Sports

Tiger Woods is now prowling the Big Apple.

Just days after finalizing his divorce, Woods moved into a downtown Manhattan apartment during the weekend, when he also was playing in a tournament just across the Hudson River in Paramus, NJ.

Woods was “introducing himself as the new neighbor,” a source told Us magazine, which didn’t name the building.

Woods’ divorce from Elin Nordegren was official last week, nine months after the golf great was exposed as a sleazy serial adulterer. She reportedly netted nearly $100 million of Woods’ estimated $500 million to $600 million in assets and cash.

The pair agreed to a "shared parenting" arrangement for their 3-year-old daughter, Sam, and 1-year-old son, Charlie.

As he prepared for the Jersey tournament last week Woods griped that it was difficult to concentrate on his swing while the media and his fans focused on his swinging lifestyle.

Current Affairs

In a rare interview, Fidel Castro gives new details about his health four years ago when emergency surgery forced him out of power, saying he didn't think he would make it and still has difficulty walking.

"I was at death's door," he told the director of the left-wing Mexican newspaper La Jornada in an article published Monday. "I didn't aspire to live, much less anything else."

"I asked myself many times if (doctors) were going to let me live in these conditions or let me die," he said.

The 84-year-old did not, however, provide any details about what illnesses he suffered from.

Cuban state TV read aloud a letter from Castro on July 31, 2006, announcing he was handing power to his younger brother Raul Castro. He disappeared from public view amid repeated rumors he had died.

He later started writing essays for state media and appeared in occasional photos.

Current Affairs

Hurricane Earl got stronger as it lumbered across the Atlantic on Monday, forecasters said.

Hurricane Earl strengthened Monday afternoon into a Category 4 storm, packing winds of 135 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Earl's eye was passing just north of the British Virgin Islands as of 3 p.m. Monday, the center said.

The storm is expected to turn northwest on Tuesday, it said.

Earl grew into a Category 3 hurricane Monday morning, the center said, so its strengthening has been rapid.

Hurricane warnings were in effect for St. Martin/St. Maarten, St. Barthelemy, Saba, St. Eustatius, the U.S. and British Virgin Islands, and the Puerto Rican islands of Vieques and Culebra.

Music

THE TRIAL of reggae superstar Buju Banton has again been pushed back, leaving the Jamaican to spend more time in an American jail before getting a chance to clear his name.

This has left the legal team of the reggae icon frustrated.

"The trial was pushed back to September 20 despite our objection," David Oscar Markus of Buju's legal team told The Sunday Gleaner.

"We are ready to go and Buju is looking forward to his day in court," Markus added.

United States District Judge James Moody Jr last Thursday granted a one-week delay in the start of the trial based on a request by attorneys representing one of Buju's co-defendants, James Mack.

Mack's lawyers had written to the judge seeking more time to prepare his defence.

Music

At the time, everyone in Pittsburgh's Stanley Theatre knew they were witnesses to history.

Bob Marley stood tall and proud onstage and beckoned them to Get Up, Stand Up, and they responded loudly with wo yo yo yo.

Later they discovered the history they witnessed was, in fact, Marley's last performance.

Live Forever encapsulates the pure energy of that fateful performance by Jamaica's most legendary son.

The original live recording, captured on tape by Marley's engineer Dennis Thompson, has been lovingly preserved and remastered for the 30th anniversary album release exclusively in the Caribbean.

Adding to the distinctiveness of the collection-worthy album is the special eco-friendly packaging.

Bob had ascended to the pinnacle of his career when he took to the stage in Pittsburgh; he had just completed a successful European Uprising tour and had played on sold-out bills in New York's Madison Square Garden. Simply put, he had arrived.

Current Affairs

While hundreds of nuns and volunteers attended a Mass in Calcutta on Thursday to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mother Teresa, New Yorkers prepared to protest outside the Empire State Building against the landmark skyscraper's decision not to honor the nun.

Rally organizers, who said they are preparing for several thousand demonstrators, will shut down 34th Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues, where the main entrance to the building is located, starting at 6 p.m.

Times Square businesses and billboards, meanwhile, will light signs in blue to honor the selfless nun. The USS Intrepid Museum and Brooklyn Borough Hall will also be lit in blue to honor the nun.

Current Affairs

Some women in west Kingston are now living in fear as word is being circulated that thugs who recently fled the community are planning to return, and take action against those persons who informed on them to the police.

THE STAR has learnt that some female residents in Tivoli Gardens, Denham Town and sections of Hannah Town have been labelled informers by men from the communities.

The men who vowed to challenge the security forces in defence of Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, had fled after the Labour Day invasion.

Following the pounding of the community by the security forces, subsequent operations led to the seizure of more than 100 illegal guns, thousands of assorted ammunition and also the arrest of several men. The police also released the identities of several persons believed to be linked to the lawlessness which once gripped the community.

These developments have led some residents, mostly men, to believe the police are acting on information being supplied by women.