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Miss Caribbean UK 2016 – the competition has begun.

40 Surrey Mum and Inventor OCT 2016

06 - Cover Page Feature BLACK HISTORY MONTH feature written by Clayton Brown

Community works! The key to success

Relaunches Ingenious Heated Slippers ahead of Black History Month.

68 Property for Sale in

Culloden, Whitehouse, Westmoreland, Jamaica

Contributors

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Editor’s Message The UK’s No1 portal for the African & Caribbean community

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• A Surrey Mum and Inventor Relaunches Ingenious Heated Slippers ahead of Black History Month.

• Take a look at this lovely property for Sale in Culloden, Whitehouse, Westmoreland, Jamaica

Clayton Brown

Jacqui Brown

Dear Readers, On behalf of all at Panache-E-Magazine, we would like to thank all our readers for your continuing support.

Last year’s event was amazing and we’re not the only ones to say so. To all who didn’t make it in 2015 make sure you are there for 2016.

This month’s edition, as always, is focussed on positivity; for us as individuals and as a community.

Please read and remember this African saying: “Lions that do not work together can be defeated by a limping buffalo.”

We will also continue to push the message; concerning getting our communities to work together to achieve economic independence.

Clayton Brown Editor

Our aim has always been to encourage our communities to become stronger by creating closer ties between communities across the UK and the Caribbean (Unity is strength). To this end we created the Miss Caribbean UK pageant. (Please visit www. misscaribbeanuk.com to read more).

Features this month: • BLACK HISTORY MONTH feature written by Clayton Brown - Community works! - The key to success • Miss Caribbean UK 2016 – the competition has begun and we announce our Distiguished Judges, fantastic Hosts and soulful Artists for the night.

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Also, we appeal to any Sponsor’s, Supporter’s, Designer’s, Artists and Volunteers who would like to be part of this year’s MISS CARIBBEAN UK event.

Please contact us on: 07951308379 or email info@ misscaribbeanuk.com for more information.

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Community works! The key to success

by Clayton Brown

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ometime ago I wrote an article in this magazine to the effect that; “The buying power of Britain’s black community is now worth an estimated £300 billion, according to recent research.

(Data compiled by the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA)).

My argument was, that If we spend our money within our community, that money gives a small business; a start-up, or a community project the same chance of success as its competitors in other sectors of the population.

We are always hearing that those without money are without power and those without power are essential disenfranchised. However, we do have money! What I would like to see is the black community spending some of this vast amount, within its own community and by so doing, using its combined buying power to achieve economic power.

The idea is so simple! Everyone’s doing it! Apart, that is, the black community in the UK! The idea is so simple and logical it seems condescending to think of having to articulate it to anyone; least of all to those it may concern.

We need to spend our money within our own communities! It’s as simple as that.

At the time, I felt like one of a very few, who were highlighting this message. Now it feels that the message has got through. People are talking about the subject and some are trying to do something about it. Black businesses, such as XSandy’s Hair run by Sandra PinnockBrown, who has now opened two Afro hair stores in South London and is trying to compete with the plethora of Asian owned shops in the area selling black hair products to black people.

However, although some have started, we need many more black entrepreneurs, in all areas of business. Because for us to spend money within our communities, we need to have businesses providing the goods and services for us to buy. And this is where www.panacheoccasions.com /

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we find a major road block. In order to setup businesses, most entrepreneurs need access to funding. However, it seems that banks and institutions that are in the business of lending money within the UK have deemed that lending money to black businesses carries (“unsubstantiated”) risks.

In 2011, then Lib Dem leader, Nick Clegg, stated in a speech he made that: Black entrepreneurs were denied equal access to loans.

“More than a third of Black Africans say they want to start a business. 6 per cent actually do.” (Black Training and Enterprise Group).

“People of Black African origin are four times more likely than so-called “white firms” to be denied loans outright.” (Minority Ethnic Enterprise Centre of Expertise).

The article itself was titled, “Banks face probe into ‘racist’ lending practices”. (http:// www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ banks-face-probe-into-racist-lendingpractices-6267066.html ) OK, it’s out there. We don’t need Scarman to tell us that institutional racism exits within the framework of UK society. We are operating at a disadvantage (but still we rise).

Most of us recognise that we are living in a society that has racism built in to many of its institutions, but let us not use that as an excuse for not achieving. It is the reason that we do not have equal access or opportunity to finance, however, it is not the reason that we do not achieve. I think that many of us fall for the propaganda and denigrating stereotypes that are foisted on us daily.

However, if we were to take the example our fore parents who came to this country in the early 1950/60s, with nothing but hope and a determination to make a better life for themselves and their children. At that time racism and prejudice against black people was rife, certainly more blatantly in your face. There were race riots in 1958, There were signs greetings those seeking accommodation, stating; “No Blacks, no Irish, no dogs”. But still they achieved.

My parents were able, through hard work and utilising the power of “Community”, to buy a house here and eventually, build their retirement home in the Caribbean.

The example above is not unique to me; the vast majority of family and friends that I knew, where able to prosper, and do the same.

They were able to overcome the obstacle put in their way, (no access to funds) by reverting to a form of loan and savings common in the Caribbean called, “Pardner/Partner”.

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“Thank you Portia for all the

inspirational texts i received from your network, i save them and read them when I am stressed. PortiaI wish you and family long life and happiness, I bought my 2 sewing machine from my paadna draw which will help me in my career.

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The principle of “Pardner/Partner” is quite simple; a group of individuals get together and save an amount of money for a stated number of weeks. Each week a member of the group gets the sum of all that is collected (called a Hand) and the process is continued until everyone gets a Hand. In this way, by keeping their money within their own community, by using it within their own communities, could save sufficient amounts to pay deposits on their own homes. Deposits that they were unable to access from high-street lenders.

When we came to this country, the aim was to integrate into society. However, integration does not equate to equality in said society. Equality needs a shift in the consciousness of the indigenous people, which I don’t see happening soon.

If we see that obstacles are in our way, let’s not stand there bemoaning the fact. Instead let us use the power that we have within our communities; economically and otherwise to overcome the obstacles. In the Caribbean, in Africa; there are business’ millionaires and billionaires. Which I would argue shows that given a level playing field we as a people are just as capable of working hard and succeeding as any other people. Let’s spend less time worrying about what they are not doing for us and spend more time doing for ourselves.

Community works!

They’re hiding this movement here in America, but the word is reaching all over the globe. Black businesses are joining WeBuyBlack.com to sell their products. Shop now and support these businesses as we all work to rebuild Black Wall Street. #webuyblack www.panacheoccasions.com /

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or Black History Month, I want to highlight and remember a group of black people who by working as a community and by circulating their money within their community, were able to shine as a beacon, showing what can be achieved when we work as a community. This is the story of “The Black Wall Street”. It is a story of; Achievement, success, jealousy and evil destruction.

Searching under the heading of “riots,” “Oklahoma” and “Tulsa” in current editions of the World Book Encyclopedia, there is conspicuously no mention whatsoever of the Tulsa race riot of 1921, and this omission is by no means a surprise, or a rare case. The fact is, one would also be hard-pressed to find documentation of the incident, let alone and accurate accounting of it, in any other

The-Black-Wall-Street.

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“scholarly” reference or American history book.

If anyone truly believes that the last April attack on the federal building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma was the most tragic bombing ever to take place on United States soil, as the media has been widely reporting, they’re wrong -- plain and simple. That’s because an even deadlier bomb occurred in that same state nearly 75 years ago. Many people in high places would like to forget that it ever happened.

That’s precisely the point that noted author, publisher and orator Ron Wallace, a Tulsa native, sought to make nearly five years ago when he began researching this riot, one of the worst incidents of violence ever visited upon people of African descent. Ultimately joined on the project by colleague Jay Wilson of Los Angeles, the duo found and compiled indisputable evidence of what they now describe as “a Black holocaust in America.”

“The date was June 1, 1921, when "Black Wall Street," the name fittingly given to one

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really happened there on that fateful summer day in 1921 and why it happened. Wallace similarly explained to me why this bloody event from the turn of the century seems to have had a recurring effect that is being felt in predominately Black neighbourhoods even to this day.

Tulsa, a town in carnage

of the most affluent all-Black communities in America, was bombed from the air and burned to the ground by mobs of envious whites. In a period spanning fewer than 12 hours, a once thriving 36-Black business district in northern Tulsa lay smouldering--a model community destroyed, and a major African-American economic movement resoundingly defused.

The night's carnage left some 3,000 African Americans dead, and over 600 successful businesses lost. Among these were 21 churches, 21 restaurants, 30 grocery stores and two movie theatres, plus a hospital, a bank, a post office, libraries, schools, law offices, a half dozen private airplanes and even a bus system. As could have been expected the impetus behind it all was the infamous Ku Klux Klan, working in consort with ranking city officials, and many other sympathizers.

In their self-published book, Black Wallstreet: A Lost Dream, and its companion video documentary, Black Wallstreet: A Black Holocaust in America!, the authors have chronicled for the very first time in the words of area historians and elderly survivors what

Spirit of Greenwood: A History of Prosperity & Perseverance.

The best description of Black Wallstreet, or Little Africa as it was also known, would be liken it to a mini-Beverly Hills. It was the golden door of the Black community during the early 1900s, and it proved that African Americans had successful infrastructure.

That's what Black Wallstreet was all about.

The dollar circulated 36 to 100 times, sometimes taking a year for currency to leave the community. Now in 1995, a dollar leaves the Black community in 15-minutes. As far as resources, there were Ph.D.'s residing in Little Africa, Black attorneys and doctors.

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During that era, physicians owned medical schools. There were also pawn shops everywhere, brothels, jewellery stores, 21 churches, 21 restaurants and two movie theatres. It was a time when the entire state of Oklahoma had only two airports, yet six Blacks owned their own planes. It was a very fascinating community.

The area encompassed over 600 businesses and 36 square blocks with a population of 15,000 African Americans. And when the lower-economic Europeans looked over and saw what the Black community created, many of them were jealous. When the average student went to school on Black Wallstreet, he wore a suit and tie because of the morals and respect they were taught at a young age.

The mainstay of the community was to educate every child. Nepotism was the one word they believed in. And that's what we need to get back to in 1995. The main thoroughfare was Greenwood Avenue, and it was intersected by Archer and Pine Streets.

From the first letters in each of those three names, you get G.A.P., and that's where the renowned R and B music group the Gap Band got its name. They're from Tulsa.

Black Wallstreet was a prime example of the typical Black community in America that did businesses, but it was in an unusual location.

You see, at the time, Oklahoma was set aside to be a Black and Indian state. There were over 28 Black townships there. One third of the people who travelled in the terrifying "Trail of Tears" alongside the Indians between 1830 to 1842 were Black people.

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would kill him within 48 hours. A lot of Blacks owned farmland, and many of them had gone into the oil business. The community was so tight and wealthy because they traded dollars hand-to-hand, and because they were dependent upon one another as a result of the Jim Crow laws.

An African-American man drinking at a “colored� drinking fountain in a streetcar terminal in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1939. The Jim Crow laws

It was not unusual that if a resident's home accidentally burned down, it could be rebuilt within a few weeks by neighbours. This was the type of scenario that was going on dayto-day on Black Wallstreet. When Blacks intermarried into the Indian culture, some of them received their promised '40 acres and a mule' and with that came whatever oil was later found on the properties.

Just to show you how wealthy a lot of Black people were, there was a banker in the neighbouring town who had a wife named California Taylor. Her father owned the largest cotton gin west of the Mississippi [River]. When California shopped, she would take a cruise to Paris every three months to have her clothes made.

There was also a man named Mason in nearby Wagner County who had the largest potato farm west of the Mississippi. When

he harvested, he would fill 100 boxcars a day.

Another brother not far away had the same thing with a spinach farm. The typical family then was five children or more, though the typical farm family would have 10 kids or more who made up the nucleus of the labor.

On Black Wallstreet, a lot of global business was conducted. The community flourished from the early 1900s until June 1, 1921. That's when the largest massacre of non-military Americans in the history of this country took place, and it was lead by the Ku Klux Klan.

Imagine walking out of your front door and seeing 1,500 homes being burned. It must have been amazing.

Survivors we interviewed think that the whole thing was planned because during the time that all of this was going on, white families with their children stood around the borders of their community and watched

the massacre, the looting and everything-much in the same manner they would watch a lynching.

In my lectures I ask people if they understand where the word "picnic" comes from. It was typical to have a picnic on a Friday evening in Oklahoma. The word was short for "pick a nigger" to lynch. They would lynch a Black male and cut off body parts as souvenirs. This went on every weekend in this country, and it was all across the county. That's where the term really came from.

Other videos on the Tulsa Riots: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=NdT8edPYQ7E https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=2EeJ0U5pVi8

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Surrey Mum and Inventor Relaunches Ingenious Heated Slippers ahead of Black History Month.

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imi, a Surrey based IT consultant, entrepreneur and a mother, who for 20 years suffered from Raynaud’s syndrome which left her with painful cold feet is relaunching her latest invention Snugtoes ahead of Black History Month and winter.

With their elasticated back for better heat retention and non-slip soft rubber sole they are extremely safe, making them great for all the family. They are also excellent for people suffering circulatory issues like lupus, diabetes etc. Being exceptionally well made and packaged makes them ideal Xmas presents.

She adds “I also wanted to relaunch it at a time where there is a focus on Black achievement. There is little focus on Black women inventors, so I’m hoping that I can act as inspiration for those women who want to manufacture a product but don’t think they can. Anything is possible if you work hard and are prepared to overcome any adversity.”

She has also produced a handy colourful infographics that gives simple tips for maintaining healthy feet through the winter months.

The ingenious heated winter slipper with their removable microwavable pads provides up to three hours of toasty warmth. They came out of years of misery and frustration of not finding any suitable solution to the problem of cold winter feet.

She recalls “The only relief that I observed was when I put a hot water bottle on top of my indoor slippers. This got me thinking that there must be a way I could integrate the heat from the water bottle into the slippers whilst still being able to move around. Thus SnugToes heated slippers were born.”

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The infographic also helpfully lists some of medical conditions common in the BAME community that can trigger cold winter feet. These include some forms of anaemia, Raynaud’s disease, lupus, diabetes etc. since many people may not be aware they have these conditions until the onset of cold weather.

Simi said “Taking care of one’s feet in winter is an absolutely essential exercise which most people largely ignore because the feet cause them little problem most of the time.

Our feet play a vital role in helping us move around comfortably so it’s important we keep in the best possible condition, and that’s why we created this handy tips guide.”

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Simi further adds “This is exactly where SnugToes comes in. These slippers with their microwaveable heated pads were specifically invented to provide the ordinary wearer and those with medical disorders with up to four hours glowing warmth and relieving cold discomfort.”

She concludes “Our goal is to partner with charities that promote and support that work with sufferers of conditions that lead to cold feet. We are currently working with Lupus UK to promote Lupus Awareness Week and have plans in the pipeline to work with other health charities and support groups.”

About Snugtoes – http://www.snugtoes.com Link toinfographics http://www.snugtoes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/FIN-feet13sept16.pdf Picture: Simi Sokan (left) donating pairs of Snugtoes to Epsom & Ewell Food Bank http://www.snugtoes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Donationfoodbank.jpg For interviews, product reviews or guest blogging opportunities: Adetayo Idowu PR & Campaign Manager Tel: 0794 9529 231 E customerservice@snugtoes.com www.panacheoccasions.com /

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Ms Sunrize Chart closes on Saturday 5 November and revealed on Sunday 6 November It is VERY VERY IMPORTANT that all artists and producers get behind and share across all your social media to get people to vote for you regularly.

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G vibes had a love for music from a very young age and was interested in how music was made he started to learn bass and keyboards from the tender age of 10 and by 13 started playing guitar.

Vibes joined a reggae band in school at the age of 11 where he would learn his craft as a singer/songwriter travelling to youth clubs and performing to audiences developed his confidence and by the age of 14 he started to learn to engineer live shows.

G Vibes formed his own band at this time which only lasted a few years but was able to express his vocal skills on sound systems, firstly working with black scorpion then Remus sound and Dread Diamonds.

These experiences brought him to the recording studio where he did his first session as a musician playing bass and guitar along side horseman out of which came the release of Chicken flap by Horseman and Ricky Ranking.

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After a few more releases he went on to form the New Faze Music label with his old school friend and band member Tiny T where again songs like Goodbye - Leroy simmonds, Spend every night - G vibes, Jah never fail i-Vivian jones, Crazy-Tad hunter, You're an angel - Banana man, Everlasting , Everlasting joy-Pinchers, My French woman-Banana man and Ali baba, Don't let them do it -Tippa irie, Life is there-G vibes and Jah mason, Junkies in the streets-Michael rose plus more.

Sugar Minotts Black Roots Label also released some of G vibes material and productions as well as voicing for the label.

G Vibes worked alongside Tippa Irie for a few years producing Tippa Irie and Frankie Paul track called Free up on Tippa Iries Talk the truth album.

G vibes has performed all over the uk G vibes also licensed some of he's productions and across europe in France, Italy, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, to other producers who were interested in his Austria, Spain and Poland. He has work such as Jah bring i joy for Roadbloc worked on shows and toured with the label, Persecution and A little more time for Riverbank label and Jah can make you happy, finest artists like Sugar Minott, Sound of the trumpets and African warriors for Errol Dunkley, Half Pint, Bunny wailer, Freddie McGregor, Johnny Osbourne, Soladub records .

Barrington Levi, Tippa irie, Peter huningale, Lloyd brown, Glen Washington, Vivian jones, Queen Ifrica, Sylvia tella, Capleton, Anthony B, Determin plus many many more.

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CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS By: Christine Simpson

Here's your monthly list of celebrity bi Discover who shares your birthday.

SPECIAL BIRTHDAY FEATURE Arthur Wharton The world’s first black professional football player

• Born on 28 October 18

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• 2010 - The Arthur Wha Its aims are to promot diversity for the public

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Joseph Sepp Blatter received Marquette Statue for permanent arters in Zurich, Switzerland.

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OCT 2 1 Hakeem Kae-Kazim - actor Donny Hathaway (1945-1979) - musician 2 Avery Brooks - actor Charles Savarin – President of Dominica Nat Turner (1800-1831) - African-American slave Moses Gunn (1929-1993) - actor Johnnie Cochran Jr. (1937-2005) - lawyer www.panacheoccasions.com /

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6 Millie Small CD – singer/songwriter Lamman Rucker - actor

OCT 3 Val McCalla (1943-2002) – founder of The Voice newspaper

OCT 8 Jesse Jackson – civil rights activist

3 Josie d’Arby – actress/writer Al Sharpton Jr. – Baptist minister David Pitt, Baron Pitt of Hampstead (19131994) - politician Val McCalla (1943-2002) – founder of The Voice newspaper Phyllis Nelson (1950 – 1998) - singer Komla Dumor (1972-2014) - journalist

8 Nick Cannon – actor/comedian Sheila Ferguson – singer Jesse Jackson – civil rights activist Karyn Parsons - actress Dr Harold Moody (1882-1947) - physician 9 Steve McQueen CBE – film director/ producer Tyler James Williams - actor Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823-1893) - antislavery activist/journalist

Chris Jordan - cricketer Mara Thompson - politician

10 Chris Ofili - painter Cupid – singer Mýa – singer/songwriter Ben Vereen – actor/dancer Sir Willard Wentworth White, OM, CBE – operatic singer Thelonious Monk (1917-1982) – pianist/ composer

5 Pato Banton - singer Delroy Wilson CD (1948-1995) - musician Bernie Mac (1957-2008) – comedian/actor Tiana Benjamin – actress

11 MC Lyte - rapper Lennie James - actor George Bridgetower (1778–1860) - violinist Keith Boyce (1943-1996) - cricketer

4 Ashley Banjo - dancer YolanDa Brown – saxophonist/composer Russell Simmons - businessman

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7 Chizzy Akudolu - actress Dwayne Bravo - cricketer Jermain Defoe - professional footballer Alesha Dixon – singer/songwriter Desmond Tutu – retired Anglican Bishop Toni Braxton - singer–songwriter Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe - actress

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16 Terri J. Vaughan - actress Kim Wayans – actress/ comedian

OCT 12 Dick Gregory – civil rights activist

12 Dick Gregory – civil rights activist Marion Jones – former athlete Dorie Miller (1919-1943) – US Navy Messman Melvin Franklin (1942-1995) - singer 13 Ashanti - singer Tisha Campbell-Martin - actress David Haye – retired professional boxer Beverly Johnson – model/actress T’Keyah Crystal Keymáh – actress/writer Orphy Robinson - musician 14 Omar Lye-Fook MBE – singer/songwriter Tito Jackson – singer/songwriter Usher – singer/songwriter 15 Eric Benét - musician Keyshia Cole – singer/songwriter Anthony Joshua MBE - professional boxer Ravi Rampaul - cricketer Fela Kuti (1938-1997) – musician/composer Anthony Joshua, MBE - professional boxer.

17 Owen Arthur PC, MP – politician Wyclef Jean – rapper/ musician Chuka Umunna - politician Samuel Ringgold Ward (1817-1866) – abolitionist/ newspaper editor

18 Chuck Berry – musician/singer songwriter Joy Bryant - actress Thomas Hearns – former professional boxer Terry McMillan - writer Joe Morton - actor Ne-Yo – singer/songwriter 19 Roger Cross - actor Evander Holyfield – retired professional boxer Bill Morris, Baron Morris of Handsworth, OJ, DL - legislator Peter Tosh, OM (1944 –1987) - musician Vas Blackwood - actor 20 Snoop Dogg – rapper/singer Jennifer Freeman – actress Bobby Seale – political activist 21 Paul Ince - football manager Cleveland Watkiss - virtuoso vocalist/actor and composer

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Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1993) – jazz trumpeter Ronald McNair (1950-1986) - physicist/NASA astronaut 22 Oona King, Baroness King of Bow - politician Shaggy - musician 23 Martin Luther King III – human rights activist Pelé – retired professional footballer Heshima Thompson – actor/singer Alex Tudor - cricketer 24 Cindy Breakspeare – musician/former model Drake – rapper/singer songwriter Doreen Lawrence, Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon, OBE - campaigner Monica - singer V. V. Brown – singer/songwriter Eva Mottley (1953–1985) – actress

actress/singer Arthur Wharton (1865-1930) - sportsman 29 Randy Jackson – musician/singer Melba Moore – actress/singer songwriter Tracee Ellis Ross – actress/comedian Gabrielle Union – actress/model Fleur East - recording artist 30 Nia Long - actress Eva Marcille – model/actress Tequan Richmond – actor/rapper Otis Williams – singer/songwriter 31 Anton Phillips - actor Willow Smith – teen actress/singer Norman Beaton (1934-1994) - actor

25 Ciara – singer/songwriter Phaedra Parks – entertainment attorney Zadie Smith FRSL – novelist/writer Shaun Wright-Phillips - professional footballer Speech - rapper Lamont Bentley (1973-2005) – actor/rapper Asha Philip - sprinter 26 Nicola Adams, MBE – Olympic boxer Mahalia Jackson (1911-1972) - gospel singer Michael Underwood - television presenter.

27 Angie Le Mar – actor/comedian Ruby Dee (1922-2014) – actress/poet 28 Dame Cleo Laine, Lady Dankworth, DBE 58

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OCT 9 Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823-1893) - anti-slavery activist/journalist

OCT 23 Martin Luther King III – human rights activist www.panacheoccasions.com /

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Here's your monthly list of African & Caribbean Ind

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By: Christine Simpson

anache e-Magazine would like to wish the African & Caribbean countries featured in this issue a very Happy Independence Day this OCTOBER. This is a day to examine who we are and how we got here. Let us celebrate & enjoy the freedom to live independently cheerfully, helpfully, hopefully, peacefully and to remember our national heroes who gave us freedom. Sending you warm greetings

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REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA

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Independence from England 1st October 1960

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THE REPUBLIC OF EQUATORIAL GUINEA

Independence from France 12th, October 1968

dependence Day Celebrations for OCTOBER. Please click on

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UBLIC OF GUINEA

REPUBLIC OF LESOTHO

REPUBLIC OF UGANDA

Independence from England 4th October 1966

Independence from England 9th October 1962

Independence from France 2nd October 1958

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REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA

ST VINCENT & THE GRENADINES

Independence from England 24th October 1964

Independence from England 27th October 1979

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Caribbean Property

PROPERTY FOR SALE IN CULLODEN, WHITEHOUSE, WESTMORELAND, JAMAICA

By: Maureen Smith

Property Type: House Bedrooms: 6 Bathrooms: 5.5 Price: USD $510,000.00 This lovely property enjoys stunning uninterrupted sea views and a constant gentle breeze from its elevated position within a gated community that lies along the recently resurfaced South Coast main road.

Set on just under three-quarters of an acre of land (approx. 29,080 sq. ft), the property offers approximately 7,365 sq. ft. of living space that is spread over three floor levels.

Ground Floor 2 x bedroom apartment (15 ft x 13 ft and 12 ft x 12 ft respectively) with open-plan living/dining/kitchen area (15 ft x 27.25 ft), bathroom and side verandah. Also at this level is a laundry area, utility area and a double carport.

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First Floor Accessed via Master bedroom (21 ft x 21 ft) with two large walk-in closets (his & hers) and en-suite marble-tiled bathroom with Jacuzzi bath and separate shower. There are a further two bedrooms on this level (9 ft x 9 ft each), both with built-in closets and en-suite bathrooms, and one with private verandah.

Second Floor A floating circular staircase leads to this level where you will find a fully open-plan concept consisting of living/dining/kitchen (45.5 ft x 40 ft), an office (15 ft x 14 ft), a powder room, two balconies from where you can enjoy the breathtaking views on offer with this property, as well as masses of light penetrating the building from full length windows that have been used in place of walls.

An automatic gate provides entrance to the property that is approximately 40% enclosed by a wall. An added feature with this property is the number of fruit trees on the land, which include soursop, sweetsop, pear, mangoes, papaya, guava and bananas. Smoothies galore!

An adjoining lot of approximately 18,000 sq. ft. is also available for sale by same owners at the asking price of USD $65,000.00 (negotiable).

If you’re looking for an affordable home that stands out in Jamaica, then we would definitely recommend this property.

(Room sizes are approximate)

Get in touch: Tropical Connections Limited, Weatherill House, New South Quarter, 23 Whitestone Way, Croydon, Surrey CR0 4WF England Telephone: 0845 222 1413 Mobile: 07506 354 902 Fax: 020 8686 6125 Email: info@tropicalconnections.co.uk Web: www.tropicalconnections.co.uk

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Travel

Althea Dixon Your Travel Expert A very warm welcome to you, my name is Althea and I live in Croydon Surrey.

I have been in Travel now for coming up 20 years, and absolutely enjoy it. Friends and family will tell you I could talk the length and breadth about all the wonderful and beautiful destinations there are to see, and the holidays I have planned and sent my customers too, including all the wonderful places and countries I’ve travelled to myself.

I truly form a bond with my customers and get really excited with them when I am helping them plan their holidays, every detail is taken care of and I always try and add that extra special something, a real WOW! Factor to make that special difference.

In fact, I’m so passionate about travel that I’m also a Travel and Tourism Lecturer at a Further Education College in London, teaching and inspiring students into a career in travel and tourism.

The opulent Caribbean Islands really should be a “must visit” for everyone. Each idyllic Island has something unique to offer, with so much to see and do, your holiday can be as relaxing or as a lively as you like.

With my knowledge and expertise in travel let me help with all your holiday itinerary and details. Once you’ve travelled, back home and caught your breath, the only thing you’ll be left wondering is how come you never found me earlier!

So, speak to someone who knows ‘Treat yourself with Althea’ and contact me now.

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