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MIRACLE
CHILD
FIVE MINUTES UNDER WATER
AFTER SLIPPING IN POOL

STOPPED BREATHING, NO PULSE

SEVEN DAYS IN A COMA WITH MUM
AND DAD BY HIS BEDSIDE
NOW JAHLIL IS FIT AGAIN AND GETS
TO VISIT THE CREW WHO SAVED HIS
LIFE
By Alphanso Clue
IT WAS supposed to be a summer afternoon of watery fun for
Jahlil Crutchley and his school
buddies, when a friends mum
agreed to take them to their local swimming pool for a bit of
frolic.
But what started out in eager
excitement ended in tears
and dismay as Jahlil literally
drowned after spending five
minutes submerged and un-

noticed.
His mum Sonia told Jamaica Times the story of
how the bubbly six year old
miraculously survived the
ordeal and is once again
bright and bubbly.
Jahlil
was
bouncing
around in what was supposed to be the shallow end
of the pool for nonswimmers. There was no notice
that there was a gradual
steep incline. The water
got too deep for him and
he went under. It was af-

Jahlil Crutchley takes the pilots seat in

the London Air Ambulance as he was given a tour by the crew that saved his life.

ter five minutes that one of

his friends noticed he was
missing and that was when
the lifeguards were alerted.
They fished him out of the
water and tried to perform
CPR. He was unconscious
and not breathing so basically he was dead.
The London Air Ambulance was called and they
arrived in swift time tried to
resuscitate him. They eventually got his pulse back and
took him to Kings College
Hospital where doctors in-

duced a medical coma.

Jahlil remained in a coma
for over a week while the
doctors worked hard to stabilise his system and eventually safely bring him back
out.
Jahlil is still undergoing
treatment and observation
but his recovery has been
described as nothing short
of miraculous by the air ambulance crew and doctors at
Kings College.
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November 2014

NINE YEARS IN PRISON FOR SHEREKAS KILLER

A TEENAGE boy who shot his girlfriend dead on his birthday has
been sentenced to nine years
detention for her manslaughter.

Shereka Fab-Ann Marsh, 15,

was hit in the neck by a single bullet from a fake 1930s
Italian Beretta pistol which
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The 15-year-old boy - who
cannot be named due to his
It will be held under the age - was cleared of murder
theme, Jamaica and the Di- after jurors hears he loved
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Shereka Marsh
Shyrine Mills, Sherekas mother

friend and had no reason to

hurt her.
After the gun went off in
the bedroom of a house in
Hackney, east London, the
boy phoned 999 but she was
pronounced dead later that
afternoon.
On his arrest at the house,
the boy told officers it was
an accident and exclaimed:

Am I going to hell?
Later he said: My girl died
on my birthday.
Police later found two
pictures of him posing with
handguns on his mobile
phone, one of which was
pointing at the person who
took the photograph.
Soon after the shooting,
the boy said he and his girlfriend were sitting on the bed
and holding the gun together

to feel how heavy it was.

But he changed his story and
admitted in court that he had
been standing in front of her,
waving the gun around with
both hands, not thinking it
was loaded.
The defendant also initially
claimed to have found the
gun on Hackney Marshes,
but later said he had been
given it to hide for a man in
his 20s - who he refused to
name.
Judge Wide took account
of his previous violent behaviour - two convictions for
robbery, one armed with a
screwdriver.
The court heard that the
boy had been excluded from
school three times, twice for
violence.
A text message referring to
shanks - thought to mean
homemade knives - showed
he had been involved in an
incident of violence in the
past, the judge said.

Sherekas family were in

court as her killer was sent
down to begin his sentence
without showing any emotion.
Her mother Shyrine Mills
issued a statement saying:
Guns are not toys.
Sherekas life was tragically cut short because of
the negligent actions by one
of her peers who took it upon
himself to involve himself in
activities that no child should
ever be involved with, she
added.
Guns are not toys and
should only be handled by
trained professionals in extreme circumstances.
Shereka and the defendant should be in school preparing for their GCSEs, and
we all should have been going about our normal daily
business, while the courts
deal with hardened criminals.

Pentecostals pay tribute to Dr. Myles Munroe

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THE DEATH of Dr Myles Munroe

in a tragic plane crash in the Bahamas on Sunday 9 November
2014 has led to an outpouring
of grief among the Pentecostal
and Charismatic Christian community in Britain and around the
world.
All nine people on board the
Lear 36 Executive Jet died
in the crash, including Dr
Munroe, his wife Ruth and
members of his Bahamas
Faith Ministries International
leadership team.
Munroe
was an internationally renowned bestselling author,
lecturer, teacher, life coach,
government consultant, and
leadership mentor. He was a
frequent visitor to the UK.
Paying tribute, Dr Eric
Brown, Churches Together in
England Pentecostal President says, It was my distinct
privilege to invite Dr Munroe
as keynote speaker to several of our Pastors and Key
Leaders Conferences and
on every occasion he spoke
professionally and prophetically into the lives of our
leaders. Indeed he was a
frequent keynote speaker
to many of the Evangelical,
Pentecostal and Charismatic
churches in this country. He
was a gifted communicator,
effective motivator, a man of
faith and great courage and

Dr Myles Munroe and his wife

full of the Holy Spirit. He was

a giant of our time and his
unique place in the history
of the Christian Church is secured.
President of CiC International and Free Churches
Moderator Dr Hugh Osgood
recalls hosting Dr Munroe in
London: I know that many
British church leaders have
been deeply impacted by the
warmth and encouragement
he brought with him every
time he visited the UK. Myles
and his ministry will be greatly missed.
And Dr Joel Edwards, International Director of Micah
Challenge says: Dr Myles

touched so many lives on so

many issues across so many
communities. As comfortable with Prime Ministers
as he was the people, he
walked with Kings without
losing the common touch.
The world mourns the loss of
a man who revealed the mind
and heart of God.
Dr Munroes ministry transcended racial, cultural, denominational and national
boundaries with a message
aimed at empowering others
to discover their God-given
purpose. In his own words,
The greatest Tragedy in life
is not death, but a life without
purpose.
May he and all who died
rest in peace.

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MIRACLE CHILD

Jahlil Crutchely, third from left with members of the London Air Ambulance team

From Page 1

Frank Chege, a nurse who

specialises in emergency
medicine on the air ambulance said: In comparison to
other patients, Jahlil is a rare
success case. The most rewarding bit of this job is see-

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ing an outcome like his.

Mum Sonia describes his
recovery as nothing short of
a miracle: God was at work.
There was a woman at the
pool named Hannah who got
involved as quickly as the incident happened. She was
talking to the air ambulance
crew and kept them trying to

revive him even after the recommended time had passed.

God placed her there that
day to work through her.
Jahlil was five at the time
the incident happened. He
recently celebrated his 6th
birthday, on bonfire night;
said he had a ball. He told
Jamaica Times his memory
of the ordeal and said: I feel
weird. My friends and my
teachers talk about it.
Remarkably, he now thinks
that hes the best swimmer. Hes such a brave little
boy, said mum Sonia. Even
though he knows what happened to him he has been
willing to face it, whereas
most people would not even
think of going near to water
again. I am taking him to
proper swimming lessons
with the proper equipment.
He is still being observed to
ensure all is motor skills are
fine. When the doctors relate to me what his body had
experienced and the whole
process it confirms that God
was at work
Jahlil was invited by the
London Air Ambulance crew
to see their base and explore
the helicopter.

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November 2014

Have this Christmas

on us - Digicel
CHRISTMAS has arrived early
for Digicel customers in the US,
Canada and the UK. The telecommunications company launched
its Christmas is on us campaign on November 3rd, 2014
in market until December 28th.
We are beyond excited to
be able to reward our customers. These migrant heroes have been loyal to their
families in the Caribbean and
to our brand all year long. It
is now the time to give back
to them and declare that
Christmas Is On Us, said
Declan Cassidy, CEO of Digicel Diaspora.
Digicel is giving away a
brand new car to the grand
prize winner of the campaign.
But theres more! There will
be weekly winners of 3,000
cash and of American Air-

line tickets back home to the

Caribbean.
Digicel is committed to
keeping family and friends
abroad connected to those
at home in the Caribbean. As
a global telecommunications
service provider, Digicel provides convenient and easy
top-up methods for those
abroad so they can send
minutes back home.
All top up transactions during the 8-week promotional
period qualify whether
customers send Digicel minutes to friends and family
in Jamaica, Haiti, Guyana,
Trinidad, St. Vincent, St. Lucia and Grenada, via www.
DigicelGroup.com or from
any authorized retail location. The more they send,
the higher their chances to
win.

Comedy star Oliver Samuels

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operations at Taj Traders on
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to London for the play Dolly
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In tribute to Peter Flip Fraser, creator of Black Heroes in the Hall of Fame

Taj Traders presented a pair

of tickets to the show to
lucky winners Mrs. Nadine
Sewell and Mr. Omar Purcell.
The competition was staged
in honour of Mr. Samuels
65th birthday.
The draw was opened
to all Taj Jamaica National
Money Transfer custom-

ers who sent money via Taj

traders. Surfraz, the Manager for Taj Traders said: As
a Jamaica National Money
Transfer shop, we wanted
to do something special for
our customers, by inviting
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our customers as they are
like family. Taj Traders is a

one stop shop for customers shipping, Digicel top ups

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HEALTH MATTERS
A SHOCKING new figure released
in Black History Month by the
health charity Prostate Cancer
UK reveals that one in every four
Black men in the UK will be diagnosed with prostate cancer at
some point in his lifetime.
Thats double the overall
1-in-8 cradle-to-grave risk
faced by all men in the UK.
Its like Russian Roulette
but with only four players
chancing the bullet. This
statistic is a wake-up call to
Black men about the unique
danger they face - and were
warning them to act on it.
Fathers, brothers, partners,
sons - with every fourth
Black man or boy in the UK
destined to get this potentially fatal disease at some
time, its vital that everything
possible is done to identify
and catch aggressive cancers early, said Cordwell
Thomas, who heads Prostate
Cancer UKs partnership with
Britains African and African
Caribbean communities.

Calculation of the specific

lifetime risk to Black men
was undertaken by Prostate
Cancer UK as part of its continuing drive to support the
men of Britains two million
strong African and African
Caribbean population in recognising both the threat to
their prostate health and their
responsibility to be proactive
in seeking out advice and
support.
Cordwell Thomas continued: Many health professionals are not even aware
that Black ancestry is a
prostate cancer risk factor.
Whats more, Black guys often dont claim their rights
to health care. Theyre not
first in line to see the GP or
to call our helpline to discuss
concerns like erectile dysfunction or problems peeing.
With so many lives at risk, we
all have to work together to
ensure that Black men wise
up to the issue and those affected seek and receive appropriate healthcare.

With the backing of its major

funding partner, Movember,
Prostate Cancer UK provides
support to thousands of men
facing prostate cancer and

Its your life and the message is know your risk and
know your responsibility. Its
about taking charge of your
own health. As a Black man,
Former footballer
Mark Bright

it has consistently emphasised the higher risk faced by

Black men. The urgent need
to help Britains Black communities act upon their raised
risk means Prostate Cancer
UK is bringing together the
community leaders and clinicians who can encourage
Black men to face up to their
heightened prostate cancer
risk, engage with it, and take
the necessary action.

youre already in a high risk

group, so the worst thing to
do is to ignore the risk. Confront it, speak to your wife,
partner or friends about it,
and consult your GP over
whether a test is advisable
in your case. Even when you
have no actual symptoms,
you are entitled to a test if
you are over 50 and have
spoken to your GP, says
Cordwell Thomas.

November 2014

PROSTATE CANCER
AND YOU

Football legend, sports

broadcaster and ambassador for Prostate Cancer
UK, Mark Bright said: Im a
black man and I am over 50.
My risk of being diagnosed
with prostate cancer is significantly higher than that of
a white man of the same age.
Now we know that one in four
black men will be diagnosed
with prostate cancer at some
time in his life, we owe it to
ourselves and our loved ones
to take responsibility for our
health and understand our
risks.
If youre a black man and
over 50, speak to your GP or
call the Prostate Cancer UK
helpline to find out about
your risk and what you can
do about it.
Prostate Cancer UK volunteer Phil Kissi MBE is a survivor of the disease: It is terrifying to think that I could so
easily have carried on without knowing anything about
prostate cancer despite it
being the most common

cancer diagnosed in men in

the UK. Luckily my GP was
very supportive when I raised
my concerns with him and I
caught the cancer in time to
have successful treatment
but it saddens me to think
that others may not have this
chance.
Ultimately it is up to us
men to respect and take responsibility for our health
but I needed a lot of support
from my friends and family,
he says.
2013 is the 65th anniversary of the Windrush Landing. It is ironic that youngsters who arrived on that
ship a whole lifetime ago and
have won countless battles
over the decades still face a
major public health inequality
based on nothing but ethnicity. Thats why Prostate Cancer UK puts in the research,
services and support that will
help more Black men like Phil
to survive this disease, said
Cordwell Thomas.

I Chose to be Better, Not Bitter...Hey World, I Beat Breast Cancer!

TWO WORDS describe Yvonne
Dunkley - Simply Amazing!
It would be impossible to tell
that she has been on the kind
of journey shes had by simply looking at her. She faces
life with a smile and effuses
positivity, belief and triumph.
And is because those were
all the weapons she had in
her arsenal as she battled
the big C.
Tough as the battle was,
she has beaten back breast
cancer and is now a senior
warrior in the fight against a
womans worst nightmare.
On April 27, 2010, she was
diagnosed with breast cancer. The story between that
time and now is as interesting as any survival story gets
and Yvonne is here in the UK
to share that tale of hope and
inspiration and to instil belief
in those who are facing similar trials.
She has a book out called
Smiling Through Breast Cancer, which chronicles her
diagnosis, treatment and recovery. She is one of those
rare human beings. Having

been given a second shot at

life, she is now making sure
that she makes every moment quality time. So she is
happy to share a word with
those who need it, giving and
extending herself to improve
the plight of others.
This is her story: My name
is Yvonne Dunkley and I am a
Jamaican who lives in Atlanta,
Georgia. I am also a survivor
of breast cancer. I was diagnosed with breast cancer on

April 27, 2010. My course of

treatments were 6 rounds of
chemo with 3 different drugs
and 35 sessions of radiation.
After finishing my treatment it
left me disabled. I had difficulty processing things and I
had neuropathy on my entire
right side (constant nerves
pain). Through all that I went
through, I wanted something
positive to come from all this
pain. I was not sure what the
outcome would be but I knew

that if I could help one person

not to go through this pain I
would do whatever to help in
the fight against cancer. For
the past year and a half I have
been in Jamaica, my birth
country doing breast cancer
awareness work. I mainly
focus on the western region
of Jamaica where Jamaica
Cancer Society does not really go and the awareness is
less among the people.
So. I stay west of Jamaica

doing the awareness and

I initiated a mammogram
screening program in private
companies, government corporations, schools, churches
and clubs. It is within this
time I realized that the Jamaican government does
not own a mammogram machine or a radiation machine.
When a lady goes into the
public health system to do
a pap smear it takes her 12
months before she gets her
result. Cancer is something
that grows.
I have done the parishes of
St. James, Hanover, a part of

St. Ann and now in the parish

of Westmoreland. We have a
mammogram campaign going on right now, where we
would like all the ladies 40
and over to registered to do
their mammogram and pap
smear screenings and we are
seeking your help. The long
run is to get a mobile mammogram unit for Jamaica.
The Jamaica Cancer society
owns the only mammogram
machine on the Island which
is 15 years old.
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JOE
ALDRED
RECENTLY I have been reflecting
on how to retain my spirituality
in the midst of a busy life. Jesus
teaches us that a persons life
does not consist of the things he
or she possesses.
Put another way, the material does not define a person.
This being so, I find it necessary to carefully contemplate
the non-material, the element
of me that transcends the
materialism that surrounds
me. Now, if you know anything about me you will know
that I work very long hours
and seems to some and to
myself most of the time to be
always busy. So how in the
midst of extreme busyness
does one find time to nurture
ones spiritual side?
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Whose spirituality is it...anyway?

amazement and gratefulness

at who I am, the world I find
and the God behind it all.
Prayer
A second aspect of my spirituality is prayer. I pray all the
time. As Ive got older I have
knelt less and less at my bedside in the mornings when I
wake and in the nights before
I sleep. For a long time when
our daughters were young
we had family worship once
per week. And still today
my wife and I read the
bible and pray together once a day
as often as we
can. We dont
always succeed,
but we keep trying. For many
years when I was
young I routinely
knelt by my bedside before going
to bed and when I
woke up in the morning. It was good discipline but was also a ritual
and maybe even a crutch to
lean upon - to guard against
accidents during the day
and nightmares while I slept.
If that is what it was meant
to do it didnt always work.
I slowly realised that while
there is nothing necessarily
wrong with prayer times I
dont need prayer times to
communicate with the God
of the universe. Pray without ceasing, men ought
always to pray and not to
faint, are a couple of biblical texts that I have probably
badly interpreted allowing
me to believe that I can pray
while Im in the shower, while
getting dressed, while Im
driving or travelling by public
transport...in fact I find a God
who is everywhere is always
in communication and I can
be in touch 24/7!

My spiritual orientation begins with a concept of God.

I ponder God a lot. Who or
what is God? As a teenager
I decided to agree with the
Psalmist that the heavens
declare the glory of God and
the firmament shows Gods
handiwork. I rejected the
idea of a creation without
a creator. In the same way
I marvel about the creation
of a jumbo jet carrying 400
passengers across the Atlantic for nine hours, and
know for certain that some
great minds are behind its
concept, design, building
and flying; so too I am full
of wonder about the kind of
mind that can conceive, design and build the amazing
universe we find ourselves
in. Who or what is this that
we call God who can think up
a design as sophisticated as
a human body among a universe full of wonder? And if
as we have come to accept
this transcendent being is
present everywhere, knows
everything and is all powerful why does God allow some
Divine
of the terrible atrocities that
happen? And what does God A third aspect of spirituality
make of my feeble attempts for me is what I call abandonto intercede and plead for ing or throwing myself on the
divine intervention in the af- divine. After all, the ways of
fairs of life that concern me God are so unpredictable, so
so? I do not know the an- strange, I cant work God out
swers to my questions and so I stopped trying some time
so I Send
continue
wonder and
ago and just say, God, whatyourinanswers
to [email protected]

ever. The writer of the book

of Proverbs got there too and
concluded that all was vanity. The rich die, the poor die,
the old die, the young die,
healthy people die, sick people die, some with money
are happy, some with money
are miserable, some without money are happy, some
without money are miserable, all is vanity. Recently
when

check if Jesus was on board,

and thats why the plane vanished. Had Jesus been on
board the plane would have
been safe. Yet as I write the
evangelical world is in shock
because one of its favourite
sons Dr Myles Munroe with
his wife and church executives died, all nine of them,
in a plane crash. Was Jesus
not on board? So I find God
quite unpredictable in a manner that tells me that the rain
falls on the just and the
unjust yet their outcomes are never
Recently when the Malaysian
predictable. This
plane disappeared out of the
doesnt make
sky a Jamaican preacher on
me want to
TV preached a sermon titled,
quarrel with
check...is Jesus on board.
God,
quite
He was clear that for that
the
opposite,
flight they had checked eveI say, God,
rything but forgot to check
whatever.
I
if Jesus was on board, and
do
all
I
can
thats why the plane vanbut never take
ished. Had Jesus been on
God
for granted
board the plane would have
that
God
will just
been safe.
do all I want, yet like
a great Father this God
is working everything for
my good. So, whatever! Like
the Mal a y - Jesus, I say, nevertheless not
sian plane disappeared out of my will but yours be done.
the sky a Jamaican preacher
on TV preached a sermon
Contentment
titled, check...is Jesus on
board. He was clear that for In the hustle and bustle of my
that flight they had checked life doing all the good I can
everything but forgot to for all the people I can yet

ant of, I ask myself, whose

world, whose church, whose
humanity is it anyway? Certainly not mine! Who cares
more about the world, me or
God?
never expecting any thank
yous, though always happy
to receive them, I have discovered a peace and contentment with life. By this I
dont mean that I dont get
irritable with stuff like unprofessionalism, lack of ambition, lackadaisical attitudes
and such like. I do. What I
mean is there was a time I believed I was so spiritual that
those not going my way were
the objects of my quiet or not
so quiet ire. I was impatient
for people to be and do right,
as I understood right. I was
often more against sin than
God seemed, more demanding for righteousness than
God seemed. Now I realise
that spirituality means following God, not trying to predict
or lead or out-God God. So
in a world of believers and
atheists, of multiple faiths
and no faith, of lifestyles of
various kinds, I look to see
and hear what is Gods heart
for all of this and of us. I
know that when this God of
the universe speaks or acts
or instructs then thats the
right time. And if the Creator
is tolerant of all I am intoler-

Creator
So here is a spirituality rooted in the awe and wonder of
God, Creator, Sustainer and
the parent of us all. God
cannot be placated by me or
anyone else no matter how
much we pray, fast and become self righteous. I smile
every time I hear of prayer
school, prayer strategy, etc
etc and I wonder when did
we feel the need to develop
strategies to contact an always listening God or to persuade God to do what we
want or think God should be
concerned about or do? At
the same time, I am working
my socks off, persuaded that
when I do my part God does
Gods but all in Gods time
at Gods pace and according to Gods will. Spirituality is realising that I am not
in charge, God is! Most of all
Ive learned that I can never
be too busy to be spiritual
because God is in me and in
my busyness.
Bishop Dr Joe Aldred is an Ecumenist, Broadcaster and Author

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MUSING WITH LOVELOCK

WHEN WILL they ever learn?

Lonely, British women that is. Yet
again we hear another sorry tale
that some women of a certain
age have fallen for the charms of
an online lover whose only interest is to relieve them of their
hard-earned dosh.

These women dont just fall in

love and give their hearts away
willy-nilly to some stranger but
it appears they are just as eager
to part with their money. The latest scammer is a Maurice Asola
Fadola from Ghana who passed
himself off as a dashing American
major general who charmed the
unsuspected with stories of his
bravery dodging bombs and saving lives. He scanned 800,000
out of his victims based on various lies. Like needing money
to pay for a legal dispute to get
his war medals and buying his
way out of the army. What a
load of tosh. Why would any
self-respecting man want my
money to bail him out and he
hadnt even met me? Thats what
Id be asking. Doesnt he have

Fadola

friends or family? Why ask me? As

a result of this scam some women have been left penniless and
homeless, having re-mortgaged
their homes to help out lover-boy.
They wont be getting any sympathy from me. Where do these
women get the idea that they are
supposed to give men money, anyway? Especially ones they have
never clapped eyes on. But this
crook Fadola, he did send them
poetry. Thats a red flag flying
right there.
Now, Im no meanie. I have given
pennies for the guy in Bonfire

season and I have rewarded carol

singers who came a-carolling but
Ive never given money to a man I
was dating. Not even a bus fare.
What were these women thinking
of?
But it doesnt end there. When an
elderly Cardiff woman befriended
a young Tunisian waiter whilst on
holiday in Tunisia, she told him
that if he ever visited the UK he
should drop in to see her. Well,
there was an invite he could hardly refuse! It appears that even if
he was on his way to Mars he
would be sure to go via Cardiff, so

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as not to disappoint this old dear.

Two twos he finds himself in Cardiff and takes up residence in the
ladys house and before you know
it the young Tunisian waiter had
eaten her out of house and home.
Ive never been duped by any man
in such ways, so theres no point
telling me that these situations
could happen to anyone. As my
mother used to say duppy know
who fi frighten. And no duppy is
frightening me. All I can say is,
women, wise up! And if you have
any money you dont what to do
with, call me.

As schoolboy William Cornick is

sentenced to life imprisonment
for killing his teacher Ann Maguire I wonder if this tragedy could
have been averted. I think so.
Chief Superintendent Paul Money
of West Yorkshire police said no
person acting in authority could
have reasonably foreseen the
events of April 28. I dont agree
with his assertion. This was no
spur of the moment madness. It
was premeditated and the boy

had made his

deadly intentions clearly
known.
It
was common
knowledge
in the school
community
that he had
a grudge
against Mrs
Maguire
and
that
he planned
to do her
significant harm, at the very least.
Yet when he turned up at school
with knives on that fateful day
he was not taken seriously. What
did they think he was going to do
with those knives? To say that
nobody could have foreseen what
would happen is ludicrous. An angry boy bearing a grudge armed
with knives spells trouble. Very
serious trouble. That boy should
have been searched every time
he set foot on school premises
and should have been monitored
more closely. Never mind about
his human rights, he forfeited that

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this tragedy be a lesson to other
schools that if they have a pupil
who threatens to kill or cause
grievous harm to staff or pupils,
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FINANCE
AND
YOU
BUILDING YOUR FINANCIAL MUSCLE...

November 2014
July 2013

all it takes is fiscal exercise!

DEPENDING on which expert you

consult, there are between 656850 muscles in the body. And
each one is vitally important in
aiding normal body functioning.
Muscles by and large are responsible for giving our bodies
the ability to move.
Therefore, when you have
major issues with any of
them, you can be severely
impaired. There are also
three types of muscles: skeletal, smooth and cardiac.
A fourth type has now been
discovered: financial.
This new and exciting
discovery has the ability to
revolutionise the condition
of mankind. We now have a
direct answer to what ails our
finances. We now know why
we, and most of the people
we know, struggle with finances: we were not exercising our financial muscles. As
a matter of fact, we were not
even aware that there was
such a thing, until now.
Believe it or not -- financial
awareness can be likened to
a muscle. Furthermore, once
you discover it, you will realise that there are prescribed
ways to go about developing
it. This also forever eliminates
the complaint: I didnt know.
The first step to building

your financial muscles is to

educate yourself on all things
financial. One great place to
start is to read the new financial awareness section of this
newspaper. Furthermore, a
quick scan of the business
section of any newspaper
will reveal at least one story
that can improve your financial awareness. You can
read it from the perspective
of how the information contained within it might impact
your life.
The internet is also another
vast reservoir of financial
awareness information. Put
the term in your favourite
search engine and a wealth
of information will appear.
After this discovery you will
wonder why you ever thought
financial awareness information was difficult to find.
Also, why not make it a
family project? If you have
children of an appropriate
age, get them to find the
story. You could then have
a meaningful family discussion, say around the dinner
table. Discussing finances
within the family is a great
way to build financial muscles for the entire family.
Another great way to build
financial muscles is to ask
your financial advisor to as-

sist you. A good one knows

all the ins and outs of finance
and will cause your knowledge to grow quickly. However, you must be prepared
to ask the questions.
This could also be the time
to review all aspects of your
finances to see how strong
or weak it is. The recommendation is to do this at
least annually, so that you
can establish how well you
are performing against your
budget. And yes, financially
aware persons are expected
to have a budget that guides
their financial lives.

Reviewing your finances

with a trusted friend is also
an acceptable alternative,
if you dont have a financial
advisor. The important thing
here is being willing to take
on the challenge of truly and
deeply understanding what
is going on with your finances. Sharing your financial situation with an independent
person is an amazing way to
build your financial muscles.
Financial muscle building can also be fun! Why not
make it a group activity? Why
not start a group that meets
monthly and let financial mat-

ters be the main topic of discussion? This way it is possible to encourage each other
in this building process. After
all, no man or woman for that
matter is an island, and no
man stands alone.
The benefit here is that
the combined power of the
group can assist with building much stronger financial
muscles much more quickly.
As a matter of fact, the results coming back from this
experiment have been astounding. Why not start your
group today!
Another powerful way to
build your financial muscles
is to educate yourself to the
point where you can teach
it. What you will discover is
that teaching will vastly improve your understanding of
the financial muscle building
process. It will also strengthen your muscles at the same
time. You will also be doing
the community a massive
service, as this kind of training is sadly lacking at the
moment. This is your chance
to make a difference. As the
old saying goes, the harvest
is plentiful but the workers
are few. There is a massive
shortage of financial muscle
building educators on the
planet at the moment.

If teaching isnt for you,

then perhaps you can experience the pleasure of being a
personal coach. This way you
can connect directly with individuals and assist with their
growth. It is no coincidence
that the most successful
sport stars employ a coach.
Similarly, people attempting to build their financial
muscles can benefit greatly
from coaching. As a matter
of fact, financial awareness
coaching should be the next
growth industry. Why not join
us and start a trend?
Muscle building has been
used as an analogy here, but
I am sure you get the point.
There is nothing really mysterious about financial awareness, once you understand
that there are prescribed
ways of dealing with it. The
path to the end is certainly
varied, but with persistence,
and a lot of help from the financially astute, you will get
there in the end. Make improving your financial awareness your new mission right
now. This is critical. Your
future depends on it, and so
does the future of those who
depend on you.
Albert Forbes and Jamaica
Times

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nother party conference season in Jamaica is now firmly

behind us, and we can begin to contemplate the prospect
of the next general election. Yes, we know it isnt constitutionally due for another two years, but we want to be pre-emptive
and begin the discourse now. Failure to begin right away would
only put us in the busy campaign season -- which is bound to
start at least within the next twelve months. So what would we
like to see for the next general election season in Jamaica?
Our first call is for the two major political parties, JLP and PNP,
to dust off the code of conduct by which the election will be contested. We are calling for this to be the freest and fairest election
that Jamaica has ever seen. This is particularly important as we
seek to consolidate whatever gains we have made since independence. We dont believe that an election campaign should be
a time for tearing down, but rather a time for building up.
To take it further, this is one area in where we would like to see
the politicians in Jamaica imitate the UK. We would like to see an
election season pass by where was if not for the lively debates
and the actual day of voting, you would hardly even notice that an
election was taking place.
We also believe that it is time for the Jamaican UK Diaspora to
play a bigger role in the politics of Jamaica. It is estimated that
approximately 800,000 Jamaicans live in the UK and we believe
the countrys politics could benefit greatly from this group. Presently their main role seems to be confined to sending remittances
and barrels, but this we believe is a missed opportunity. We would
also like to start a debate on whether overseas Jamaicans, who
have not taken up citizenship of another country, should be given
a postal vote in the next general election.
We have a lot of respect for the contribution made by veteran
politicians to Jamaicas political life, but we believe that some
of them have stayed so long that they have simply lost the impetus to generate new ideas. It is for this reason that we will be
championing youth for the next general election. The world has
also evolved to the point where internet and perhaps more importantly social media has taken over. The youth have grown up in
this environment and are therefore very knowledgeable and very
articulate about what works for them. We are demanding that
they be given a chance to enter the political arena where they
can share their ideas.
Another passion of ours is campaign finance reform. We would
like to see greater transparency in this area of Jamaicas political
systems. Our objective would be to remove any undue financial
influence from the election process and let ideas and plans of
action be the main drivers.
The lack of adequate finance is a major reason why some of
the very able stay away from the political arena. We will therefore lead the debate in the UK as to how better the Jamaican UK
Diaspora can channel their financial resources to have a greater
impact on the politics of Jamaica.
We believe that with strong leadership the Jamaican UK Diaspora
can powerfully impact the politics of Jamaica. You now have the
platform for making your views known and we look forward to
hearing what you have to say.

Give Black Children a Fair Chance at Adoption

By
Sundjata Keita
THERE HAS been a marked increase in the number of white
children being adopted since
the coalition governments renewed focus on shaking up the
adoption system.
But there has been absolutely no change in the tiny
number of black children
being adopted each year.
The latest figures for
adoption in England, show
that there was a 27% increase in the number of
white children being adopted over 12 months to the
end of March 2014. But over
the same period there was
a 0% increase in the number of black children being
adopted.
This is a real crisis facing
looked after children from
our community. Only 100
children from an African or
African-Caribbean
background were adopted last
year. These figures show
that things are not working
for this group of children.
The 2014 adoption data
also shows that so-called
political correctness of social workers is not the main
reason why black children

in England are not being

adopted because the number of mixed race children
being adopted over the
same period went up by a
staggering 30%.
It is clear that the changes
made to the adoption system are failing black children in local authority care.

Organisations working in
the field of adoption know
what needs to be done but
it seems that there little will
to help this specific group of
vulnerable children.
It is an ongoing concern.
While mixed ethnicities children are being adopted,
black boys of African and
African-Caribbean descent
are waiting for families.
BAAF believes there should
be better engagement with
the different BME communities; financial incentives,
specific training for BME
applicants and post placement support packages,
says Savita de Sousa from
the British Association for
Adoption and Fostering.
One senior social worker
told the TAFW campaign

that prospective adopters

prefer to adopt a child that
matches their family.
It is understandable that
a couple with different ethnicities might want to adopt
a mixed race child and it is
also understandable that
white couples would prefer
a white child to match their
wider family. But this means
that there is a chronic shortages of people who prefer
to adopt a black child as a
match to their family unit.
The Afrikan Family Works
has launched an independent campaign to encourage
more African and AfricanCaribbean people to come
forward and adopt children
waiting for a permanent loving home.
We are doing what we can
to mobilise our community
but we need central government and local government
to take this issue seriously.
The Afrikan Family Works
is organising a free fostering and adoption seminar
on Saturday December 6,
where people can learn
about the process of adoption and fostering. The day
is supported by the forward
thinking London borough
of Wandsworth, and the
voluntary adoption agency
Cabrini Children Society.

about the process of how to

become an adoptive parent
through voluntary agencies.
There are many African and African-Caribbean
children waiting for placements, Cabrini would like
to offer these children the
opportunity for them to live
with a family from their own
ethnic, cultural or religious
background. The highest
percentage group of children waiting for a placement
is from BME background,
says Ian Forbes, director of
adoption and fostering services at Cabrini.

At the December event

Cabrini will inform people

The Event
Fostering & Adoption Seminar
Date
2pm, Saturday 6 December
2014
Venue:
St. Giles Centre 81 Camberwell Church Street, London,
SE5 8RB (Oval Station then
take buses 12, 36, 436)
Contact:
Free tickets available
Call Sundjata on 07783 188
100
Web: www.stgilescamberwell.org.uk / www.theafrikanfamilyworks.net

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Government Under Fire Over NHT and Ooutameni Affair
AUDLEY Shaw has described
events surrounding the Outameni
saga as a web of deception and
said that prior to the $180-million spent last year for the purchase of the Trelawny property,
the Government-owned Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ)
wrote off $80 million in liability
owed by the company.
Shaw levelled the charge at
the Jamaica Labour Partys
(JLPs) 71st Annual Conference at the National Arena
in Kingston where he joined
JLP and Opposition Leader
Andrew Holness in drawing
attention to the issue and accused Prime Minister Portia
Simpson Miller of misleading
the country in her answers
to questions in the House of
Representatives.
They threatened to extend
the scope of their investigations and revelations on the
controversial deal between
the State-run National Housing Trust (NHT) and filmmaker Lennie Little Whites
Orange Valley Holdings Limited, which owned the nineacre property.
Shaw produced new information from documents
relating to the transaction,

Failed attraction Outameni and right, Opposition Leader Andrew Holness

which showed that prior to

the March 2013 purchase
of the tourist attraction, the
Government owned National
Investment Bank of Jamaica
(NIBJ), which was later submerged into the DBJ, invested US$500,000 ($56 million)
in the Outameni project.
The investment was by
way of preference shares,
which required an annual
dividend payment of eight
per cent per year over a fiveyear period and should have
yielded a US$200,000 or $23

million gain. However, Shaw

said that there was no gain
from that first bailout, as
from day one, not one red
cent of dividend was paid by
Outameni to NIBJ.
He said that an outstanding liability of US$700,000 or
approximately $80 million,
which remained on the books
of DBJ, representing its equity in the Outameni company,
has now been written off by
the DBJ.
Both Holness and Shaw
promised more questions

and disclosures as more

documents become available.
Holness told the conference that the JLP now has
information
that
shows
that Prime Minister Simpson Miller misled the House
when she said that she was
not aware of the purchase
of the tourist attraction until
she read it the press. Now
we see that the prime minister had intimate knowledge
of what was happening, he
told the JLP crowd.
He said that for Simpson

Miller to have said that she

was ignorant of the deal,
meant that: (1) she was negligent in her duty to supervise the board of the NHT,
in which case he suggested
that she should resign as
prime minister; or (2) if she
never knew, as she claimed
in answers to questions in
the House of Representatives last week, and if she
agrees that the action was
not right, then she has a duty
to fire the board chairman
and fire the board.
But she didnt do that.
She came to Parliament and
she tried to obfuscate, confuse It appears to me that
because she has not acted

against the board, the only

thing that we can conclude
is that she agrees with and
possibly knew and authorised Outamenis purchase,
Holness said.
Shaw also concluded that
the prime minister had misled the House in her answers.
He said that, in both cases,
when she said that the NHT
had not purchased the Outameni Experience, and that
the first time she had heard
about the transaction was in
the press, she had misled the
House and the country. The
entire sordid affair has turned
out to be nothing but a web
of deception, Shaw told the
conference.

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JAMAICAN Judge Patrick Robinson has been elected to the

panel of judges which will serve
the International Court of Justice
(ICJ) in The Hague starting February 25, next year, for a nineyear period.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs
said that the elections were
marked until the final round
by differing results in the
United Nations 197-member
General Assembly and the
15-member United Nations
Security Council, both of
which are required to record

a majority vote for the winning candidate.

Over the course of the
elections, Judge Robinson
consistently received more
than a two-thirds majority of
votes in the General Assembly, while Argentinas candidate Susana Ruiz Cerutti
received the required majority in the Security Council, a
news release from the Ministry said.
The deadlock between
the Security Council and the
General Assembly was ultimately resolved following
the withdrawal of Cerutti on
Wednesday, November 12.
This paved the way for the
election of Judge Robinson,
who received a total of 185
votes in the General Assembly and 15 votes in the Security Council in the elections
today.

THE JAMAICAN police have

seized 15 kilograms of cocaine
during a routine search with
customs officers at the Kingston
port on Saturday.
Reports from the polices
Corporate Communications
Unit (CCU) are that the team
noticed discrepancies with
the seal of a container originating from Suriname.
During the search, two
black knapsacks were seen
among cargos of rice. The
knapsacks were checked

and each found to contain

seven parcels wrapped in
masking tape containing cocaine weighing a total of 15
kilograms with an estimated
street value of J$21 million,
CCU says.
It was the third drug seizure in less than a week on
the Wharves, as on Tuesday,
November 11, the police
seized 1,483 pounds of ganja
(an estimated street value of
J$5.2 million) and 69 pounds
of ganja on Friday, November
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AROUND
THE CARIBBEAN
Barbados and United States Sign Historic Agreement
THE GOVERNMENT of Barbados
is committed to the implementation of global standards for the
supervision and regulation of
the international business and
financial services sector.
This affirmation came from
Minister of Industry, International Business, Commerce
and Small Business Development, Donville Inniss, prior
to signing a Foreign Account
Tax Compliance Act (FATCA)
Agreement on behalf of Barbados with the United States
of America. The agreement
was co-initialled by Ambassador to Barbados, Dr Larry
Palmer, at the US Embassy.
The signature of this FATCA agreement represents
one of the salient pillars in
the transformation of how we
as an international business
and financial services centre
interact not only with other
jurisdictions on the sharing
of vital information, but is an
indication of the transformation of how we interact with
our clients and apply greater
due diligence in an everchanging environment, Inniss stated.
The Minister, however,
cautioned that the signing
was not a deviation from

Minister of International Business Donville Inniss (right) co-initials the FATCA Agreement with United States
Ambassador to Barbados, Dr Larry Palmer. Looking on is foreign service officer Tricia King. (GP) -

Governments belief that

businesses and investment
must be allowed the flexibility to thrive.
However, it must do so in
an environment not fraught
with uncertainty and arbitrary
regulation. This agreement
therefore seeks to strengthen
this regulatory framework,
he emphasised.
Ambassador Palmer welcomed Barbados commitment to intensifying its
cooperation with the US to
improve international tax
compliance, and hailed the

signing as a significant step

forward in efforts to work collaboratively to combat offshore tax evasion.
The FATCA introduces
reporting requirements for
foreign financial institutions
with respect to certain accounts held by US taxpayers.
Because access to information from other countries is
critically important to the full
and fair enforcement of domestic tax laws, information
exchange is a top priority for
the United States.
By working together to

detect, deter and discourage

offshore tax abuses through
increased transparency and
enhanced reporting, we
can help to build a stronger,
more stable and accountable
global financial system, Dr
Palmer stated.
The signing is the culmination of discussions between
Barbados Task Force and
Negotiating Team, chaired by
secretary to the board of the
Central Bank, Elson Gaskin,
and the US Treasury Department. (BGIS)

Antigua to help Jamaicas Shipping Industry

PRIME Minister of Antigua and
Barbuda Gaston Browne says
his country will collaborate with
Jamaica to increase the Caribbean regions market share of
the lucrative global shipping industry, through ship registration
services.
Browne pointed out that
although the Maritime Authority of Jamaicas (MAJ)
counterpart agency in Antigua was contributing in a
significant way to that countrys treasury, through ship
registration, he would like to
see the contribution increase
exponentially and as such,
collaboration with other Caribbean territories would be
explored.
I am quite sure we can
continue to co-ordinate our
efforts and Im sure that there
are many opportunities to be

exploited for our mutual benefit, he said.

The prime minister was
speaking during a visit to the
offices of the MAJ on November 13, ahead of delivering the keynote address at
the Caribbean Maritime Institutes graduation ceremony
at the Jamaica Conference
Centre.

Meanwhile, Director General of the MAJ, Rear Admiral

Peter Brady, said Jamaica
looks to Antigua and Barbuda for expertise in ship
registration, as that country
currently holds the number
two position in the Caribbean
behind the Bahamas.
It was further explained
that under the Maritime Authoritys developmental man-

date, the ship registry is to be

used as a means of generating income for the economy.
Jamaica currently has 145
international vessels on the
register and 833 domestic
vessels.
The top three Caribbean
registers are included among
the top 35 in the world. They
are the Bahamas, Antigua
and Barbuda and St Vincent
and the Grenadines. With
that distinction, however, the
Caribbean region collectively
accounts for just six per cent
of the global fleet.

Wife of murdered British man puts

St Lucian courts under the spotlight
ST LUCIAN prosecutors have responded to the widow of a British man murdered on the Caribbean island, admitting that the
trial of the suspected killers is
caught up in a backlog of cases that could take years to clear.
Roger Pratt, 62, was beaten and left to drown in January after a gang of robbers
boarded the yacht where he
and his wife Margaret were
sleeping.
In her first interview since
the murder, Mrs Pratt told
The Telegraph she was frustrated by the glacial progress of the criminal courts
and fears a potential fiveyear wait for justice.

raised the issue of the court

backlog with St Lucian authorities in recent weeks.
Mrs Pratt said she was encouraged that her case was
helping to spark a debate in
St Lucia over reforming the
judiciary.
I feel very supported by
the warm response of the
St Lucian people to my case
and I know many of them are
waiting for justice just like I
am, she said.
I would never expect the
government to give my case
special treatment but it is the
governments responsibility
to make sure the judiciary is
properly resourced.

Her comments have been

widely reported in St Lucia,
whose island economy is
heavily dependent on British tourism, and forced the
countrys prosecution service to respond.
In a statement, the Office of the Director of Public
Prosecutions (DPP) denied
that the legal process had
stalled or that the matter
is taking a long time to come
before the courts.
However, they acknowledged Mrs Pratts frustration
and did not deny claims that
the case could take up to five
years to finally reach trial.
The fact is that the Criminal Justice System does not
have the resources ... to handle this volume of cases expeditiously and so there is a
backlog, the DPP said.
Lorne Theophilus, the
minister of tourism, also responded, saying the St Lucian government could do
nothing to interfere with the
judicial process.
At this stage the wheels of
justice have to turn. At times
they turn slowly, he said.
British diplomats have

Four men were arrested

and charged with murder
shortly after Mr Pratts death
in January. Since then they
have appeared in court for
a number of pretrial hearings on the murder charges.
All four are due to appear on
Friday for a hearing related
to the robbery charges, the
DPP said.
No date has been set for
their trial.
Mrs Pratt, who was the
only witness to the attack
on-board her yacht Magnetic
Attraction, is expected to be
called as a witness in the
eventual murder trial. However, she has not been asked
to identify the suspects and
said she was worried she
would be unable to if the trial
was delayed for years.
The DPP said it was currently facing a backlog of
2,000 cases and detectives
are said to have 400 unsolved
murders on their books.
The Caribbean island has
only one prison built for 500
people but is currently holding more than 600, according
to figures from the St Lucian
opposition.

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November 2014

Jamaica Ex-Soldiers Association Dinner THE STAR AND THE HC

Scenes from the Jamaica Ex-Soldiers Association Dinner held recently. Part proceeds from the event will be donated to sickle cell charities, Macmillan
Cancer Care and Curphey Home in Manchester Jamaica. The event was sponsored by Victoria Mutual, Grace Kennedy, Jamaica Times and the Jamaican
High Commission - Vajira Photos

REGGAE STAR FACTOR winner

Chardel paid a courtesy call on
Jamaican High Commissioner to
the United Kingdom, Her Excellency, Aloun Assamba following
her win in the talent contest.
The Star Factor winner exchanged pleasantries with
the High Commissioner and
spoke of her delight to have
won the competition.
She beat a strong field of
talented contestants including first runner-up Jay Jay
Born to sing, second runnerup Bianka Jaguar, Kitty Corbin, Katty Small Axe and Tee-

jah Praze.
The
competition
was
staged by Launch Pad Arts
whose principals are Jack
Reuben, Ken Martin, Caroline Williams and bass player
Empress Diane. It was sponsored by Mediacom, Roots
FM, Jamaica Times, Jam TV.
The series was hosted by radio DJ Bobo El Numero Uno.
The judges on the series were
singers Sylvia Tella, Kareem
Shabazz, Carol Thompson,
musician Bigga Morrison and
journalist Andrew Clunis.

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REGGAE STAR FACTOR WINNER CHARDEL WAS BORN A STAR

Chardel, right, in her winning performance at Reggae Star Factor

HE HAS been described

as the Beyonce of reggae music but Reggae
Star Factor 2014 winner
Chardel is more than just beauty
with a great voice. She is a super,
multi-talented and gifted musician, singer, songwriter, sound
engineer among other things.

She emerged winner of Reggae Star Factor from a field

of six extremely talented persons at the finals of the competition on November 7. And
life has been looking up since
that historical moment.
She told Jamaica Times: I
would like to thank Launch
Pad Arts, Jack, Ken, Diane
and Caroline and all the people who made this possible
including the judges and the
band and all who played a
role.
It feels amazing. It feels
like redemption and it is so
empowering. I am actually
proud of myself and I feel
fulfilled. My future is looking
bright. My mum has always
prayed for the barriers and
obstacles to be removed and
I feel like a big barrier and an
even bigger obstacle have

been cleared from my path.

I feel energised and ready to
rock the world.
To put her response into
context, it is important to understand the reason for the
passion behind her words.
Chardel is not a wannabe.
It has taken many years of
hard work and dedication
to get her to this point. She
took her quest for a successful musical career so
seriously that she pursued
and successfully completed
a Bachelor of Arts Degree in
Commercial Music at Westminster University. One of
her tutors was music academic Mykael Riley, one of
the founding members of
Steel Pulse. Among the disciplines she learnt were music industry, copyright law,
stage management, touring,
preparing a business plan,
sound engineering, recording techniques and performance.
Its perhaps a safe bet
that performance was her
strongest module as she
distinguished herself in this
area at Reggae Star Factor.
She is a multi-instrumentalist

who plays the guitar, bass,

piano, clarinet, recorder and
she knows her way around
the studio very well having
engineered and mixed many
of her own recordings and
others she has produced.
It is easy to understand why

those skills and gave her the

chance to appear on stages
in the Middle East including
Lebanon and Turkey, Croatia,
France, Netherlands, Belgium, New York, Canada and
many other countries.
It was the most amazing

In ten years time I would

like have at least three successful albums, meaning
they have made it to the top
10 internationally. I want to
be the UKs number one reggae artiste and be winning
prestigious awards. I would
also like to be touring and
be fulfilled in my life and enjoying the love and delights
of my children.

she won the Reggae Star

Factor; she has an incredible
ability to bring it all together!
Another interesting side
to Chardel is her ability to
sing in French and Arabic.
A world tour with Natacha
Atlas helped her to develop

experience for me. I have

never had another job that
allowed me to use my talents in the ways I did. I even
learnt Egyptian dancing. I
was the only backing vocalist and I was rapping as
well. With Natacha, because

she was singing in Arabic, I

had to write out the melody
and then learn the words. It
sometimes took me a while
to understand what I was
singing. It was a fascinating
experience.
Chardel is the product of
Jamaican parents who met
in Harlesden, North West
London, where she was
born. But the story gets even
more interesting. She is the
first cousin to hit-making DJ
Cutty Ranks and the niece
of Jamaicas top classical
pianist Orrett Rhoden. There
have been many other musical influences in her family.
It was Cutty Ranks who
introduced her to legendary
reggae producer King Jammys, during a trip to Jamaica
in 2007. This led to her working with big names like Mykal
Rose, Mavado and Capleton.
It was out of that experience
that Buss International Records was born.
None of the wide and varied experiences she has had
compares to winning Reggae Star Factor. She said:
I wanted to win so bad. I
was totally focussed. I had

auditioned for the X Factor

and the Voice and did not
get through and I thought
that surely, this must be my
time. During the competition
every sinew of my body was
focused. It was something I
had to do.
Now that she has the official title of Reggae Star Factor Winner 2014, whats next
for Chardel and what does
the longer term future hold?
In ten years time I would
like have at least three successful albums, meaning
they have made it to the top
10 internationally. I want to
be the UKs number one reggae artiste and be winning
prestigious awards. I would
also like to be touring and be
fulfilled in my life and enjoying the love and delights of
my children.
Among her imminent engagements is appearing in
a guest slot on the Sanchez
and Etana show on November 23. She is quite eager
to take up her Reggae Star
Factor prizes of a recording
contract, a management deal
and a touring deal through
Mediacom.

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HOLDING LAUNCHES 3,000 SCHOLARSHIP AT UEL

WEST INDIES cricket great Michael Holding has joined forces
with the University of East
London (UEL), to launch a new
3,000 scholarship for Jamaican
students interested in studying
at the university for a postgraduate degree.
Holding, arguably one of
the greatest fast bowlers in
history, and now a highly
respected cricket commentator, has established close
links with UEL since being
awarded an honorary degree
in 2013 for services to sport.
The new scholarship is
aimed at Jamaicans who
participate in sport, not just
cricket, or who want to study
a sports-related subject. It
begins in September 2015.
Holding said: In 2013 I was
awarded an honorary doctor-

ate and a services to sport

award at the University of
East London. It was a real
honour and now it gives me
great pleasure to endorse the
Michael Holding Scholarship
for Jamaican students.
The experience of having
my mother being a former
teacher and headmistress
has made me fully aware of
how important education is.
Education is an investment that not only helps gain
knowledge, but also opens
up vast opportunities in fulfilling ones potential.
Knowing that this scholarship will hopefully help fellow
Jamaicans achieve this gives
me great joy and happiness.
UEL has been recognised
as one of the most improved
universities for sport in the

UK and is well on its way to

becoming Londons premier
sporting universities.

Its current student roll

includes sprint star Adam
Gemili, the European 200

metres champion and world

finalist, and Commonwealth
200m bronze medallist Bianca Williams.
The university also boasts
state-of-the-art sports facilities, including its new 21
million SportsDock building.
It received the ultimate endorsement when the United
States Olympic Committee
chose to base its athletes at
the University in the run-up
to the 2012 Olympic Games
in London.
Two of the universitys
three campuses are in Stratford, site of the main Olympic
Park in 2012. The attractions
of central London are less
than five miles away and
connected by frequent train
services.
Students who are awarded

the scholarship will automatically become part of UELs

International Sports Ambassadors scheme. It will entitle
them to a free gold membership at SportsDock, access
to sports therapy, free sports
kit, personal off-peak usage
of courts and a ticket to the
UELSports annual awards
ceremony.
Mohsin Ramzan, Head of
International Student Recruitment at UEL, said: Michael Holding is not only a
sporting icon to millions in
the West Indies, but is also a
great ambassador and inspiration to budding athletes in
the region. This scholarship
further strengthens his commitment to education and we
are proud to have him as an
honorary doctor.

Kaliese Spencer is the sports writers choice

COMMONWEALTH
Games
champion Kaliese Spencer and
the mens 4x200m team that set
a world best at the IAAF World
Relay Championships in the
Bahamas in May were the only
Jamaican winners in the first
Caribbean Sports Journalists
Association (CASJA) annual
awards.
Spencer, the 400m hurdles champion at the Commonwealth Games, as well
as the IAAF Diamond Trophy winner, was named the
Top Sportswoman, polling
five of the six votes by a sixmember panel comprised of
Olympians Tonique Williams
and Ato Boldon, former
World Cup footballer Shaka
Hislop and three track and
field journalists from around
the region.
Yarisley Silva of Cuba,

the pole vault gold medallist from the World Indoor

Championships in Sopot,
Poland, ended second in
the female vote.
Grenadas
Commonwealth Games 400m champion Kirani James won the
Top Sportsman award by
getting three of six votes,
edging Jamaican World
Boxing Association (WBA)
Super World featherweight
boxer champion Nicholas Axeman Walters (two
votes) and six-time Olympic
gold medallist Usain Bolt of
Jamaica for the top award.
The Jamaican mens
4x200m team of Nickel
Ashmeade, Warren Weir,
Jermaine Brown and Yohan
Blake which set a new World
best of 1:18.63 minutes won
the award for Team of the

Year.
Trinidad and Tobagos
Soca Princesses, who are
one win away from qualifying for next years FIFA
Womens World Cup in Canada was named the Female
Team of the Year.
Despite winning gold in
the 400m hurdles at the
IAAF World Junior Championships in Eugene, Oregon,
and gold in a World Youth
best time in the 110m hurdles at the Youth Olympics
in China, Jamaicas Jaheel
Hyde was named runner-up
in the male Rising Star category behind Guadeloupes
Wilhem Belocian, who set
a World Junior best 12.99
seconds to win the World
Junior
Championships
110m hurdles.

November 2014

Times Sport
Jamaica

www.jamaicatimesuk.com

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CARIBBEAN
CHAMPIONS
JAMAICA CROWNED REGIONAL FOOTBALL KINGS, YET AGAIN!

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica Jamaica

captured the Caribbean Cup title for a
sixth time, outlasting Trinidad & Tobago 4-3 on penalty kicks after the final
ended in a scoreless draw at the Montego Bay Sports Complex.
Khaleem Hyland missed on the
Soca Warriors last attempt after
Rodolph Austin applied the pressure by converting on the hosts
fifth try.
Both sides had already sealed
berths in next years CONCACAF
Gold Cup, but the Jamaicans
earned an added bonus of direct
qualification to the 2016 Centennial Cup America.
The tightly-contested encounter
between a pair of evenly-matched

teams produced precious few

scoring chances before the hour
mark.
Jamaicas Jobi McAnuff had
the best in the 19th minute. The
Leyton Orient standout missed the
right post by the slightest of margins after swopping in to follow-up
on an effort by Dane Richards that
goalkeeper Jan-Michael Williams
did well to save.
In a 56th minute bid to loosen
up the middle, team captain Austin
cranked an attempt from 35-yards
out that perhaps came closer than
even he initially anticipated.
Reggae Boyz forward Darren
Mattocks, who scored in each of
the first three games, was frustrated with himself for not making

better contact on an 81st minute

header.
The Trinidadians found a new
gear with minutes left in the second half as Daneil Cyrus headed
over the crossbar off a corner
kick, while second-half substitute
Attaullah Guerras low drive from
25-yards out skipped just beyond
the right post.
McAnuff nearly netted in the
93rd minute, but didnt realize he
had more time to shoot and hurriedly fired over the crossbar from
just inside the box.
Jamaica and Trinidad, which
has won a record eight Caribbean
championships, completed the
competition with the same unbeaten records at 2-2-0.