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(AP) Mikeisha Simpson covers her body in greasy white cream and bundles up in a track suit to avoid the fierce sun of her native Jamaica, but she's not worried about skin cancer.

The 23-year-old resident of a Kingston ghetto hopes to transform her dark complexion to a cafe-au-lait-color common among Jamaica's elite and favored by many men in her neighborhood. She believes a fairer skin could be her ticket to a better life. So she spends her meager savings on cheap black-market concoctions that promise to lighten her pigment.

Simpson and her friends...

Two members of the Royal Barbados Police Force, who are accused of rape and sexual assault of a 27-year-old Jamaican woman, have been formally charged. Constables Jonathan Barrow, 32, and constable Melanie Denny, 25.

Barrow is charged with serious indecency while Denny is accused of aiding and abetting Barrow to commit an act of serious indecency on the woman. Both were charged on Thursday April 07, 2011 and appeared in District A Magistrate’s Court on Friday April 08, 2011. They are expected to reappear in court on September 1. Both were granted bail in the...

The movie The Harder They Come may be getting a remake. The 1972 film, which starred singer Jimmy Cliff, is credited with helping to introduce the world to reggae. The film came out around the same time that Bob Marley was also bringing reggae to the international arena.

Filming on the new The Harder They Come is scheduled to start later this year in Jamaica and England; the cast is still being finalized.

After collapsing at home last Friday and being rushed to the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) in St Andrew, rocksteady and Reggae pioneer, Bob Andy is said to be resting well.

The 66-year old artiste, whose real name is Keith Anderson, is reported to have suffered from a bleeding stomach ulcer. Bob Andy is now resting well under the care of his medical team at the UHWI, and is doing much better.

Source: Jamaica Observer

A tall woman met a midget at a party. The midget was barely three feet tall but they were attracted to each other.After a few drinks they went back to the tall woman's apartment.

"I can't imagine what it will be like making love to a midget," said the woman, "especially with the size difference and all.""Just take off your cloths, lie back on the bed, spread your legs apart and close your eyes," said the midget.

The woman did as she was told and soon she felt the biggest thing she'd ever experienced inside her.Within a few minutes the woman had climaxed...

Favorite Song:
I believe I can fly by R. Kelly

Best Memory Moment:
Giving birth to my son

Years in the business:
3yrs

Marital status:
Single

Eye color:
Brown

Favorite dish:
Red Peas Soup with Pigtail

Zodiac sign:
Libra

No. of children:
1

Attracted to men with:
A sense of humor and bad boys

Most promising artiste of 2011:
Me lol (I-Octane)

Two favorite beverages:
100% Natural Pineapple Juice, Pepsi

Song of the Year to you:
Call on me by...

Born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica. The melodic singer/songwriter Bridgett “Bridgez” Roache has had a passion for music from a very tender age. She began writing and singing in a group at church at the age of 11. It wasn’t long before the group split but Bridgez continued to write music and record her songs as demos on her computer. At the age of 16 Bridgez joined a group called “3 wishes” which was arranged by Norman Chambers aka “Doom” son of Jimmy Cliff.

The group lasted for a while but wasn’t going in the direction that “Bridgez” hoped for so eventually...

KC started the day in the lead, by 21 points, and after the first set of finals, the 400m, which ended without a single victory for neither of the challengers, who watched as Javere Bell of Seaford (46.54), Lennox Williams of Manchester (46.54) and Jordan James (50.28) took classes 1, 2 and 3 respectively. KC, however, maintained their lead 150-124 over JC.

The boys’ sprint hurdles were up next, KC with Stefan Fennell took the Class 1 110m Hurdles event in 13.68 while JC's with Tyler Mason (13.82) took Class 2, after which JC got closer with 164 to KC 169...

Rapper Snoop Dogg has decided to expand his Snoop Youth Football League to the city of Chicago. For the 2011 football season, he is planning to start at least eight chapters, which will cover different parts of the city. Chicago is the first city on the list for the expansion of the league.

The first four chapters will be the Chicago Chargers, the Jets, the Southside Seahawks, and the Raiders. Each chapter will have six different divisions for football and cheerleading. Other chapters may be started at a later date.

Appointed President Tonja Styles and Vice...

The music industry yard and abroad is asking: "What's the next move for MasSicker?". The young artiste out of the US has been hard at work on multiple projects with various producers across the spectrum of the reggae, hip-hop, and mainstream worlds and has seen a large increase in his following with the recent release of "Proud To Be Rasta" on Curtis Lynch's popular Gorilla riddim alongside Askala Selassie and Blackout JA.

The artiste has also been garnered a new set of fans with the success of his recently released compilation/mixtape R.A.S. 2.0 which has made...

Mavado recently dies doing any collaboration with Trindiad soca artist KMC, on a song called Bada Dan Dem. The track was released late 2009 had fans fooled, but the Alliance deejay denied doing the song during a recent interview with Jason Williams on Synergy TV in Trinidad.

Mavado Ft. KMC - Badda Dan Dem
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Garnet Silk, born Garnet Damion Smith in Bromelia, in the parish of Manchester, Jamaica, on the second day of April 1966. Garnett gain his musical aspirations as a young boy and by his mid teens had taken on the moniker “little Bimbo”.

But it was not until his move from rural Jamaica to central Kingston did the artist we know as Garnett Silk begin to take shape. After stints with various labels including stalwarts such as Sugar Minott Youth Promotions and Penthouse Records, he collided with the musical tag team Steele & Clevie, who some credit for...

A Guyanese man is having breakfast one morning; coffee, croissants, bread, butter & jam, when a Trini man, chewing gum, sits down next to him.

The Guyanese ignores the Trinidadian who, nevertheless starts a conversation

Trini: "You Guyanese folks eat the whole bread?"
Guyanesein a bad mood): "stupid, of course."

(Trini after blowing a huge bubble) " We don't. In Trinidad, we only eat what's inside. The crust we collect in a container, recycle it, transform them into croissants and sell them to Guyana.

The Trini has a smirk on his face, and the...

Domino’s Pizza is getting ready to launch their special edition Reggae Reggae pizza from this April. Featuring the original Reggae Reggae Jamaican sauce from musician Levi Roots, the Domino’s Pizza will be available as both a vegetarian and meat option with the latter topped with chicken, tomatoes, green peppers, pineapple and mozzarella.

Many franchises across the UK will be running their own special promotions on the Reggae Reggae pizza ahead of the official launch. In addition, Domino’s will also be introducing specially branded boxes to further advertise...

A Jamaican man admitted in U.S. federal court on Tuesday to swindling thousands of Florida and Caribbean island investors out of more than $220 million.

David Smith, 41, pleaded guilty in Orlando, Florida, to multiple counts of wire fraud and money laundering. He laundered approximately $128 million to conceal the wire fraud.

He could face decades in prison for defrauding more than 6,000 investors during his three-year Ponzi scheme, the U.S. Attorney's Office said. No sentencing date has been set.

Last year, Smith was sentenced to more than six years in...