Premier League champions MoBay United host Rivoli United Sunday

PAUL A REID Observer West writer

Thursday, October 16, 2014    

TUCKER, ST JAMES — DEFENDING Red Stripe Premier League champions Montego Bay United will hope to make Rivoli United’s third trip to western Jamaica in 11 days another losing one when they meet in a first-round game at Wespow Park on Sunday afternoon.

Rivoli United lost back-to-back games to Reno FC at Frome Sports Grounds last week Thursday in the Flow Champions Cup KO, and then got a big 5-1 whipping on Sunday in the RSPL.

Despite this, Rivoli United are above Montego Bay United in the point’s tables — one point and two places — but have never won at Wespow Park.

Rivoli United are in fourth place on eight points while Montego Bay United are in sixth place with seven points.

Montego Bay United will be full of confidence coming into the game after a 2-0 win over promoted Barbican FC at the UWI Bowl last weekend, their first away win of the season after losses to Waterhouse and leaders Cavalier SC.

Strikers Allan Ottey and Omar Gordon will be expected to lead the Montego Bay United attack as they seek their third win and keep their unbeaten home record intact.

Montego Bay United have scored five of their seven goals at home and have conceded just once in Montego Bay, in a 1-1 draw against Reno in the opening round.

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Come Celebrate Jesus rocks MoBay Convention Centre

ROSE HALL, St James — GOSPEL artiste Kevin Downswell gave an outstanding performance at the recent staging of the Come Celebrate Jesus gospel concert at the Rose Hall Convention Centre here, as hundreds of people crammed the facility for praise and worship.

The 2003 Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) gospel winner, who performed for almost 40 minutes, had nearly everyone on their feet during his energetic set.

Taking the stage to rousing applause, Downswell opened with You Are Lord then moved into God Is Moving. By then the large, appreciative audience became fully engaged, dancing and waving hands, as they joined the outstanding gospel singer in his next song, If It’s Not You.

His set also included Joy, I Can Feel the Glory, before closing with the very popular You Make Me Stronger.

Earlier, the Singing Jewels opened the concert, followed by the Leharia Singers, a group of Seventh-day Adventist members, before Clive Warren, the JCDC 2006 gospel winner, took the stage.

There were also strong performances from Donette Thompson-Hall, a Jamaican living in Canada, who interacted well with the audience, as well as Grenadian Shirley Simpson, a country gospel singer.

Internationally renowned minister and gospel artiste Ron Kenoly, who is no stranger to Jamaica, also delivered a splendid set, scoring heavily with Lift Him Up, God Is Able and Anointing Fall On Me.

– Mark Cummings

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Taboo goes to MoBay

Sadeke Brooks, Staff Reporter

Montego Bay will be getting additional entertainment with the opening of two new nightspots, Taboo: The Ultimate Adult Playground and Vanity.

Speaking with THE STAR on Tuesday, the proprietor, Shemara Todd, said she saw the demand for another Taboo based on the number of Montego Bay patrons that visited Taboo in New Kingston.

“My patrons demanded it,” she said.

Todd said the new gentlemen’s club will open at Fairview Shopping Centre in Montego Bay on Friday. She said the opening night will be hosted by singer Ishawna, while DJ Nicco will play the music. She said there will also be guest exotic dancers, Royalty Mason and Destruction.

When the club opens on Friday, Todd boasted that patrons will be treated to an international experience.

“It is four times the size of the one in Kingston, 100 per cent international. There will be 20-foot poles like you see in Vegas, just a 100 per cent first-world experience. The decor is top of the line. It is something that everybody will have to come out and see,” she said, adding that international showgirls will also make appearances.

Todd noted that expectations are high.

“They (patrons in Montego Bay) are just waiting for it, literally. We are also opening a regular disco called Vanity. MoBay has a whole lot to look forward to. We have a lot of tourists coming into this part so it is only fair that we show them the females in Jamaica,” she said.

“I only hire local girls that are talented. Most of the girls are literal gymnasts, they are true performers. It is not a go-go club, it is Taboo the Ultimate Adult Playground.”

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Taboo goes to MoBay

Sadeke Brooks, Staff Reporter

Montego Bay will be getting additional entertainment with the opening of two new nightspots, Taboo: The Ultimate Adult Playground and Vanity.

Speaking with THE STAR on Tuesday, the proprietor, Shemara Todd, said she saw the demand for another Taboo based on the number of Montego Bay patrons that visited Taboo in New Kingston.

“My patrons demanded it,” she said.

Todd said the new gentlemen’s club will open at Fairview Shopping Centre in Montego Bay on Friday. She said the opening night will be hosted by singer Ishawna, while DJ Nicco will play the music. She said there will also be guest exotic dancers, Royalty Mason and Destruction.

When the club opens on Friday, Todd boasted that patrons will be treated to an international experience.

“It is four times the size of the one in Kingston, 100 per cent international. There will be 20-foot poles like you see in Vegas, just a 100 per cent first-world experience. The decor is top of the line. It is something that everybody will have to come out and see,” she said, adding that international showgirls will also make appearances.

Todd noted that expectations are high.

“They (patrons in Montego Bay) are just waiting for it, literally. We are also opening a regular disco called Vanity. MoBay has a whole lot to look forward to. We have a lot of tourists coming into this part so it is only fair that we show them the females in Jamaica,” she said.

“I only hire local girls that are talented. Most of the girls are literal gymnasts, they are true performers. It is not a go-go club, it is Taboo the Ultimate Adult Playground.”

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MORE FM: Creating waves across MoBay

MONTEGO BAY, St James

APPROXIMATELY three years since it commenced broadcasting to the Montego Bay population, the community-based MORE FM has been making a mark on the media landscape across several western Jamaica communities with a wide range of programmes.

The station — which operates from the once-volatile community of Glendevon, on the outskirts of Montego Bay — continues to increase its programme offerings to listeners, and recently added what the station’s management dubbed ‘Gospel Wednesdays’, featuring bishops, pastors and religious die-hards from different denominations in St James.

Gospel Wednesdays, which has become a signature programme of the station, is the most loved and most popular programme on MORE FM, according to the station’s management.

MORE FM broadcasts on the frequency of 91.7MHz.

“We are very pleased with the development and growth of this station,” said Dr Shaun Jones, the chairman of Global Community Broadcasting Network, operators of the station. “We are satisfied with the overwhelming support from our listeners and the business community of Montego Bay towards MORE FM. In fact, it is the belief of the board of directors that without God as the driver of this station, everything our listeners are now enjoying on MORE FM would be impossible.”

Added Dr Jones: “We intend to continue to grow the station, not for hype, but for the enrichment of the lives of everyone who comes in contact with it, and this is why we are hell-bent on providing more religious programmes with top-flight prayer warriors who have been bringing divine spiritual intervention into the lives of people through the anointing of God. We are not into the hype and over-inflated ego business, we just want to do the simple things that please our listeners and the business community which have been unwavering in their support.”

The value of prayer and intercession cannot be underestimated and as such, on October 1, the station will be increasing its offerings on ‘Gospel Wednesdays’, when Pastor Mark Clarke — one of Jamaica’s leading prayer warriors, who is said to have been healing and bringing deliverance to the lives of hundreds of people in western Jamaica over the last three years — takes to the airwaves.

Pastor Clarke is the head of the Cottage Road-based Byways and Hedges Deliverance Ministries, which has seen tremendous growth in its membership since it was established on July 12, 2011.

“Our mission is to restore God’s kingdom on Earth by destroying the kingdom of darkness, so our ministry focuses on spiritual warfare where we educate people on how to identify the devices of the enemy and how to defeat witchcraft and be delivered and stay delivered,” Pastor Clarke said.

“So on Wednesday, October 1, I will be taking the spiritual warfare from the confines of our church building to the airwaves of MORE FM, reaching individuals who we have not been reached before.

In the meantime, as the fan base of the station grows, prominent Montego Bay businessman and former Deputy Mayor of Montego Bay Gerard Mitchell has given MORE FM high praises for its programme offerings.

According to him, the programmes are refreshing, enlightening and deal adequately with the issues of Montego Bay. “In fact, as a young station I can safely say it is digging deeply into the listenership of most of the larger radio stations,” Mitchell argued.

Programmes aired on MORE FM include Sunny Side Up with host Patrick Williams, which can be heard from Mondays to Friday — except Wednesdays — from 6:00 am to 10:00 am; Gospel Wednesdays with Bishop Deloris Lawrence; Word of Truth, hosted by Evangelist Mark Samuels; More Community Health Talk; Retro Thursdays; and Cop Alert.

– Mark Cummings

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Samsung MoBay opens today

BY HORACE HINES Observer staff reporter

Wednesday, February 12, 2014    

MONTEGO BAY, St James — SAMSUNG Electronics is reinforcing its presence in Jamaica with the opening of a second Experience Store, this time at the Sagicor Montego Bay Shopping Centre in St James today.

This follows the success of the flagship location opened in Kingston last September.

“We are very excited about opening a second store here in Montego Bay. Jamaica has been so good to us that we are expanding our business in Jamaica,”Michelle Alvarez, project manager Samsung Experience, Samsung Electronics Latin America, Miami office told the Jamaica Observer during a telephone interview.

The Montego Bay store will feature the most popular in-demand and innovative Samsung mobile and consumer devices on the local market, including cameras.

Alvarez noted that the store will not only cater for locals but also tourists.

“We really want to expand into the Montego Bay area and try to reach the local market as well as to take advantage of the tourists that might go over there and enjoy Montego Bay,” Alvarez said.

The world’s first Samsung Experience Store opened in December 2012 in Paris; while the Montego Bay location, the region’s fifth Samsung Experience Store, is one of many executed as part of a 2013-2014 Caribbean expansion project.

Meanwhile, Jorge Lopez, product manager for the mobile division, Samsung Electronics Latin America, Miami office, said if the demand exists the company might open a third Experience Store in the island.

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MoBay Boys and Girls Club to get facelift

THE much celebrated Montego Bay Boys and Girls Club is getting a facelift, thanks to a partnership between the Sandals Foundation and leading Canadian distributor of hardware and home improvement products, Rona Inc.

On Thursday, volunteers from Rona Inc and the Sandals Foundation will visit the club, which has 170 members, for a three-hour work session. During this time, the facility will be painted while shelves will be installed to create much-needed storage space.

“By undertaking this renovation project in partnership with Rona, we hope to assist the Montego Bay Boys and Girls Club in being able to continue its role of youth development in an environment that better caters to their needs,” said Heidi Clarke, director of programmes of the Sandals Foundation, which operates on the pillars of education, environment and community.

“This is something we’ve dreamt about,” said Patrick Clarke, one of the club’s directors. “It is always a good thing when improvements can be made to an environment that works with children and we expect this project to positively impact the lives of many young people in and around Montego Bay.”

The Montego Bay Boys and Girls Club had been contributing significantly to the development of the youths in and around the inner city of Montego Bay for over 70 years. Throughout the years, the club has celebrated several milestones and tremendous achievements in the areas of sports and performance, and in 1992 they were given the Key to the City of Montego Bay.

The club also boasts an impressive list of illustrious past clubbites who have moved on to achieve local and international fame. Among them are former vice-chancellor of the University of the West Indies and outstanding academic Professor Rex Nettleford, and cricket’s record-breaking, globe-trotting umpire Steve Bucknor.

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Keen battle! - Reno FC to meet MoBay Boys’ Club as Western Confed heats up

FROME, Westmoreland — LEADERS Reno FC and joint second-placed team Montego Bay Boys Club will meet at the Frome Sports Grounds on Sunday in the featured game as the Jamaica Football Federation’s/Captain’s Bakery and Grill/Charley’s JB Rums Western Confederation Super League continues after the holiday break with a full schedule of six matches.

Reno FC sits on top of the point standings with 10 points from four games, two points ahead of Holland United and Boys’ Club, while Savannah SC and former champions Granville FC are next on six points each.St James clubs, Tomorrow’s People and defending champions Wadadah FC are next on five points each, while promoted Sandals Whitehouse- three points, Lucea FCtwo points, and Village United and Duanvale on a point each, are at the bottom of the tables.Reno, who were the beaten finalists last season, giving up a first-leg advantage to lose on penalty kicks to Wadadah FC, are off to a fast start this season, dropping just two points from a potential 12, and will seek to extend their unbeaten run at Frome that has spanned all of last season.Boys’ Club, who won the St James Senior League last season, have also won their last two games and are one of the hottest teams in the league, but they are yet to prove their pedigree.Androcle Poyser has scored in their previous three games played and will once again lead the Boys Club attack.Holland United are expected to return to winning ways when they take on Lucea FC at the Colin Miller Sports Complex in Lucea, after being held goalless by Granville United on Monday.Lucea FC, the only club from Hanover in the competition, has struggled so far, earning just two points, but has been defensively adequate, giving up just five goals in their four games played.Holland United led by Stephon Bramwell and Romaine Lewis, who have combined for seven of the team’s 10 goals, are the competition’s most prolific scoring team, and will test Lucea’s resilience.Norwood Strikers’ Roshane Reid has scored five goals in his team’s last two games and they hope the holiday break has not cooled him off when they host Savannah SC who have drawn three straight after an opening day 2-1 win over Lucea.After giving up a 3-0 lead to settle for a draw against Holland, Norwood trounced Village United 5-0 in Trelawny last week, and will start favourites to hand Savannah their first defeat.Two-time champions Granville United have managed to stay in the top half of the tables despite scoring a single goal, but remain the only team yet to concede a goal. They will take on the last -placed Duanvale FC that has conceded 13 goals, while scoring just once.Defending champions Wadadah FC will go after back-to-back wins when they take on Village United, after beating Lucea FC with a late goal on Monday afternoon.At Jarrett Park, the inconsistent Tomorrow’s People will host Sandals Whitehouse who have lost their two previous games played in Montego Bay, both at the UDC Field.Sandals Whitehouse have won just once all season long and will hope to start the New Year off with three more points.Holland United’s Romaine Lewis (left) gets to a ball ahead of Norwood Strikers’ Dane Gillette in a recent JFF Captain’s Bakery and Grill/Charley’s JB Rums Western Confederation Super League game at the UDC Field in Montego Bay. Holland came back from a 0-3 deficit to draw the game 3-3. (PHOTO: PAUL REID)

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Police seize firearm, arrest man in MoBay

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Saturday, August 31, 2013 | 12:39 PM

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica — An illegal firearm was seized and a man arrested by the Montego Bay Police in St. James on Friday. Police say that the man was aboard a Coaster bus which was signaled to stop by the lawmen during a spot check.The occupants of the bus were searched and a .357 revolver and six .357 cartridges found inside a plastic bag that the arrested man had in his possession.His identity is being withheld pending further investigations.Like our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/jamaicaobserverFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/JamaicaObserver

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