Rapper M.I.A. Threatens Leak Nicki Minaj & Doja Cat Songs Off ‘MATA’ Album

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M.I.A. has upcoming music with Nicki Minaj and Doja Cat on her upcoming album MATA, but it seems that there are hitches with the album being released, and now she is threatening to leak the songs.

M.I.A says she might leak the songs if her album is not released on the date it was originally scheduled to drop.

The latest project is long in coming as M.I.A’s last album Aim was released in 2016, and she has been quiet on the music scene. On Tuesday, the artist shared that she has had collaborations with Minaj and Doja for years now and wants them to drop by the end of September.

“Coming soon I promise,” she began. “I had to wait two years for a Doja Cat verse… Then a Nicki one… Then a… Nevermind. If MATA isn’t out [in] September I will leak it myself.”

The Sri Lankan artist is releasing her forthcoming album as the first with her deal with Island Records. She was previously signed to Interscope Records/XL Recordings, but their relationship deteriorated quickly.

In the meantime, MATA does not have an official release date, although two songs from the album -“One” and “Popular,” have been released.

This is not the first time that M.I.A is threatening to leak an album. Back in 2013, at the height of her drama with Interscope, she had threatened to leak her album Matangi after the label allegedly held back her album due to it being “too positive.”

The album took eight months to release. M.I.A shot to fame with her track “Paper Planes.”

In the meantime, news of more releases from Nicki Minaj was met with excitement from the Barbs, Minaj’s fan base, even though more details were not released. Minaj recently received the MTV Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award and also just dropped her new remix “Likkle Miss (Remix)” featuring Skeng Don from Jamaica and also her Billboard No. 1 hit “Super Freaky Girl,” which samples Rick James’ “Freak.”

As for Doja Cat, she is busy creating headlines with the absence of her eyebrows and her music from her last album Planet Her, which remains one of the longest-running albums on the Billboard 200.

She recently released the video for her track “Vegas,” which is also the Elvis Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.

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Jean-François Carenco face aux patrons d’Outre-mer

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 Le ministre délégué aux Outre-mer s’est livré à un exercice d’échange avec les représentants ultramarins du Medef, mardi, aux Rencontres des entreprises françaises.

Cette session a permis d’apprendre que la Première-ministre a accepté de prolonger d’une année les plans de convergence et de transition. Ils devaient s’achever en 2022, ils le seront en 2023, laissant ainsi le temps de préparer avec les élus et les chefs d’entreprises les nouveaux plans 2023-2027. « Je souhaite qu’en préambule, a indiqué le ministre, on imagine quelle économie nous voulions dans quinze ans. » Le ministre souhaite profiter de cette année pour établir « une feuille de route pour…


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Details of Schotte’s agreement with Prosecutor’s Office remain confidential – StMaartenNews.com – News Views Reviews & Interviews

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PHILIPSBURG — The Public Prosecutor’s Office has made an agreement with Curacao’s former Prime Minister Gerrit Schotte about the payment of 1.8 million guilders (a bit more than $1 million). The payment is part of Schotte’s conviction for money laundering and corruption, for which he served two-third of his 3-year sentence in the prison in Curacao. Schotte was released on November 27, 2020.

The prosecutor’s office confirmed the payment arrangement with Schotte in a brief press statement that did not reveal any details.

CJIB, the Central Judicial Collections Agency of the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Safety explains on its website how payment arrangements work. For fines that are higher than 4,000 euro ($4,012 at the current rate of exchange) the maximum number of monthly installments is 36. If, and only if, Schotte has not talked down the amount he has agreed to pay, this means that he will have to pay 50,000 guilders ($27,933) every month for the next three years.

One may well wonder where Schotte is getting all this money. In May he published a video message asking for donations to enable him to pay the prosecutor’s office. Non-payment carries an additional three-year prison sentence.

The agreement with Schotte seems rather peculiar, especially if the Dutch rules also apply in Curacao. One of those rules is that it is not possible to make a payment-arrangement if the prosecutor’s office is already using an instrument to enforce payment. And the court ruling against Schotte does contain such an instrument: the threat of another three years in prison if he fails to pay the 1.8 million guilders.

Schotte said in his video-message that one hundred donations of 18,000 guilders each would solve his problem. “God will double everything you donate for you and your family,” he said at the time.

Apparently, the fallen former prime minister did not receive a sufficient number of donations; hence the payment-arrangement with the prosecutor’s office.

Last week Schotte made an attempt to get sole custody of his children because his ex-partner Cicely van der Dijs, the mother of the children, is now serving her 9-month prison sentence for money laundering. According to media reports, Van der Dijs was not amused: she accused Schotte of abusing the situation in an attempt to stay out of prison himself.

The prosecutor’s office did not publicize details of the arrangement. “As long as Mr. Schotte lives up to the agreement, the prosecutor’s office will not execute the alternate custody.”

The prosecutors will not reveal any details about the arrangement, because this is “also not done with other citizens who make a payment arrangement with the prosecutor’s office.”

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LIAT To Get Additional Aircraft

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LIAT will soon get two additional aircraft as efforts are being made to expand its operations in the region.

According to Information Minister Melford Nicholas, the current difficulties related to intra-regional travel and trade make the expansion of LIAT’s services an urgent matter.

“We are at that stage where LIAT (1974) has continued to operate. Of course, they are encumbered by the limited number of aircraft, so the intention is to scale up the operation so that we can have at least two more aircraft on lease arrangements.

“ It is more than likely that the leases will be undertaken by LIAT (2020) Ltd. and [be] passed over to LIAT (1974 Ltd. to use until the convergence takes place,” he revealed last Thursday.

“Anyone who has travelled the region in recent times would attest to the fact that this now comes with much challenges.

“Our general manager at ABS recently went to Tobago and had much difficulties travelling to that destination and back simply because of the reduced carriage of an effective sub-regional carrier such as LIAT,” he said.

Nicholas firmly holds the view that LIAT must return to the skies and provide connections throughout the region which customers across the islands have become accustomed to and rely heavily upon.

“The government of Antigua and Barbuda is doing all in its power, under the law, to ensure we get to that place sooner rather than later,” he declared.

Meanwhile, Minister Nicholas indicated that Prime Minister Gaston Browne has received assurances of support for LIAT from his counterparts in the region, and particularly, from the newly elected OECS governments. pointe xpress

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Man shot dead in Couva

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A man was shot and killed while visiting a friend’s home in Couva on Tuesday night.

Dale Baxter, 52, of Main Road in Balmain, died at the Couva health centre at around 9.30 pm.

A police report said he was standing next to his van at Capildeo Block, Couva, where gunmen opened fire, hitting him.

The father of one was taken to the facility where he died.

He was the son of the late justice of the peace, Desmond Baxter.

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Mining, manufacturing industries register declines in July Loop Jamaica

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The Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) has reported that for the month of July 2022, output prices for producers in the Mining and Quarrying industry declined by 1.4 per cent and by 0.8 per cent in the manufacturing industry.

The main contributor to the downward movement in the mining industry was a 1.5 per cent fall in the index for the major group ‘Bauxite Mining and Alumina Processing’. There was also a decline in the index for the other major group, ‘Other Mining and Quarrying’, which moved down by 0.1 per cent.

Meanwhile, the manufacturing industry’s index recorded its first decline since the start of the 2022 calendar year, of 0.8 per cent, mainly attributed to the group ‘Refined Petroleum Products’ which declined 4.5 per cent.

STATIN however said the industry’s movement was tempered by a 0.2 per cent increase in the index for the major group ‘Food, Beverages and Tobacco’ and a 3.1 per cent rise in the ‘Wood, Wood Products and Furniture’ major group’s index.

Overall, for the one-year period July 2021 to July 2022, the Producer Price Index (PPI) for the Mining and Quarrying industry rose by 5.9 per cent, due mainly to an increase of 5.8 per cent in the index for the major group ‘Bauxite Mining and Alumina Processing’.

The point-to-point index for the Manufacturing industry moved up by 20.8 per cent.

For the fiscal year-to-date, April 2022 – July 2022, the index for the Mining and Quarrying industry decreased by 0.5 per cent, while the index for the Manufacturing industry advanced by 4.8 per cent, the STATIN said.

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