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The Caribbean Electoral commission in Haiti rejects bid by President Martelly’s wife to run for Senate seat

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Opposition officials had contested the first lady’s eligibility for various reasons, including an argument that she holds dual U.S.-Haitian citizenship.

Martelly renounced her U.S. citizenship last year seeking to become eligible to run for a Senate district that includes the capital. She could not be reached for comment.

Elections are scheduled to be held Aug. 9.

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Puerto Rico implements water rationing measures amid dry spell

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Dominican Republic to offer maids, other workers health insurance coverage

Republican presidential prospect Jeb Bush: ‘I would have not gone into Iraq’

can sign up to receive benefits for themselves and their dependents starting Saturday.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti _ An elections committee in Haiti has rejected first lady Sophia Martelly’s bid to run for Senate.

Electoral council spokesman Richardson Dumel said Wednesday that the committee would not allow the wife of President Michel Martelly to pursue her candidacy. He did not provide details about the decision.

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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic _ The Dominican government says it will provide health insurance to some 50,000 maids and other informal workers in an unprecedented step for the Caribbean country.

Officials said Tuesday that workers including maids, gardeners and housekeepers

The government said it had to limit health insurance coverage to 50,000 people for economic reasons even though the Dominican Republic has more than 230,000 maids and another 20,000 informal workers including gardeners and housekeepers.

TEMPE, Ariz. _ Jeb Bush says it was a mistake to invade Iraq.

The Republican White House prospect clarified his position on the war his brother authorized.

The former Florida governor ended several days of confusion about his foreign policy while campaigning Thursday in Arizona.

Officials did not say how much the plan would cost the government.

Bush said that given the benefit of hindsight, “I would have not gone into Iraq.’’

In interviews earlier in the week, Bush refused to say whether he would have launched the 2003 invasion if he’d been in President George W. Bush’s shoes. He said Thursday he was reluctant to say the invasion was the wrong decision because he didn’t want to dishonour the lives of American troops killed there.

Previous administrations pledged similar action when health insurance plans were privatized in 2001, but none was taken.

The justification for the war was based on faulty intelligence that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.

Police recover handgun from George Zimmerman, 2 guns from man accused of shooting at him

By Steve Peoples The Associated Press

In Lake Mary, an Orlando suburb, Police Officer Bianca Gillett said Tuesday that detectives are still investigating and no charges have been filed against Zimmerman or Matthew Apperson.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico _ Puerto Rico is implementing strict water-rationing measures amid a dry spell that officials warn could extend into summer.

The island’s water and sewer company is providing water only every other day to 160,000 customers starting Wednesday. Most of those affected live in and near the capital of San Juan.

Government officials have warned that service could be cut for up to 36 hours if water levels at the U.S. territory’s main reservoirs fall to critical levels.

May is usually one of Puerto Rico’s wettest months, but rainfall has been scarce. Meteorologists are predicting a drier than usual summer.

The neighbouring Dominican Republic also has seen a prolonged dry season.

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Ex Army general expected to become Guyana’s new president after ruling party defeated

Zimmerman and Apperson were involved in a road-rage episode earlier this year, but no charges were filed in that case.

ORLANDO, Fla. _ Police say they have recovered a handgun from George Zimmerman and took two guns from a man accused of shooting at Zimmerman. He is a former neighbourhood watch volunteer security guard acquitted two years ago in the death of a young unarmed African American.

The case sparked protests and a national debate about race relations. The U.S. Justice department later announced it was not bringing a civil rights case against Zimmerman.

Two guns were taken from Apperson's car, including a revolver that had a spent shell casing. Police say they will also execute a search warrant on Zimmerman's pickup truck.

Both men had the guns legally.

Police say the shooting occurred Monday on a busy road. Zimmerman suffered minor injuries.

By Mike Schneider THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The shooting is the latest in a series of run-ins Zimmerman has had with the law, random strangers and his ex-wife.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana _ A retired army general is poised to become Guyana’s new president after a multi-ethnic opposition coalition defeated a party that has been in power for nearly 25 years.

Preliminary results released Thursday show that 69-year-old David Arthur Granger and his Partnership for National Unity-Alliance for Change Coalition obtained nearly 207,000 votes in Monday’s general elections. The governing People’s Progressive Party obtained nearly 201,500 votes.

The coalition is expected to have a three- or four-seat majority in the 65-member Parliament of the South American country.

President Donald Ramotar’s party had asked for a partial recount of ballots. It has been in power since 1992 and was seeking a sixth consecutive term.

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in every area of TV, but, as Winfrey told those gathered, “part of the power of this evening is to honour our history'' _ which, in fact, stretches back seven decades and more, to the birth of TV.

role for a black actress in the 1963-64 CBS drama “East Side/ West Side'' _ for which she took heat for insisting that her character wear her hair natural _ a TV first.

“Olympian Jesse Owens was the first black person shown on the nation's earliest experimental TV transmission,'' Winfrey said, as an example. That was in 1936.

In today's world, Tyson told the room with satisfaction, African-Americans have now come to understand “our pride and glory is our hair'' _ though she reminded everyone, “that doesn't mean you can't wear your hair the way you want to.''

The evening was divided into TV drama, sports, news and talk, music, and comedy, and dug into the Paley Center's archives for dozens of examples past and present.

NEW YORK _ When Oprah Winfrey was a youngster, the mere sighting of an African-American on television was occasion to alert all the neighbours, she recalled.

“We would call them to say, 'Colored people are on TV! Colored people are on!''' The only black child she was ever likely to see telecast was the unflattering role model Buckwheat on the ancient

“Little Rascals'' comedies, Winfrey added.

Things are different today, which was part of the reason for Wednesday's gala thrown at New York's Cipriani Wall Street by the Paley Center for Media, paying tribute to African-American Achievements in Television.

Not only was the event meant to highlight current inroads by blacks

On hand to introduce segments were Kerry Washington and Lee Daniels, Julius Erving and Michael Strahan, Wynton Marsalis and Shemar Moore, plus Phylicia Rashad, as well as the co-stars of this season's new comedy, “blackish,'' Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross.

At age 90, Cicely Tyson was saluted for her distinguished career, which included a breakthrough

Larry Wilmore and Gwen Ifill also were on hand, with the satirist-host of Comedy Central's “The Nightly Show'' telling the PBS newswoman that, standing beside her at the podium, he felt “like a Chinatown Rolex next to the real deal.''

“I AM the real deal,'' she replied with a smile, which seemed to be a theme of the night.

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Art About Jamaican Dancehall On View At Lux Art Institute

A mixed media wall tapestry by Ebony Patterson on view at Lux Art Institute.

It's titled "Wi Oh So Clean," 2012.

Dancehall has replaced reggae as the defining music of Jamaica, at least for contemporary Jamaicans. Fans say it’s the voice of the people. Critics say it glorifies sex and violence. In its most basic form, dancehall involves a deejay rapping over a beat.

Because it dates back to the 1970s, some argue it's the source of hip hop.

No one denies that today, dancehall is the most popular art form in Jamaica.

The culture surrounding dancehall is the subject of Ebony G. Patterson's artwork. Her large mixed-media wall tapestries and paintings are on view at the Lux Art Institute in Encinitas through the end of May. Patterson has always been interested in more than just the music of dancehall.

"It’s language, it’s dress, it’s music, it’s movement and it’s bravado," said Patterson.

Patterson was born in Kingston and splits her time between there and Lexington, Ky., where she is an assistant professor in painting at the University of Kentucky. She grew up listening to dancehall music. Her favorite artist was Bounty Killer, known as the "poor people's governor."

Patterson would later go to Passa Passa, the weekly street

dance party in Kingston where various dance and fashion trends were born.

Those experiences still inspire her work.

Like hip hop in the United States, the engine of dancehall is the streets.

"It’s always within these inner city communities, these rough experiences, where people use song and dance as a form of expression and as a way of complaining about things that they’re not so happy about," said Patterson.

Kingston’s inner city neighborhoods are bleak. There’s poverty and violence. Dancehall is an escape.

"I like to think of dancehall as this very vibrant, very rhythmic, very colorful and also very camp culture," said Patterson.

That’s what you see in Patterson’s huge, ostentatious wall tapestries. There’s a lot of pink and florals – imagine inner city Kingston meets Palace of Versailles.

She starts with a staged photograph of stock characters from the dancehall scene. The photo is then woven into the fabric.

Using sturdy tapestries allows her to add layers of colorful paint, garish jewelry and glitter to the surface. In fact, Patterson

spends days gluing glitter.

"I glitter bomb," said Patterson.

"I’m the glitterati."

The images are mostly of men.

They have hard expressions, typical of the gangster personas glorified in dancehall. Their clothes and jewelry are flamboyant.

"It’s all about how the clothes allow this kind of extended performance," said Patterson.

"The clothing becomes a prop to extend this bravado."

Dancehall lyrics are macho and at times homophobic, yet dancehall fashion has become decidedly feminine.

In one of Patterson’s pieces, the tough men all wear tight floral pants. She noticed a shift in dancehall: baggy pants went out and tight ones came in.

"I remember growing up, they always said if your pants were too tight you were suspect. Your sexuality was in question," said Patterson. "And here I was looking at the total opposite of that."

A detail from one of Ebony Patterson's mixed-media wall tapestries.

The faces in Patterson’s tapestries draw you in – the characters are black, yet the ovals of their faces are white. Skin bleaching is a trend in dancehall.

"When I think about skin bleaching, I think about skin blinging," said Patterson. "It’s a kind of skin blinging."

Dancehall megastar Vybz Kartel, who was recently convicted of murder, bleaches his skin. He sings its praises in a song called "Cake Soap" and has defended it in the media by saying if white people can tan, why can’t he bleach?

Patterson says some in the dancehall scene talk about light-

ening their skin in the same way they talk about clothes.

"So I’m going out and shop to get this outfit for this party that’s happening in two weeks but I also have to buy my case of bleaching cream so that I can make sure that my tone is right with that outfit," said Patterson, imitating the phenomenon. "So that when the camera picks me up I glow well."

Patterson says in Jamaica, colorism is a constant problem.

Lighter skin is considered better and more attractive.

She says the bling, the hyper-feminine outfits, the skin bleaching, it’s all a performance.

An effort to be seen, because in Jamaica’s poor working class communities, people don’t feel seen or valued.

A detail from Ebony Patterson's tapestry titled "Bad Pickney," which portrays the influence of fashion and machismo from dancehall culture.

"So I could totally understand then within that landscape of understanding and that landscape of devaluization, why someone would make so much effort in this brief life to perform a sense of importance," said Patterson.

It’s that performance Patterson captures and celebrates so well in her extravagant tapestries.

Ebony G. Patterson’s work will be on view through May 30 at the Lux Art Institute in Encinitas.

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realize is not just something that is just occurring over this one tragedy. ...

The black community are the forgotten ones _ just like people are in poverty all over this country, but especially the black community. So you have a lot of built-up frustration especially in the kids that see their future is bleak and they are being forgotten.

People need to pay attention to that. ... Something has to change soon.

AP: You have the music, the clothes, and the scent, the vodka line; what else can you do?

NEW YORK _ Sean “Diddy'' Combs will be the first to tell you that he doesn't launch brands, he launches lifestyles. So when it came time to promote his latest fragrance, he put himself on the line and starred in a racy video with girlfriend Cassie that many have deemed too risque for television.

his fashion line, Sean John, Diddy says he's driven by the same principle for success _ hard work. It's paid off; Forbes recently named him the wealthiest hip-hop artist, and his fragrances _ this is the fourth _ have earned him a couple of FiFi Awards, the Fragrance Foundation's annual industry honours.

He said the simulated sex in the 3AM promotional video was inspired by those provocative Calvin Klein commercials.

The Grammy-winning artist spoke about his brand last week, but had weightier issues on his mind, including the unrest in Baltimore over the death of Freddie Gray in police custody.

“It pushes the envelope, but it's done in a very tasteful way. It's more about your thinking about than what you're seeing on the screen,'' explained Diddy.

With success making music as an artist and producer as well as with

AP: You've been outspoken regarding the way the president handled Ferguson, what are your thoughts on Baltimore?

Diddy: Baltimore is something that people have to

Diddy: It's philanthropy. So for me, it's what change can I make. So you were talking about Baltimore and Ferguson. As an African-American man, I have a responsibility in the future. I want to be able to do more things to affect change.

AP: Would running for political office be one of them?

Diddy: No not at all. I love what I do. I don't like politics. I'm not a big talker. If I say I'm gonna run a marathon, I'm gonna run it. If I say I'm gonna put out a fragrance, I'm gonna put out a fragrance. If I say I'm gonna change the world for the positive, that's what I'm gonna do.

AP: The music business has changed. Is it important for artists to adapt to find other revenue streams?

Diddy: I'm an artist, but I'm also a businessman. As a businessman it was important for me to diversify.

I didn't just look at myself as someone making music, I make lifestyles, so for me it was diversifying and just loving business and figuring out how to market and create brands for this generation, (which) is something I specialize in.

AP: When are you going back into the studio?

Diddy: I'm going back in the studio now. I'm producing other people now. That's how I started, producing.

So I'm just in there having fun and really just experimenting with some things.

But being able to launch new artists or artists that want a different sound for their next album _ it's exciting to get back into producing.

AP: Any plans for a new Diddy album?

Diddy: If I come up with something great, I'll make sure I release something.

AP: What are your thoughts on Tidal ( Jay-Z's music streaming service)?

Diddy: It's a great idea for the artist to be involved in the distribution. Everything takes time, so we'll see in the next couple of years.

But I would bet on Jay Z

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Music Review: Snoop Dogg's funk inspired, Lawyer for rapper 50 Cent denies rapper robbed Pharrell produced album, 'Bush,' hits right mark jewelry company owner by gunpoint in Las Vegas is full of easygoing funk melodies. In typical Snoop Dogg form, he sings about the West Coast on the standout songs ``This City'' and ``California Roll,'' with Williams on the chorus and Stevie Wonder playing the harmonica.

Snoop Dogg, “Bush'' (Columbia Records)

The 43-year-old rapper, who changed his stage name back to Snoop Dogg after a brief stint as reggae artist Snoop Lion, talks about living a stress-free life on the enjoyable “Run Away'' with Gwen Stefani. Known for his marijuana-smoking ways, Snoop Dogg shows his infatuation with weed-infused baked goods on the T.I.-assisted “Edibles'' and the disco-flavoured “Awake.'' And first single, “Peaches N Cream,'' is an upbeat party song that features frequent collaborator Charlie Wilson.

Snoop Dogg and Pharrell Williams made magic together more than a decade ago, and now the rapper and producer are doing it again.

From start to finish, the ultra-smooth Snoop Dogg doesn't lose a step. Kudos to Williams for putting Snoop Dogg in a position to make that happen.

Snoop Dogg and Williams, who collaborated on the infectious hit “Beautiful'' and the chart-topping “Drop It Like It's Hot,'' is impressive on “Bush,'' Snoop Dogg's 13th studio album. Williams, the Grammy-winning hitmaker, laid down the tracks for the entire album with the help of his Neptunes partner, Chad Hugo.

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The alleged attack occurred the morning before Mayweather defeated Manny Pacquiao in a welterweight championship fight at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.

Marin had minor injuries when he flagged down an officer and filed a complaint about 5 a.m., Roybal said. No charges were immediately filed, and Roybal said a police report had not been made public.

LAS VEGAS _ A lawyer for rapper 50 Cent said Tuesday that neither the musician nor his security guards robbed a Los Angeles man of jewelry at gunpoint in Las Vegas earlier this month.

Police are investigating a report that a jewelry company owner was robbed early May 2 at or near boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s gym, said Officer Jesse Roybal, a department spokesman.

Celebrity website TMZ first reported that LAX Jewelry Co. owner Robert Marin said he met the rapper at a nightclub and was later invited to Mayweather's gym, where he was

Snoop Dogg continues to venture away from his gangsta rap persona, singing for much of the 10-track album, which

KANYE WEST GETS HONORARY DOCTORATE

CHICAGO (AP) _ Kanye West says he felt something this week he doesn't feel very much: nervous. West received an honorary doctorate Monday at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. West says he felt “the nerves of humility and modesty'' when

pistol-whipped and robbed of a diamond watch and chain valued at some $250,000.

being honoured. His advice to graduates was the power of the words “I'm sorry.'' West says, “It gives you the opportunity to give your opinion, apologize for it, and give your opinion again.''

Attorney Scott Leemon, representing the rapper whose legal name is Curtis James Jackson III, acknowledged TMZ's report.

“On behalf of 50, I can adamantly deny that he or his security had anything to do with these baseless and false allegations,'' Leemon said in a statement.

Marin didn't immediately respond to telephone messages to his business by The Associated Press.

By Ken Ritter THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

KENDRICK LAMAR NAMED GENERATIONAL ICON BY CALIFORNIA LAWMAKERS

SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The California Senate has given a special honour to Kendrick Lamar. State senator Isadore Hall recognized Lamar on the senate floor Monday with his district's Generational Icon Award. Hall says Lamar has gone from a boy on the streets of Compton to

a multi-platinum, Grammy award-winning musician at the age of 27. Hall says Lamar is a familiar face in Compton because he's donated thousands of dollars for sports, music and after-school programs and worked with Habitat for Humanity. Hall says Lamar is “the best of what it means to work hard, do well and give back to his community.''

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PRINCE DOES CONCERT IN BALTIMORE BALTIMORE (AP) _ Many came for the music.

But fans at last night's concert

by Prince in Baltimore also came

Kanye West, Nicki Minaj, Wiz Khalifa to perform at Sunday's Billboard Awards

Prosecutors drop firearms charge against reggae star Buju Banton, his 2011 conviction on a cocaine distribution conspiracy charge.

to hear him make a call to heal a city divided by racial tensions after a black man died in police custody last month. The Baltimore Sun reports Prince did hits like “When Doves Cry'' and “Little Red Corvette'' _ and a new song called “Baltimore.'' Musical guests included Estelle, Miguel and rapper Doug E. Fresh. In brief remarks to the audience, Prince urged young people to fix a system he says is “broken.''

SINGER WHO POPULARIZED SONGS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DIES

Banton is scheduled to be released from federal prison in January 2019, at which time he will be deported to his native Jamaica.

NEW YORK _ Kanye West and Nicki Minaj have been added to the list of performers for Sunday's Billboard Music Awards.

Dick clark productions also announced Tuesday that Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth will perform their No. 1 hit remembering actor Paul Walker, “See You Again,'' at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

TAMPA, Fla. _ Federal prosecutors have agreed to drop a firearms charge against Jamaican reggae star Buju Banton, who is already serving a 10-year sentence.

The U.S. Attorney's Office announced Thursday that a deal with Banton calls for his waiver of all future appeals related to

The top nominee is Taylor Swift with 14.

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Banton's 10-year sentence is the minimum mandatory sentence for his conviction stemming from a 2009 arrest following a sting operation.

Prosecutors charge woman suspected of breaking into singer Chris Brown's California home 21-year-old Amira Kodcia Ayeb.

Her arraignment was scheduled for the afternoon.

Imagine Dragons will pay tribute to the late Ben E. King by singing “Stand by Me,'' and Minaj will perform her latest hit with David Guetta, “Hey Mama.''

Previously announced performers include Mariah Carey, Britney Spears, Iggy Azalea, Ed Sheeran, Nick Jonas, Van Halen, Meghan Trainor, Little Big Town with Faith Hall and “Empire'' cast members Jussie Smollett and Bryshere “Yazz'' Gray.

Banton's attorneys previously argued that he should be released early under a change in federal drug sentencing guidelines. But the change didn't apply to most minimum mandatory sentences.

Brown called the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday to report finding an intruder at his home in the city of Agoura Hills.

LOS ANGELES _ A woman authorities say broke into the Los Angeles-area home of Chris Brown and spent several days there before he returned has been charged with felony burglary, stalking and vandalism.

The Los Angeles County District Attorney's office said Friday that it filed the charges against

The district attorney's office said in a news release that prosecutors believe Ayeb broke in May 2, and over the next four days vandalized Brown's house and cars.

A representative for Brown did not return a request for comment.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) _ The folk singer who popularized the spiritual “We Shall Overcome'' for the 1960s civil rights movement has died.

Guy Carawan died Saturday at his home outside Knoxville, Tennessee, after years of suffering from dementia, according to his wife. Carawan was 87. He was the leader of the Highlander Research and Education Center in Tennessee, which was a gathering space for social activists in the '60s. He changed the spiritual “I Will Overcome'' to “We Shall Overcome'' and taught it to activists. Carawan is also credited for changing the words “Keep Your Hands On The Plow'' to ”Keep Your Eyes On The Prize,'' which was another song used in the civil rights movement.

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Album Review

Hollywood : A Story Of a Dozen Roses Jamie Foxx Hollywood: A Story of a Dozen Roses is the upcoming fifth studio album by American singer and actor Jamie Foxx. The album is set to be released on May 18, 2015

by RCA Records as a follow up to his fourth album Best Night of My. The first single “Ain’t My Fault”, was released on November 25, 2014.

The second single “You Changed Me” was released on March 12, 2015. www.wikipedia.com

Withdraw Twista Chicago emcee, Twista announced that he and Do Or Die plan to drop a collaborative EP entitled, Withdrawal on May 19. Twista made the announcement via Youtube video.

“I know y’all been waiting,” Twista says. “Well the homies Do Or Die and Twista got back in the studio, made a cold ass EP and it’s called Withdrawal because we couldn’t wait to get back in the studio together. Make sure y’all mess with it. It’s coming out May 19.”

Twista and Do Or Die have collaborated on several tracks, most notably 1996’s “Po Pimp,” which peaked at #22 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. www.hiphopdx.com

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Camp Lo is back again & they’re working with Ski again! Eighteen years after dropping their classic Uptown Saturday Night The Lo is back with the same sound they had back then on Ragtime Hightimes. The new album is fully produced by the man Ski Beatz and available for sale at the end of May 2015.

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with the newly unveiled album cover of his sophomore album At.Long.Last.

A$AP. Rocky unveiled the cover through Instagram, picturing himself with a birthmark under his right eye and a cross under his left eye, a homage to the late A$AP Mob founder. The new album was executive produced by A$AP Yams, who tragically passed away this past January. The new album A.L.L.A. will release on June 2, featuring “M’s” and the new single “Everyday” featuring Miguel, Mark Ronson, and Rod Stewart.

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it’s often said that those seeking money should follow their passion, and then money will follow them. But sometimes, you’ve got to learn the hard way. “You learn by your mistakes,” says Jabba, DJ for New York City’s Hot 97 and cofounder of Miami’s annual Best of the Best Concert, the

reggae-centric celebration that marks its ninth Memorial Day Weekend edition at Bayfront Park on Sunday, May 24.

“It wasn’t an easy nine years,” he says. “Learning by my mistakes, not giving up on my culture and what I was raised in, I’ve supported reggae music for 22

years of my career, and I can’t give up. Giving up means you’re a failure.”

Jabba’s been coming down to participate in Memorial Day Weekend in Miami, also known as Urban Beach Weekend, since the early 2000s.

He says there used to be a few dope Caribbean concerts. By 2006, though, he and his friend, eventual Best of the Best cofounder Joey Budafuco, noticed most of those parties had given up.

We got to keep reggae music alive, Jabba remembers thinking, and plans were soon set to stage the first

Best of the Best Concert the following year.

“It was an amazing lineup,” he says, “one of the biggest crowds we’ve ever had.”

That inaugural concert drew nearly 25,000 people with headliners like Shaggy, Wyclef Jean, Akon, Lady Saw, and Bounty Killer. Following this success, Jabba and his crew figured, since they made so much money, why not pump dollars into expanding the next year's lineup to include massive stars of hip-hop. What could go wrong?

Apparently a lot. Though the lineup still offered the Best of the Best across genres, the concert’s turnout was down.

“Some of the Caribbean folks didn’t want to be with the hip-hop, and some of the hip-hop folks didn’t want to be with the Caribbeans,” Jabba says. “We took a drop

in the numbers.”

Add the economic downturn of the late 2000s and things weren't looking good.

“But then we started taking calls [at Hot 97], saying that was the problem: the combination of artists, with the reggae and hip-hop,” Jabba recalls. "That kind of gave me an idea.”

Organizers decided to go back to the all-Caribbean approach they'd originally devised for Best of the Best's debut. They replaced hip-hop with soca, and there was an immediate increase in the number of attendees.

“Some people were just not coming back to Best of the Best because of the profanity,” Jabba says. “The energy we was puttin’ off wasn’t a really good, positive energy for the brand.”

Legendary International Reggae Crooner Sanchez Wants his Voice to be Heard "In The Ghetto" A staple for over the past two decades on the international music scene, Sanchez (Kevin Jackson) epitomizes the genre of Lover's rock by having covered some of the most romantic songs of all time as well as his own classic lyrics, fusing reggae and R&B. For years Sanchez music as stood the test of time and music lovers were serenaded to an arsenal of hits after hits which led him to the billboard charts. Besides numerous awards and accolades, it was almost a year ago to the date that the city of Miramar in Florida took the time out to honor him and recognize him for his contribution to reggae music and his career accomplishments, May

17th, 2014 was officially proclaimed as Sanchez Day in the City of Miramar.

For the past few years the international reggae crooner has been delivering music sporadically, as well as a critically acclaimed album, but on his latest single titled "In The Ghetto", Sanchez wants his voice to be heard. The song is a departure from his usual romantic themes as Sanchez belts the familiar words "People, don't you understand the child needs a helping hand or he'll grow to be an angry young man some day Take a look at you and me, are we too blind to see, do we simply turn our heads and look the other way".

Speaking of this latest endeavor, Sanchez explained "Every day I hear the news from home to abroad, and it seems like another person died in vain, so many angry people. I am hurting for humanity and the best way for me as a singer to have my say, is with my voice, with lyrics.", he further added "I grew up listening to this song, I even won an award and a standing ovation in school with my rendition. So when I received the riddim, the words came back to me, It made sense, a hurt child becomes an angry adult, and more often enough society turns a blind eye, especially IN THE GHETTO".

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TORONTO - At the Toronto Track and Field Centre, where most of Canada's top sprinters train, there was some good-natured ribbing going on.Canada's women's 4x100-metre relay team twice lowered the national record last weekend in the Bahamas, and quallifed the team for its first Olympic appearance in 16 years.

After years of men dominating the sprints in Canada, the women are giving them a run for their money. “It actually feels really good to. . . not be rubbing it in their faces, but let them know we're there too, that we can be 2013-05-22 3:20 contenders,'' Kim Hyacinthe said, PM with a laugh The Canadian Press

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John Travolta, Cuba Gooding Jr. and David Schwimmer recreate O.J. Simpson trial for TV “People keep asking me whether I think he did it or not, and I don't think that's the goal here, to prove his innocence or his guilt,'' Gooding said. “I think it's more us putting the judicial system under the spotlight. ... We try to find a truth in the moment so that we can find answers. I think this 10 hours of television is gonna be very powerful, and I think a lot of people are going to learn a lot.''

NEW YORK _ Like many people, John Travolta remembers where he was when O.J. Simpson was riding in a white Ford Bronco in that infamous slowspeed pursuit in 1994 before he surrendered to police and later faced murder charges in the deaths of his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ronald Goldman.

“I had just gotten back from the Cannes Film Festival where we won the Palme d'Or for 'Pulp Fiction.' I was on this kind of high with a new (revived) career

and then this American tragedy was happening,'' the actor said Monday at a red carpet for Fox's Upfront, where networks debut their new TV shows for advertisers.

ly for The New Yorker.

Travolta, along with Cuba Gooding Jr., David Schwimmer and Sarah Paulson have signed on to star in a new true crime anthology series coming to FX called “American Crime Story.''

Season one will focus on the O.J. Simpson trial and is based on a book by Jeffrey Toobin who covered the trial extensive-

“That trial sort of gave birth to a new kind of media coverage,'' Murphy said. “It felt like an origin story of something that was the first and now we're still dealing with the reverberations of that so it feels very modern to me.''

Travolta plays Simpson's attorney Robert Shapiro. Ryan Murphy is directing the series, now about one week into filming.

Gooding plays O.J. Simpson.

David Schwimmer portrays the late Robert Kardashian, an attorney on Simpson's defence team and a loyal defender of the former pro football player. He says he spoke to Kardashian's ex-wife Kris Jenner for insight into the role.

“I was lucky enough to speak to (Jenner) for a few hours who was very generous with her time,'' he said. “I thought, 'Who better to tell me who Robert was as a husband and a father than her?' and it's been a very exciting process so far.''

Jenner will be portrayed by Selma Blair.

ican Horror Story,'' said she's been analyzing footage to prepare for her role as prosecutor Marcia Clark.

“I'm just trying to take in her mannerisms, and then at the same time let some of it go. At first I thought, 'Well I have to do her voice.' And then I thought, 'Her voice isn't actually iconic.

As long as I'm not doing something weird, you're not gonna know it's not her voice.'''

Paulson decided to imitate how Clark “listened a lot with her head to the side'' and other mannerisms.

“American Crime Story'' will premiere on FX in 2016.

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