Nah Go a Jail Again Oh No- I guess not!!!

Busy Signal, a Jamaican DJ best known for the dancehall tracks "These Are The Days" and "Step Out," has reportedly been arrested on a U.S. extradition warrant.

The warrant is apparently the result of a decade-old charge for drug conspiracy in the state of Minnesota. The arrest of the 33-year-old took place May 21 at at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston, Jamaica's capital, after Signal, real name Glendale Goshia Gordon, had just arrived from London after playing shows in both Paris and Amsterdam.

The original arrest of Gordon was for traveling using false identification documents. Police claimed that his passport listed his name was Reanno Devon Gordon, which led to his detention as a fugitive for the decade-old drug-related warrant.

The warrant includes charges for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine, three counts of conspiracy to distribute cocaine (level 4) and a possession charge with intent to distribute. The level 4 distinction indicates that the accused planned to distributed no less than five kilograms of cocaine.

According to the Associated Press, Busy's first appearance in court is schedule for this Thursday (May 24). He will appear at the Half Way Tree Resident Magistrate court in Kingston.

RAVEN SYMOME A LESBIAN?

It is alleged that former Disney star, Raven 


Symone is in a romantic relationship and living with a woman -- AzMarie Livingston, an 


"America's Next Top Model" alumnus. raven took the issue to twitter stating ""I'm living my 


PERSONAL life the way I'm happiest. I'm not one, in my 25 year career to disclose who I'm 


dating. and I shall not start now," the actress Tweeted on Friday. "My sexual orientation is 


mine, and the person I'm dating to know. I'm not one for a public display of my life. 


"However that is my right as a HUMAN Being whether straight or gay. To tell or not to tell. 


As long as I'm not harming anyone," she added. "I am a light being made from love. And my


career is the only thing I would like to put on display, not my personal life. Kisses!"

There is no futute in crime - A gang is a dead end!

The Ministry of National Security (MNS) has embarked on a anti crime We R Jamaica campaign which intends to curb gang activities and crime in Jamaica.The campaign is rooted under the theme "A gang is  dead end". 

The lead supporter of this campaign is The Hon Peter Bunting Minster of Nation Security who says that "Let's help our youths stay away from criminal gangs because there is no future in crime and it is not worth our lives!

Let's help our youths to stay away from criminal gangs! The security forces need your help not just as citizens or residents but as partners in the fight against crime. 

Facebook Stock On Sale!!

Almost everyone was expecting a first-day pop from Facebook, and the social network’s first trade was certainly in that direction. Shares opened at $42.05, up 10.7% from the $38 initial public offering price, then retreated back to the $40 neighborhood on a surge in volume right at the start of trading

The first trade came more than 30 minutes later than the expected 11 a.m. open, and the Wall Street Journal reported traders had issues changing or cancelling orders.

Facebook shares were sharply higher in the first few minutes of trading, after launching the biggest U.S. technology IPO in history after the closing bell Thursday, raising $16 billion at a $104 billion valuation, turning many employees into instant millionaires and boosting the net worth of billionaire founder Mark Zuckerberg.

Google was up 0.5%, and the search giant’s 2004 IPO and subsequent surge is an example many are citing as the closest precedent for the Facebook deal.Forbes’ John Dobosz notes, however, that Google came public at a much lesser valuation than the social network that began trading Friday morning.

Apple, another company Facebook is often lumped in with as an innovative force in the technology industry was 1.7% higher. Shares of the iPhone-maker have fallen sharply since hitting new all-time highs in early April, and according to Forbes‘ Eric Savitz at least some of the decline might be related to the Facebook IPO, with investors taking profits in Apple to help pay for an entry into the hot new thing.

With the first trade of the social network taking longer than expected, shares of Nasdaq OMX Group, which scored by winning the Facebook listing over rival NYSE Euronext, were flat after opening comfortably higher.

 

A letter from Adidja Palmer

to Carolyn Cooper of The Gleaner

"'Yu a Kartel mada?' A dat one lickle yute ask me one Satday last month. Im dida walk an sell inna Tropical Plaza. 'Weh yu seh?' mi ask im. Im see seh mi lickle slow. So im ton i roun: 'Kartel a yu son?' Mi ask im, 'Wa mek yu seh so?' Im seh, 'Mi see yu pan TV.'"

So I've now joined the band of aggrieved mothers who routinely appear on national news loudly protesting against the arrest of their sons who, supposedly, have been falsely accused of crime.

The youth must have seen the LIME TV interview at the Trench Town Bob Marley Tribute Concert in which I said I wanted to visit Kartel at the Horizon Adult Remand Centre. Quite an ironic name! There can't be much of a view of the horizon from that vantage point. The May Pen Cemetery, perhaps; but that place of final rest cannot possibly be an appealing horizon for most prisoners.

It's not easy to visit the Centre. You need a TRN card - the TRN number on your driver's licence is not enough. You also need two passport-size photos, certified by a justice of the peace. You have to submit a formal application, which takes two weeks to be processed. And the prisoner has to agree to be visited. Last week, I got the temporary TRN card, so the distance to the horizon is decreasing.

The man and the role

On air, I did express doubts about Kartel's guilt, based purely on my assessment of the DJ's intelligence: Vybz Kartel couldn't be foolish enough to think that Adidja Palmer could get away with murder! That is certainly not an indulgent mother's stubborn affirmation of her son's complete innocence. It's a recognition of an essential distinction between the man and the role he plays as a DJ.

At the now-infamous lecture Kartel gave last year at the University of the West Indies, I asked him a penetrating question: Does Adidja Palmer ever disapprove of Vybz Kartel? His frank response was, "Yes." I think Palmer knows that Kartel is an unstable character. Stardom really does make some intelligent entertainers lose their grip on reality.

Like it or not, Kartel is undoubtedly an international pop star. This January, one of France's premier newspapers, Le Monde (The World), carried a story on the DJ in its Culture and Ideas section. According to the journalist, Arnaud Robert, it was "one of the most-read articles on Le Monde website the week it was published". The story is illustrated with a box of Kartel's signature cake soap and a photo of the DJ, naked from the waist up, displaying the much-tattooed canvas of his skin.

Guilty with explanation

Truth really is stranger than fiction. The same week the youth asked me if I was Kartel's mother, I got a letter from my questionable son. Over the three decades I've been teaching literature at the University of the West Indies, I've received 'whole heap' of letters from Jamaicans imprisoned at home and abroad. Many of them send poems, asking for help in getting them published. Prison seems to bring out the creativity of criminals.

I once got a letter from a young man locked up at the St Catherine District prison for murder. He did not pretend to be innocent. He was guilty with explanation, a peculiarly Jamaican plea: "Miss, my action was not premeditated we had an on the spot arguement which developed into a fight knives were brought into play he got a stab and die."

What is so intriguing about this man's account is his poetic use of the passive voice. He did not stab the man. The man 'got a stab'. The grammar of the sentence absolves the stabber of responsibility. The knives that were 'brought into play' apparently acted all by themselves. And the victim was so inconsiderate that, having got a stab, he took it upon himself to die!

Using media to slaughter

In his letter, Adidja Palmer (definitely not Vybz Kartel in this case) most certainly does not plead 'guilty with explanation'. He declares that he is completely innocent. 'So mi get it, so mi give it':

"Dear Ms. Cooper,

Good day to you and i hope you are in the best of health and the highest of spirits, but I am not.

"Ms Cooper as you know i am in jail on numerous charges and i'd like to tell you that i am an innocent man who needs your help because i'm being painted as this evil 'D.J. by day, don by night' murderer who is society's number one cause of crime and violence. The police is using the media to slaughter me and as such i don't think i will get a fair trial. They are using the media to form public opinion of me that is so contradictory to the person that I really am. They (police) have tried my case in the public & found me guilty.

"Every single piece of alleged evidence, every new development in the case is thrown on t.v. as if this is a soap opera, but i can assure you that this is no movie to me. This is about my life and my freedom and i take them very seriously.

"My charges are merely allegations, but they are giving the public the impression that i am guilty and that is not fair to me or my family.

"I have been to court on numerous occasions and saw hundreds of accused men who are charged with heinous crimes like murdering children, killing police officers, burning & shooting whole families and i have never once saw police on t.v. discussing the development of those cases, much less every week, as in my case."

To be continued.

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This photo showing an alleged thief who was beaten by residents this Last evening in Passage Fort, Portmore, St. Catherine. He was Later Rescued by Police and was taken to the Spanish Town Hospital under police guard.