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The number of talented Kiwi sporting kids heading to the United States on college scholarships is growing by the year, and Southland provides some glowing examples. Logan Savory reports.
Atipa Mabonga’s parents signed her up for almost any sport available as a kid.
It wasn’t so much about the sport itself, there were other reasons.
Close to 20 years ago the Mabonga family moved from Zimbabwe to New Zealand for a new life.
Atipa was four at the time.
"There is as much strategy and positioning in fashion as there is in other industries. The approach [though] might be different," explains jewellery designer Symone Currie in-between showing Style Observer (SO) her impressive jewellery collection. It's hardly a back-handed comment. But you'd excuse the scepticism...
WHEN the third season of CBS reality competition series Tough as Nails premieres on Wednesday at 7:00 pm local time, among its cast members is someone with Jamaican roots.
Kalimba Cobb Edwards, born in the United States to a Jamaican father, is among 12 competitors vying for a cash prize of US$200,000.
Married to a Jamaican, she is a fire captain with the Minneapolis Fire Department and the mother of two children.
Today, the Jamaica Observer's Entertainment Desk begins a 30-part feature titled Cover Me Good. It will look at songs covered by Jamaican artistes which became hits.
NO history of Jamaican popular music is complete without the inclusion of the 1964 smash hit My Boy Lollipop by Millie Small, and the impact it had in taking the music to international ears.
However, a lesser known fact is that the ska-flavoured song is a cover.
NIGHT Nurse, the 1982 album by the late singer Gregory Isaacs, has been certified silver in the United Kingdom by the British Phonographic Industry for sales exceeding 60,000 copies.
The announcement made was last Friday.
June Isaacs is Gregory's widow and founder/director of The Gregory Isaacs Foundation.
by RENWICK ROSE
ICELAND, THE volcanic- ridden island in the North Atlantic ocean, has just missed out on becoming the first country in Europe to have a female majority in its Parliament.
In recent elections held there last week, 30 of the 63 seats were won by women, making Iceland Europe’s leader in female parliamentary representation with a percentage of 47.6%, just ahead of Sweden’s 47%.
by RENWICK ROSE
ICELAND, THE volcanic- ridden island in the North Atlantic ocean, has just missed out on becoming the first country in Europe to have a female majority in its Parliament.
In recent elections held there last week, 30 of the 63 seats were won by women, making Iceland Europe’s leader in female parliamentary representation with a percentage of 47.6%, just ahead of Sweden’s 47%.
If Karl Marx’s quotation: “Religion is de Opium of de People,” is considered an axiom, den de same should hold if ah were to say dat: “Cricket is de Opium of de West Indies Nay-shun .” Mek no mistake Cricket is part ah we Psyche, we spirit, especially when de West Indies Cricket Team playing good cricket. Not necessarily winning, but as long as dey batting, bowling and fielding wid good cricketing cents, den win or lose we will be glued to ah radio or TV. Back in de olden days, is like men uses to eat, drink and dream cricket.
West Indies allrounder and T20 World Cup winner Hayley Matthews has signed for Welsh Fire, while Colin de Grandhomme will continue his stint at the Ageas Bowl after replacing Andre Russell on Southern Brave’s list of overseas players.
Matthews, who was Player of the Match when West Indies won the 2016 World T20 in Kolkata, was unveiled by Welsh Fire after it was confirmed that Suné Luus has returned a positive Covid-19 test and is not able to travel.
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