Pastor"s ex-wife beats woman at church

Chad Bryan, Staff Reporter

A church secretary who rejected Facebook friend requests from a woman believed to be a justice of the peace and the former wife of the pastor of the institution, had to seek medical attention after she was beaten by the woman.

The drama reportedly unfolded Monday afternoon in the church secretary’s office.

The accused woman had been sending friend requests to members of the church disguising herself as her estranged husband, in order to be accepted. However, members of the church who know that their pastor is not on the social-networking site are said to have kept rejecting the requests.

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The woman, who is said to be a troublemaker, sent the secretary at least four requests; two with the pastor’s pictures and the other two without.

The woman is said to have then sent the secretary a message via Facebook, which prompted the secretary to respond saying, “You are a fake”.

“The pastor’s former wife told the secretary some dirty words – Penny’s don’t sell those cloths. Nobody at the church deals with her,” a source close to the incident stated.

“She [secretary] was in the office and the woman grabbed her by the hair and slammed her face into a desk. She just started pounding her. She did not do her anything,” the source said, revealing what happened on the day of the incident.

She said that following the incident, the secretary’s hair was torn out and her clothing damaged. She reportedly also had to seek medical attention for swellings she sustained to her face.

The Denham Town Police have confirmed the incident.

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Father beats son on suspicion of being a homosexual

Bjorn Burke, Staff Reporter

An irate father accused of cruelly disciplining his son for what he claims were homosexual tendencies had his bail extended when he appeared before the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court on Thursday.

The accused, who was charged with cruelty to a child, said that he witnessed his seven-year-old son in the street playing with a number of other children.

It is alleged that the accused accosted his son, scolding him that he is always in the street ‘with man’. It is believed that Brown ushered his son away from the roadside to their home where he sought to discipline him by stripping him of his clothes, allegedly using a wire to whip him repeatedly.

The court heard that after enduring a whipping, the seven-year-old fled from the house running breathlessly to a nearby police station in the nude. Brown was subsequently arrested and charged.

However, Brown maintained that his son exhibited homosexual tendencies as he played with other children of similar age. As a result, he sought to discipline his child as he says other parents were not taking the necessary action to prevent a reoccurrence.

“They are feeling on each other’s penis and whining on each other and these parents are not doing anything about it,” said a seemingly distressed Brown.

“It is called experimentation. It’s a normal part of growing up where they play nurse and doctor,” remarked Senior Resident Magistrate Judith Pusey. “What you need to do is talk to your child and explain to him what is appropriate behaviour. Beating them is not the answer. Teaching them is the answer. Now the way in which you beat him, that is what you are charged for,”

Subsequently, the accused was ordered to return to court on September 9 for a mention hearing.

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Swiss bank UBS beats forecasts

BERLIN, Germany

A strong performance from the investment bank division and a sizeable tax gain helped Switzerland’s biggest bank, UBS AG, return to profit in the fourth quarter following a large loss a year earlier.

The bank said Tuesday it made a net profit of 917 million francs (US$1 billion) in the October-December period following last year’s equivalent loss of 1.9 billion francs when earnings were dragged down by litigation and restructuring costs.

As a result, the bank made a full-year profit of 3.17 billion francs compared with a loss of 2.48 billion francs in 2012.

The quarterly figures showed that the bank saw an increase in fee and commission income largely at its investment bank unit and reported a tax benefit of 470 million francs on deferred taxes.

The results were better than expected — the consensus in the markets was for a fourth-quarter net profit of 577 million francs and full-year earnings just short of 2.8 billion francs.

As a result, the bank bucked the broader stock market trend and UBS shares rose 3.6 per cent to 18.07 francs in Zurich trading.

Because of its strong performance, UBS hiked its annual dividend 67 per cent to 0.25 francs per share.

Overall, last year’s results may mark a turning point for a bank that in 2012 had to pay fines for allegedly manipulating, along with other banks, a key market interest rate known as LIBOR.

UBS and 17 other financial firms were also sued by the US government for selling some US$196 billion worth of mortgage-backed securities to housing financing agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

For last year’s fourth quarter, UBS reported 79 million francs in provisions for litigation and regulatory expenses — far below the 2.08 billion francs it set aside a year earlier. Full-year provisions declined to 1.7 billion francs from 2.55 billion francs in 2012.

Still, chief financial officer Tom Naratil cautioned in a conference call with reporters and analysts that UBS still expects charges related to regulatory issues and other claims “to remain at elevated levels through 2014″.

For this year, UBS said uncertainty over global growth, fragility in emerging markets and unresolved issues in Europe and the US “make improvements in prevailing market conditions unlikely”.

However, it said that “despite possible headwinds, we expect that our wealth management businesses will continue to attract net new money”.

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South Africa beats India, takes series 1-0

DURBAN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa won retiring allrounder Jacques Kallis’ last Test yesterday to take the series against India with a 10-wicket victory on the final day at Kingsmead.

South African openers Alviro Petersen and Graeme Smith comfortably chased down the victory target of 58 and the home team finished 59 without loss in its second innings soon after tea to claim the short two-game contest 1-0.Smith ended the game with a six and then a four and raised his arms to the dressing room where Kallis was sitting. Kallis was then carried across the field on the shoulders of teammates holding a South African flag for a lap of honour around the same ground where he made his debut as a 20-year-old prodigy in 1995.He surprised many by announcing on Christmas Day that he would retire following one last Test.After Kallis made an emotional farewell century on Sunday — the 45th of his career — as top-ranked South Africa powered toward its victory over number two India early on the final day when fast bowler Dale Steyn struck off the first ball of the day and the Proteas’ bowlers took eight Indian second-innings wickets for 155 in a session-and-a-half.Steyn and fellow fast bowler Vernon Philander finished with three wickets each and left-arm spinner Robin Peterson had 4-74 as South Africa romped to the win to mark the 38-year-old Kallis’ 166th and last Test.Kallis made more than 13,000 Test runs and also took 292 wickets in his 18-year career on South Africa’s Test team to go down as one of cricket’s greatest allrounders.Only Ajinkya Rahane resisted among India’s batsmen on the last day to make 96 before falling four short of a maiden Test century.SCOREBOARDIndia 1st Innings: 334South Africa 1st Innings: 500India 2nd Innings(Overnight: 68-2)Shikhar Dhawan c Du Plessis b Peterson 19Murali Vijay c Smith b Philander 6Cheteshwar Pujara b Steyn 32Virat Kohli c De Villiers b Steyn 11Rohit Sharma lbw b Philander 25Ajinkya Rahane b Philander 96Mahendra Singh Dhoni c Petersen b Peterson 15Ravindra Jadeja c Morkel b Peterson 8Zaheer Khan lbw b Peterson 3Ishant Sharma c De Villiers b Steyn 1Mohammed Shami not out 1Extras: (4b, 2w) 6TOTAL: (all out) 223Overs: 86.Fall of wickets: 1-8, 2-53, 3-68, 4-71, 5-104, 6-146, 7-154, 8-189, 9-206.Bowling: Dale Steyn 21-8-47-3 (1w), Vernon Philander 16-4-43-3, Morne Morkel 16-6-34-0, Robin Peterson 24-3-74-4 (1w), JP Duminy 8-2-20-0, Faf du Plessis 1-0-1-0.South Africa 2nd Innings (Target: 58)Alviro Petersen not out 31Graeme Smith not out 27Extras: (1w) 1TOTAL: (for 0 wickets) 59Overs: 11.4Did not bat: Hashim Amla, Jacques Kallis, AB de Villiers, JP Duminy, Faf du Plessis, Robin Peterson, Vernon Philander, Dale Steyn, Morne Morkel.Bowling: Mohammed Shami 2-1-4-0, Ishant Sharma 5-1-29-0 (1w), Ravindra Jadeja 4-0-16-0, Rohit Sharma 0.4-0-10-0.Umpires: Steve Davis, Australia, and Rod Tucker, Australia.TV Umpire: Adrian Holdstock, South Africa. Match Referee: Andy Pycroft, Zimbabwe.PHOTO: CRICKET THREECAPTION – India’s Rohit Sharma avoids a bouncer during the fifth day of the second and final cricket Test match between South Africa and India at the Sahara stadium Kingsmead, South Africa.PHOTO: CRICKET SIXCAPTION – South African all-rounder Jacques Kallis is carried by teammates after the completion yesterday of the Test match against India at the Kingsmeade ground in South Africa in which Kallis played his last Test match. (PHOTOS: AP)

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Murray wins Wimbledon, beats Djokovic in 3 sets

LONDON (AP) — From the lawns of Wimbledon to the lochs of Scotland, all of Britain can celebrate.

Andy Murray made it possible Sunday, winning his country’s hallowed tennis tournament to become the first British man in 77 years to raise the trophy at the All England Club.Yes, this was history, and Murray’s 6-4, 7-5, 6-4 victory over top-seeded Novak Djokovic was a fitting close to nearly eight decades of British frustration in its own backyard: A straight-setter, yes, but a hard-fought, 3-hour, 9-minute affair filled with long, punishing rallies and a final game that may have felt like another 77 years, with Murray squandering three match points before finally putting it away after four deuces.Certainly, the endgame must have felt like torture to the 15,000 watching on Centre Court, the thousands more watching on a big-screen TV on the grounds and, of course, the millions of British watching on TV.“Imagine playing it,” Murray said in his on-court interview.But he closed it out on this cloudless, 80-degree day on tennis’ most famous court. He put his name beside that of Fred Perry, the last British man to win Wimbledon, back in 1936.Those words don’t have to be written again.“He’s someone that I’ve obviously never met, but is quite relevant in my career really,” Murray said.The second-seeded Murray beat the best in Djokovic — top-ranked and a six-time Grand Slam tournament winner known for both a mental and physical fitness built to handle what he faced Sunday: A crowd full of overheated partisans rooting against him, to say nothing of Murray himself.“The atmosphere was incredible for him. For me, not so much, but this is what I expected,” Djokovic said.Since falling to Roger Federer in the final last year, Murray had shed some baggage by winning the Olympic gold medal on Centre Court, then following that with his first Grand Slam title at the US Open.The US Open win ended a 76-year drought for the British in the Grand Slams.This one? Even sweeter.“The pinnacle of tennis,” Murray called the Wimbledon win. “I worked so hard in that last game, the hardest few points I ever played in my life.”When he finally wrapped it up, he let his racket fall to the turf, took his hat off and pumped his fist toward the crowd. Later, he climbed to the guest box where his girlfriend, Kim Sears, and his coach, Ivan Lendl, were among those sweating this one out.Like our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/jamaicaobserverFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/JamaicaObserver

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