WHEN THE People's National Party's (PNP) candidate for East Rural St Andrew, [Damion Crawford], turned up at 11:30 a.m. to be nominated at the Gordon Town old courthouse in St Andrew, on Monday, December 12 he could not have imagined that another Damion Crawford would show up more than an hour later to complete his nomination as an independent candidate. The Electoral Office of Jamaica's (EOJ) returning officer for East Rural St Andrew, Eric Malcolm, told The Weekly Gleaner that both men also shared the same middle initial: the letter 'O'. The EO J's returning officer told The Weekly Gleaner that the independent candidate Crawford had submitted the symbol of a lion, which was not on the EOJ's list of approved symbols.
The most obvious and immediate conclusion from this state of affairs - highlighted by The Weekly Gleaner in the September 11 edition - is that, 177 years after the abolition of slavery, Jamaicans still struggle with questions of race and identity. Self-esteem and status, to a large measure, hinge on the colour of a person's skin. Indeed, the Jamaica conundrum over a complexion-coded approach to status and sense of belonging can be observed daily in the young women and men who bleach their skins in ineffectual searches for resolutions in their favour. They are, of course, spurred on by a popular culture that declares its love for 'mi browning' - brown or lightskinned Jamaicans. 'In this societal arrangement, black or dark-skinned Jamaicans, who are the vast majority, are broadly at the bottom of the social ladder. They are, concomitantly, also at the bottom of the economic ladder.'
"We have to give God thanks for everything that we have accomplished and just look forward to 2012. We got a national record and I am really thankful to be a part of the team that did it. I'm grateful for my teammates and I think that with this team, we would definitely go far with more baton changes and we'll continue to give it our best shot," said [Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce]. Things didn't look too good for the Jamaicans in the semi-finals, which took place just over an hour prior to the final, as the baton exchanges between Fraser Pryce and [Kerron Stewart] on the first handover and Stewart and [Sherone Simpson] were terrible. But the latter believes that the experience of the girls helped to correct the problems in the short time that was available.
Jamaica's veronica Campbell-Brown waves after winning the Women's 100 meters at the Diamond League Athletics meeting on Sunday May 15. in Shanghai, China. American Lashinda Demus. the meet's record holder, finished runner up in a season's best time of 54.58 seconds, with Olympic and World champion Melaine Walker of Jamaica coming third, also in an SB 54.96. The best of the other Caribbean performances came from Jamaican Dwight Thomas. He also finished fourth in the men's 110 hurdles, clocking a season's best 13.31.
[Sedene Blake], described by Elle UK as the new Iman, was named by Style.com as being one of three models to watch last show season. She did not disappoint, doing a staggering 85 shows in her first season on the international show circuit. [Janeil Williams] was one of eight covers of Love magazine (Conde Nast's new publication), last year. Other covers include iD (twice), the Wall Street Journal (twice), French, BMI and a number of others. Other Love covers in the series of eight, each featured one of the eight hottest models in the world, including such luminaries as Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, Amber Valletta. Natalia Vodianova, Daria Werbowy and Lara Stone. A major business forum on June 12 will be a key feature of CFW 2011. Designers who have shown collections at CFW include Cedella Marley, Gavin Douglas, Meiling, Sandra Kennedy, Claudia Pegus, Gitalin Bothesatu. Atelier Dore, Barry Monereiffe, Heather Jones, Jessie Ogden, Simon Foster. Paulin Bellamy, Mutamha, Nefertari Caddle, Deola Segoe, Biggy. The Mushroom, Uzuri and Robert Young. Most of these designers will show collections this year.
An elegant player, Samuels stormed back into the selectors' favour after amassing 830 runs in the Regional FirstClass Championship, the most by any player. Samuels also had an impressive showing in the regional T20 Championships where he finished as the top run-getter. Despite receiving an earlier call-up to the West Indies for the recently concluded ICC Cricket World Cup, the batsman declined the invitation, declaring himself not yet ready to return to international cricket.
"I don't know, Tve been having a bad season and coming back late from stress fracture so I'm just grateful to be here in the first place," Phillips said. "I'm just going through with faith and wherever that leaves me, then so be it." "I'm just grateful to be running ... I don't care about that controversy, that's their business, I pay attention to my business," Phillips stated.
Pan-Jamaican Investment Trust has been identified among a group of investors from which equity commitments have been received for a takeover of Lascelles deMercado starting Friday, July 29, three years after a majority stake was sold to Trinidad and Tobago's CL Financial group. Outlining the rationale for the takeover, Pan Caribbean, in a release Thursday, said Lascelles is controlled by CL Spirits Limited, a subsidiary of the CL Financial group, a financially distressed conglomerate currently under management of the Trinidad and Tobago government and its Central Bank.
Following his two successes in the 200 metres, Olympic and World champion Bolt is leading in this event with 12 points and is followed by the United States' Walter Dix in second on eight points with Norway's Jaysuma Saida in third with five points. The United Sates' Lashina Demus is third with six points, two more than Jamaican Melaine Walker who is fourth on four points. Kenia Sinclair has been having a wonderful season so far in the Women's 800 metres and following her easy victory over the past weekend at the Stockholm meet, she is the leader here with eight points and is followed by South African Caster Semenya on seven points and Morocco's Halima Hachlaf on six.
The Young Reggae Boyz have been drawn in Group B alongside football superpowers Argentina and France along with the formidable Japan. Group F: 1. Australia, 2. C(TM)te d'Ivoire, 3. Brazil, 4. Denmark.
