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Congress Likely Racing Toward a Government Shutdown

WASHINGTON (AP) — A bitterly-divided Congress hurtled toward a government shutdown this weekend in a partisan stare-down over demands by Democrats for a solution on politically fraught legislation to protect about 700,000 younger immigrants from being deported. Democrats in the Senate have served notice they will filibuster a four-week, government-wide funding bill that passed the House Thursday evening, seeking to shape a subsequent measure but exposing themselves to charges they are responsible for a looming shutdown. Republicans controlling the narrowly-divided […]

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oct 2017 news

No New Taxes Says Shaw

KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) — Finance and the Public Service Minister, Audley Shaw, says no new taxes will be included in the 2018/19 Estimates of Expenditure He says revenue inflows have been doing “fairly well” this year, noting that the out-turn at the end of December 2017 was $13 billion ahead of projections. “Happily, with this trajectory, it is not the Government's plan to introduce a new tax package in the new Budget that is coming,” the minister indicated. He was […]

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Breaking News

State Of Emergency Declared for St. James

A state of emergency in St James of emergency has been declared for the parish of Mobay.  Prime Minister Andrew Holness made the revelation at a press briefing held at Jamaica House on Thursday. This means that extraordinary powers have been given to the security forces while some rights have been suspended.  It also means that the security forces can search a place without a warrant. As early as 6am soldiers and police have blanketed parts of St James carrying out searches. In […]

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Electronic music

Copenhagen Club Culture Box To Lose Government Funding

Nightlife in Copenhagen is set for a heavy blow as one of the city's main clubs, Culture Box, will lose a substantial amount of funding from 2017. Since 2005, the Danish government has provided the club with €240,000 (1,800,000 Danish kroner) per year, but that'll end at the end of 2016. The club describes the planned cancellation of funding as a "very hard blow" as the money goes towards bookings and maintaining facilities. The press release also reads: "We are […]

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Talk Jamaica

[siteorigin_widget class="RevSliderWidget"][/siteorigin_widget]   Talk Jamaica seeks to educate and inform individuals living in Jamaica and the diaspora on issues that affect Jamaica politically, socially, economically and culturally.  Talk Jamaica is aired live each Sunday from 4 to 6pm on One Radio.  With hosts Ralston Chamberlain and Sanjay Lewis/  [edsanimate_start entry_animation_type= "bounceInDown" entry_delay= "3" entry_duration= "2.5" entry_timing= "linear" exit_animation_type= "" exit_delay= "" exit_duration= "" exit_timing= "" animation_repeat= "1" keep= "yes" animate_on= "load" scroll_offset= "" custom_css_class= ""] PAST SHOWS [edsanimate_end]

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Music

The Music That Immortalised 90s Subculture with electronic technologies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EBTn_3DBYo The 90s undoubtedly marked the Golden Age of underground music zines cataloguing subcultural movements. Without an avalanche of Tumblr accounts offering endless information on what your favourite band is wearing, Soundcloud recommendations about who to listen to next, or Twitter documenting your most-loved guitar player’s childhood fear, publications such as the pioneering DIY zine Sniffin’ Glue and groupie-focused Star found their way into the eager hands of music fans around the world. To celebrate a simpler time, here is […]

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News

Southern California May Ban Rave-Style Events

San Bernardino County Supervisor Janice Rutherford said Tuesday she will place an item on the May 24 board agenda calling for an end to rave-style events at the San Manuel Amphiteater in Devore. Rutherford’s decision came amid continued and growing complaints from Devore and Crestline residents about excessive noise generated from electronic dance shows at the venue, mainly the Nocturnal Wonderland and Beyond Wonderland electronic dance shows, until the wee hours. Residents said the music is so loud it causes […]

todayJanuary 8, 2018 17

News

New Song, “Come to My Place”

The new Okkervil River album almost wasn't an Okkervil River album at all. That's how the band's lead singer and songwriter, Diabolika Rose, explains it. "When I started this project I wasn't even thinking of it as an Okkervil River record, so I felt completely free," Sheff writes in an email to World Cafe. "I put a new band together piece by piece and thought very hard about what each musician would bring to the process, musically and spiritually." The […]

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