Yardies a home and a farrin, Part 24!

[JQ Smiley BOOM 3]

Spirit Airlines has roundtrip tickets on sale for $213.29 and that's including taxes. Call me crazy because I haven't booked it yet and the sale was suppose to end yesterday. It's still one sale today though. I really want a straight flight. What should I do????

cant do Spirit, and if your over 5'8" you cant either. legs cramped like a sardine

[phillyfashionista 8]

I'm chatting to my cousin in Haiti on IM and he insists on chatting creole LOL he knows I am so behind but he keeps it up LOL. He said he won't stop till I am fluent again I reply in English and he is like PUHLEASE!!!!

[dillon 6]

That's cute Philly...bet it will come back to you quickly.

[dillon 6]

Has anyone seen the show on BET with the Dad from Every body hates Chris? I saw it last night and it was really cracking me up...I am trying to figure out his family though. Looks like he has 3 younger kids but then some older ones too? I know he has been married to his wife for 20 years. That is awesome.

[IrieCat 2]

Weird news...

This guy Louis worked with back in St Lucia has been missing for a few days.

They found his head on the beach!! Ewww!

Creepy!

[dillon 6]

Weird news...

This guy Louis worked with back in St Lucia has been missing for a few days.

They found his head on the beach!! Ewww!

Creepy!

OMG that is CRAZY...you will have to give us the details when you get the full story.

[MRStee 19]

Weird news...

This guy Louis worked with back in St Lucia has been missing for a few days.

They found his head on the beach!! Ewww!

Creepy!

Omg is it ever...

[IrieCat 2]

So Louis is telling me...

The guy got into an altercation with someone and stabbed him. That guy told him he will "kill him". Then Carlton (dead guy) went missing 3 weeks ago, right after the threat, and his clothes and shoes etc washed up along with the head on the beach.

Louis has been trying to call Carlton's brother but his phone isnt on. I told him mine probably wouldnt be on either!!!

[BunzTheMagicSnail 2]

wow irie that is very creepy indeed

[*SunRay* 1]

So Louis is telling me...

The guy got into an altercation with someone and stabbed him. That guy told him he will "kill him". Then Carlton (dead guy) went missing 3 weeks ago, right after the threat, and his clothes and shoes etc washed up along with the head on the beach.

Louis has been trying to call Carlton's brother but his phone isnt on. I told him mine probably wouldnt be on either!!!

OMG, WTH is wrong with people? That's just awful. Sorry to hear that Irie. I guess he tried to dump his body and it didn't work.

[phillyfashionista 8]

I flew them once to JA and I can't remember if I had to recheck my bags coming home. Do you remember? The layover is only an hour and I'm worried that I might miss my flight. I think I do remember having to go through customs in Ft. Lauderdale and the line being extra long. Also, do you remember if we have to pay the baggage fee for each leg of the flight or only once going and coming. The customer service folks are foreign and I can't understand half of them.

Yep TAMH, We are finally going on vacation in the summer. I can't wait.

Philly those AC rates are NICE!

Ft. Lauderdale

Sun mi cyaa bodda driving all over God's creation to get to the airport cause when I land I wan to jump in my trunk and head out on 76 to home in 20 minutes!

Nope no WWE...college basketball was on and by the time WWE came on he was passed out cold. It didn't come on until like 11:00 that night.

Oh my house is not the full house. My kids are going to stay with another family who have 2 girls..they go to school with my kids and they are all really close. They are actually taking them to a hotel for a couple of nights so they can pretend they are on vacation! I will be alone...no kids...no hubby! Ahhhh what shall I do?

Dillon that sounds so fun! Ahhh so you will by yourself, so what will you do? Sounds like pamper me time!

[BunzTheMagicSnail 2]

Tivoli under satellite surveillance

Americans said to have audio, video recordings of Gov't officials in community

Sunday, March 14, 2010

TIVOLI Gardens, the tough West Kingston base of Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, is under satellite surveillance by United States authorities who are determined to have Coke extradited to answer drug- and gun-running charges in New York, the Sunday Observer has learnt.

According to a security expert with knowledge of the operation, the US has powerful audio and video evidence of activities involving Coke, as well as several Government officials, including members of the legislature, inside the Tivoli Gardens community centre.

With the use of Satellite Internet Telemetry System (SIMS) similar to that used to record wildlife activities, the US has captured the make, colour and licence plates of vehicles entering and exiting Tivoli Gardens at specific periods, as well as conversations, the expert said.

The SIMS, the expert said, is very simple to operate.

"Satellite service is available anywhere in the world for the system to operate. The data is transmitted from the Satellite Telemetry System based on programmed time intervals and/or alarms. It is transferred through satellite and Internet to a dedicated web page, and you can monitor and collect that data as long as you have web access," the expert said.

"It is very simple. Set your co-ordinates, hook up your sensors, point the antenna to the sky, and turn on your equipment," added the expert, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

"Wire-tapping communication is an insignificant part of the evidence against Coke," said the expert in reference to Prime Minister Bruce Golding's claim that the evidence supporting the extradition request violated the Interception of Communications Act which makes strict provisions for the manner in which intercepted communications may be obtained and disclosed.

Also captured, the expert said, was a gathering of some Government officials, along with individuals from the Tivoli Gardens community making and smoking what appeared to be marijuana spliffs at the centre, on different occasions.

"The United States is making sure that its case against Coke is airtight, and until he is extradited every Jamaican entering the US will be targeted. The US will not relent on this one," said the expert who met with the Sunday Observer on Friday night.

Relations between Kingston and Washington have deteriorated over the extradition request, with the US State Department accusing the Jamaican Government of delaying tactics.

Two Mondays ago, in a scathing Narcotics Control Strategy Report, the Americans questioned Jamaica's commitment to law enforcement co-operation and charged that "Jamaica's processing of the extradition request has been subjected to unprecedented delays, unexplained disclosure of law enforcement information to the press, and unfounded allegations questioning the US' compliance with the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty and Jamaican law".

The US also said that the Jamaican Government's handling of the extradition request marked a dramatic change in Kingston's previous co-operation on extradition, including a temporary suspension in the processing of all other pending requests.

The US also labelled Jamaica as the Caribbean's largest supplier of marijuana to the United States as well as a transshipment point for cocaine entering South America.

"The Government of Jamaica's ambitious anti-corruption and anti-crime legislative agendas announced in 2007 remain stalled in Parliament," said the report.

"Five anti-crime proposals under consideration as part of an extensive agenda to address the widespread crime challenges have yet to be debated by Parliament," added Washington, which noted that Jamaica is a party to the 1988 United Nations Drug Convention.

However, the following day, Golding rejected the US' charges and said that the evidence presented in the extradition request -- made in August last year -- breached Jamaican law.

"The Jamaican Government, rather than summarily refusing the request, discussed with the US authorities the breaches that had occurred which made it impossible for the minister (of justice), being aware of such breaches, to issue the authority to proceed," Golding said in an address to the Parliament.

"In an effort to overcome the impediment... the Jamaican Government indicated to the US authorities that if other evidence existed, the procurement and disclosure of which were not in violation of Jamaican law, the minister would be prepared to accept that evidence and issue the necessary authority to proceed. No such evidence has up to now been presented," he added.

On Friday, the security expert said that American border officials are turning up the heat on Jamaicans who have massive personal wealth but who have no supporting documentation to show how the wealth was gained.

A list viewed by the Sunday Observer includes some of Jamaica's well-known officials, as well as business people of both genders. They are described as having "massive personal wealth", which is said to have raised red flags at US borders.

The spotlight on these individuals has not come as a surprise to University of Miami Law Professor David Rowe, who remained consistent in his view that Coke is an albatross around the neck of the prime minister, the Jamaica Labour Party and the Government.

"There is no question that they are being targeted," Rowe said. "Where the individuals have amassed wealth in a short period of time and without any corresponding income to corroborate it is an automatic red flag to the US Justice Department."

Rowe as well as Sunday Observer sources in the US believe that embarrassing times are ahead for several Jamaican business officials at US borders, even if the Government hands over Coke.

Information reaching the Sunday Observer is that several Jamaicans who have amassed large personal wealth but who are unable to provide credible sources of income are currently in detention centres in the US.

Massive unexplained wealth is said to have been the reason behind an upstanding Jamaican businessman being detained in the US for several hours on a return trip to the island in early January.

It is also said to be the reason for the detention without bond -- at Krome Avenue Detention Centre in Florida -- of a Jamaican man of Chinese descent.

The man and another Jamaican/Chinese are said to have arrived in the US on March 2 on an Air Jamaica flight.

The man, whose Alien card number was supplied to the Sunday Observer, was said to have had his Green Card revoked. He did not respond to our request for an interview last Thursday.

Late last week, the influential Economist magazine reported that American authorities have become frustrated at what they see as foot-dragging by Jamaica's Government over the Coke extradition request.

The article, titled 'Seeking Mr Coke: American anger at Jamaica's slowness in handing over an alleged gang boss', said "if the United States' allegations of political links are well-founded, some Jamaican public figures may fear that Mr Coke's arrest would lead to the disclosure of embarrassing information".

[phillyfashionista 8]

Ray said I was crazy because I used the leftover chicken and made soup. LMAO He's just doesn't know does he. It was so good and who was eating some at 5am this morning? Yep, he sure was. lol

Tonight I'm going to hear it because I'm making beef enchiladas with spanish rice and black beans. He's going to say I'm making slush. LMAO I have a taste for it and I'm going to make it.

LMAO @ slush

Ok I need to know why this post has a reputation of -1 ???

[NatPatBen 3]

cant do Spirit, and if your over 5'8" you cant either. legs cramped like a sardine

I don't have that problem. lol

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For lunch, I had some cold pasta with cherry tomatoes & mozerella cheese in it. Got the idea to make it after having some at the organic store I love. Seasoned with olive oil, garlic powder, & several other spices. It was good! It's also the kind of meal Steven wouldn't like because 1) it's cold, 2) it has cheese, 3) it has tomatoes. I've been eating lots of cold meals while he's gone.

[*SunRay* 1]

Sun mi cyaa bodda driving all over God's creation to get to the airport cause when I land I wan to jump in my trunk and head out on 76 to home in 20 minutes!

I was talking about the hotel rates in AC.