Jamaica’s female basketball team opened its Caribbean Championship campaign on a winning note, with an 86-26 rout of Guyana.
Shennieka Smith led the Jamaican charge with 16 points, while Jennifer George had a double-double 13 points and 14 rebounds. Loretta Gordon netted 12.
The team will next play St. Vincent & the Grenadines later on Wednesday.
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CURTIS CAMPBELL, STAR Writer
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Queen Latesha
Dancer/dancehall artiste Queen Latesha has counteracted the pro-oral sex single, ‘Throat’, performed by recording artiste Gage.
According to Queen Latesha, Throat is derogatory to females and she wants her counteraction called, Yu Mouth, to make male artistes understand how it feels when females have to contend with filthy content targeting their sex life.
The dancer also condemns females who endorse the songs in the dancehall by performing various taboo acts to get attention, such as sucking on liquor bottles to show their skills at performing oral sex.
It might be a case of using an ‘eye for an eye” technique. However, Queen Latesha says she was simply giving males a taste of their own medicine when she crafted the explicit lyrics “Open up yu, open up yu, open up yu mouth, bwoy”.
The STAR spoke with the former dancehall queen and she said: “The male artistes are not elevating females and telling them to take their kids to school. All they are saying is oral sex and walk like a dog. This Throat song has females sucking off bottles in the dance and that is not a good look as a real veteran female dancer. I have been in the business over 10 years and I feel a way. When the world sees videos of females sucking on bottles and call it dancing, it will stop us from getting work.”
The dancer says Europe and Japan look to the Jamaican dancehall for entertainment. However, a hugh injustice is done to the Jamaican entertainment industry with the lewd music and highly ‘sexualised’ performances.
“I go to Europe and Japan to teach dancing at workshops and nobody will book you for walking like a dog or sucking on a bottle in the dancehall. I am fed up with these songs which are degrading females, and I don’t want my music to travel in a direction of slackness, but I just wanted to flip the script to show Gage how it feels and how it sounds when he speaks to females in that manner,” Queen Latesha said.
She even chastised selectors for endorsing songs which blatantly objectifies females. Songs like Touch You by Alkaline, which encourages females to stimulate his rectum with their tongue, and Throat Queen Latesha believes should have no place in dancehall.
“Dem hurry come up selector and artiste yah need to do better. As for the females, none of these artistes that tell you to perform these acts will want to wife you, they don’t want a woman who does the disgusting things they tell you to do. Artistes need to do songs to empower women, some of them only sing songs because they have the opportunity to and have no substance,” she said.
Gage, when contacted, told The STAR that no female has ever told him that they felt offended by Throat. He said even Bob Marley has songs that people dislike implying that it comes with the territory.
“Mi wish har luck wid it and big up to the selector wey a guh play it,” he said.
curtis.campbell@gleanerjm.com
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A St James teacher who got into a fight with another last month, will stand trial in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate’s Court on September 23.
Shanel Clarke, from Montego Bay, had previously pleaded guilty with explanation to assault occasioning actual bodily harm against Samoya Lightbody, and both were ordered to attend mediation sessions. However, the case was set for trial after mediation was unsuccessful.
It is alleged that sometime last month, Clarke scratched Lightbody’s face and bit her, causing injuries. Yesterday, Lightbody told presiding magistrate Wilson Smith that she was not satisfied with the suggestions that Clarke had made regarding restitution, at the mediation sessions.
“I wanted her (Clarke) to pay $30,000, she said she could only pay $20,000, and she wants to take two years to pay me my doctor bill. I am not comfortable with that,” said Lightbody.
But Clarke disputed the claim, saying they had come to an agreement at mediation. It was subsequently revealed that the agreement entailed Clarke paying a monthly sum of $1000, which RM Smith promptly shot down.
“I agree with her (Lightbody), to pay $1000 a month is crazy,” said RM Smith. “The matter is set for trial on September 23. In the meantime, if you can find money to pay, then you can come to a different settlement.”
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CLEVELAND (AP) — A sex offender accused of killing two women more than 15 years ago and raping children pleaded guilty on Monday to hundreds of charges, crying when some of his surviving victims addressed him.
“I’m not a monster. I feel a lot of remorse,” Elias Acevedo said in the hushed courtroom as some of his child-rape victims, now adults, and relatives of the women watched, some wiping away tears. “I love you all, and God bless you.”Acevedo sobbed into a tissue as three rape victims clutched each other and addressed him in front of the judge: “You robbed me of my childhood,” one victim said. “You hurt so many people.”Acevedo, 49, agreed to plead guilty to 297 counts, including murdering the women and kidnapping and raping children. He accepted a life prison term under the plea deal.The two 20-years-to-life sentences for aggravated murder and sentences for other crimes total 445 years, the judge said.The murder charges involve a Cleveland neighbour, Pamela Pemberton, who was killed in 1994, and 18-year-old Christina Adkins, who was pregnant when she disappeared in 1995.Acevedo also was charged with rape and sexual assault involving attacks on minors, some dating back more than 25 years. He folded his cuffed handed together as Judge Michael Donnelly read the terms of the plea deal and explained it.Acevedo’s case is the latest among a group of high-profile cases involving violence against women in and around Cleveland.Authorities re-examined the disappearances of women in the city following the escape of three women held captive for a decade in the run-down home of Ariel Castro.The prosecutor’s office said Acevedo most recently lived about a block away from Castro, who kidnapped the three women when they were in their teens or early 20s, imprisoned them in his home and raped them repeatedly, fathering a child with one of them.The women escaped on May 6 while Castro was away from the home. Castro killed himself in prison on September 3, just weeks into a life prison sentence.At Monday’s sentencing, FBI agent Andrew Burke said investigators reopening missing-person cases in the area began to focus on Acevedo during the summer based on discrepancies in earlier law enforcement interviews, his sex crime conviction and tips.Acevedo, faced with the mounting evidence, admitted killing the women after authorities agreed to skip the death penalty if he detailed the crimes, Burke said. Acevedo described the killings and pinpointed the locations, all information consistent with details developed by investigators, Burke said.Like our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/jamaicaobserverFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/JamaicaObserverAcevedo pleaded guilty Monday, December 30, in Cleveland to killing two women more than 15 years ago. (Photo:AP)View the original article here
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11 August 2013 Last updated at 07:04 ET 
Michaella McCollum Connolly, 20, from Belfast, and Scot, Melissa Reid, 19, are each alleged to have been carrying almost 6kg of cocaine in their luggage.
They were stopped and searched at the capital Lima’s international airport on Tuesday.
They had been due to fly to Madrid, then onto Majorca, according to Peru’s National Police Force website.
A statement on the site said the cocaine had been hidden inside packages of food.
It had an estimated street value of about £1.5m (1.7m euros).
The two women were stopped as they tried to pass through the Air Europa counter at Jorge Chavez airport.
Ms Connolly had earlier been reported missing in Ibiza after failing to contact her family for several days.
The photography student had gone to the Ibizan town of San Antonio in June to look for work as a dancer or a nightclub hostess.
After hearing nothing from her for 12 days, her family appealed on Facebook and other social media websites for any information of her whereabouts.
The appeal was backed by several Irish sport stars. Her family said she would usually be in touch every couple of days.
Ms Connolly holds an Irish passport. Ms Reid, is from Lenzie near Glasgow.
The Irish Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed it is providing consular assistance to Ms Connolly’s family.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London said: “We are aware of the arrest of a British national in Peru this week and are providing consular assistance to the family.”
Peru is one the world’s top three cocaine producers, alongside Colombia and Bolivia.
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