The Black Enterprise Magazine's Hot List 2007 is out. Notable mentions are Venus Williams, John Legend, Beyonce, Jay-Z, LeBron James, Shonda Rimes and Queen Latifah. Click here for the full list.

The Caribbean was well represented with three men who each dominate or play a significant role in their repective fields. Or else they wouldn't be on the list right?

Barrington Irving is a Jamaican Pilot based in Florida who went on a solo trip around the world.
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Lewis Hamilton is a UK -born Formula One racer.
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Wyclef Jean is a Hatian cultral Icon and music ambassador. He has done a great deal for his homeland through his Yele foundation.
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So go to their site or pick up a copy of the December issue of Black Enterprise magazine and check out the list for yourself.

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"Fossil skeletons of an unusual land-roaming Cuban crocodile, a tortoise and 25 species of birds including a raptor known as a caracara are among the ancient treasures recently discovered in a sinkhole in the Bahamas. "

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The new issue of essence mag with nia long, Gabrielle Ubion and Sanaa Latham on the cover, features the book 'Sugarcane-A Caribbean Rapunzel" by Patricia Storace (Jump at the Sun, $16.99 ages 6-10), tells the tale od "Sugar Cane a young beauty wh was kidnapped on her first birthday by Madame Fate-a soceress who wears a carnival mask. Trapped in a tower overlooking the sea,with her green monkey Calloo, the songstress Sugar Cane soon discovers that her love for King and a braided hair ladder will set her free."

Also mentioned is Basquiat (Taschen $9.99) A compilation on the woork of Jean-Michel Basquiat , "though he died tragically from a drug overdose in 1988when he was 27, Basquiat combined graffiti,popular culture and Hatian influences in work that still haunts.

Both books can be purchased at http://www.amazon.com/

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Damian marley is the main act for the Welcome to Jamrock” concert series on December21. The concert will be at Constant Spring Football Club where it was held last year. Jr Gong will also be accompanied on stage by guest artists

"Steve (Stephen Marley) will be a special guest, as well as Roots Underground and Etana.

For the first time there will be a foreign based act

Executive Producaer Cindy Breakspeare promises a show that "kicks up from the first note” Welcome to Jamrock is in its third year and is known for starting on time, tight production and great entertainment

the annual Digicel / Haynes-smith Caribbean Talented Teens Pagent is back. 2007 marks the 28th year of this prestigious event! Trinidad and Tobago repreentative Zobah Samuel will be giving up her crown to one of 12 contestants. Countries represented are Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cuba, Curaco, Grenada, Guyana, St. Kitts St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Trinidad and Tobago, and United States Virgin Islands.

http://www.caribbeantalentedteens.com/

Its carnival season again in St Kitts and one of the major events this year is
VIP Connected Bandorama and will feature some of the region’s top soca bands.

The island of St. Croix will be represented by the Xtaushun Band, Nevis’ Ultrasonics Band will also compete and the Burning Flames will definitely be repping Antigua

Nu Vybes ofSt. Kitts will be returning to defend their place as current champions

The bands will be judged on overall performance, creativity, crowd reaction and participation, best lead singer in a band and choerpgraphy/

The bands will also be given a song that they must play in any genre.

Of course local DJs will be spinning tracks at the events as well as performances by local acts

Xposure is the first major event from the people behind fusion movement ….On December 14th club Tobago in Jamaica NY. will be filled with persons looking to network and build business relationships with representatives from various facets in Caribbean entertainment. Look out for producers such as Catalyst Ent , Mastamind Sounds, djs, PR and marketing companies. Fuzion Movement, LLC. based in New York, is that company with a strong mission to UNITE, UPLIFT,EDUCATE AND EMPOWER the Caribbean Entertainment Industry.

Fuzion Movement is a full service Marketing, Talent, Entertainment and Networkingentity that was formed in 2007 out of individuals within various companies in theentertainment industry that share the same vision. A new company with new ideas, newvision and innovation. What is not new, is the EXPERIENCE. The team within Fuzioncollectively possess a lifetime of Corporate and Urban experience in Event Planning andProducing, Marketing/Promotion, Graphics Design and Branding, Music and VideoProduction. They "fuzed" together because they collectively believe that the industryneeds to improve in order to be recognized as a viable and respected industry on theinternational market. Instead of sitting back, watching and talking they decided to start acompany together to take action themselves. Fuzion passionately believes they willeffectively and positively influence the Caribbean entertainment business worldwidethrough Networking Events, Showcases, Workshops, Clinics, Marketing and TalentServices and other marketing strategies in their pipeline. Some of the services they offer are: Web/Email Marketing, Graphic Design/CreativeBranding, Print/Advertising/Distribution, Music Demo Development, Booking, Legal Consultations, Copyright Registration, Multi-Media Promotional Packages, PressReleases, Bios, Creative Writing and Distribution Services etc. They also offer service referrals to their pools of Photographers, Music & Video Producers, Recording Studios, Lawyers, DJ's, Image Consultants and more Worldwide!ting executives

Join the Fuzion Family at: http://www.myspace.com/fuzionmovement

Actress Tonya Lee Williams, of 'Young & The Restless' fame, is set to join four other dynamic female filmmakers for the 2nd Annual Soualiga Film Festival on St. Maarten this December. The festival runs December 10 to 16 at the Philipsburg Cultural Center and other locations around the Dutch side capital and will include filmmaking and music video production workshops.
Forum on the Image of Women in the Media will be Lee Williams With a career spanning 30 years, Williams is best known for her starring role as "Dr. Olivia Winters" on the popular daytime drama The Young and the Restless. ,not only is she an actress she is a producer, director, writer and activist Last year 30 films were showcased in three days and three venues around the citysome favorites are returning this year and new films such as Frances-Anne Solomon's A Winter Tale." Will be featureedOther female filmmakers scheduled to attend are Mitzi Allen of Hama Films, Antigua and Mathurine Emmanuel of Iyanola Productions, St. Lucia.

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It's the end of the year and the stylish must be recognized for bringing the daring, bringing the heat, bringing the sexy , the sexy back or whatever it is that causes us to iconize them and their incredible sense of fashion (or some unknown stylist anyway)

Rihanna was lauded for best mini with her Gucci outfit worn to the Nickelodeon kids choice awards in L.A other categories were best new screen goddess (kate winslet) and best red carpet return (jodie foster) best new Hollywood glamour (jennifer hudson ) best style 2007 winner is jennifer anniston

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Instyle magazine top ten stylemakers for 2007
natalie portman
drew barrymore
cam,eron diaz
Penelope cruz
Jennifer lopez
Anne Hathaway
Cate blanchet
Sienner miller
Helen mirren
Joy Bryant


Gift guide
Babette de Rozieres “Creole” Recipies from the culinary heritage of the Caribbean lbending asian African Indian and europena flavors
$40.00 at amazon.com

naparima girls cookbook

Toronto-based WE magazine is here you guys! And boy do I love their covers so far. Ever artist that has been on the cover just looks so relaxed and approachable, and soo much fan…Of Course Machel was on the first issue oh himm and dem stunner shades…and can we say the camera loves Alison Hinds?
Well keep checking them out online and support their hard work by becoming as subscriber.

Miss Trinidad and Tobago Valene Maharaj was fourth overall in the Miss World 2007 competition held at the Beauty Crown Theatre in Sanya Hainan Province China.

The peoples Republic of China won the title of miss world 2007. First Runner-up was Angola followed by Mexico and Trinidad with Sweden rounding up the top five.

This year therei were 106 contestants in the pageant. Other Caribbean islands represented
Were Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Curaco, Dominican Republic, Guadeloupe, Guyana,Martinique, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Aruba, Belize, Grenada, and Jamaica.

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Congrats to the Chancellor of Comess University Queen Macoomeh who has published her first book. Tales from Icebox Land.
The Tirinidadian Bornb Toronto resident started writing articles in August 2001 for the local Share newspaper. Her book is a compilation of 37 of her best articles and some stories thrown in between. If you are worred about dialect doh fret..she has a glossary in the back of the book-- so go out and buy her book at amazonwww.amazon.com, barnesandnoble, adifferentbooklist and visit her website where your book can be personally autographed by her!

So the paternity results are out….Marco Dean, Beenie Mans son with D’Angel is definitely his.
Beenie Man was the one who requested the test while in court in Septemer. As he did not want to pay for a child that wasn’t his.

The two are still in court over child support which the mother has requested from Beenie Man.

On the heels of two impressive wins in recent international friendlies, Jamaica’s Reggae Boyz have waltzed back in to the top 100 in the latest FIFA World rankings released Friday.
In the latest FIFA World Rankings, Jamaicas’ Reggae Boys have regained a position in the top 100 going form 103 to 98 team in the world. Antigua also moved up the list by 11 spots from and st kitss have moved up three spots


St Vincent and the Grenadines remain the highest ranked English-speaking Caribbean team at 77th but have dropped four places.

The embattled Trinidad & Tobago’s Soca Warriors are ranked behind SVG at 83rd but have lost five places while Guyana also dropped one spot to 93rd.

Barbados have plummeted 31 places from 93 to 124th but Antigua and Barbuda experienced movement in the right direction, moving up 11 spots following their 3-0 win over St Kitts and Nevis last week.

Jamaica have also moved up two places in the CONCACAF rankings and are now 12th, behind the top-ranked Mexico who have retained their overall world ranking of 15th.

Dutch St. Maarten will buy water from French St. Martin to ease a drought that has dried up taps in the Dutch territory.
The water utility company has announced that it is buying one thousand cubic meters daily until a new water treatment plant opens in late December.St. Martin is shared by France and the Netherlands

The Jamaica government says it hopes to restructure Air Jamaica to prepare it for divestment by the first quarter of 2009.

A minister in the Ministry of Finance, Don Wehby, called the decision politically difficult but said the government could no longer afford to prop up the ailing state-owned carrier.

Last Thursday a 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck off the French islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe and was the most powerful recorded in the region in over 30 years.

In Martinique one person died from a heart attack and six others were
Tremors were felt in throughout the region and there were also reports of shocks as far south as Guyana and north to Puerto Rico.
The earthquake damaged buildings and caused widespread panic across the Eastern Caribbean.
Experts from the Caribbean Seismic Centre at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad are calling for governments to set up earthquake safety training procedures for the region.

Here is a controversial woman. D’Angel the estranged wife of Beenie man is owner of Mafia House and has evened renamed it Angel’s Productions. The company is responsible solely for booking her.

Recently, D'Angel and her estranged husband Beenie Man made a public spectacle when Beenie went to the then Mafia House premises and tried to remove furniture and other office equipment. The police were, however, quick on the scene and it was then that Beenie Man learnt that an injunction had been taken out against him.

Although beanie man claims she stole the company from him D'Angel maintains that "It was leased in my name, it's not like the place was bought and paid for, I am solely responsible for it."

Right now D’Angel is working on an album so far she has come up with three names ‘Blessedd Child', 'Journey of an Angel' or 'Free Girl'.

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Barbados native Magnet Man’s official unicef “Schools for Africa” Campaign song “Make a Difference” was officially launched last week at a gala in Germany.
The event at the Park Hotel in Bremen was attended by VIPS in cluding German President of UNICEF Heide Simonis, and raised an astonishing 184,000 Euros for UNICEF. After performing his winning son g he also sang songs from his current album album "Magnet Man-Many Sides Of Me", now fully released in UK and Germany, but not yet released back home in the Caribbean!Magnet Man will be flying to Gambia, Africa in late January 2008 to sing and be filmed for a promotional DVD to help raise funds and awareness for UNICEF's "Schools For Africa"

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Congrats go out to Karina Phillip who is the winner of the ZIZ Kittitian Superstar Competition. She won her title last thursday at Carnival Village. First runner up were Chaie Miller and Curdel and Yannick

Philips prizes include two airline tickets from American Airlines. a laptop, cell phone, free internet and other prizes from Cable & Wireless. And she will be a featured guest on the Sugar Bowl show on ZIZ television this Wednesday.

All finalists also received a cash prize.