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Carribbean Governments are rethinking the practice of imprisoning regional immigrant criminals because of the cost involved.

National Security Ministers are said to be seriously considering deporting convicted criminals so that they can serve their sentences in their home countries.

According to Martin Joseph, the National Security Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, CARICOM Governments are reviewing reciprocal arrangements for deporting non-national criminals.

He says it costs too much to maintain foreign prisoners in jails in the twin island...

The brother of talent-show contestant Susan Boyle says the singer has left a mental health care facility and is doing better.

Gerry Boyle stated Friday that his sister had been released from the London clinic. She was admitted Sunday, after coming in second place in the "Britain's Got Talent" television show.

Gerry Boyle says his sister suffered from an anxiety attack but now seems "a lot more like herself."

In eight weeks, Boyle went from the quiet life of a church volunteer in a small town in Scotland to global fame.

A police Sergeant and a Constable are the latest to fall into the ongoing anti-corruption dragnet.

On Thursday, Detective Sergeant Winston Pollack and Constable Tyrone Bryan were arrested for suspected breaches of the Corruption Prevention Act and conspiracy to commit a criminal offence.

The police report that in February, the proprietor of a supermarket and wholesale in St. Catherine paid Detective Sergeant Pollack $115,000 to obtain a Jamaican passport.

The shopkeeper is a foreign national with a Jamaican work permit and was not entitled to a...

Last year's Sting has come and gone and saw Mavado and Vybz Kartel squaring off. But now, various members from the rivalling groups (Alliance and Portmore Empire) have voiced songs attacking each other.

The latest song that has sparked much discussion since its release last week is Vybz Kartel's When Since on Foxx's 'Life After Death' rhythm.

In the very explicit song, Vybz Kartel holds nothing back as he attacks Mavado, Wayne Marshall, Bling Dawg and Bounty Killer. He even goes as far as to stating that at least two of the members of...

An erotic dance craze sweeping Jamaica has been blamed for a number of pelvic injuries and now faces a government crackdown.

"Daggering," a lewd dance style where couples simulate dry sex in various positions to the beat of the music, is characterized by over-the-top gyrating, heavy pelvis-thrusting and daredevil leaps.

YouTube - MR. VEGAS - DAGGERING



Many couples have taken the “rough” daggering dance from the club to the bedroom, with disastrous consequences. Jamaican doctors were prompted to issue a warning on the...

The erotic dance which Jamaicans have gone coo-coo about has caused a flooding of broken penises on the island, which is why the authorities are planning on banning it, Australian News reports.

Daggering, a lewd dance style simulates sexual intercourse in various positions to the rhythm, is characterised by exaggerated rubbing and pelvic thrusting into the partner.

YouTube - RDX daggering


Otherwise, daggering is a colloquial term which insinuates hardcore sex or “dry humping”, an activity of persons...

Daggering Shocks Mutabaruka..

Talk show host Mutabaruka was bamboozled, shocked and was in a state dismay recently when he discovered the now-a-days dancing/daggering in the dancehall. Muta was most shocked about the recent incident where a young lady was knocked out cold in a Daggering incident.
Another incident where one young lady used a stone as her "pleasuring tool" ..aka cakkie have the well known Dub poet and Rastafarian flabbergasted.

YouTube - Mutabaruka views on DAGGERING (REALTALK/SUPER FUNNY) Part...

Daggering Shocks Mutabaruka..

Talk show host Mutabaruka was bamboozled, shocked and was in a state dismay recently when he discovered the now-a-days dancing/daggering in the dancehall. Muta was most shocked about the recent incident where a young lady was knocked out cold in a Daggering incident.
Another incident where one young lady used a stone as her "pleasuring tool" ..aka cakkie have the well known Dub poet and Rastafarian flabbergasted.
According to Mutabaruka the dancehall is currently making carnival look like church and that this is pure animalistic bahaviour.
Well all good...

Though he went into an early retirement last September, pay that no mind. After a bout of issues surrounding his career, health and the need to spend time with his children, Vegas has abandoned that ghost and instead embarked on a glorious return to form in 2009.

What exactly prompted last year's decision might not be entirely clear to some. Still what matters is the 'now'. And right now, he has no plans of disappearing from an industry that has earned him much acclaim.

Vegas has been described as an artiste with an 'uncanny knack of...

Dancehall artiste Rodney Pryce popularly known as "Bounti Killa" is scheduled to stand trial in the Traffic Court on Tuesday.

In February, Bounti Killa appeared in court on several counts of reckless driving and other traffic violations, including refusing to submit to a breathalyzer test.

The artiste is accused of running seven traffic lights in an incident in Half Way Tree late last year.

The police reported that on December 29, 2008, Bounti Killa and members of his entourage left a dance on Hillview Avenue off Eastwood Park Road...

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Since the 1960s, the Rastafarian way of life has provided the cultural depth that makes reggae unlike any other popular music. Rastafarians have expressed their adherence to a disciplined diet, allegiance to an African homeland and especially the exaltation of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I.

But the Rastafarian female voice is rarely heard in reggae and even scarcer is the Rastafarian female artist who possesses a repertoire of hits appealing to traditional...

The police are still questioning the two men held in Stony Hill, St. Andrew Saturday night with a large quantity of ganja. Their names have not yet been released.

Spokesman for Operation Kingfish, Detective Sergeant Jubert Llewllyn says more than 1,700 pounds of the drug was seized.

"Just after 9pm, members of Operation Kingfish, the Mobile Reserve, the St. Andrew North Police and the Narcotics Police were on an operation in the Stony Hill area when a Toyota Hiace van with two men aboard was signaled to stop. The driver complied...

Jamaica reported its first cases of H1N1 yesterday, making it the fourth Caribbean island to confirm the virus' presence.

A 4-year-old girl from Linstead in St. Catherine has reportedly tested positive for the Influenza A H-1-N-1 virus popularly known as swine flu.

Health Ministry spokeswoman Marion Bullock-Ducasse says lab tests show that two Jamaicans apparently contracted the H1N1 virus during recent visits to New York City and have since recovered

Cases of Influenza A H1N1, formally called swine flu, were detected first in...

The doors to what was once New Kingston's 'maddest' night spot, Asylum, have been slammed shut. Nite Time Promotions, owners and operators of the club, say the popular venue officially closed its doors on Tuesday.

Chung, a pioneer in night time entertainment, successfully ran the Cactus night club in Portmore for what was considered eight glorious years, before opening Asylum, which many felt led to the ultimate demise of Cactus.

But for Chung, the story didn't read quite like that. "All great night clubs have a life cycle. Cactus did...

New York City has settled a wrongful death lawsuit with the family of a Jamaican psychiatric patient who died last summer on a hospital floor in Brooklyn for US$2 million.

The settlement was signed yesterday in Brooklyn Supreme Court before Justice Allen Hurkin-Torres.

It comes 11 months after Esmin Green, 49, collapsed and died at the sprawling Kings County Hospital Centre.

Green had migrated from Jamaica in the late 1990s to earn money for her six children back home.

A devout churchgoer, she had worked caring for the elderly and...