Restaurant operator Brian Lumley claims ... Stylysh wasn"t banned

Curtis Campbell, STAR Writer

Restaurant operator Brian Lumley has denied allegations made by some websites that he banned dancehall artiste Stylysh from performing at his restaurant-entertainment venue ’689 By Brian Lumley’.

According to Lumley, whose restaurant is located on Trinidad Terrace, New Kingston, Stylysh and her team made arrangements to host her ‘Stylysh and Friends Concert’ at the venue via a third party, however, the nature of the event does not complement the goals of ’689 By Brian Lumley’.

The restaurant operator says he has no problems with dancehall music, but his restaurant is not the right place for a hardcore event.

misled

“The show wasn’t banned. They had an arrangement with a third party. They were misled by the third party, and they should be careful because I don’t want anybody calling my name. I am a typical Jamaican who loves every genre of music, but there is a time and a place for everything. There are guidelines which I have to follow as a corporate citizen and with my obligations, and I cant promote that show here,” he said, seemingly disturbed by the allegations.

Stylysh, on the other hand, told THE STAR that Lumley pulled the plug on her concert because of her promotional flyers.

“Everything was agreed on and we started promoting. However, when the flyer started to circulate, Brian Lumley started to complain … . But that’s just how he feels. He said he don’t want it in his venue, so we just moving it to a next venue,” Stylysh said.

The deejay, who is also signed to Tommy Lee Sparta’s Guzu Music, said she made changes to the flyer to satisfy the operators of the restaurant, but that didn’t work.

Stylysh’s concert will now be held on July 10 at Gentry Mingle and Mellow, located at Clock Tower Plaza, 10 Half-Way Tree. The show will also feature performances from Tommy Lee Sparta, Destiny Sparta, Tabeta Cshae, and Ishawna.

The event will commence at 8 p.m. and patrons will be charged $1,000.

Curtis.campbell@gleanerjm.com

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Restaurant operator Brian Lumley claims ... Stylysh wasn"t banned

Restaurant operator Brian Lumley claims ... Stylysh wasn"t banned

Curtis Campbell, STAR Writer

Restaurant operator Brian Lumley has denied allegations made by some websites that he banned dancehall artiste Stylysh from performing at his restaurant-entertainment venue ’689 By Brian Lumley’.

According to Lumley, whose restaurant is located on Trinidad Terrace, New Kingston, Stylysh and her team made arrangements to host her ‘Stylysh and Friends Concert’ at the venue via a third party, however, the nature of the event does not complement the goals of ’689 By Brian Lumley’.

The restaurant operator says he has no problems with dancehall music, but his restaurant is not the right place for a hardcore event.

misled

“The show wasn’t banned. They had an arrangement with a third party. They were misled by the third party, and they should be careful because I don’t want anybody calling my name. I am a typical Jamaican who loves every genre of music, but there is a time and a place for everything. There are guidelines which I have to follow as a corporate citizen and with my obligations, and I cant promote that show here,” he said, seemingly disturbed by the allegations.

Stylysh, on the other hand, told THE STAR that Lumley pulled the plug on her concert because of her promotional flyers.

“Everything was agreed on and we started promoting. However, when the flyer started to circulate, Brian Lumley started to complain … . But that’s just how he feels. He said he don’t want it in his venue, so we just moving it to a next venue,” Stylysh said.

The deejay, who is also signed to Tommy Lee Sparta’s Guzu Music, said she made changes to the flyer to satisfy the operators of the restaurant, but that didn’t work.

Stylysh’s concert will now be held on July 10 at Gentry Mingle and Mellow, located at Clock Tower Plaza, 10 Half-Way Tree. The show will also feature performances from Tommy Lee Sparta, Destiny Sparta, Tabeta Cshae, and Ishawna.

The event will commence at 8 p.m. and patrons will be charged $1,000.

Curtis.campbell@gleanerjm.com

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Turkish 100-metre hurdles champ banned for doping

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Thursday, August 29, 2013

ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP) — Former European 100m hurdles champion Nevin Yanit was handed a two-year suspension by the Turkish Athletics Federation (TAF) after testing positive for banned substances, they announced yesterday.The 2010 and 2012 continental champion had already been suspended along with compatriot and 1500m Olympic champion Asli Cakir Alptekin, while 31 other Turkish athletes were suspended on the eve of the recent World Championships in Moscow.Nevin Yanit finished fifth at the 2012 Olympics and won the European 60m indoor title earlier this year at Gothenburg.“The IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations) had informed us that Nevin Yanit’s sample taken at the event in Dusseldorf on Feb. 8 tested positive for a banned substance,” read a Federation statement.“After her B sample also tested positive, the Disciplinary Board asked for Yanit’s defence and decided to ban the athlete for two years following deliberations,” continued the statement.She had already been banned from the upcoming Mediterranean Games by the TAF over continued suspicions about doping.Alptekin, who caused a huge surprise with her Olympic triumph faces a lifetime ban as she has already served a two-year suspension for doping in 2004 and the IAAF has confirmed she will be stripped of her title if found guilty.Her compatriot Gamze Balut finished second in the Olympic final with Maryam Yusuf Jamal of Bahrain coming home third and Russia’s Tatyana Tomashova fourth and now in a potential position to move up to bronze.A decision on Alptekin is pending.The Turkish capital of Istanbul is a candidate for the 2020 Summer Olympics along with Madrid and Tokyo, with the International Olympic Committee set to announce the host city on September 7 in Buenos Aires.

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9 Turkish athletes banned for anabolic steroid use

MONACO (AP) — Nine Turkish track and field athletes have been banned after testing positive for anabolic steroids, the latest doping scandal there during Istanbul’s campaign to win 2020 Olympics hosting rights.

The IAAF said yesterday all had received two-year bans and that six are women, including two teenagers.Six cases involved field athletes testing positive for stanozolol at Turkey’s national university championships held in May at Bursa. Stanozolol is the steroid used by Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.Among those six, three athletes also tested positive for oral turinabol, the steroid used in state-sponsored East German doping programmes in the 1970s and 1980s.The IAAF confirmed the disciplinary cases days after its president, Lamine Diack, suggested Turkish athletics officials “need to clean their house”.“They are bidding for the 2020 Olympics but every few days we have three or four athletes caught for doping,” Diack said in London. He is a member of the International Olympic Committee which on September 7 will choose Istanbul, Madrid or Tokyo as 2020 host.In June, eight Turkish athletes, including 2004 Olympic hammer silver medallist Esref Apak, were caught doping, and dozens more were reported to have tested positive before the Mediterranean Games hosted by Turkey.In May, the IAAF asked the Turkish federation to prosecute cases against Olympic 1,500-metre champion Asli Cakir Alptekin and two-time European 100-metre hurdles champion Nevin Yanit over alleged doping violations.Responding to Diack, the Turkish National Olympic Committee said the series of cases “is not evidence of more cheats”.“It is evidence that we are stepping up to fight this problem more aggressively and coming into line with top-tier sports nations,” the Turkish Olympic body said in a statement.In the latest verdicts, the IAAF said 17-year-old discus thrower Burcu Akmazoglu tested positive for both banned steroids in Bursa. She is suspended from competing through June 13, 2015.A second teenager, 18-year-old hammer thrower Elif Akbas, also tested positive for stanozolol at the student event.An IAAF list of sanctioned athletes shows that stanozolol and oral turinabol were both found in samples taken at Bursa from Kubra Danis, a 22-year-old shot putter, and Gokce Celenk, a 25-year-old discus thrower. Javelin throwers Sarik Bilgin, who is 25, and 21-year-old Gulsum Ozdemir Gunes also tested positive for stanozolol.The IAAF said the other cases involve two field athletes and one runner.Ali Ekber Kayas, a 26-year-old 400-metre runner who competed at the 2012 World Indoor Championships in Istanbul, gave a sample with oxandrolone at a national competition in May 2012. He is suspended through July 2, 2014.Shot-putter Nilgun Ozturk tested positive for methandienone at the same competition, and received the same ban as Kayas.The IAAF said 21-year-old javelin thrower Berkay Tolun tested positive for stanozolol during training in May. His ban expires on June 6, 2015.The Turkish Olympic body acknowledged that more doping cases could follow.“In the short term, the redoubling of (the Turkish anti-doping agency) testing and sanctioning procedures will mean more positive tests,” it said. “We want clean young Turkish athletes winning medals on home soil in 2020.”

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Mercedes sales still banned in France

Business

Friday, July 26, 2013

EARLIER this month, France banned the sale of many of Mercedes latest models, complaining that the car maker, whose parent is Daimler, used a polluting air-conditioning refrigerant that emits excessive greenhouse gases.Daimler has refused to stop using the air-conditioning refrigerant R134a prompting France to halt registrations of Mercedes A-class, B-class and SL cars built after June 12.However in a bout of fortune for Mercedes, a French court yesterday (Thursday) declared that the French environment ministry must now re-examine the government’s decision.R134a is a global warming agent more than 1400 times more potent than carbon dioxide. The French environment ministry has 10 days to decide whether to continue or abandon the ban on Mercedes models. If the French continue with the ban, it will affect two per cent of Mercedes global sales, equating to about 29,000 cars annually.Since January 1,2013, European Union official demand that car makers use a cleaner R1234yf refrigerant, which is less polluting than older products.But Daimler is sticking to R134a, an older coolant, as it claims studies have shown that the new gas catches fire more easily and puts cars at a greater risk of explosion in cases of a crash.In Germany, Daimler was given special permission to keep using the older gas. It is sticking to its guns, hoping that in the next few years, a safer version of the coolant will be available.Although the car giant points out France is the only country to ban Mercedes sales because of the objection to the continued use of R134a, nevertheless, last month the European Commission threatened sanctions against car makers using the refrigerant.A Daimler spokesman said: We welcome the positive decision of the French court, which clearly rejected the French registration authority (decision) to prevent the registration of our cars.”A car is being assembled in the manufacturing plant of Mercedes-Benz Manufacturing Hungary. (PHOTO: AP)

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I never wilfully took any banned substance, says Traves Smikle

Sport

PAUL A REID Observer WriterThursday, July 18, 2013 | 3:53 PM

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica — Traves Smikle, Jamaica’s National Record holder in the men’s discus throw has broken his silence on reports that he tested positive for a banned substance at the JAAA National Senior Trials in June.Smikle is among five Jamaican athletes who last weekend reportedly returned positive results for banned substances.In a statement issued minutes ago, Smikle who just returned to the island after competing in the World University games in Kazan, Russia last week, denied knowingly taking anything illegal.“I am willing and stand ready to work with JADCO and the relevant authorities in any investigation to get this matter dealt with in the best way possible. Personally, I am very saddened and surprised by these findings, as I have never attempted to cheat and have always considered myself an ambassador for the sport and a strong supporter of drug testing. For that reason, I have always willingly made myself available for the many drug tests conducted both at home and abroad,” the statement said in part.Smikle’s full statement:Kingston, Jamaica: I confirm that the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) has notified me that the urine sample given at the Jamaica National Trials has returned an adverse analytical finding. The sample was taken after competing in the Discus throw for men. As an athlete, I must take responsibility for whatever is found in my body; however I wish to state that I did not knowingly or wilfully ingest any banned substance. I have requested analysis of the B sample and await notification of the time and date for this to be done. I am willing and stand ready to work with JADCO and the relevant authorities in any investigation to get this matter dealt with in the best way possible. Personally, I am very saddened and surprised by these findings, as I have never attempted to cheat and have always considered myself an ambassador for the sport and a strong supporter of drug testing. For that reason, I have always willingly made myself available for the many drug tests conducted both at home and abroad.  I deeply regret this development and the hurt and embarrassment which it has caused to my country, family, coach, The UWI, friends and many supporters. I would like to thank everyone who has provided support in this very difficult time and will do everything possible to work with my management team and JADCO to clear my name and to justify the faith which Jamaica has consistently placed in me.

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PAUL A REID Observer WriterThursday, July 18, 2013 | 3:53 PM

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica — Traves Smikle, Jamaica’s National Record holder in the men’s discus throw has broken his silence on reports that he tested positive for a banned substance at the JAAA National Senior Trials in June.Smikle is among five Jamaican athletes who last weekend reportedly returned positive results for banned substances.In a statement issued minutes ago, Smikle who just returned to the island after competing in the World University games in Kazan, Russia last week, denied knowingly taking anything illegal.“I am willing and stand ready to work with JADCO and the relevant authorities in any investigation to get this matter dealt with in the best way possible. Personally, I am very saddened and surprised by these findings, as I have never attempted to cheat and have always considered myself an ambassador for the sport and a strong supporter of drug testing. For that reason, I have always willingly made myself available for the many drug tests conducted both at home and abroad,” the statement said in part.Smikle’s full statement:Kingston, Jamaica: I confirm that the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) has notified me that the urine sample given at the Jamaica National Trials has returned an adverse analytical finding. The sample was taken after competing in the Discus throw for men. As an athlete, I must take responsibility for whatever is found in my body; however I wish to state that I did not knowingly or wilfully ingest any banned substance. I have requested analysis of the B sample and await notification of the time and date for this to be done. I am willing and stand ready to work with JADCO and the relevant authorities in any investigation to get this matter dealt with in the best way possible. Personally, I am very saddened and surprised by these findings, as I have never attempted to cheat and have always considered myself an ambassador for the sport and a strong supporter of drug testing. For that reason, I have always willingly made myself available for the many drug tests conducted both at home and abroad.  I deeply regret this development and the hurt and embarrassment which it has caused to my country, family, coach, The UWI, friends and many supporters. I would like to thank everyone who has provided support in this very difficult time and will do everything possible to work with my management team and JADCO to clear my name and to justify the faith which Jamaica has consistently placed in me.Like our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/jamaicaobserverFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/JamaicaObserver

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