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Buju Banton is a Rasta in a deep hole

Since Sunday, since Jamaica's international reggae artiste Buju Banton's arrest by the DEA for involvement in a cocaine drug deal, speculation has been rife. Given his run in with the homosexual community, some wondered if it was a set up by members of the community. Other persons are simply in shocked that Banton could be mixed up with cocaine and not marijuana(weed). The interesting thing is, according to DEA someone tipped them off about the Buju's interest in purchasing the 'stuff'. According to the Gleaner they have the tape and another newspaper expounds on how Buju and his co-accused got caught. The interesting thing about this was a few years ago he did a song "Driva" that ironically seem to be about drug running and the Driver was told to deliver a package and not to stop at all. This time the 'Driva' got caught. For those who have read the affidavit related to another case in Jamaica there is a interesting similarity. In both case the...

Videos of Jamaica's Performace at the World Championships 2009 in Berlin

Men 100M Gold and Bronze http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By1JQFxfLMM 200M Gold & 5th http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z3UEL2xCO8&feature=fvst 4x100 Gold http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znn7JfM7AKM Women 100M Gold Silver http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9fbKeu44pk&feature=related 4x100 Gold http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZuFNS9ydI4 400m hurdles Gold and 4th http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_VIuH0RWX4 400M Silver and 4th http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksOwY4CvCBQ 200M Silver 6th and 7th http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGaIhRjTP6U 4x400 Silver http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i3RYKS1I1Q 100m hurdles Gold and Bronze http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dXsW7HjM_k

Old Media vs New Media

In last few weeks the Gleaner has been rolling out quite a number of blogs. One of the latest blogs was Science and Technology. The author's name give as 'parris' had an interesting topic last week, Old Media vs New Media. In he looked at how technology how technology , in this case twitter had change he coverage of events. He event comment that is despite his own views on blogs, here was he writing one. With Micheal Jackson's death, coverage again was an Issue. While the major TV stations BBC, CNN, Fox and news papers like NYTimes could not provide or confirm his death, a website TMZ. Com was on top of the situation from get go and never let up Referenced TV misses out as gossip website TMZ reports Michael Jackson's death first (LA TIMES) OldMedia vs New Media (Gleaner Blogs)