Timberlee heaven biography of barack
•
Timber-Lee Heaven - Contributed
You have to be brave to hang around Miss Timber-Lee Heaven. You always have to be prepared for her to launch into an unexpected deed, not to mention be on the lookout for her sometimes brutal honesty.
'Timmy', as she is often called, is not unfamiliar with starting a conversation with a complete stranger, doing so as though she were picking up where she left off a few minutes earlier, and is always cracking a joke. It doesn't appear as if she's doing it to 'set you at ease'; instead, it's just who she is.
It's this daredevil personality, coupled with 'in your face' lyrics, that created a buzz on the dancehall scene some years ago, starting with Prada and Gucci, Boom Wine and, more recently, Bubble Like Soup.
Timber-Lee, 24, who grew up in Mandeville, says she fell in love with dancehall because of its fresh, fast-paced and often humorous lyrics.
"Like when people like Elephant Man used to sing
•
Lessons from Mum
She&#;s mother, mentor and muse&#;the first teacher who, throughout our lives, has taken up the mammoth task of moulding and shaping our identities. She&#;s responsible, too, for passing on those invaluable life lessons &#; necessary coping skills for life&#;s bumps.
For this reason SO celebrates mum, offering you a look back at mother in her youth, around the same age as daughter, and musing on all she represents. Happy Mother&#;s Day!
Angara Sinclair&#;s lessons from mum Annette Francis-Barnett:
Always be truthful.
Do well in school.
Be kind.
Annette Francis-Barnett&#;s lektion from late mum Gwendolyn Francis:
Reflecting on mum, this Mother&#;s Day, I would say, mum epitomised infinite patience and godly wisdom. She was a force! Yet not forceful. She was a determined, hardworking woman who was fiercely loyal to her family. Have inom learnt anything from my mother? inom am certainly still ansträngande to understand her journey and the older inom get and as inom pare
•
Trevor Heaven in a contemplative mood during our interview. - Ricardo Makyn/Staff Photographer
Fifty-five-year-old Lyden Trevor Heaven will today demit office as president of the Jamaica Gasolene Retailers' Association (JGRA), a post which has propelled him to national attention. Born in the district of Glenisle in Westmoreland - the child of a welder turned merchant, and a dressmaker - Heaven says he has travelled a long way, with more to accomplish, yet.
Born on November 6, , Trevor was the only child between father Percival and mother Lola who married separately and provided him with a collection of 10 siblings. But, he belonged to neither family and always felt, he said, the challenge to prove himself.
Pivotal in his upbringing were grandparents Eugene and Marion Heaven. Marion, he recalls, was a small-bodied, full Indian woman with an obsession with education. No wonder Trevor became one of the youngest, trained engineers of local extra