September 22 - 28, 2012
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TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS
Entertainment
Topless Kate photos hit stands in more countries
Paris Hilton reportedly made the statements during a taxi ride.
Paris Hilton says gay men are “disgusting and…most probably have AIDS” PARIS Hilton is under fire for comments she made about gay men ... claiming, “Gay guys are the horniest people in the world ... they’re disgusting. Dude, most of them probably have AIDS.” The comments were made during a Sept. 7 cab ride in NYC -- and Hilton’s team claims the cab driver secretly recorded the audio while Paris was having a conversation with a gay friend. During the conversation, a man can be heard bringing up Grindr -a popular social web site that gay men sometimes use to find sexual partners. Hilton responds, “Ewwww ... gay guys are the horniest people in the world. Most of them probably have AIDS ... I would be so scared if I was a gay guy ... you’ll like die of AIDS.”
Hilton’s rep has released a statement ... saying, “Paris Hilton’s comments were to express that it is dangerous for anyone to have unprotected sex that could lead to a life threatening disease.” “The conversation became heated, after a close gay friend told her in a cab ride, a story about a gay man who has AIDS and is knowingly having unprotected sex. He also discussed a website that encourages random sex by gay men with strangers.” “As she was being shown the website her comments were in reference to those people promoting themselves on the site. The cab driver who recorded this, only provided a portion of the conversation.” “It was not her intent to make any derogatory comments about all gays.”
TOPLESS photos of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, hit newsstands in yet another country Thursday, as a magazine in Denmark became at least the fifth outlet to run the pictures causing headaches for Britain’s likely future queen. The Danish gossip magazine Se och Hoer ran the photos a day after its sister publication in Sweden did. They’re the same photos first seen last week in the French magazine Closer, then in an Italian magazine and an Irish newspaper, Se Og Hor Danish editor Kim Henningsen said. “It’s a set of unique photos from an A-class celebrity. We are a leading gossip magazine in Denmark, and it is my job to publish them,” Henningsen said. “If the British royal family want to sue us, then it will happen then and we’ll deal with it.” Closer was fined Tuesday for publishing the topless photographs, and ordered not to distribute the magazine in print or online. A French court ordered the magazine to hand over the original photos to the royal family within 24 hours of the ruling and to pay them 2,000 euros (about $2,600). The magazine must pay a further 10,000 euros a day if it is late in handing over the photos.
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge travel in a traditional canoe during a visit to Tuvanipupu Island in the Solomon Islands on Monday. Magazines are still printing her photos, but with a lot less clothes on.
The magazine declined to say whether it has complied with the order. A French prosecutor opened a preliminary criminal investigation into the incident Tuesday, separate from the royal family’s civil suit, the Nanterre prosecutor’s office said. The royal family filed a criminal complaint seeking invasion of privacy charges against Closer and possibly the photographer, a palace spokeswoman said. Se och Hoer’s editor in Sweden, Carina Loefkvist, would not discuss the identity of the photographer, but
she did say her magazine bought the images Friday.
Unpublished Claude McKay novel found
The 35-year-old Shakira and her 25-year-old boyfriend, football player Gerard Pique, are expecting their first child.
Shakira pregnant with first child SHAKIRA is pregnant! The 35-yearold singer posted the news, in both English and Spanish, on her website Wednesday. “As some of you may know, Gerard and I are very happy awaiting the arrival of our first baby! At the time we have decided to give priority to this unique moment in our lives and postpone all the promotional activities over the next few days,” Shakira wrote. The Colombian star also announced that she would be cancelling her appearance at the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas on September 21 and September 22, where she
was set to perform along with fellow Latin entertainers Enrique Iglesias and Pitbull. Pregnancy rumors first hit the blogosphere in June, when Fox News speculated that the singer and her boyfriend, 25-year-old FC Barcelona soccer star Gerard Piqué, had purchased a swank mansion in Barcelona because she was already expecting. In late July, the rumors seemed all but confirmed when the couple was spotted shopping for maternity clothing in Miami. The baby is the first for both Shakira and Piqué, who first began dating in April 2011.
THE INTERNATIONAL literary world is still coming to terms with the recent discovery of a previously unknown manuscript by Jamaicanborn writer and political activist Claude McKay. The New York Times reported Saturday that a Columbia graduate student and his adviser have authenticated the student’s discovery of the unknown manuscript of a 1941 novel by McKay who died in 1948. A leading Harlem Renaissance writer and author of the first novel by a black American to become a best-seller, McKay’s work includes the 1919 protest poem ‘If We Must Die’, (quoted by Winston Churchill) and Harlem Shadows, a 1922 poetry collection that some critics say ushered in the Harlem Renaissance. He also wrote the 1928 bestselling novel Home to Harlem. But his last published fiction during his lifetime was the 1933 novel Banana Bottom. The just-discovered manuscript, Amiable With Big Teeth: A Novel of the Love Affair Between the Communists and the Poor Black Sheep of Harlem, was discovered in a previously untouched university archive and offers an unusual window on the ideas and events (like Mussolini’s invasion of Ethiopia) that animated Harlem on the cusp of
Damian Marley, and a number of other Caribbean singers, has been nominated for the award.
Marley, among Caribbean names nominated for MOBO awards Claude McKay was the first black American author to write a best-seller.
World War II. The two scholars have received permission from the McKay estate to publish the novel, a satire set in 1936, with an introduction about how it was found and its provenance verified. “This is a major discovery,” said Henry Louis Gates Jr, the Harvard University scholar, who was one of three experts called upon to examine the novel and supporting research. “It dramatically expands the canon of novels written by Harlem Renaissance writers and, obviously, novels by Claude McKay.
DAMIAN Marley, Konshens, Mr. Vegas, Popcaan and Sean Paul have been nominated for a Music of Black Origin (MOBO) award in the Best Reggae Act category. The MOBO committee announced the nominees for this year’s award ceremony on Monday. The award was established in 1996 to recognise artists of any ethnicity or nationality performing ‘urban’ music, MOBO is the only black award show in Europe. This award has been won by Alberoise, Gyptian and Sean Paul to name a few and has witnessed performances from Usher, Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake, John Legend, and Kanye West.