October 30, 2012
Pollard, Narine, Bravo Uncertain For CT20
Cricket officials in Trinidad and Tobago have given mixed signals over the availability of leading players Kieron Pollard, Sunil Narine and Dwayne Bravo for next year's Caribbean T20 tournament. Media reports in Port-of-Spain have suggested a…
October 30, 2012
IMC/SportsMax Acquires Premier League Rights In Caribbean
International Media Content Limited (IMC), parent company of SportsMax Limited, has been awarded the live audio-visual broadcast rights for all 380 Barclays Premier League (BPL) football matches per season for seasons 2013/14-2015/16 in the…
October 30, 2012
Cissy Houston releases the $20 Million Inheritance to Bobbi Kristina
Bobbi Kristina is nearly home free to play with her $20 million inheritance. Grandmother Cissy Houston has backed off her stronghold of Whitney Houston’s money and giving the singer’s only child what she wants. After the singer passed, Cissy and…
October 30, 2012
Terry Callier, US soul jazz singer, dies at 67
Chicago-born singer-songwriter Terry Callier, who collaborated with Massive Attack and Beth Orton, has died at the age of 67. Callier, who began his career at 17 when he signed to Chess records, recorded his final album in 2009. Hidden Conversations…
October 30, 2012
Glen Washington Earns A Second Grammy Nomination
Veteran reggae artiste Glen Washington is celebrating his second Grammy nomination. The artiste was last nominated in 2004 for his studio effort called Wanna Be Loved and now for his latest album Glen Washington Masterpiece. "I wanted to do an album…
October 30, 2012
Buju for court today
IMPRISONED Jamaican entertainer Buju Banton will know today if he will be slapped with an additional five years in prison when he appears in the US District Court in Tampa, Florida. Banton, whose real name is Mark Myrie, was ordered re-sentenced…
October 30, 2012
Hotels brace for Sandy fall-off
President of the JHTA Evelyn Smith told the Jamaica Observer yesterday that local hoteliers were closely monitoring the effects of the storm on the US cities as major damage to these markets could have serious implications, even for the upcoming…
October 30, 2012
T&T missions on alert in Canada, NY, Washington
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar says T&T’s missions in Washington, New York, Miami and Canada have been asked to keep lines open so as to respond to the needs of Trinidadians in the US and Canada in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. In a…
October 30, 2012
Caribbean Airlines new plane makes emergency landing
An investigation has been launched into an incident involving one of the new planes recently acquired by Caribbean Airlines.An ATR 72-600 with 44 passengers and four crew had to return to Piarco International Airport in Trinidad on Friday after a…
October 30, 2012
Venezuela: Minister Henry Rangel eyes state governorship
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has announced that his current defence minister, Gen Henry Rangel, is to seek election as a state governor. Mr Chavez said the navy commander, Adm Diego Molera, would be his replacement. Gen Rangel, a close associate…