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(AP)Jamaica's two main political parties are investigating allegations a Jamaican fraudster gave them millions in 2007. A confiscation order by a Turks and Caicos court claims that convicted fraudster David Smith gave generously to both the Jamaica Labor Party and the People's National Party. Former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson is accused of accepting $1 million from Smith, who ran a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme through a phony investment group called Olint. Patterson of the PNP denies "soliciting or receiving any such gift." The PNP says it has no record of receiving money from Smith. Labor Party says it is aware that Smith was a contributor. It says it is examining the claim that $5 million was donated. Smith got 30 years...

The American track team got the best of their Jamaican rivals in the sprints at the season-opening Diamond League meet in Doha on Friday. Justin Gatlin led the way for the Americans, nipping Jamaica's Asafa Powell at the line to win the 100 meters in a time of 9.87 seconds. Powell got off to the faster start but Gatlin pulled even and then managed to get in front as they crossed the line. Gatlin tied Powell's world record in Doha six years ago only to see the result erased when he was caught doping a few weeks later. Gatlin had tested positive for excessive levels of testosterone, which led to a four-year ban. Powell, who has lost to Gatlin seven times in 10 meetings, said he wouldn't let it happen the next time.

Cash Money Records co-founder, Birdman announced that his label has now signed We The Best Music Group under their imprint, making Mavado an affiliate of the Young Money Cash Money Billionaires (YMCMB) as he's now under the Cash Money umbrella. Last summer, Mavado signed his first international record deal with DJ Khaled’s We The Best Music Group and has since release reputable efforts such as Emergency with label mate, Ace Hood as well as Survivor, featuring Senegalese-American hip-hop artiste, Akon and Soulja Girl.

Former Miss Universe World runner up Yendi Phillips and artiste Daniel "Chino" McGregor have announced that they are expecting a baby together last night on facebook. The announcement last night confirmed months of rumours that were swirling in Jamaica that there was a relationship between Yendi and Chino. Yendi posted this message on her facebook page:

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Jamaica announced a new government task force Thursday to fight proliferating lottery scams that have made the Caribbean country a center for international telemarketing fraud. The Jamaican and U.S. governments already have a 3-year-old joint task force that has been dealing with the schemes, which mainly target elderly Americans, but the problem has gotten worse. Three years and roughly 100 arrests later, the United States-Jamaica task force set up to combat the burgeoning lottery scam appears to have failed spectacularly. The most conservative estimates put the yearly take from Jamaican scams at $300 million, up from about $30 million in 2009. Montego Bay has earned the reputation for being the epicentre of the lottery scam, and...

Thousand reggae fans crowded a Kingston park late Thursday night to watch a screening of a documentary about Bob Marley, the icon of reggae music who brought the Jamaican musical genre to every corner of the globe. Marley, which will be released worldwide on Friday, premiered in his Jamica to high praise from Jamaicans who marveled at footage showing the late singer's impassioned interviews, family life and loose-limbed stage presence.

Nicki Minaj has reportedly deleted her Twitter account @nickiminaj after a dispute with a fan website. The popular rapper reportedly became frustrated after a fan site apparently leaked some of her new music. She tweeted The offending site is down, stripped of all of it’s content with only the word “closed” posted. The site just plays the song Dear Old Nicki in a loop.

Trinidad's state-owned petroleum company says it has discovered 48 million barrels of crude oil off the island's southwest coast. Trinidad's Petrotrin President Designate Khalid Hassanali said late Thursday that it is the company's biggest discovery in a decade. The crude oil is located in 60 feet of water. Prime Minister Kamla Persaud-Bissessar said the anticipated revenue would be used for several development projects throughout the country. Prime Minister Kamla Persaud-Bissessar stated,

(AP) Jamaica must clamp down on trash fires because the smoke, soot and microscopic pollutants they release into the air are serious health hazards, an environmental group said Wednesday. The Jamaica Environment Trust called on the government to establish air quality testing in areas likely to be affected by dump fires and to publish the results routinely. It is also urging authorities to try to stop the open burning of trash, which is widespread. A government report released this week said alarming levels of volatile organic compounds were dispersed in the air from a fire that burned for more than a week in February at an open-air dump in Kingston. It created a plume of smoke that could be seen for miles and affected schools...

When food firm Wanis lost the rights to import popular Jamaican sauce Pickapeppa, They decided they would make the sauce themselves in a factory 4,690 miles from Jamaica in Wisbech, Cambs UK.They invented their own recipe, printed thousands of fake labels and produced around 30,000 bottles of the counterfeit sauce over 16 months. The scam wasn't exposed until a shopper noticed the sauce tasted sweeter than usual and complained to Pickapeppa’s Jamaican producers. Wanis managers Sanjay Wadhwani, 45, and Vickas Shah, 35, admitted breaking trademark laws last week at Harrow Crown Court, North-West London. They were given community sentences and the firm, one of the UK’s biggest Afro-Caribbean food specialists, was fined £10,000 with...

Jimmy Little, one of Australia's most famous Aboriginal musicians, died Monday after a long illness, his family said. He was 75. The iconic artist died at his home in the city of Dubbo, about 250 miles west of Sydney, after a long struggle with diabetes, kidney problems and a heart condition. Little was one of the first indigenous artists to win mainstream success in Australia, playing everything from country to reggae across a nearly 60-year career. Little is survived by his daughter, Frances Claire Peters-Little, and his grandson, James Henry Little.

Adidja "Vybes Kartel" Palmer, and his co-defendants Nigel Thompson and Lenburgh McDonald appeared before the Gun Court Division of the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court yesterday.They were ordered to return to gun court next Wednesday. The prosecution is expected to have the case transferred next wednesday to the Home Circuit Court to begin the murder case trial.

Jamaica's prime minister Portia Simpson Miller said that she wants Jamaica to sever its ties with the British monarchy so that Jamaica can turn the page on its colonial past and focus on development. She first announced her desire to replace Queen Elizabeth II as Jamaica's head of state with a Jamaican president during her swearing-in ceremony Jan. 6, 2012. Portia Simpson Miller said .

(AP) The lighthearted tone of Prince Harry's Caribbean tour changed Wednesday as the British royal modified his schedule at a military camp in Jamaica out of respect for six British soldiers killed in Afghanistan. Harry, a British Army captain who recently qualified as an Apache attack helicopter pilot, was scheduled to rappel down a new training wall at a Jamaican military camp in the capital of Kingston but instead watched local soldiers do so. Palace press officer Nick Loughran said Harry decided not to take part in a military activity considered peripheral to the duties of an Apache pilot when the day's focus should be on the British Army's core roles and "looking after the bereaved of those tragically killed in Afghanistan."...

Lloyd Brevett, the founding member of the pioneering Jamaican ska and reggae band The Skatalites son Okine Brevett who was 32 years old, was fatally shot about an hour after accepting a music award for his ill father. Ruth Brevett says her son Okine was killed Sunday by a gunman at the entrance of his home in the rough Seaview Gardens area of Kingston, Jamaica. He was shot about 15 minutes after showing his 80-year-old father, Lloyd Brevett, an award from the Jamaica Reggae Industry Association for the father's musical contributions. The award was handed to Okine by Former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson.

(AP) Jamaica's government announced a campaign Tuesday to crack down on the longtime problem of thieves stealing livestock and crops from ranches and farms across the Caribbean island. Organized rustlers working on Jamaica's rural back roads often strike in the dead of night and sometimes even butcher cattle right in the field. Other thieves prey on farms, grabbing goats and chickens or hauling off vegetables and fruit. Glen Harris, president of the Jamaica Agricultural Society, said agriculture losses from thievery approached $70 million last year in Jamaica, where roughly 200,000 people make their living off farming. Police Commissioner Owen Ellington said Jamaica's severely backlogged justice system needs to get tougher on such...

Federal prosecutors in New York have asked a judge to impose a 23-year prison sentence on a Jamaican drug kingpin who admitted his leadership in an international crime ring. Christopher "Dudus" Coke pleaded guilty to racketeering and assault charges in August 2011. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Tuesday in Manhattan federal court.Prosecutors filed a sentencing memorandum late Wednesday. They stated that Coke was so powerful in Jamaica that he had virtual immunity from the reach of law enforcement there. In a letter to the judge in September, Coke accepted responsibility for his actions and asked for a sentence "below the guideline range."

ReggaeMe would like to send out Condolences to the family of Rodney Bounty Killer Price on the lost of his mother. Bounty stated many times during his career that his mom played a substantial role in his life over the years.Rest in peace Ms. Ivy Williams 1941 - 2012 Bounty Killer tweeted this morning @GrungGaadZillA