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Vol: 8 No. 15
Lifestyle
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Brooklyn's Carnival 2013
AUGUST 1-31, 2013
US Marijuan Production on The Increase
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ll systems go for Brooklyn's Carnival 2013 scheduled for August 27-September 2. Scores of personalities assembled on Monday at Brooklyn's Borough President Gallery to participate in the launch of New York's Caribbean Carnival 2013. Several personalities and spectators assembled at the Brooklyn Borough Hall amid dozens of costumed masqueraders to participate in the launching of the 46th annual 5-day cultural festival of the West Indian Day American Carnival Committee (WIADCA). The annual carnival was founded by mainly Trinidadian immigrants living in Harlem in the early 1930's. The festival, a four day event, starts on Tuesday, August 27 ending on Saturday, September 2, Labor Day, has become the largest cultural festival in the country, drawing over three million people each year to Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn. Five nights of calypso and soca are planned and will include more than 35 artists from across the Caribbean including Calypso Rose, Lord Funny, King Wellington, Dominica's De Rose, St. Vincent's Becket, Grenada's Fatman George and Jamaica's Dance Master. The schedule includes: •Tuesday, August 27, 8pm, "Ladies & VIP Nite" •Wednesday, August 28, 8pm, "Vincy and Nurses Nite •Thursday, August 29, 9pm, "White Jeans Soca Vs Dancehall" •Friday, August 30, 8pm, "Icons of Calypso & Trinidad & Tobago and Jamaica Independence Toast" •Saturday, August 31, 9pm, "Wall to Wall Calypso and Soca" celebrating Trinidad & Tobago Independence. This year the traditional Calypso "Tent" or mini-concerts is held at the Tropical Paradise Ballroom on August 27 thru August 31 and is sponsored by EVERYBODY'S Magazine.
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Jamaica May Lose Pot Capital Status To US
News Americas, New York: amaica may be blamed for marijuana or pot (Ganja) trafficking to America, but drug enforcement agents have their hands full trying to stamp out growth of the drug in the United States. While the U.S. State Department report on narcotics for this year shows there are an estimated 15,000 hectares of marijuana growing in Jamaica and some 67 metric tons of mar-
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ijuana was seized in 2012 alone, the American domestic marijuana growers have harvested a minimum of 2,500 metric tons of saleable marijuana in recent years, worth over $25 billion on the retail market. Continued on page 4
Greenhouse grown Marijuana