Twenty-one year-old Harold Berbick was yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment for the “vicious” 2006 murder of his famous boxing champion uncle, Trevor Berbick, while his 19-year-old accomplice was ordered to spend the next 14 years behind bars at hard labour. Harold Berbick, a computer technician, was ordered by Justice Christine McDonald in the Home Circuit Court to serve 20 years of his life sentence before being considered for parole.
It was yet another all-white affair when patrons hit the Asylum Night Club in Kingston last Wednesday night to celebrate with Amelia ‘Milk’ Sewell on her birthday. Milk, a deejay and host for the video countdown on CVM’s E-Strip, held her all-white celebrity birthday bash, Milky Way, and everyone was invited to share the moment. It was rather ironic, though, that while this all-white theme was ‘strictly enforced’ as the flier said, the birthday girl was clad in gold. The television princess looked stunning as she greeted her guests with white cotton candy as they entered the club.
Awakening creativity in children through drama
Since stepping off the corporate ladder in June, last year, Makeda Solomon, under the Lights Movement Banner, declared her mission to “touch the lives of as many children as possible through the creative and transformational medium of drama”. Ms. Solomon began acting 24 years ago in the United Kingdom where she was born. She told The Gleaner, “Growing up as part of a minority group, being involved in theatre provided me with a means of self-expression and boosted my sense of identity.”
Jah Cure’s Freedom Tour liberates the Caribbean
Jah Cure’s Freedom Tour of the Caribbean has reportedly been quite successful. The tour which began in the Bahamas with Millennium Countdown on November 10 ended with Jah Cure in Concert at the Flamboyant Park in Suriname on December 29.
Dave Bess is living the dream. The Hawai’i-born ‘Iolani ’99 grad rents a house with six bandmates so they can save money for their cross-country tours. They spend summers playing at music festivals, travel together in a van, write most of their own music and enjoy the oddball notoriety of being an all-white reggae band from Iowa.
From where?!
Well, maybe that part is getting a little old.
Prodigal clears the air on ‘gun’ imagery at Genesis
From the moment he entered the stage at minutes to midnight – attired in full black and what resembled a bulletproof vest – it became immediately clear that Prodigal Son aka Bless, the headline act at Genesis 2008 (the premier Jamaican gospel showcase), was about to deliver a performance like never before. And so it was. Unleashing hit after hit from his old albums and latest release, the gospel deejay had the mega-sized crowd at the National Stadium car park in a jumping, rag-waving and feet-stomping frenzy.
REGGAE superstar Sean Paul will join soca star Machel Montano for the first major concert event of Carnival 2008, “Temperature†at King George V Park.
The nine-hour show begins at 8:30 pm on Saturday. Other entertainers scheduled to perform are KMC, Peter C Lewis, with his new band, The Orchestra, Patrice Roberts, Farmer Nappy, Ricky-T of St Lucia and Road March King of St Vincent, Problem Child, who will perform his hit song, “Party Animalâ€.
Beenie Man moves past D’Angel in lyrics
As he performed yesterday morning at Reggae Campfire, held at the Windalco Sports Club, Ewarton, St. Catherine, Beenie Man made his agenda for 2008 clear. Performing ahead of Sizzla, who effectively closed the show, as when he finished there was no music and no announcement, the large crowd that had been waiting for Buju Banton drifting away with many cursing and complaining.
Much ado about doing nothing — West Indies island resort lets pampered guests slow down for sun, sea, sand and sky
Italians call it il dolce far niente,or the sweet art of doing nothing.
I’m terrible at it. When I travel, the day starts early, ends late and consists of a bathroom-breaks-are-for-wimps kind of itinerary that led one former travel companion to dub our trip a “death march.” That’s a bit harsh, but I’ll admit I often come back from vacation more exhausted than when I left.
Lucky Dube Tribute Single And Documentary To Get Release
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A tribute single and video, which will include a behind-the-scenes documentary, to the late South African reggae star Lucky Dube is to get a worldwide release. ‘Chance – A Tribute To Lucky Dube’ was written by the Jamaican artist Prophecy shortly after Dube was tragically murdered during a car-jacking last October.
