Month: June 2011

June 27, 2011

What happened BET?

When you let a fan announce the winner of an award, you always…

June 27, 2011

Flight scare

OVER 150 passengers were thrown into panic when the plane on which they were travelling to Barbados from Jamaica experienced cabin pressure failure yesterday afternoon. A traumatized woman told the DAILY NATION by telephone of total despair among…

June 27, 2011

Beyonce’s debut brings curtain down on Glastonbury

US singer Beyonce made her debut at Glastonbury, bringing the three-day festival to a……

June 27, 2011

Ameriie is Now Married

R&B/pop singer Ameriie got hitched to her longtime boyfriend, former Columbia Records executive Lenny Nicholson on Saturday. They announced their engagement last year And just where did the couple tie the knot, you ask? That would be Anguilla in the…

June 27, 2011

Snoop Dogg to be Honored with BMI Icon Award at 2011 BMI Urban Awards

Snoop Dogg will be saluted as a BMI Icon at the BMI Urban Awards, slated for Friday, August 26 at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood. BMI President & CEO Del Bryant will share hosting duties…

June 27, 2011

Jimmy Henchman Denied Bail: Found With Fake IDs

Jimmy “Henchman” Rosemond has been caught and is now pleading not guilty in response to a drug trafficking charge. The always-in-trouble music executive had been on the run for a month. He was finally apprehended in New York City on Tuesday and…

June 27, 2011

Cee Lo Green Leaves Rihanna’s ‘LOUD’ Tour

According to Billboard, Cee Lo Green says he’s leaving the tour due to his commitments as a judge on the NBC reality TV show “The Voice,” as well as working on a new album and writing a book. “He always puts 100 percent into his work and with the…

June 27, 2011

Deadly bombing in north Nigeria

A bomb attack in the north-eastern Nigerian town of Maiduguri has killed at…

June 27, 2011

Trial of 4 Top Khmer Rouge Leaders Opens in Cambodia

Cambodia's U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal has opened the trial of the top four surviving leaders of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime, accused of genocide and other atrocities in the late 1970s. The defendants are Khieu Samphan, 79, the nominal head…

June 27, 2011

US Official: China’s Military Expansion Raises Concerns in Asia- Pacific

A top U.S. official for East Asian and Pacific affairs says the U.S. government has conveyed to China that its military expansion is raising concerns in the region. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell spoke to reporters in Honolulu,…