k"Coneil to share stage with Sanchez and Coco Tea

CURTIS CAMPBELL, STAR Writer

Dancehall-pop sensation K’Coneil has been busy recording new material and preparing for his upcoming performance in New York alongside Sanchez, Coco Tea, Lady Saw, and others. According to the artiste, it’s an honour to be rubbing shoulders with veteran reggae/dancehall artistes.

“I am honoured to be a part of this major line-up, and I tell all my fans to come out early, as you will get a performance you will never forget,” he told The STAR.

The event will be held on Sunday, February 8 at the Resort Casino in Queens, New York. Also booked for the show are Richie Stephens and Freddie Jackson.

Positive responses

K’Coneil recently launched his YouTube VEVO profile and also used the opportunity to premiere the music video for his single, Gyal A You. The single has been receiving positive responses in New York and is gradually making its way into the playlists of urban stations.

The video was filmed in Miami by Donsville group and is intended to evoke a summer-time vibe. The artiste is also promoting another single called Real Talk, an effort dedicated to his late grandmother.

“Work hard for your ting dem, no worry what people say. Anybody wah vex, nuh worry wah dem say, and don’t badmind people tings and don’t red eye people”, he said, echoing the sentiments of his grandmother.

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k"Coneil to share stage with Sanchez and Coco Tea

k"Coneil to share stage with Sanchez and Coco Tea

CURTIS CAMPBELL, STAR Writer

Dancehall-pop sensation K’Coneil has been busy recording new material and preparing for his upcoming performance in New York alongside Sanchez, Coco Tea, Lady Saw, and others. According to the artiste, it’s an honour to be rubbing shoulders with veteran reggae/dancehall artistes.

“I am honoured to be a part of this major line-up, and I tell all my fans to come out early, as you will get a performance you will never forget,” he told The STAR.

The event will be held on Sunday, February 8 at the Resort Casino in Queens, New York. Also booked for the show are Richie Stephens and Freddie Jackson.

Positive responses

K’Coneil recently launched his YouTube VEVO profile and also used the opportunity to premiere the music video for his single, Gyal A You. The single has been receiving positive responses in New York and is gradually making its way into the playlists of urban stations.

The video was filmed in Miami by Donsville group and is intended to evoke a summer-time vibe. The artiste is also promoting another single called Real Talk, an effort dedicated to his late grandmother.

“Work hard for your ting dem, no worry what people say. Anybody wah vex, nuh worry wah dem say, and don’t badmind people tings and don’t red eye people”, he said, echoing the sentiments of his grandmother.

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k"Coneil to share stage with Sanchez and Coco Tea

Caribbean must continue to increase share of global tourism market – CTO

Ernie Seon

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, Monday September 15, 2014, CMC – The Secretary General of the Barbados-based Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO), Hugh Riley, says while the Caribbean is forecasting another increase in arrivals for 2014, it is equally vital that it continues to increase its share of the global tourism market.

Speaking to the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) ahead of the September 17-19 State of the Industry conference (SOCIT) in the United States Virgin Islands, Riley said the CTO was heartened at the fact that arrivals to the region continue to grow and the prognosis for the industry remains good.

“In the Caribbean, arrivals continue to grow and thankfully we are now seeing the relationship between actual arrivals and revenue from those arrivals beginning to climb once again.

“So we see incomes starting to increase, so that earnings to spend is going up. So the prognosis is good from that point of view,” he noted.

However the Secretary General cautioned that it was vital that the Caribbean focuses on staying “ahead of the curve”, and on how the rest of the world is performing.

“For while we want our numbers to continue to increase with the Caribbean crossing the 25 million mark at the end of last year, and we are forecasting that we will again see an increase on that by the end of 2014, certainly if you look at the increase so far this year, there is every reason to believe that, all things being equal we will see another increase in arrival by the end of 2014,” he said.

But Riley asserts that this was not the only metric, noting that the Caribbean needed to ensure it was gaining market share and that while the rest of the world was getting involved in the tourism business, this region was increase its share of the pie.

“So while the prognosis is good, there is an absolute need for us to come to places where there is information on what’s happening around the world, places where we can consider solutions to our problems and where information is available about our best practices and inspire creative thought.

“We must be able to leave the conference feeling charged up to go out and do something different, go out and change something for the better in the business that we belong,” he noted.

Caribbean and global tourism stakeholders gather in St. Thomas to discuss and devise strategies to position Caribbean tourism for major change.
SOTIC is being organised in collaboration with the USVI’s department of tourism.

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It is a criminal offence to share child porn, OCA warns

Wednesday, January 29, 2014 | 8:07 PM    

KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Office of The Children’s Advocate (OCA) is advising the public that the sharing of child pornographic material is a criminal offence.

The OCA issued the reminder in light of reports of the circulation of pornographic content involving schoolgirls from a Clarendon-based school on popular social media site Facebook.

“It is very distressing to learn that there are persons in society, particularly adults, who are sharing and posting child pornographic material through email or on popular social media sites such as Facebook. This is act is intolerable, illegal and unacceptable,” Children’s Advocate, Diahann Gordon Harrison declared.

Gordon Harrison charged that the practice dehumanises children and “erodes the moral fabric of society.”

“If it is that we receive reports of such acts, and where possible, we have absolutely no objection in assisting the Police to bring these perpetrators to book. As a society we must find ways to assist our children and steer them toward a morally upstanding path, one which is befitting of a society we wish to lead,” Gordon Harrison insisted.

“It is time that we end this culture and obsession of sexually exploiting our children, and do away with the ‘a jus lickle sex, nutten nuh wrong wid dat mentality’,” the Children’s Advocate argued.

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It is a criminal offence to share child porn, OCA warns