Sean Kingston Zooms To Top Of The Billboard Chart 2007-08-09 00:00:00 Hardbeatnews, NEW YORK, NY, Thurs. Aug. 9, 2007: Jamaican American singer, Sean Kingston
, may have muddled his Brooklyn performance Monday night but he’s sitting pretty atop the Billboard
charts. Read more: Chart
Work Place Enforcement To Be Boosted – US Immigration Chief 2007-08-09 00:00:00 Hardbeatnews, WASHINGTON, D.C., Thurs. Aug. 9, 2007: U.S. Homeland Security chief, Mike Chertoff, insists his agency will be using all of the current laws available to carry out tougher workforce enforcement. Read more: Place
, Chief
Trinidad National Gets Life In Decades Old Nevada Murder 2007-08-09 00:00:00 Hardbeatnews, CARSON CITY, Nevada
, Thurs. Aug. 9, 2007: A 62-year-old Trinidad
national will spend the rest of his life in prison for the murder and rape of a Nevada teen some 25 years ago. Read more: National
, Decades
Visa Trouble For Powell 2007-08-09 00:00:00 Hardbeatnews, LONDON, England, Thurs. Aug. 9, 2007: Asafa Powell
may be the fastest runner in the world but he still has to deal with visa problems. Read more: Trouble
Caribbean Migrants Among Thousands Affected By NYC Subway Shutdown 2007-08-09 00:00:00 Hardbeatnews, QUEENS, NY, Thurs. Aug. 9, 2007: Caribbean
immigrant Jerry was among thousands yesterday affected as the New York City subway system suffered a total shut down. Read more: Subway
, Shutdown
Akon’s Apology To Trini Youth Riding High Ahead Of Official Release 2007-08-09 00:00:00 Hardbeatnews, NEW YORK, NY, Thurs. Aug. 9, 2007: Senegalese-raised singer Akon’s latest song, ‘Sorry, Blame It On Me,’ has yet to be officially released but it is riding pretty high on the charts. Read more: Apology
, Riding
, Official
, Release
Two To Be Arrested For Murder Of Jamaican Schoolboy 2007-08-09 00:00:00 Hardbeatnews, LONDON, England, Thurs. Aug. 9, 2007: Two people accused of shooting a 15-year-old Jamaican-born school boy to death could soon be arrested and charged with his murder.
British Tourists Fall Ill At DR Hotel 2007-08-08 00:00:00 Hardbeatnews, LONDON, UK, Weds. Aug. 8, 2007: A health probe is currently on at Bahia Principe San Juan hotel in the Dominican Republic after several British
tourists fell ill there recently. Read more: Hotel
More Cubans Returned From US Than Last Year 2007-08-08 00:00:00 Hardbeatnews, NEW YORK, NY, Weds. Aug. 8, 2007: So far this year, over a thousand Cuban nationals, trying to make it to the United States, have been repatriated. Read more: Cubans
Violence Mars Jamaica Nomination Day 2007-08-08 00:00:00 Hardbeatnews, KINGSTON, Jamaica, Weds. Aug. 8, 2007: Violence
marred Jamaica’s 2007 nomination day yesterday in at least three areas across the island, leaving a police officer fighting for his life. Read more: Nomination
Jamaican Chef To Throw Down With Bobby Flay 2007-08-10 00:00:00 Hardbeatnews, NEW YORK, NY, Fri. Aug. 10, 2007: Get ready for a jerk rib eye throw down with Chef Bobby
Flay this weekend. The celebrity Food Network chef will clash with a relocated Jamaican chef this weekend on his show. Read more: Throw
Mirant Closes Sale Of Caribbean Power Stakes 2007-08-09 00:00:00 Hardbeatnews, NEW YORK, NY, Fri. Aug. 10, 2007: Mirant’s stakes in four Caribbean
power plants has now been passed to a Japanese company. Read more: Stakes
Ricky Martin Livin’ La Vida Loca? 2007-08-09 00:00:00 Hardbeatnews, SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Fri. Aug. 10, 2007: Grammy Award winning singer Ricky
Martin
has a dream of adopting lots of kids "from each continent." Read more: Ricky Martin
Above-Normal Hurricane Season Predicted 2007-08-09 00:00:00 Hardbeatnews, WASHINGTON, D.C., Fri. Aug. 10, 2007: The 2007 Atlantic Hurricane Season
Outlook is forecasted to be an above-normal one. Read more: Normal
, Predicted
St. Vincent Joins Cayman, Barbados In Banning UK Meat 2007-08-09 00:00:00 Hardbeatnews, NEW YORK, NY, Fri. Aug. 10, 2007: St. Vincent
& the Grenadines yesterday joined agricultural officials in the Cayman
Islands and Barbados in placing a ban on meat imports from the UK. Read more: Banning
British Govt. Gets Tough On Online Gambling But May Spare Antigua 2007-08-09 00:00:00 Hardbeatnews, LONDON, England, Fri. Aug. 10, 2007: The Gordon Brown administration, like the U.S., is beginning to frown on online gambling but Antigua & Barbuda may be spared from the clamp down. Read more: British
, Tough
, Gambling
, Spare
, Gets Tough
, Online Gambling
Ethanol Plant Opens In Jamaica 2007-08-09 00:00:00 Hardbeatnews, KINGSTON, Jamaica, Fri. Aug. 10, 2007: A J$20 million ethanol plant was yesterday inaugurated at Port Esquivel in St. Catherine, Jamaica by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Jamaican Prime Minister, Portia Simpson Miller. Read more: Plant
By-Election For Nevis 2007-08-09 00:00:00 Hardbeatnews, BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, Fri. Aug. 10. 2007: A by-election to fill the seat made vacant in the St. Kitts and Nevis National Assembly following the death in June of Leader of the Opposition, Malcolm Guishard has been announced is set for Monday 27th August 2007, the same day at the Jamaican general election. Read more: Election
The Virtually Invisible New Yorkers - Caribbean Domestic Workers 2007-08-09 00:00:00 Hardbeat News, NEW YORK, Friday August 10, 2007: They can be found largely on the Upper West side of Manhattan to the more affluent areas of New York. Many dot the city’s parks - white children in tow – as they carry out the arduous task of raising the next generation of Americans; while others are hidden behind the gates of huge houses, where they serve as domestic workers. Read more: Caribbean
, Virtually
, Domestic
, Workers
St. Martin-Based Man In Custody For Chicago Doctor’s Murder 2007-08-14 00:00:00 Hardbeatnews, CHICAGO, IL, Weds. Aug. 15, 2007: A St. Martin
-based man and former New York City resident is currently in police custody in the French territory in connection with the death of a Chicago
dermatologist. Read more: Doctor
Conviction In Green Card Marriage Scam 2007-08-14 00:00:00 Hardbeatnews, NEW YORK, NY, Tues. Aug. 14, 2007: A 58-year-old man could face up to five years in jail following a conviction yesterday in a marriage for green card scam. Read more: Conviction
, Green
Get Ready For Tropical Storm Dean 2007-08-14 00:00:00 Hardbeatnews, MIAMI, Fl, Tues. Aug. 14, 11 am: Tropical
Depression four has become Tropical Storm
Dean.
Tropical Storm Dean Could Become Hurricane 2007-08-14 00:00:00 Hardbeatnews, MIAMI, Fl, Weds. Aug. 15, 2007: Tropical
Storm
Dean, now about 1,295 miles east of the Lesser Antilles, could become a hurricane by late this week, forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami said last night. Read more: Become
Vincentian B-Baller Agrees To Buyout 2007-08-14 00:00:00 Hardbeatnews, OAKLAND, CA, Weds. Aug. 15, 2007: St. Vincent and the Grenadines-born NBA star, Adonal Foyle, has agreed to a buyout from The Golden State Warriors. Read more: Buyout
Rights Advocate Missing In Haiti 2007-08-14 00:00:00 Hardbeatnews, NEW YORK, NY, Weds. Aug. 15, 2007: The national coordinator of the September 30th Foundation, Lovinsky Pierre Antoine, has reportedly gone missing in Haiti. Read more: Rights
, Advocate
, Missing
Grace Foods For India Market 2007-08-14 00:00:00 Hardbeatnews, LONDON, England, Weds. Aug. 15, 2007: Grace
Foods
is set to invade the India
n marketplace with its products by late next month. Read more: Market
Giuliani Too Flip Flops On Immigration Reform 2007-08-14 00:00:00 Hardbeatnews, NEW YORK, NY, Weds. Aug. 15, 2007: Former New York City Mayor, Rudy Giuliani
, like fellow Presidential hopeful, John McCain, has changed his tune on the issue of immigration reform. Read more: Flops
, Reform
, Flip Flops
, Immigration Reform
Jamaica Callaloo For The U.S. Again 2007-08-14 00:00:00 Hardbeatnews, KINGSTON, Jamaica, Weds. Aug. 15, 2007: Caribbean nationals in the U.S. will soon be able to buy fresh Jamaican callaloo again. Read more: Again
Grenada PM Urges Dismissal of NY Lawsuit – A HBN First 2007-08-14 00:00:00 Hardbeatnews, NEW YORK, NY, Weds. Aug. 15, 2007: The New York-based attorneys for Grenada
Prime Minister, Keith Mitchell, and his wife Marietta, are calling for a June lawsuit filed against the first couple to be dismissed. Read more: Lawsuit
, First
Jamaica’s National Carrier Cancels Flights Ahead Of Hurricane Dean 2007-08-18 00:00:00 Hardbeatnews, KINGSTON, Jamaica, Sun. Aug. 19, 2007: Air Jamaica, the national carrier of Jamaica, has cancelled all flights to and from Jamaica from the island to the U.S., Toronto and London for today, Sunday, August 19, 2007. Read more: National
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