JetBlue Airways Announces Plans to Offer Barbados – New York Flights

NEW YORK, April 23, 2009 JetBlue Airways announces plans to continue its successful international expansion with new service this fall to the Caribbean island of Barbados, subject to receipt of government operating authority.

2010 BMA Nominees Announced

The 2010 Barbados Music Awards Nominees has been announced. Here are the nominees.

Soca Up-Tempo Single
Edwin Yearwood- In De Middle A De Road
Mikey- Rhythm Section
Timmy- Tim De Tool Man

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Sean Paul To Perform At Marlins Game

Grammy – winning Jamaican dancehall star, Sean Paul, is set to perform at a Marlins game later this week.

The singer, who admits he is no baseball fan, is set to perform at the Sept. 26th Marlins game against the New York Mets.

The 36-year-old says he will perform some hits off his new tracks along with some of the older ones. He is also expected to pitch the first ball at the game.

Paul’s album, entitled ‘Imperial Blaze,’ was released on August 18, 2009. The lead single is ‘So Fine.

42nd Annual Labor Day Carnival Festival – Sept 3rd to Sept 7th, 2009

Caribbean residents in New York are gearing up for one of the biggest events in the American cultural calendar – the West Indian American Day Labor Carnival to be held on Monday, September 7, 2009.

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Sean Paul to ‘blaze’ American television

In anticipating for his fourth album Imperial Blaze, which drops on August 18, top’-notch deejay Sean Paul will soon be hitting American television hard.

Sean Paul is racking up major prime-time mileage on big networks in the United States such as BET, MTV, FOX and ABC. The appearances that he has already made includes Fox’s wildly popular series So You Think You Can Dance and one of America’s top-rated morning programmes Good Morning America. He’ll be appearing again on the well-liked BET’s 106 & Park on Thursday, September 17, and paying visits to the Wendy Williams Show and It’s on with Alexa Chung on MTV, both on Friday, September 18.

“We’ve been on the road, just straight promoting Imperial Blaze,” said the Grammy-winning artiste. “So Fine has been doing well, we’re winding down to that time for the album to drop, and the second single is ready to be released too.”

Press It Up, the second single set to be released from the album, has already been getting positive feedback from club and radio DJs, shared Sean Paul. Imperial Blaze was recorded in Jamaica and features productions from Jamaican producers such as Jeremy Harding, Stephen ‘Di Genius’ McGregor, Arif Cooper, Don Corleon, Craig ‘Leftside’ Parks, Delano Thomas and Sean’s own brother, Jason ‘Jigzagula’ Henriques.

re-creating history

Sean Paul is hoping to re-create his past victories of Billboard Hot 100 charters and number ones. Sean Paul has had three number one singles which include Temperature, Get Busy and Baby Boy; five 10 Ten hits (including We Be Burnin’ and Gimme The Light), and eight chart entries. He has also secured two worldwide multi-platinum albums. The Trinity confirmed Sean’s stature as an international superstar, with total global sales in excess of four million. The album followed Sean’s 2002 RIAA 2x platinum certified VP/Atlantic debut, Dutty Rock, which sold more than six million copies worldwide.

Sean Paul has also racked up a stunning array of prestigious awards, including the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album, the American Music Award for Favourite Pop/Rock Male Artiste, Billboard Music Awards’ Hot 100 Single of the Year (Temperature) and the MTV Europe Award for Best New Artiste.

2009 Power Soca monach Ricky T

The St. Lucian Carnival is on…..this is the final weekend and most of the results are in. Listed below are the major competitions that took place.

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What time does the fete (party) really start?

The nights of leaving home to get to a fete by 11pm, the latest, is clearly a thing of the past!

If you dare mention to your party crew that you were at a fete from 11:30pm, you will be the laughing stock, 12:30 seems to be the preferred hour of arrival and don’t even think of leaving before 5am, that’s right 5am……next morning, unless the police stop the fete!

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2009 Vincy Mas updates

To prove that it was not a fluke in 2008, Gamal Skinny Fabulous Doyle repeated a feat that many thought would have been difficult, when he was crowned Soca Monarch at the Victoria Park in the wee hours of Sunday morning July 5th.

1st Place – Gamal “Skinny Fabulous” Doyle (De Beast Leh go)

2nd Place – Delroy “Fyahman” Hooper (Rags Invasion)

3rd Place – Shertz “Problem Child” James (Mad House)

4th Place – Montgomery “Demus” Laborde (Rum Junkie)

Doyle put in another stellar performance as he defeated 19 other soca artistes on his way to the title, with his crowd motivating hit ‘The Beast Let Go’.

Occupying the stage with beasts of various shapes and sizes and a few glow stick men, Doyle whipped the crowd into a frenzy with his energetic performance as he called on the filled to capacity Victoria Park to unleash their inner beasts.

At the end of the night, the performance may have taken its toll when he was reported to have suffered an asthma attack and was late in returning to the stage to be crowned by Minister of Culture Rene Baptiste.

Doyle’s biggest rival in the soca monarch competition, six time winner Delroy ‘Fireman’ Hooper once again had to settle for second place, despite the resounding approval from the revellers with his rendition of Ragz Invasion.

Third place went to Shertz ‘Problem Child’ James, brother of Doyle, who came down from the ceiling at the beginning of his crowd pleaser ‘Mad House’. Montgomery ‘Demus’ Laborde rounded out the top four places with his rendition ‘Rum Junkie’. Other credible performances came in from the likes of Icon, Top Notch Swift, Fire Empress, The Man Stone and DJ 20.

One artiste, Recardo ‘Recka’ had his performance cut short when the stage was swarmed by intruders.

Hottie Hottie Gal, Tarah Holdipp take it all in stride

As the Crop Over season for 2k9 gets into high gear, one name that is being mentioned on the lips of persons in the music industry is Tarah Holdipp and the major improvement she is making as a performing artist.

She brings to you four (4) hot new releases HOTTIE HOTTIE GAL, CARIBBEAN GIRLS performed with Peter Ram, A GOOD WUK and BAD TO DE BONE. She is featured on the track I AM ACTION with female artists KEANNE & TAHSHA.

Tarah was recently named as one of the sixteen semifinalists out of ninety eight (98) entries in the first ever Sweet Ragga Competition to be held in late July.

Preparations are also in high gear for her next music video HOTTIE HOTTIE GALS, which will be again shot by Selwyne “Get Bizzy” Browne of Zotikos Studios. Selwyne, one of Barbados’ top cinematographers is the person behind Tarah’s videos ALL NITE and the tagged video PUSH BACK/LOVE DE CARNIVAL which is still enjoying tremendous success across the globe and is now featured on BETJ, TEMPO and other major networks across the globe.

In preparation for the video, Tarah’s team have created a Dance Search Competition to find four (4) females to be part of the music video and an Essay Competition to give six (6) persons the chance to be on set during the video shoot. Tarah is giving these individuals the opportunity to EXPOSE their talent to a greater audience, to EDUCATE them on the making of music videos and to give them the greater opportunity to be part of an EXPERIENCE such as this one. They are simply calling it THE THREE E’S. Information on the competitions can be found at www.caribfyah.com.

With Hottie Hottie Gal making its way to Germany, one can only imagine how far this young, talented artist will go. She is now in the grooming process as her team continues to help develop and nurture her as they understand what it takes to be successful in this ever growing music industry.

For more information on this artist, please visit and join her at the following:

www.myspace.com/tarahholdipp
www.facebook.com/tarahholdipp
www.twitter.com/tarahholdipp
www.blogspot.com/tarahholdipp

LIME clears the air on Friday’s Pork Lime

Bridgetown, Barbados – Tuesday, June 30, 2009: LIME refutes the story titled ‘Two Shot at Pork Lime’ published in the Nation’s, Sunday Sun on June 28, 2009.

The Leader of its title sponsored band Anthony Layne confirmed that the Pork Lime which ended around 12:45 a.m. on Saturday, June 27 was incident free.

Station Sergeant, Anthony Depeiza, PRO of the Royal Barbados Police Force has also confirmed that that there was no reported incident during the event. He added, that the Police investigations confirmed that an incident occurred some time after the Pork Lime had concluded.

LIME Country Manager, Alex McDonald commented that, “The safety of patrons, entertainers, sponsors and vendors was not compromised at the event. However, in light of the overwhelming public turnout last Friday, we are working with the Police and private security to review and enhance our security arrangements at the Pork Lime.

Security checks will be implemented as patrons enter the premises which may cause some delays, so we are asking patrons to bear with us as these are necessary measures to ensure your comfort and safety.”

Contact is proud that the Pork Limes continue to be a fun and safe event for all and is committed to ensuring that the events remain incident free.

Shurwayn Winchester on MJ’s sudden death.

The world has been rocked by news that the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, has died after suffering cardiac arrest.

The icon’s passing has left a void in the industry that many agree, will never be filled. One such believer is Trinidad and Tobago Soca artist, Shurwayne Winchester, whose immediate reaction to the news, was that of disbelief and utter grief.

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MACHEL MONTANO MOURNS THE KING OF POP

MACHEL MONTANO  [IN HIS OWN WORDS]
Condolences to the King’s family, friends and fans as we all mourn together! Michael Jackson will be missed but never forgotten.

Even in death he was able to unite people of all creeds and colors and make them happy; he is the greatest entertainer that ever lived.

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MACHEL MONTANO MOURNS THE KING OF POP

MACHEL MONTANO June 26, 2009 [IN HIS OWN WORDS] Condolences to the King’s family, friends and fans as we all mourn together! Michael Jackson will be missed but never forgotten.

Even in death he was able to unite people of all creeds and colors and make them happy; he is the greatest entertainer that ever lived.

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Michael Jackson is DEAD!!

Michael Jackson, the record-breaking, sensationally gifted “King of Pop” who emerged from childhood superstardom to become the entertainment world’s most influential singer and dancer, and the tabloid world’s most disturbing celebrity, has died. He was 50.

A person with knowledge of the situation says Jackson died Thursday in a Los Angeles hospital. The person was not authorized to speak publicly and requested anonymity.

His death brought a tragic end to a long, bizarre, sometimes farcical decline from his peak in the 1980s, when he was popular music’s premier all-around performer, a uniter of black and white music who shattered the race barrier on MTV, dominated the charts and dazzled even more on stage.