed intent on pursuing felonies. But reportedly, "Alcohol sales to underage or intoxicated persons is a lucrative business and a serious problem in Atlanta." (Genarlow lived in an Atlanta suburb.) However, investigation of alcohol sales to minors seems to be a Department of Revenue function.

Please if anyone of you can find part one of this article please post it .

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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Happy Birthday Thread
« on: September 22, 2007, 08:54:32 AM »
Black Starlin Birthday

Alyuh Monday iz Black Starlin day in Sando ,he celebrating he birthday dat day, so in tribute to the black man leh we post some ah he chunes as far back as yuh could remember. tribute  too Martin Luther King , Black man feelin to party , the carribean man .


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General Discussion / Man feds cats to piibulls
« on: September 20, 2007, 08:36:56 PM »
Police Say Man Fed Cats to His Pit Bulls
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga., Thu Sep 20, 05:53 PM
 
A man captured neighborhood cats and kittens and fed them live to his pit bulls, authorities said Thursday. Tye Hilmo, 21, was charged Thursday with aggravated cruelty to animals.

Hilmo was already in jail on drug, firearm and probation violation charges, Gwinnett County sheriff's spokeswoman Stacey Bourbonnais said.

The new warrant charges that Hilmo "did give injured live cats and kittens to his pit bull dogs and let the pit bulls kill the already injured cats and kittens. Hilmo would capture and injure neighborhood cats for this purpose."

He was arrested Sept. 10 after investigators serving a search warrant on his house found guns and two pounds of marijuana, Bourbonnais said. He has been jailed since then.

Authorities found the bodies of two kittens near Hilmo's residence. Bourbonnais said they also found a gruesome image on Hilmo's cell phone: a picture of one of his pit bulls and one of the mauled, dead kittens, and beneath picture a caption that says "Good Dog."

"It's pretty disturbing," Bourbonnais said.

The initial tip about Hilmo indicated he may be feeding kittens and cats to his dogs to prepare the dogs for fighting, but no dogfighting charges have been leveled against Hilmo, Bourbonnais said.

Sheriff's officials could not immediately say whether Hilmo has an attorney.

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General Discussion / HE READY TO TALK
« on: September 19, 2007, 05:52:39 PM »
CJ told me to favour defence—Mc Nicolls

 
 CHIEF Magistrate Sherman Mc Nicolls yesterday, for the first time, vocally articulated his complaint against Chief Justice Satnarine Sharma.

He has accused the CJ of commending the defence case in the Basdeo Panday integrity trial in 2006 and telling him the points in favour of the defence which he (Mc Nicolls) should note in his judgment.

He has claimed Sharma directed him to find the evidence of CL Financial executive chairman Lawrence Duprey to be truthful and asked for a draft of his judgment before it was delivered. Yesterday, Mc Nicolls spoke of his meeting with Sharma in March, 2006.

The Chief Magistrate said he was shocked by what Sharma said but did not stop him.

“I said nothing to him,” he said, admitting, also, that he was aware that the CJ was committing a crime.

He denied suggestions by Sharma’s lawyer Geoffrey Robertson, QC, that as a man of integrity, it was an indictment on him not to stop the CJ.

“I don’t know if it was a terrible indictment on me...He was speaking, I was listening,” Mc Nicolls said, adding that he made no note of what Sharma told him since he was “not building a case” against him.

He also said he never discussed the evidence in the Panday case with Sharma and did not know where he got it from.

(JL)
 
 
 

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General Discussion / Russia tests superstrength bomb
« on: September 15, 2007, 11:14:44 PM »
Russia tests superstrength bomb, military says

Russia builds vacuum bomb



MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has tested the world's most powerful vacuum bomb, which unleashes a destructive shockwave with the power of a nuclear blast, the military said on Tuesday, dubbing it the "father of all bombs".

The bomb is the latest in a series of new Russian weapons and policy moves as President Vladimir Putin tries to reassert Moscow's role on the international stage.

"Test results of the new airborne weapon have shown that its efficiency and power is commensurate with a nuclear weapon," Alexander Rukshin, Russian deputy armed forces chief of staff, told Russia's state ORT First Channel television. The same report was later shown on the state-sponsored Vesti channel.

"You will now see it in action, the bomb which has no match in the world is being tested at a military site."

It showed a Tupolev Tu-160 strategic bomber dropping the bomb over a testing ground. A large explosion followed.

Pictures showed what looked like a flattened multi-storey block of flats surrounded by scorched soil and boulders. "The soil looks like a lunar landscape," the report said.

"The defense ministry stresses this military invention does not contradict a single international treaty. Russia is not unleashing a new arms race."

Such devices generally detonate in two stages. First a small blast disperses a main load of explosive material into a cloud, which then either spontaneously ignites in air or is set off by a second charge.

This explosion generates a pressure wave that reaches much further than that from a conventional explosive. The consumption of gases in the blast also generates a partial vacuum that can compound damage and injuries caused by the explosion itself.

"The main destruction is inflicted by an ultrasonic shockwave and an incredibly high temperature," the reports said. "All that is alive merely evaporates."

Rukshin said: "At the same time, I want to stress that the action of this weapon does not contaminate the environment, in contrast to a nuclear one."

"FATHER OF ALL BOMBS"

The Tu-160 supersonic bomber that dropped the bomb, widely known under its NATO nickname of "Blackjack", is the heaviest combat aircraft ever built.

Putin, who has overseen the roll-out of new tactical and anti-aircraft missiles and combat aircraft, has ordered "Blackjacks" and the Tu-95 "Bear" bombers to patrol around the world.

The report said the new bomb was much stronger than the U.S.-built Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb -- MOAB, also known under its name "Mother of All Bombs". "So, Russian designers called the new weapon 'Father of All Bombs'," it said.

Showing the orange-painted U.S. prototype, the report said the Russian bomb was four times more powerful -- 44 metric tons of TNT equivalent -- and the temperature at the epicenter of its blast was two times higher.

In 1999 Russian generals threatened to use vacuum bombs to wipe out rebels from the mountains during the "anti-terrorist operation" in its restive Chechnya province.

New York-based Human Rights Watch then appealed to Putin to refrain from using fuel-air explosives. It remains unclear if weapons of this type were used during the Chechen war.

U.S. forces have used a "thermobaric" bomb, which works on similar principles, in their campaign against al Qaeda and Taliban forces in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan.

"It (the bomb) will allow us to safeguard our state's security and fight international terrorism in any circumstances and in any part of the world," Rukshin said.





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General Discussion / Earth quake shakes Indonesia
« on: September 12, 2007, 09:57:47 PM »
Another Powerful Quake Shakes Indonesia
PADANG, Indonesia, Wed Sep 12, 10:38 PM
 

 
   
 
 
The second powerful earthquake in as many days shook western Indonesia Thursday, collapsing buildings in a coastal city and triggering tsunami alerts around the region.

The latest quake was also felt in Malaysia and in Singapore where tall buildings swayed. It triggered at least one strong aftershock.

On Wednesday, a strong earthquake shook Southeast Asia, collapsing buildings, killing at least five people and injuring dozens in Indonesia. That tremor triggered a small non-destructive tsunami off the coastal city of Padang on Sumatra, the Indonesian island ravaged by the 2004 tsunami disaster. A tsunami warning was issued for wide areas of the region and nations as far away as Africa.

Thursday's magnitude-7.8 quake rattled the same area of Sumatra.

Rafael Abreu, a geologist with The U.S. Geological Survey in Colorado, said the quake on Thursday did not appear to be an aftershock to the 8.4-magnitude temblor the day before. But the centers of both were close together.

"We are not calling it an aftershock at this point. It's fairly large itself. It seems to be a different earthquake," Abreu said.

"The quake seems to be pretty shallow," he said. "These are the quakes that can produce tsunamis."

Indonesia issued a tsunami warning, lifted it and then reissued it. A tsunami watch was also in effect for Australia.

 
The USGS said the new quake was centered about 125 miles from Bengkulu, a city on Sumatra. It occurred at a shallow depth of about six miles and struck at 6:49 a.m.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii warned Thursday's quake had the potential to generate a destructive regional tsunami along coasts within 600 miles of the epicenter. It advised authorities to take immediate action to evacuate coastal areas.

Thursday's quake caused extensive damage in Padang, a local official said.

"Many buildings collapsed after this morning's quake," Fauzi Bahar, the mayor, told El Shinta radio. "We're still trying to find out about victims.

Thousands of frightened people piled in trucks or sought shelter on high ground.

After Wednesday's quake, frightened people fled their homes and ran inland, fearing a repeat of the 2004 earthquake and tsunami off the coast of Sumatra that struck a dozen nations around the Indian Ocean. That disaster killing an estimated 230,000 people in a dozen nations, most of them in Aceh province on Sumatra.

"Everyone is running out of their houses in every direction," Wati Said reported by cell phone from Bengkulu, a town 80 miles from the quake's epicenter. "We think our neighborhood is high enough. God willing, if the water comes, it will not touch us here. ... Everyone is afraid."

One witness, Budi Darmawan, said a three-story building near his office fell.

"I saw it with my own eyes," he told El Shinta radio.

The first quake was felt in at least four countries, with tall buildings swaying in cities up to 1,200 miles away. It was followed by a series of strong aftershocks, further rattling residents.

Telephone lines and electricity were disrupted across a large swath of Indonesia, making it difficult to get information about damage and casualties.

Suhardjono, a senior official with the local meteorological agency who like most Indonesians uses only one name, said a small tsunami, perhaps 3-feet high, struck Padang about 20 minutes after the quake. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center also reported a small wave.

But most of the damage appeared to come from the ground shaking.

Two people died when a car dealership collapsed in Padang and another was killed by a fire on the fourth floor of a damaged department store, a witness, Alfin, said by phone. Excavation machinery was being used to search the rubble for survivors, he said.

The Health Ministry said two people died in Bengkulu. The Social Affairs Department said seven had been killed in and around the town. The differing tallies could not be reconciled immediately.

At least 194 people were injured in Bengkulu, reported Amin Kurnia, a doctor who said most were being treated in a compound outside the hospital because its walls were cracked.

The undersea temblor hit around 6:10 p.m. at a depth of 18 miles, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

In Indonesia's capital, Jakarta, hundreds of miles from the epicenter, office workers streamed down stairwells as tall office buildings swayed. High-rises also were affected in Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand.

Sensitive to the 2004 tsunami disaster, governments issued alerts as far away as Kenya and Tanzania in East Africa, telling people to leave beaches. People in Mombasa, Kenya, crowded into buses after hearing the warning over the radio.

Thailand's National Disaster Warning Center sent cell phone text messages alerting hundreds of officials in six southern provinces, and after the danger past broadcast a statement on television to reassure the public.

In India, officials said the tremor was not felt in the remote Andaman and Nicobar islands, some of which are just 150 miles north of the quake's epicenter. But an alert was issued and authorities were told to take precautions, said Dharam Pal, the regional relief commissioner.

Sri Lankans were told to move at least 660 feet inland.

In Australia, the tsunami warning was lifted after only small rises in the sea level were measured at Cocos Island and the Christmas Islands.

Indonesia, the world's largest archipelago, is prone to seismic upheaval due to its location on the "Ring of Fire," an arc of volcanos and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.

———

Associated Press writers Zakki Hakim and Ali Kotarumalos contributed to this report.



 
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General Discussion / Real good obeh man needed in Cedros
« on: September 08, 2007, 08:51:40 PM »
Folks scared of white goat with gold chain
 

Pundit Prabhoodeo Maharaj prays for the community of Granville.

BY RADHICA SOOKRAJ

Nine years after five teenagers of the Cedros community committed suicide within a week, panic has once again gripped the area, since a young mother died after setting herself afire.

While the incident may have been passed off as another suicide, villagers believe that demons drove Dohmattie Seebran, 27, to her death.

As a result, scores of terrified villagers held an inter-faith service at Granville Community Centre on Friday night, in a bid to shield their community from evil.

Worshippers chanted Hindu mantras, bhajans, gospel hymns, Muslim Qaseedas and Christian incantations, as they participated in a candlelight procession through the streets from six o'clock.

Pundit Prabhoodeo Maharaj, a police corporal assigned to the Cap-de-ville police post, led the service, along with Presbyterian Minister Ivan Paul, Roman Catholic priest Fr Wilfred John and Pundits Suren Maharaj and Mannie Maharaj.

Prabhoodeo said they were determined not to have a repeat of 1998, when Vanessa 14, Balraj Baboolal, 18, Aamir Jeetan, 16, Sunil Ramdeen, 16, and Michelle Samsoondar, 18, took their lives within a week.

He said several young women had been acting odd during the past month, after experiencing strange sensations. He said one girl was found wandering in the bushes and when they found her she was almost delirious.

She said later someone was calling her into the forests.

“Another woman said she was at the back of her house when she felt something holding onto her. She couldn’t move,” Prabhoodeo said.

He said several others had come to him reporting that they heard strange voices in their heads compelling them to kill their children and end their lives.

The brother of one of the affected women said they were all terrified, because of the recent developments. He said young women were afraid to walk the streets after dark.

Men were afraid to go to their gardens, while children were afraid to go outside to play.

Resident Ramdeo Maharaj said many people reported seeing a white goat, wearing a gold chain. “I haven’t seen it, but many people did. Everybody is scared.” he said.

Pundit Prabhoodeo said the goat might have been used in a sacrifice which went awry.

“People have their cults and they have unleashed a spirit in the village by doing this sacrifice.”

The pundit said searches were made in the village for the goat but all in vain.

Voices in her head

Meanwhile, villagers are still baffled by the suicide of Dohmattie Seebran. Days before she set herself on fire, Seebran told her husband Mukesh that she was hearing voices in her head.

Speaking at his Boodram Trace, Granville, home, Mukesh said Seebran never showed any suicidal tendencies.

He said they had a happy life and loved their three-year-old daughter Celine very much. He said two weeks before her death, Seebran began complaining of headaches.

“I told my wife to take a rest, because I felt she was just tired. I never expected her to do something like this.”

He said the voices were telling Seebran to kill her three-year-old daughter Celine and then kill herself.

While Seebran was at home alone on August 27, she doused herself with a bucket of kerosene, lit a match and ignited her body.

She languished for three days in San Fernando General Hospital before dying on August 30.

Seebran’s sister-in-law Vera said on the morning of the incident, Seebran admitted that she was not feeling well.

“She tell me that something was in her head and wanted her to do bad things. I tell her that it was probably a demon, and she should pray to get rid of it.

“I left the house to go to San Fernando, and the next thing I heard was she set herself on fire,” Vera recalled.

Since the death, Celine has become even more attached to her father. “She doesn’t like him to go anywhere. She cries all the time.”

She said two other women had experienced similar feelings. (RS)
 
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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Bourda market place
« on: September 05, 2007, 09:36:09 PM »
http://www.bourdamarketplace.com nice vintage calypso and pan sweet pan

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Football / WOMEN SOCCER LEAGUE IN 2009
« on: September 04, 2007, 08:40:54 PM »
VWomen's Soccer League to Start in 2009
Tue Sep 04, 05:55 PM
 

 
   
 
 
Abby Wambach and her U.S. teammates will have a new pro soccer league to look forward to after the Women's World Cup and the Olympics.

Its launch has been bumped back a year to 2009, when the seven-team pro Women's Soccer LLC is set to begin in the spring, league commissioner Tonya Antonucci announced Tuesday.

Teams will be based in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New Jersey/New York, St. Louis, and Washington. Several teams are expected to play in MLS soccer-specific stadiums.

"Careful consideration was taken in timing the launch of the league, as team owners are being judicious to ensure that this league is sustainable and successful in the long run," Antonucci said. "It's a simple matter of preparation and operational readiness."

The league follows the failed Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA), which launched after the success of the 1999 Women's World Cup. Wambach played for the Washington Freedom, but the league folded in 2003 after three seasons even though the stars of the 1999 U.S. team played in the WUSA.

"A league was the most important component to getting me completely prepared to play at the next level," said Wambach, the leading scorer for the U.S. women's national team. "What this means is that more women will have more opportunity to not only play at the next level, but also fulfill lifelong dreams of being a professional athlete."

 
The investors decided to wait to start the new venture until after this month's Women's World Cup in China and the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

"We did not want to impact the various national teams between these two events and we did not want our league to take the focus away from these two great events for our players or our fans," said Michael Stoller, managing partner for Boston Women's Soccer, the ownership group of the Boston Breakers.

The seven ownership groups are: AEG L.A. Women's Soccer; Boston Women's Soccer; Chicago Professional Women's Soccer; Hendricks Investment Holdings (Washington); St. Louis United Soccer; Sky Blue Women's Soccer (New Jersey/New York); and Sting Soccer Group (Dallas).

Phil Anschutz, the owner of the MLS' Los Angeles Galaxy, is the lead investor of AEG L.A. Women's Soccer. Anschutz, of course, spent millions recently to bring David Beckham to his MLS team.

The women's league intends to partner with Soccer United Marketing, which is affiliated with MLS, for sponsorship and marketing. The league plans to announce a new name in the coming months, and more teams may be added.

As CEO of the Women's Soccer Initiative, Antonucci worked the past three years planning the league.

"For years, the U.S. has been home to some of the world's best female soccer players," Antonucci said. "They and their international counterparts deserve to play on a professional stage."

Antonucci said the financial lessons from WUSA have been noted, and investors are taking the long view.

"The new league is taking every step to ensure that this league is a permanent fixture on the nation's professional sports landscape," she said. "We are not expecting overnight success, but are committed to long-term growth and profitability."



 
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General Discussion / TOMMY JOSEPH SON KILLED
« on: September 04, 2007, 09:08:32 AM »



Tuesday, September 4th 2007
 
 
 With his trademark grin absent from his face, a weary-looking Tommy Joseph sat in a car outside the Forensic Science Centre in St James yesterday, awaiting an autopsy on his 25-year-old son, Neketo, who was murdered on Sunday night.

Mustering whatever vocal strength he had, Joseph, a comedian/entertainer and also TT Post employee, told the Express, "I am feeling torn apart."

His sentiments were echoed by his wife, Julie, who said, "We want the perpetrators to be brought to justice, but we all know how the justice system is."

Neketo Joseph, a theatre attendant employed in St Clair, was shot dead during a robbery attempt on the Eastern Main Road, D'abadie, around 10.30 p.m., homicide officers said yesterday.

Joseph (N), a father of an eleven-month-old son, had only moments before left his mechanic when he started experiencing car problems in the vicinity of the La Flourissant housing development. He got out the car to check on the engine and was approached by two men who announced a hold-up.

The younger Joseph was shot once in the waist by the bandits, who then snatched his $10,000 gold chain from around his neck. The bandits then ran off. Joseph died on the spot.

A call was made to the police by several residents who heard the gunshot and officers arrived shortly after.

Relatives of Joseph said his girlfriend was having a "hard time tying to cope with his death".

"His mother, Angela Marcelle, who lives in the United States, is expected to arrive in Trinidad today," a relative said.

"We are trying to be strong and stay that way for Tommy's other son," Julie Joseph said.

Joseph's killing was one of three murders which occurred on Sunday night and are now being investigated by Homicide Eastern Bureau officers.

In an unrelated incident, Homicide officers are seeking the public's assistance in identifying the body of a man found on the stairway of an apartment at Dorata Street, Laventille.

The man, who has been described as being of African descent, five feet eleven, with a low haircut and clean shaven, was found by officers of the North Eastern Division Task Force around 10.45 p.m.

In the final incident on Sunday, self-employed Maraval businessman Simeon deNobriega was found dead by relatives around 5.54 p.m. at his Haleland Park, Maraval home. An autopsy performed on his body yesterday revealed he died from blunt force trauma to the head.

DeNobriega, 34, was found by his father lying in a pool of blood in a bedroom. Police said yesterday they are yet to establish a motive for the killing.

In another matter, an autopsy performed on the body of foreign-used car businessman Ronald Samlal meanwhile revealed he died from shock and haemorrhaging consistent with a gunshot wound.

Samlal, 42, of Eastern Main Road, San Juan, left his home on August 30 to transact business in Chaguanas, but failed to return home and relatives later received a call demanding money for his safe release.

These killings have now pushed the murder toll to 224 for the year thus far, 36 less than last years figure in the corresponding period.
 
 

 Comments: Tommy Joseph's son killed 

 
   
 At least the PNM has gotten the murder rate down.   Posted: 2007-09-04 04:18:00 AM 
 This is extremely sad, and I empathise with the Joseph family. That said, people 

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Football / Oh beck America Hardly Knew Ye
« on: September 01, 2007, 02:29:04 PM »
CARSON, Calif., Fri Aug 31, 08:13 PM
 

 
   
 
 
So much for David Beckham's debut season in America. It's all but over now that the 32-year-old English midfielder is out six weeks with a sprained right knee, to go along with his famously injured left ankle.

His absence not only dampens U.S. enthusiasm for soccer — already on life support — but leaves England's national team without its former captain for a crucial stretch and threatens to deflate the Hollywood hype that elevated Becks and his Spice Girl wife to A-list celebrities.

"I'm incredibly disappointed to be injured again so soon after returning to play for the Galaxy," Beckham said on his Web site Friday. "It's been a year of amazing highs and frustrating lows, but I'm hopeful that I can still play a part this season."

The 32-year-old midfielder sprained his medial collateral ligament in a tackle during the Galaxy's loss to Mexican team Pachuca on Wednesday night. He was expected to be out about six weeks while he rehabilitates behind the scenes.

Beckham's right knee was in a brace Friday and he was ordered to rest for the next five days, Galaxy coach Frank Yallop said.

"We got to make sure he's doing the right thing from day one," he said. "Then his rehab will start and away he goes on both knee and ankle."

 
If he stays out for six weeks, Beckham could return in mid-October, when the Galaxy would have three likely meaningless regular-season games remaining. He joined the team July 13 — well into the season.

For his time — 310 minutes in six of 12 possible games — Beckham earned $20,967 a minute from a yearly salary of $6.5 million. His minutes in three MLS games totaled 198, worth $32,828 a minute.

Beckham has been worth every penny, Galaxy general manager Alexi Lalas insisted.

"Regardless of what we did with David, we were going to be second-guessed. We did what we felt was right for the organization, we did what we felt was right for the player," Lalas said. "Some of it worked out and some of it didn't. These are just moments that you go through. We'll get through this and he will, too."

Beckham's inability to play will impact everyone around him, according to marketing consultant Ryan Schinman, president of Platinum Rye Entertainment.

"The Galaxy, the stadium, the city, the concession stands, the merchandising will all be affected. And the networks showing the games," said Schinman, who works with music and sports celebrities. "You want the guy out there, where he's visible, every week."

But Brand Beckham — which includes his endorsements for fragrance and apparel — will hold up despite his setbacks.

"It's still too early to tell, but these injuries do add drama to his story line. People love soap operas and fairy tales and comeback stories," veteran Hollywood publicist Michael Levine said. "Very few sports heroes make it off the sports page. There's Muhammad Ali ... and David Beckham."

While Beckham is idled, his wife Victoria is moving ahead with her entertainment career. She will play herself on an episode of the ABC comedy "Ugly Betty" this fall, and she will be part of the Spice Girls reunion tour this winter. She also oversees her own line of fashion, fragrance and sunglasses.

"By his side, she props his star up," Schinman said.

Other than a star-studded welcome-to-Los Angeles bash thrown for the Beckhams in July by actors Tom Cruise and Will Smith, the couple has kept a low-profile on the Hollywood party circuit.

But they will always be targets of paparazzi, said Paris Hilton's publicist Elliot Mintz.

"Beckham's injuries have not altered the fact that he's an incredibly handsome and attractive man," he said. "These injuries don't impair how he looks when he's photographed."

Beckham's biggest success has been in moving merchandise and attracting fans.

Initial sales of his No. 23 jersey topped 250,000 and have skyrocketed from there. He gets an undisclosed percentage of every jersey sold, with MLS also sharing in the profits. The Galaxy only makes money if jerseys are bought at its team store at Home Depot Center.

He attracted 66,237 to New Jersey's Giants Stadium for his first MLS start, and the Galaxy enjoyed a few home sellouts in its 27,000-seat stadium.

"It's everything they could have hoped for," Galaxy midfielder Landon Donovan said. "It stinks that he's hurt now, but in the games he's played, they've been fun to watch."

Beckham's extended absence deals a serious blow to the already slim chance the Galaxy had of making the playoffs. Its Major League Soccer record is 3-10-5 — last in the Western Conference.

But losing the world's most famous soccer player impacts more than just the Galaxy, though.

Beckham will miss England's two Euro 2008 qualifying matches against Israel and Russia in London in early September, and possibly two more in October.

Other games in the United States and overseas are in jeopardy, too.

The Minnesota Thunder of the United Soccer League were set to host the Galaxy against an unnamed international opponent on Oct. 10 in the Metrodome.

Beckham's injury "is obviously an important issue for us in doing this game," said Manny Lagos, Thunder director of operations.

The Galaxy has MLS games at Chivas USA (which shares Home Depot Center with the Galaxy), Real Salt Lake, Kansas City and Columbus in September.

Real Salt Lake heavily promoted Beckham's presence for its Sept. 19 game and had 1,000 seats remaining Friday in its 25,562-capacity stadium. The team said it will not offer refunds.

Kansas City advertised Beckham's Sept. 27 visit as the "Midwest Sporting Event of the Year." As of Friday, 28,000 tickets had been sold. No decisions on possible refunds had yet been made, the team said.

The Galaxy has scheduled an exhibition match in Sydney, Australia, on Nov. 27. As part of the deal, the Galaxy promised to reschedule if Beckham was injured or unavailable.

Beckham's knee injury is the same one he had in February while playing for Real Madrid. He returned in time to help the team win the Spanish League championship and regain his spot on England's national team.

"I'm staying very optimistic," he said on his Web site.

———


 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
   


 
Oh Becks! America Hardly Knew Ye
CARSON, Calif., Fri Aug 31, 08:13 PM
 

 
   
 
 
So much for David Beckham's debut season in America. It's all but over now that the 32-year-old English midfielder is out six weeks with a sprained right knee, to go along with his famously injured left ankle.

His absence not only dampens U.S. enthusiasm for soccer — already on life support — but leaves England's national team without its former captain for a crucial stretch and threatens to deflate the Hollywood hype that elevated Becks and his Spice Girl wife to A-list celebrities.

"I'm incredibly disappointed to be injured again so soon after returning to play for the Galaxy," Beckham said on his Web site Friday. "It's been a year of amazing highs and frustrating lows, but I'm hopeful that I can still play a part this season."

The 32-year-old midfielder sprained his medial collateral ligament in a tackle during the Galaxy's loss to Mexican team Pachuca on Wednesday night. He was expected to be out about six weeks while he rehabilitates behind the scenes.

Beckham's right knee was in a brace Friday and he was ordered to rest for the next five days, Galaxy coach Frank Yallop said.

"We got to make sure he's doing the right thing from day one," he said. "Then his rehab will start and away he goes on both knee and ankle."

 
If he stays out for six weeks, Beckham could return in mid-October, when the Galaxy would have three likely meaningless regular-season games remaining. He joined the team July 13 — well into the season.

For his time — 310 minutes in six of 12 possible games — Beckham earned $20,967 a minute from a yearly salary of $6.5 million. His minutes in three MLS games totaled 198, worth $32,828 a minute.

Beckham has been worth every penny, Galaxy general manager Alexi Lalas insisted.

"Regardless of what we did with David, we were going to be second-guessed. We did what we felt was right for the organization, we did what we felt was right for the player," Lalas said. "Some of it worked out and some of it didn't. These are just moments that you go through. We'll get through this and he will, too."

Beckham's inability to play will impact everyone around him, according to marketing consultant Ryan Schinman, president of Platinum Rye Entertainment.

"The Galaxy, the stadium, the city, the concession stands, the merchandising will all be affected. And the networks showing the games," said Schinman, who works with music and sports celebrities. "You want the guy out there, where he's visible, every week."

But Brand Beckham — which includes his endorsements for fragrance and apparel — will hold up despite his setbacks.

"It's still too early to tell, but these injuries do add drama to his story line. People love soap operas and fairy tales and comeback stories," veteran Hollywood publicist Michael Levine said. "Very few sports heroes make it off the sports page. There's Muhammad Ali ... and David Beckham."

While Beckham is idled, his wife Victoria is moving ahead with her entertainment career. She will play herself on an episode of the ABC comedy "Ugly Betty" this fall, and she will be part of the Spice Girls reunion tour this winter. She also oversees her own line of fashion, fragrance and sunglasses.

"By his side, she props his star up," Schinman said.

Other than a star-studded welcome-to-Los Angeles bash thrown for the Beckhams in July by actors Tom Cruise and Will Smith, the couple has kept a low-profile on the Hollywood party circuit.

But they will always be targets of paparazzi, said Paris Hilton's publicist Elliot Mintz.

"Beckham's injuries have not altered the fact that he's an incredibly handsome and attractive man," he said. "These injuries don't impair how he looks when he's photographed."

Beckham's biggest success has been in moving merchandise and attracting fans.

Initial sales of his No. 23 jersey topped 250,000 and have skyrocketed from there. He gets an undisclosed percentage of every jersey sold, with MLS also sharing in the profits. The Galaxy only makes money if jerseys are bought at its team store at Home Depot Center.

He attracted 66,237 to New Jersey's Giants Stadium for his first MLS start, and the Galaxy enjoyed a few home sellouts in its 27,000-seat stadium.

"It's everything they could have hoped for," Galaxy midfielder Landon Donovan said. "It stinks that he's hurt now, but in the games he's played, they've been fun to watch."

Beckham's extended absence deals a serious blow to the already slim chance the Galaxy had of making the playoffs. Its Major League Soccer record is 3-10-5 — last in the Western Conference.

But losing the world's most famous soccer player impacts more than just the Galaxy, though.

Beckham will miss England's two Euro 2008 qualifying matches against Israel and Russia in London in early September, and possibly two more in October.

Other games in the United States and overseas are in jeopardy, too.

The Minnesota Thunder of the United Soccer League were set to host the Galaxy against an unnamed international opponent on Oct. 10 in the Metrodome.

Beckham's injury "is obviously an important issue for us in doing this game," said Manny Lagos, Thunder director of operations.

The Galaxy has MLS games at Chivas USA (which shares Home Depot Center with the Galaxy), Real Salt Lake, Kansas City and Columbus in September.

Real Salt Lake heavily promoted Beckham's presence for its Sept. 19 game and had 1,000 seats remaining Friday in its 25,562-capacity stadium. The team said it will not offer refunds.

Kansas City advertised Beckham's Sept. 27 visit as the "Midwest Sporting Event of the Year." As of Friday, 28,000 tickets had been sold. No decisions on possible refunds had yet been made, the team said.

The Galaxy has scheduled an exhibition match in Sydney, Australia, on Nov. 27. As part of the deal, the Galaxy promised to reschedule if Beckham was injured or unavailable.

Beckham's knee injury is the same one he had in February while playing for Real Madrid. He returned in time to help the team win the Spanish League championship and regain his spot on England's national team.

"I'm staying very optimistic," he said on his Web site.

———

Associated Press Writer Solvej Schou contributed to this report.



 
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General Discussion / POLICE COMMISSIONER NEEDED
« on: August 31, 2007, 07:31:45 PM »
 T&T advertises abroad for COP positio


Friday, August 31st 2007
 
 
 
TO RETIRE: Trevor Paul

The position of Commissioner of Police of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service is being advertised outside the country.

The advertisements are being published as Police Commissioner Trevor Paul is set to retire from the job later this year.

National Security Minister Martin Joseph said yesterday that the Parliament has approved the Commissioner of Police and Deputy Commissioner of Police (Selection Process) Order 2007, that allows the advertisements for Police Commissioner post to be advertised locally, regionally and internationally.

The Order, along with the Commissioner of Police and Deputy Commissioner of Police (Qualification and Selection Criteria) Order, 2007, was tabled in the Parliament just before it went on recess last month. Joseph spoke on the issue in response to questions posed during yesterday's post-Cabinet news conference at Whitehall, Port of Spain.

"The point is is that we have now made it so that anywhere in the world the most suitable person, there is a whole system and process put in place to allow us to recruit the very best," Joseph said.

Joseph also said the person who will replace the nation's next Police Commissioner could either be a man or a woman.

"The intention is to make sure that the next Commissioner of Police is the best one that is available to Trinidad and Tobago, no matter where he or she may come from," he said.

Joseph said that even if the nation's next Police Commissioner was a foreigner, he did not expect this to affect the moral of the senior or junior police officers.
 
 

 Comments: T&T advertises abroad for COP position 

 
   
 Foreign Cop?   Posted: 2007-08-31 12:47:00 AM 
 I am glad that the search for a top cop will go byond the immediate shores of Trinidad and Tobago. This gives dual citizenship nationals abroad a chance to apply also. All too often, the small confines of our shores limits the field of possible candidates. Citizens of TnT living abroad, and 

585
Football / AMUNIATION FOR T&T FUTURE
« on: August 31, 2007, 07:24:14 PM »
The T&T team in training in Changwon on Saturday. PHOTO courtesy TTFF Media

BY ALVIN CORNEAL

Some will call it a rude awakening for our young footballers. Others will refer to it as a disappointing appearance to the FIFA World U17 tournament. There are those who will claim that they knew the results before the matches were played.

Funnily enough, everyone was correct in making their own assessments of our national U17s in Seoul, Korea.

It is not unusual to expect the best from the team we support, providing that we are aware of what is considered the best for T&T in this arena, where the big guns of the football world, seem as uncertain as ourselves as to what they can expect from their own youngsters.

Sitting and watching the matches for a Trini supporter was not just like watching a movie, but there was emotion involved among those who saw this stage as a huge one in the lives of these teenagers.

We saw Ghana score three goals in forty minutes and pondered as to what kind of scoreline will the end result be. It ended 4-1, a relief for the fans who felt that it would be much more.

Many even missed the recognition of the small nation of T&T holding the two-time winners to a 1-1 in the second half and earning 51 percent of the possession.

If we accepted Ghana’s absolute physical superiority and ball dominance in the first half, it would have been equally as fair to admire the courage and determination of the new kids on the block, T&T, who would have come away with valuable lessons from the exercise.

Columbia was five-time better on goals to the Young Soca Warriors, who went to the half time whistle trailing by one goal. To a realist, that would have bothered the Columbians, who were aiming to win the group and move to the round of 16.

Maybe our emotions took a beating when we succumbed to a second goal in the 60th minute and dropped our heads in despair, losing the gist of this essential exercise of learning for the future and allowing a mistake to be ineffective to the mindset of the player.

The Germany experience must have been something extraordinary for these youngsters.

Please, don’t berate them for what must have been a learning experience. If we do, then we shall be as guilty as the mums and dads of these admirable young men, whose only major fault is that they must feel pain and disappointment along the process of a learning experience which should benefit the game and the country in the future.

Even for the coaching staff, the experience was vital, whether it was about the hot climate, the vast time change, the selection of age group teams in the context of how the choice of players was made in the original stages.

 
 
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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Crazy calypso for 2008
« on: August 31, 2007, 04:39:32 PM »
Last nite crazy give ah tase ah he new calypso for 2008 , he say he gul have 6 cell fones and he dos supply she wid callin cards, and she only wah him for cards sorry fork hard .it int come out yet .jus rem yuh hear it here first .

587
General Discussion / PANDAY ON WACK
« on: August 30, 2007, 05:54:39 PM »
Eh guys BAS on wack 90.1 @8.00pm tune in .

588
Jokes / Buckwheat & Darla
« on: August 29, 2007, 09:22:19 PM »
Buckwheat & Darla were in school, and the teacher asks Darla "How do you spell 'dumb'?"

Darla says "d-u-m-b, dumb" The teacher says, "very good, now use it in a sentence."

She says "Buckwheat is dumb"

Now spell "stupid". Darla says "s-t-u-p-i-d, stupid". The teacher says, "very good, now use it in a sentence."

Darla says "Buckwheat is stupid."

Then the teacher calls on Buckwheat and says "Buckwheat, spell dictate."

Buckwheat stands and says "d-i-c-t-a-t-e, dictate". The teacher says, "very good, now use it in a sentence."

"I may be dumb, and I may be stupid, but Darla say my dictate good!"


589
General Discussion / TODAY EBONIC WORD
« on: August 27, 2007, 10:27:50 PM »


Louisiana Public School System


OMELETTE
 
Let's use it in a sentence:
'I should pop yo ass fo what yo jus did, but omelette dis one slide.' 
       

 

590
Entertainment & Culture Discussion / CARIB 101 RADIO STATIONS
« on: August 26, 2007, 01:30:56 PM »
http://HTTP://WWW.CARIB101.COM

Get all yuh favorit sounds you choze ,your favorit sounds iz jus ah clit away

591
Football / Inter- Col- Football
« on: August 24, 2007, 07:45:39 PM »
Now that our under 17 National team is out of the world cup and we are licking our wounds,  this is where we should be asking ourselves questions, would we ever be ready for the national stage,at this tender age there is little doubt that we should be on par talent and ability with any team in the world .
It therefore must be a question of preparation and coaching that causes us to continually embarrass  ourselves ,both at home and abroad .
something need to be done differently and the time is now .i feel if the guys if yester years college had the chance that these guys have we might have been world cup under 17 champs then or be in the finals .

592
General Discussion / 3RD YOUTH ARRESTED IN UK KILLING
« on: August 24, 2007, 04:04:13 PM »
 
   
3rd Youth Arrested in UK Boy's Killing
LIVERPOOL, England, Fri Aug 24, 04:53 PM

Police arrested a third teenager Friday in the shooting of an 11-year-old boy whose death has confronted a shocked Britain with the problem of youth violence and gang culture.

The victim, Rhys Jones, was kicking a soccer ball around with friends Wednesday night when he was hit in the back of the neck by a bullet — reportedly fired by one of two youths riding by on a BMX bicycle. Police said they believed a long-barreled, black pistol was used.

Two youths, ages 14 and 18, were detained by police Thursday on suspicion of murder, and released on bail within hours. Assistant Chief Constable Patricia Gallan said a 16-year-old was arrested Friday.

Pictures of the dead boy and of his agonized mother, Melanie, appeared on the front pages of most national newspapers Friday. "Just what has gone wrong with our country?" the Daily Express asked in a headline.

In television interviews, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith choked back tears in declaring that the government was seeking answers to the problem of youth crime.

"One of the things I am talking about with the prime minister (Gordon Brown) is where are people getting guns from? How are they getting here?" Smith said.

Britain outlawed the possession of handguns in 1997 in response to the massacre of 16 children, and the country has one of the lowest gun homicide rates in the world — 0.04 slayings per 100,000 people, according to the Geneva-based Small Arms Survey for 2004. The rate is roughly 100 times higher in the U.S.: 3.42 gun murders per 100,000 people.

 
Nonetheless, illicit guns are being smuggled into the country. And they continue to kill, with a recent peak of 97 gunshot deaths in 2001-02. There were 50 such deaths in 2005-06, according to the most recent government data.

Police said there was no indication why Rhys was targeted, because he was not known to belong to any gang. He might have been a victim of mistaken identity or was accidentally shot by a teen trying to show off, a police official said, agreeing to discuss the case only if not quoted by name.

Gang violence in Britain is most often centered in bleak, gang-ridden neighborhoods with high unemployment, unlike Liverpool's working class Croxteth area where the boy was slain.

Even before Rhys was shot down, killings of young people already were drawing increased attention. In London alone this year, seven youths have been fatally shot and 11 stabbed to death.

On Friday, neighbors, children and parents in the middle class community where Rhys lived streamed to the pub parking lot where he died. Many cards bore the simple question: Why?

"Good night and God bless son, till we meet again. All our love and kisses from mum, dad and Owen," read one message.

"When I look up to the sky and any tears that I cry, I will think of you," said another note from one of the victim's friends. A bouquet of blue and white flowers, the colors of his favorite soccer team, Everton, lay nearby.

The anguished parents shared their grief with the country in a televised news conference Thursday night.

"I then go to his room where he should be — he should be asleep — open his wardrobe. His school uniform that we have bought for senior school, his pens and pencils are there unopened," said his father, Stephen Jones, a 44-year-old store manager. "His calculator is there unopened, his shoes are still in the box. ... It's just horrific, your worst nightmare."

The Everton soccer team will wear black armbands during its home game Saturday against Blackburn and will join an expected crowd of 40,000 fans in a moment of silence to honor Rhys.

"We all here at the club have families of our own, and we cannot comprehend what you are going through," the team's captain, Phil Neville, said in a message to the boy's family

how sad it is for the family , people we have to pray for the children every time they go out side , ask for their  protection that they would come back home in one piece .

593
Entertainment & Culture Discussion / BEST TV OR RADIO COMMERCIALS
« on: August 23, 2007, 08:34:04 PM »
What is the bestist commercial that yer see or hear and it had yuh laughing  :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

I saw one today ,two guys sittin havin lunch, one had ah mist soda, so he ask his friend for ah drink, his friend give him some and he took ah big drink the  bottle reach half , so the friend took the bottle and say why yuh drink so much he said i didint drink plenty let me show yuh what i did so he took the soda put the bottle to his head drank the other half and said that iz what i did .the friend sat with the empty bottle in amazement cant believe what happen .

Then it had the royal extra stout , the man running from the lion he drink ah royal extra stout and he chasin the lion .

594
Football / FOX SOCCER CHANNEL
« on: August 22, 2007, 11:28:52 AM »
BRASIL  0 VS ALGERIA 0 live ,it is now half time and ronaldino iz warming up for second half .  and following will be USA VS SWEDEN.

595
General Discussion / JUSTICE FOR JENA
« on: August 21, 2007, 04:31:14 PM »
vTHE ACTION WE NEED YOU TO TAKE:

Sign the Petition:
Donate online to the: Jena 6 Defense Fund OR Mail donations to: Jena 6 Defense Committee, P. O. Box 2798, Jena, LA 71342
Donate to the NAACP:
Make a Phone Call:
Send a letter to the Louisiana Governor and the Louisiana Attorney General:
THE FACTS:

In a small highly segregated rural Louisiana town of Jena in September 2006, a black student asked permission from school administrators to sit under the shade of a tree commonly reserved for the enjoyment of white students. School officials advised the black students to sit wherever they wanted and they did. The next day, three nooses, in the school colors, were hanging from the same tree. The Jena high school principal found that three white students were responsible and recommended expulsion. The white superintendent of schools over-ruled the principal and gave the students a three day suspension, saying that the nooses were “a youthful stunt.” Black students decided to resist and organized a sit-in under the tree to protest the lenient treatment given to the noose-hanging white students.

Racial tensions remained elevated throughout the fall. On Monday, December 4 2006, a white student who allegedly had been racially taunting black students in support of the students who hung the nooses got into a fight with black students. Allegedly, the white student was taken to the hospital treated, released, reportedly attended a social function later that evening.

As a result of this incident, six black Jena students were arrested and charged with attempted second degree murder. All six were expelled from school. The six charged were: 17-year-old Robert Bailey Junior whose bail was set at $138,000; 17-year-old Theo Shaw - bail $130,000; 18-year-old Carwin Jones--bail $100,000; 17-year-old Bryant Purvis--bail $70,000; 16 year old Mychal Bell, a sophomore in high school who was charged as an adult and for whom bail was set at $90,000; and a still unidentified minor.

On the morning of the trial, the District Attorney reduced the charges from attempted second degree murder to second degree aggravated battery and conspiracy. Aggravated battery in Louisiana law demands the attack be with a dangerous weapon. The prosecutor was allowed to argue to the jury that the tennis shoes worn by Bell could be considered a dangerous weapon.

When the pool of potential jurors was summoned, fifty people appeared, all white. The jury deliberated for less than three hours and found Mychal Bell guilty on the maximum possible charges of aggravated second degree battery and conspiracy. He faces up to a maximum of 22 years in prison.

The rest of the Jena 6 await similar trials. Theodore Shaw is due to go on trial shortly. Mychal Bell is scheduled to be sentenced July 31. If he gets the maximum sentence he will not be out of prison until he is nearly 40.

THE MESSAGE:

As Chairman Julian Bond stated, "This is an American outrage that demonstrates the continuing shame of racial division in our country. Join us in making it one of the last."
In light of the circumstances surrounding Mychal Bell's case, we urge all concerned citizens to support the call for a new trial.
It is unacceptable to selectively enforce the law based on race. Prosecutorial discretion should be used in a fair and equitable manner.
The Jena Six should be tried by juries that reflect the racial and ethnic demographics of Jena, Louisiana.
The hanging of nooses is not a "youthful stunt" or "prank." It is a hate crime. Such hate crimes should not be tolerated at any school. Jena High School must establish a curriculum which promotes cultural sensitivity and understanding.
The NAACP calls on Louisiana Governor Kathleen B. Blanco and Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti to thoroughly investigate and monitor the trials of Mychal Bell, Robert Bailey, Jr., Theo Shaw, Carwin Jones, Bryant Purvis and John Doe. The Governor and State Attorney General should do everything in their power to ensure that these young men's constitutional rights are protected.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS IMPORTANT MATTER!!!
 If you have any questions, call Angela Ciccolo at the National Headquarters at (410) 580-5
 




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General Discussion / KILL THEM ALL AND COME BACK ALONE
« on: August 19, 2007, 08:46:39 AM »
 Police KILL Seven

Commissioner sorry about woman shot in bedroom

Denyse Renne and Jensen Le Vende


Sunday, August 19th 2007
 
 
 
KILLED BY STRAY BULLET: Wendy Courtney

Seven people are dead following two separate police shootings on Friday night in Wallerfield and St James.

Dead are Jordan Charles, 17, of Trainline, Pinto Road, Arima; Lincoln Forde of Ackeralli Trace, Malabar; Dale Liverpool, 56, of Malabar; Hayden Gardner; Wendy Courtney of Agua Santa Drive, Wallerfield; Kevin Blake and Barry Lewis, both of Upper L'anse Mitan Road, Carenage.

A man identified as Jason Cyrus remains warded at hospital under police guard after being shot in the leg.

Police reports state around 6.30 p.m., Charles, Forde, Liverpool and Gardner were seated in a car at Agua Santa Drive, Wallerfield, when a police vehicle approached and there was a reported exchange of gunfire.

All occupants of the car were rushed to the Arima Health Facility where they were pronounced dead upon arrival.

Courtney, 40, a mother of five was shot by a stray bullet as she tried to close her bedroom window.

In the other incident in St James, Blake and Lewis were pronounced dead at hospital when police claim they returned fire after being fired upon when they attempted to search the occupants of a car.

However, at a news conference yesterday afternoon, Commissioner of Police Trevor Paul, who was flanked by ACPs Maurice Piggott and Gilbert Reyes said both incidents would be thoroughly investigated.

Adding that he wished to extend condolences to Wendy Courtney's relatives since she was caught in the crossfire with police officers "who were trying to apprehend four suspects," in Wallerfield, Paul said, "We will be keeping in close contact with family members of Courtney,"

"Our initial investigation revealed that around 5.30 p.m. Northern Division officers on enquiry at the Churchill Roosevelt Highway, Agua Santa Drive, when they intercepted an Almera car with four men.

"There was an exchange of gunfire and four people sustained injuries," Paul said.

Stating the incident at St James occurred around 10 p.m., Paul said Blake, Lewis and Cyrus went to Ample Designs on Gaston Johnson Street, Woodbrook where they physically assaulted employees before eventually leaving empty-handed.

"They left and went to Panka and Henry Pierre Streets where they met a man in a car. It was here that officers of the Western Division were on patrol and spotted them.

"The officers confronted them and they were fired upon. The officers returned fire and injured three of the men, while one escaped," Paul added.

Paul further stated, following the incidents in the east and west, that four firearms were recovered-three revolvers and a 9mm pistol. However, relatives of Blake and Lewis charged that the men were murdered by police.

Others claim their relatives were not involved in any illegal activities.

"My son was working to buy his school-books and was waiting for his CXC results, he was a hard-working boy," cried Betty-Ann Charles, Jordan's mother, while Conrad Sambrano, Courtney's husband, called out for justice.

"I want serious justice and compensation for what happened to my wife," Sambrano said.

"These people who get shoot not involved in anything. I heard what the Commissioner of Police said and he is wrong," Sambrano added. "What he said at the press conference does not make any sense, this was murder."

The bullet which killed Courtney on Agua Santa Drive, Churchill Roosevelt Highway, entered her left side, in the vicinity of her stomach and exited on her other side.

Courtney, a factory worker, had returned home from work around 5.30 p.m. on Friday, when she went into her bedroom to undress.

It was while undressing that she heard several gunshots outside her home and in a bid to safeguard herself, was in the act of closing her bedroom window when she was accidentally shot.

Sambrano said his wife was clad in a bra and underwear, "having just come home from work, when she heard noises outside and tried to close the window."

Sambrano said his wife was a grandmother of four and upon realising she was shot, he and other residents rushed to assist her. However, police officers lifted her and threw her in a van, he claimed.

"One officer hold her foot, another hold her hand and they come running out the house with her like is a dog they carrying," Sambrano alleged.

Courtney died while being taken to the Arima Health Facility.

Sambrano said he and Courtney have been residing at their current address for the past year, having moved from Toco.

Blake and Lewis who are from Upper L'anse Mitan Road, Carenage, died upon arrival at hospital, while Cyrus was shot in the leg and remains warded at hospital under police guard.

Andre Lewis, Barry's elder brother, said he remains in shock over his brothers' death.

"Police kill my bother. Last year they call my mother and say Barry get kill by police down South, the report turned out to be false," Andre said.

Friends of Blake and Lewis, who wished to remain anonymous, also angrily expressed their feelings saying "the police willfully kill the men, they had no gun on them, nothing to deserve what they get."

Lewis' mother, Martha Clinton, who was too much in a state of shock to speak was to celebrate her birthday yesterday. Lewis was the second of three boys.
 
 

 
   

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General Discussion / Rutgers basket team member sue IMUS
« on: August 17, 2007, 06:10:38 AM »

NEW YORK —  A member of the Rutgers women's basketball team has sued Don Imus and CBS, claiming the radio personality's sexist and racist comments about the team damaged her reputation.

Kia Vaughn filed the lawsuit alleging slander and defamation of character in state Supreme Court in the Bronx Tuesday, the same day Imus settled with CBS Radio in a deal that pre-empts his threatened $120 million breach-of-contract lawsuit against CBS. The settlement allows him to make a comeback bid at a new station.

Vaughn's lawsuit, believed to be the first by a player in the case, says Imus and his former co-host Bernard McGuirk, along with CBS Corp. and CBS Radio, are legally responsible for damage done to her character and reputation. There is no dollar amount listed in the suit.

Vaughn was humiliated, embarrassed and publicly mocked for the comments, the lawsuit claims. Her attorney, Richard Ancowitz, said: "The full effect of the damage remains to be seen."

"This is about Kia Vaughn's good name," Ancowitz said. "She would do anything to return to her life as a student and respected basketball player _ a more simple life before Imus opened his mouth on April 4."

Imus referred to the basketball players as "nappy-headed hos" on his nationally syndicated radio program in April, becoming the target of heated protests. He was fired shortly after.

'Ho' is a slang term for a prostitute. After the comments were made, Vaughn said at a news conference: "Unless they've given 'ho' a whole new definition, that's not what I am."

A telephone message left for Imus' attorney was not immediately returned Tuesday. There was no phone listing for McGuirk in the New York area. A spokeswoman for CBS Radio declined to comment, and CBS network spokesman Dana McClintock did not immediately return a message. MSNBC said it hadn't seen the lawsuit.

Rutgers women's basketball program spokeswoman Stacey Brann said that the university had no comment on the lawsuit and that she didn't know whether other players had sued.

Vaughn, who was a center, had spoken out about Imus on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in April. She said that the comments overshadowed her team's amazing season, one the coach has called the most rewarding of her career.

"Our moment was stolen from us," Vaughn said then. "Instead of us coming here to enjoy what we accomplished and how far we came, we had to sit back and look at media asking questions about what he said."


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General Discussion / Pant Suit lawsuit
« on: August 14, 2007, 11:19:54 PM »
'Pant Suit' Continues With an Appeal

A District of Columbia administrative law judge who lost a $54 million lawsuit against a dry cleaner over a missing pair of pants is continuing to press his suit. Roy Pearson filed an appeal after a judge rejected his original lawsuit in June. (Aug. 14)

Should this man be paid  this money for a pair of pants or iz this human greed ? or mybe he just want to teach dry cleaners business operators that they should be more carefull with people cloths .

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General Discussion / COLORBLINDNESS IS RACIST
« on: August 12, 2007, 03:41:26 PM »


Posted By: Pianke Nubiyang

The racists and their tricknology continue to amaze and gall those of us who are staunch Black nationalists and who believe in self-preservation and development of mind and self.

People who claim they are "color blind" are nothing but apathetic racists. They shut their eyes to racism and pretend it does not exist; yet, they are quick to call Blacks who respond to WHITE SPUREMACY AS "RACIST"

Listen, in Germany there were also "color blind" Germans who shut their eyes. During slavery and lynching in the U.S., many whites were also "color blind" and shut their eyes to the racist genocide, raping of Black women, lynching, burnings alive and all types of horrible, demonic racist atrocities that were committed against Blacks in their own lands.

The scum and dregs of Europe, starving for lack of potatoes and oppressed from British oppression had the edacity and nerve to come to the U.S. (New York during the Civil War...WATCH THE MOVIE "GANGS OF NEW YORK," and massacre over 10000 African-Americans because these starving Europeans did not want to fight in the Civil War.

If you think the Iraqis are rioting and looting today, during the latter part of the 1800's to the 1930's, looting, burning, lynching and destroying Black folk was a game to the racists. In fact, they used to have "Pic-nics" (pick a negro) where Black men and women were grabbed and lynched or burned alive.

As for today, the same "colorblind" racists who pretend that we are all "equal" continue to support cultural and racial genocide against Black people simply by the way they vote for racist nazi-like laws and schemes to destroy the Black family and pack Black males and females like animals in zoos.

Yes, we are Afro=centrists and we are proud. We are Black nationalists and there are Blacks in the South whose ancestors have been there for over ten thousand years (Waschitaw Nation, Jamassee, Gullah-Geechee, others) and they want and will have their independence so they don't have to see racists and deal with them.
Blacks are so fed up with these racist "colorblind" people that a poll held by a well-known publication asked "If racism continues in America, would you choose independence or living under more racism?? 98 percent of those polled out of thousands choose independence. Even when the question went to statehood and an all-Black nation free of the racist element, OVER 90 PERCENT WATED TOTAL BLACK NATIONHOOD.
Why is that? Well the reason is clear. The vast majority of Blacks see three types of whites of which two types are a threat to Black survival.

1. The hard-core racists including those who smile in your face and vote for Black destruction.
About 20 percent of settlers (people from Europe who settle the U.S.)

2. The outright in-your-face racists
About 10 percent

3. The "colorblind" racists who are about 65 percent.

4. The totally non-racists, about 5 percent

The largest group of racists is the color-blind whose racism is "blind" to Black people's oppression. They deny there is brutality, profiling, racism, economic degradation, ghettoization and all the racist, lucifite tricknology that is use to maintain racist societies.

AS BLACK PEOPLE, WE HAVE ALWAYS SEEN THE APATHETIC "COLORBLIND" RACIST AS THE BIGGEST THREAT TO OUR SURVIVAL.

IT WAS THESE APATHETIC RACISTS WHO SAT BACK WHILE TENS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WERE ELIMINATED IN EUROPE, CHINA, RUSSIA, RWANDA AND EVEN THE AMERICAS. Today, while genocide occurs in Sudan and West Papua these "colorblind" and apathetic folks are also blind to the situation. Yet, let Africans create an African Union and militarize, stop selling their strategic metals to the "colorblind" or let Africans organize all their scientists in Europe and elsewhere to create a formidable power block and ALL THE "COLOR BLINDNESS" AND APATHETIC MENTALITY WILL BE OVER.

Africa would suddenly be the new threat and everyone will be in their business.

Blacks have the right to be nationalistic, Afro-centrists, pro-Black, and those who don't like it, well too bad.

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General Discussion / Two moons on Aug 27th
« on: August 12, 2007, 03:03:42 PM »
Ah recieve this mail today and ah jus sharein it wid alyuh .  http://www.snopes.com/science/mars.asp

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