While the showground of rap battle is now spreading its wing in the international realm—Raw Barz Australia, Raw Barz UK and Raw Barz India …
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Raw Barz: Now on Paper
While the showground of rap battle is now spreading its wing in the international realm—Raw Barz Australia, Raw Barz UK and Raw Barz India …
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Raw Barz: Now on Paper
(CNN) — A former Thai Navy diver who had volunteered to help rescue 12 boys and their coach from a cave in northern Thailand has died, according to government officials . Former Sgt. Samarn Unan, an ex-SEAL, died at 2:00 a.m. Friday local time (2 p.m. Thursday ET) due to a lack of air while attempting to return to a command center deep underground, Deputy Governor Passakorn Boonyalak said. The command center is located two kilometers (1.2 miles) inside the cave, where the young soccer team and their coach have been trapped for almost two weeks. Unan, who was in his mid-30s, was returning from delivering oxygen tanks to the cavern where the boys when are he ran out of air while underwater. “Diving is always full of risks,” Navy SEAL chief Rear Adm. Aphakorn Yookongkaew said. “He may have passed out,” causing him to drown, “but we have to wait for the autopsy,” he added. A military aircraft will carry Unan’s body from Chiang Rai to Satthahip Navy Base this evening. International operation A huge operation is underway at the Tham Luang Nang Non cave complex, where dozens of Thai Navy SEALs and international experts are attempting to find a way to get the boys out. The members of the Wild Boar soccer team were reported missing on June 23 when they didn’t return from an outing after soccer practice. They entered the cave during fine weather but became trapped when a sudden downpour flooded the narrow tunnels. The 12 boys and their coach were found deep inside the cave by two British cave divers on Monday, perched on a rock slab above flood waters, after nine days without food or fresh water. Since then, rescuers have been examining ways to bring the boys out, including fitting them with full-face oxygen masks and accompanying them on a long, dangerous swim through the tunnels. However, the death of an experienced diver in the cave system underlines the inherent risks in attempting to move the boys, who are physically weak after days without food. It takes even the most experienced divers up to five hours to swim through jagged, narrow channels from where the boys are to safety outside. Speaking to CNN Wednesday, Cade Courtley, a former US Navy SEAL said bringing the children out through the flooded tunnels could be treacherous. He says that even divers with considerable expertise have been “climbing up, climbing through, going (through water with) zero visibility to finally get through the team. “Now you’re going to ask 11 to (16) year olds — some of whom can not swim — to make that same journey for the first time breathing air underwater? “I think that’s a terrible mistake given some of the options we have.” — Kocha Olarn and Euan McKirdy The-CNN-Wire ( & © 2018 Cable News Network, Inc., a Time Warner Company. All rights reserved.)
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(CNN) — A former Thai Navy diver who had volunteered to help rescue 12 boys and their coach from a cave in northern Thailand has died, according to government officials . Former Sgt. Samarn Unan, an ex-SEAL, died at 2:00 a.m. Friday local time (2 p.m. Thursday ET) due to a lack of air while attempting to return to a command center deep underground, Deputy Governor Passakorn Boonyalak said. The command center is located two kilometers (1.2 miles) inside the cave, where the young soccer team and their coach have been trapped for almost two weeks. Unan, who was in his mid-30s, was returning from delivering oxygen tanks to the cavern where the boys when are he ran out of air while underwater. “Diving is always full of risks,” Navy SEAL chief Rear Adm. Aphakorn Yookongkaew said. “He may have passed out,” causing him to drown, “but we have to wait for the autopsy,” he added. A military aircraft will carry Unan’s body from Chiang Rai to Satthahip Navy Base this evening. International operation A huge operation is underway at the Tham Luang Nang Non cave complex, where dozens of Thai Navy SEALs and international experts are attempting to find a way to get the boys out. The members of the Wild Boar soccer team were reported missing on June 23 when they didn’t return from an outing after soccer practice. They entered the cave during fine weather but became trapped when a sudden downpour flooded the narrow tunnels. The 12 boys and their coach were found deep inside the cave by two British cave divers on Monday, perched on a rock slab above flood waters, after nine days without food or fresh water. Since then, rescuers have been examining ways to bring the boys out, including fitting them with full-face oxygen masks and accompanying them on a long, dangerous swim through the tunnels. However, the death of an experienced diver in the cave system underlines the inherent risks in attempting to move the boys, who are physically weak after days without food. It takes even the most experienced divers up to five hours to swim through jagged, narrow channels from where the boys are to safety outside. Speaking to CNN Wednesday, Cade Courtley, a former US Navy SEAL said bringing the children out through the flooded tunnels could be treacherous. He says that even divers with considerable expertise have been “climbing up, climbing through, going (through water with) zero visibility to finally get through the team. “Now you’re going to ask 11 to (16) year olds — some of whom can not swim — to make that same journey for the first time breathing air underwater? “I think that’s a terrible mistake given some of the options we have.” — Kocha Olarn and Euan McKirdy The-CNN-Wire ( & © 2018 Cable News Network, Inc., a Time Warner Company. All rights reserved.)
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MINISTER of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia Grange has announced the establishment of the Jamaica Creative 100 programme with funding of $26 million.She informed that this is to help with the further development of creative people across Jamaica who have imprinted their unique brand in the global marketplace or have the potential to do so.
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$26 million to assist creative people
WHILE the view that young men who wipe windscreens at major intersections across Jamaica are jobless and desperate is widely held, that is not the case for one 20-year-old who “hustles” at Portia Simpson Miller Square (formerly Three Miles), St Andrew.
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Not your typical windscreen wiper
SHAMYRA Powell was moved to tears yesterday as she watched her five-year-old daughter Sue-Ann Harris collect her prizes at the school-leaving ceremony for Denham Town Infant School in west Kingston.
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Tears of joy
TICKET: With labels such as Cameo-Parkway and Philadelphia International based near your hometown of Chiltenham, Pa., is it a matter that R&B …
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Lorber ready to make an 'Impact' at Youngstown Jazz & Wine
NEW YORK, United States — A leading defence attorney in the Jamaican community here, Donald P Vernon, has warned against felony conviction, saying it can cause a loss of assets and seriously affect one’s immigration status, including the deportation of anyone convicted of felony offences.
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Defence attorney warns J’cans against felony convictions
Caribbean Community (Caricom) Secretary General Irwin LaRocque yesterday shot down any idea of trade in recreational marijuana regionally, citing international law that would “preclude” any move in that direction.
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No room yet for trade of recreational marijuana
Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo is on the cover of the “NBA 2K19” standard-edition video game, becoming the first international player to receive the honor.
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Giannis 1st int’l player to be on NBA2K cover
POINT, Hanover — Former Prime Minister P J Patterson has called for the implementation of a wholesome values and positive attitudes crusade, similar to the one he had launched in the early 1990s, aimed at addressing the ills of the society to include violence.
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PJ wants positive values, attitudes crusade again
Born in 1950, Billy Ocean is a Trinidadian-English recording artist who had to his credit a string of R&B international pop hits during the 1970s and …
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Billy Ocean at Royal Albert Hall, London
International singing sensation, R&B hitmaker and Tony and Grammy winner Heather Headley will join The Philly POPS BIG Band at the Kimmel …
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Heather Headley To Perform With The Philly POPS
The free concerts have seen top international acts play their soul, R&B , blues, funk and reggae beats on the PCT Performance Stage, attracted …
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Steely Dan, Eagles' tribute bands at Summer Sundays
Derry-based filmmaker Eileen Walsh and comic Rory McSwiggan will join a host of acclaimed international acts, including Fever Ray, Chronixx, Iron …
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Derry hip hop show creators join Fever Ray, Tommy Tiernan and Iron and Wine on Body&Soul line …