Patriece B. Miller Funeral Service, Inc. Licensed Funeral Director From Westmoreland, Jamaica WI • Shipping Local & Overseas ‘Community Lifestyle Newspaper’ 914-310-4294 Vol: 8 No. 13 WWW.STREETHYPENEWSPAPER.COM • FREE COPY JULY 1-18, 2013 Brooklyn Pirate Radio Busted By Kim Blair, Street Hype Reporter wo Brooklyn-based radio operators and owners were recently arrested and charged with allegedly running pirate radio stations. TKings County District Attorney, Charles J. Hynes said in a state - ment that the two men, Seon Bruce age 40 and Solomon Malka age 51, were charged with Unauthorized Radio Transmission, a class-A misdemeanor on June 27, 2013. The District Attorney’s If convicted, each face up to Office with the cooperation of a year in jail. the Federal Communications A person is charged with Commission's investigation Unauthorized Radio Transmi- found that Seon Bruce was act - ssion when he/she knowingly MISS DREAM CASTLE QUEEN: ing as a deejay for 104.7 FM. makes a radio transmission on a Jamaican model Tamara Frater Miss Dream Castle Queen During the investigation detec - radio frequency assigned and (seated) along with other contestants at the Royal tives bought air-time from Bruce licensed by the FCC for use by Regency Hotel, Yonkers on June 29. See page 13 to run a commercial on the AM and FM radio stations with - pirate radio station. out authorization or having first On April 18, 2013, a FCC obtained a license from the FCC. engineer tracked the radio's sig - With a radio broadcast nal to an antenna on the rooftop license in New York now costing of a 50-story building located at millions of dollars, several 30 Broad Street in downtown licensed station owners argued Manhattan and later seized the that the pirate radio stations transmitting equipments. were affecting their advertising Solomon Malka admitted that he revenue. was aware that his radio station As a result, New York has was not licensed. seen more FCC enforcement Authorities also seized against pirate operations than another transmitter belonging to any other state, with some 330 Solomon from the elevator room official actions including cita - on the roof of an apartment tions, fines and shutdowns building at 611-615 East 76th logged against pirate radio sta - Street in Brooklyn on June 14, tions since 2003. 2013. 2 • STREET HYPE • JULY 1-18, 2013 WWW.STREETHYPENEWSPAPER.COM WWW.STREETHYPENEWSPAPER.COM JULY 1-18, 2013 • STREET HYPE • 3 Editorial WANTED A justice system to protect African Americans e are shocked and outraged that It took several days of national and that RaMarley attacked them with a gun. George Zimmerman was found not international outcry and condemnation The department was forced to come clean Wguilty for the fatal shooting of Trayvon before Florida’s authority decided to after surveillance cameras captured the Martin on the night of February 26, 2012, charge Zimmerman for second-degree incident. in Sanford, Florida. murder and manslaughter in the death of A Bronx Supreme Court judge later Zimmerman, a 29-year-old Hispanic the teenager. threw out the indictment of Richard Haste, American, was on neighborhood watch for However, from the very beginning, we the officer who shot and killed RaMarley the gated community where Trayvon was were very critical of the judicial process as on a technicality. staying temporarily when he shot and allegations of racist motivation surfaced Although a retrial is expected in this killed the 17-year-old African American about the shooter and the conduct of the case, justice delayed is justice denied. high school student. police. In both cases it would appear that the According to Zimmerman, he shot The community at large want to trust American justice system has failed to Martin in self-defense after he was the American justice system, but it would address racial profiling and discriminatory attacked by the unarmed teenager. appear that the prosecutors did a very poor practices of people like Zimmerman and The Sanford Police Department job convincing the jury that Zimmerman is Haste. detained and questioned Zimmerman for among a growing list of murders who tar - We are joining the millions of approximately five hours after the shooting get young and innocent Black boys. Americans in condemning the “not guilty” and later released him stating they found The case of Bronx’s teenager verdict and call for the fixing of the justice [email protected] no evidence to contradict his claim of self- RaMarley Graham comes to mind. At first, system to protect innocent African defense. the New York Police Department claimed Americans. The opinions expressed in this newspaper, except for the above, do not necessarily reflect the views of Street Hype Newspaper and its publishers. Please send your comments and or suggestions to [email protected]. Responses should be no longer than 400 words. Not all articles will be published people are talking...! We need to reduce youth unemployment globally! ith the assistance of my friends and -Dr. Neva H. Alexander is an experienced edu - MAURICE MAITLAND colleagues, I have been working cator with international experience. She has Whard organizing the first annual youth held leadership positions within various organ - LAW FIRM employment and globalization conference Dr Neva izations. She received her doctorate in educa - tional leadership at Argosy University, a to be held on February 7th and 8th, 2014 in ‘We Get Results’ Speaks Master of Arts in Social Science from Long Miami Florida. Island University, and a Bachelor of Arts from Social Security I decided to do this conference to John Jay College of Criminal Justice where research ways of improving unemploy - she majored in Legal Studies. Disability • Immigration ment among young people. With the [email protected] 203-751-9070 • 347346-0749 efforts from academia and other corpora - [email protected] 305-504-9311• www.nevalliance.com tions, we can start helping our future lead - Is it that only African youths want to ers to become employable. be apart of this event? Although we can’t Recently, I read an article where solve an entire nation’s problem, we can do ‘The Safest & Best Way to Ship’ Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of our part by helping the youth to help them - Germany stated that youth unemployment selves. We need to reduce youth unem - (Jamaica & Other Caribbean Islands) is the biggest crisis facing Europe and ployment globally. urged other governments to do more to [email protected] copy the German system– concentrating www.nevalliance.com • Barrels on apprenticeships and not simply on aca - • Motor Vehicles demic study – to prevent the emergence of • Crates a "lost generation." • Appliances Ms. Merkel in addressing the press • Containers said, "Youth unemployment is perhaps the most pressing problem facing Europe at Publisher & Editor: • Household Good s the present time." and "We in Germany PATRICK MAITLAND have learned a lot from successfully reduc - Associate Editor: Fast and JINELLE CRAIG ing unemployment by means of structural Reliable reform since reunification and we can now Senior Contributing Editor: Door to Door- bring that experience to bear." GENEIVE BROWN METZGER all 14 parishes in Forbes magazine reported that youth Advertising Director: unemployment had reached 16.2 % in the NOLA BOOTHE Jamaica Weekly Sailing to United States, and 24% in Europe. Consulting Editors Looking at the Caribbean, the unemploy - GLORIA BENT Kingston and ment rate in Jamaica according to the local PAULETTE GRANT Montego Bay Gleaner is approximately 32-35%. As of ANGELLA GOLDING Open: 2009, the United Nations placed ANTHONY TURNER Sunday – Saturday Martinique’s youth unemployment rate at Business Address: 61.2%. 711 S Columbus Ave, Fl 1 An appeal was made for students to Mount Vernon, NY 10550 submit their research papers. To date, no Tel: 914-663-4972-3 • Fax: 914-663-4972 submissions have been received from any - [email protected] one living in the USA, or the Caribbean [email protected] QUALITY ONE INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING EXPRESS CORP . www.streethypenewspaper.com and the most confirmed attendees are from 3913 Dyre Avenue, Bronx (Last Stop #5 train) the continent of Africa as per our Facebook Published by: JAMVISTA INC. event page. Tel:718-231-1909 • Fax: 718-231-1815 4 • STREET HYPE • JULY 1-18, 2013 WWW.STREETHYPENEWSPAPER.COM NEWS Jamaica’s 51st Thanksgiving Service for Brooklyn By Aubrey Campbell he Lenox Road Baptist Church at 1356 Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn, will host Tthis year’s Thanksgiving worship service, commemorating Jamaica’s 51st Anniversary of Independence. Consul General of Jamaica to New York, Herman G. LaMont, made the announcement at a meeting with mem - bers of the media at the offices of the Consulate General in Manhattan, on Tuesday, July 9. LAMONT The Reverend Dr. Kirkpatrick Cohall, senior pastor at the church, will deliver the sermon, and according to CG LaMont, the invitation is being extended to all Jamaicans and friends of Jamaica to come and share in Bronx Councilmember Andy King (1st l) along with members of the Bronx Community Solutions recently launch what he says will be a most inspiring expe - “Operation Cleaner Streets” within the 12th District, which seeks to revitalize our neighborhoods streets and rience. walkways through community service. As part of this effort the Councilman and his staff joined today with rep- “This year, we are staying ‘home’ and resentatives from the organization in order to oversee the progress made by a group of low-level offenders sen- keeping things in the Diaspora. All the cel - tenced to community work. In the upcoming weeks King will be calling upon residents of the 12th including ebrants will be from the Diaspora, this business owners, community organizations, religious leaders and all others to pitch-in and help maintain this time and we invite everyone to come.” vision by contributing to the operation in whichever ways they can.