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I'm Still Here, Baby!

by William Murphy

A woman who was savagely bludgeoned with a hammer in 1996 pointed her finger in court yesterday at the man she said beat her and left her for dead - next to the lifeless body of her best friend.

"He had a bald head then," Marsha Davis said in hushed tones as she looked at the defendant, 33-year-old Fitzroy Morris, "but I can never, never, never forget those eyes and that face."

Davis cried nervously as she described how Morris beat her repeatedly with the hammer in a bodega in Jamaica on December 27, 1996.

"He looked me in the eye and said, 'You're not going anywhere. I'm going to kill the both of you,'" Davis said in State Supreme Court in Long Island City.

She said that at one point, Morris yelled at her, 'Why don't you die you b--?'

As her direct testimony drew to a close, Davis became defiant. Turning to the defense table, Davis said, "I'm still here, baby!"

That prompted a member of the audience to curse, apparently at Morris, and court officers ordered the person out of the room.

Justice Timothy Flaherty retired to a back room to consult with prosecutor Debra Pomodore and defense attorney Joseph DiBlasi.

Morris appeared to be glaring at Davis during the process, with the jury still in the room, and a court officer moved her to the court stenographer's cubicle, and sat her in a chair facing the wall, away from the audience and the defendant.

Flaherty came back and told the jury to disregard Davis' remark that she made directly to Morris, and he said any member of the audience who made a comment would be removed from the courtroom.

Additional court officers were then stationed around the audience section where friends and family of Davis and the dead woman, Rushiandra Cooper, an aspiring rap artist, were sitting.

Davis, 25, a Forest Hills resident at the time of the crime, had testified earlier that she and Cooper, 23, met Morris, 33, at the Q Club in Jamaica in the early morning hours and found him to be "nice."

They gave him a ride back to the bodega, or mini-mart, he operated in the neighborhood and went inside to play video games, Davis said.

Morris had been living in a room at the mini-mart, where he worked as a cleaner and stock clerk instead of paying rent. Deputy Chief Lawrence Loesch said Detective James Barrow discovered Morris had been a card dealer in his native Antigua and frequented Atlantic City casinos.

But on that night, after three young customers who were also playing video games left, Davis said she heard a click that sounded like a lock turning. "I felt sick. Every hair on my body stood up at that point," Davis testified.

She said she tried to punch Morris to escape, but she could not bunch her fingers into a fist because she had long fingernails.

Morris then hit her with a hammer she said. "I was fully dressed when that happened...when I woke up again, I wasn't dressed."

"The first thing I saw was him...smiling...jeering at us," she said. She said she clutched the hand of Cooper, who was lying nearby, also naked, except for a bra pulled up over her head.

Morris was telling the women, "Touch each others' breasts," she testified, adding that he continued to smile.

"The next thing I felt was a blow, and I was unconscious again," she said. She added that after she awoke she stumbled around [...] and seeing a flashlight shining in the store window, she feared Morris was coming.

But it was one of the youths who had been playing the video game, and she went outside. Someone called police, and she was put in the back of a squad car to the hospital. It was not until days later that she learned her friend was dead. Police had found the shattered body of Cooper, one of the members of their rap group, High Rollerz, who had been hit with at least 19 hammer blows.

Before this, Cooper was about to graduate from Brooklyn College with top grades and a degree in psychology, according to her sister, Tonya Cooper-Champion. Cooper's nickname was Mello, for her mellow demeanor and Davis was called Bino, for her light complexion. The third member of the group High Rollerz was Makeeba Guilford, who was also called Suki. The group had recorded a demo tape a few months earlier with songs like "Brooklyn (In the House)."

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Anonymous asked: I really enjoy your erudite and literary posts about James Bond in your blog very much. Your most recent post about Connery as best cinematic Bond and Dalton as the best literary Bond was brilliant. Although the PC brigade have been inching towards making Bond a woman or even non-white, Ian Fleming’s legacy of a suave but cold hearted English gentleman spy hasn’t been completely trashed. As someone familiar with Fleming literary lore can you also tell me where was James Bond educated? Was it Oxford or Cambridge? I was having a discussion over Zoom with friends and the Oxonians like myself thought it was Oxford because in Casino Royale with Daniel Craig it’s made very plain it was Oxford. Your thoughts?

I appreciate your kind words about my posts on James Bond and his creator Ian Fleming. It’s very hard to ignore the cinematic James Bond because he is very much an icon of our modern culture that needs no translation to transcend across cultures. Alongside Sherlock Holmes, another British literary and cinematic export, the name alone speak for itself.

James Bond appeals to both genders very well.

For the men, Bond dresses well and lives in a care free way. He is both ferociously intelligent and resourceful to get out of any tight corner. He drives incredible cars (from the incredibly stylish Aston Martin DB5 to the incredibly awful AMC Hornet) and uses awesome technology (he is the archetypal boy with toys). He's not afraid to get down in the dirt to fight or engage in lethal gun-play and spectacular car chases. He sleeps with beautiful women, regardless how strong and independent they are (or even lesbian if we’re being honest about Pussy Galore).

For us ladies, while he's not averse to action, he's also a cultured gentleman with suave and sophisticated manners. He's also a generally pretty good looking guy. In many ways, he's a conventional male ideal. So while his conventional good looks and manners aren't for everyone, they hit right the sweet spot of what women like. For everyone, he's a spy! Not at a grey real world nondescript spy, but a cool spy fighting larger than life bad guys whose bland sartorial choices scream mad super villain. It's a very black and white world that James Bond lives in. These bad guys truly are villainous in the desire to re-order humanity, and we need a debonair British MI6 agent to save us from these mad men who want to harm us by laying waste to a bonkers Armageddon.

When all is said and done I think that what makes James Bond so iconic across gender and generations is what Raymond Chandler wrote back in 1959, “every man wants to be James Bond and every woman wants to be with him”.

That sounds about right. Men want to be him, women want to be with him.

I know my first introduction to James Bond was through my grandfather on my  Anglo-Scots father’s side who was a dashing gentleman in his day with a long rumoured hush hush work for Her Majesty’s government firmly shoved under the carpet to avoid further discussion that he - being self-effacing and humble - would find embarrassing that would paint him in any heroic light. Years later he had bought his Bahamas beach pile in Harbour Island out in the Caribbean for the family to rest up from cold winters in Britain. Amongst his immense stack of books dotted around the place were (and still are) first editions of Flemings novels which a few were signed by the author as he on occasion met Ian Fleming when he would sail over to Jamaica (they were also OEs which helped). We were not allowed to touch these but instead picked up the dog earred paperbacks that still retained their 60s musty smell.

On my teen sojourns there I would spend time along with my siblings just reading anything we could find to take to the beach or lounge around in a hammock or a chaise longue. That’s how I came to read the Fleming books - really out of necessity to avoid boredom on a beach (which isn’t really my thing as I prefer the rugged outdoors). But I was pleasantly surprised how well written the books were and I actually enjoyed the stories; it was a refreshing change from the more heavy literary tomes I was trying hard to wade through. As for the Bond films, I watched them on film nights at boarding school; I remember having a school girl crush on Connery, Dalton, and Brosnan.

There are many reasons for the successful longevity of James Bond in popular culture and literature but perhaps one of the most pertinent to our discussion is that James Bond is actually a blank slate and therefore malleable as a character and so he can capture the current zeitgeist in time.

This ability of the film to adapt to different generations while remaining relevant is an important factor for its longevity. For example, the early James Bond films were unashamedly sexist with characters using women as objects and discarding them. In the most recent James Bond films, certainly starting with Timothy Dalton, there is a subtle change in attitude with a few chauvinist attitudes.

James Bond today is more serious, seduces fewer women, and is more respectful towards women in his life, including his boss. This shows how the film changes concerning the rise of feminism in the West. For example, Miss Moneypenny used to be a minor character in the very first James Bond films. Today, she is more formidable and doesn’t tolerate sexist remarks.

Perhaps it is precisely because of this blank slate malleability that has allowed different actors that have been cast to play James Bond their own way - rather than get a straight like for like Scottish sounding actor to replacing Connery for example the film producers went across to Moore via Lazenby for example  - and letting each actor imbue the super spy with different moods. They each added their own colour from the same broad palate to create different tones. However, each of these characters maintained the essential character that defines James Bond. The actors have broadly stayed true to the inherent mix of character and class associated with James Bond.

For this reason I have some empathy towards your concern that Bond would be held hostage to the current zeitgeist of white washing or genderising everything so as to avoid being a victim of cancel culture. But it’s only empathy because I feel there is a danger of misunderstanding just who James Bond is and what he represents.

What do I mean by this?

I mentioned James Bond is a malleable character to the point he’s presented as a blank slate. This is ‘literally’ true - certainly as far as the books go. Ian Fleming doesn’t tell us much about Bond other than his appearance in his books. Indeed - as I mentioned in my past blog post on Connery as the best Bond - Fleming wasn’t convinced by Connery as Bond. He was reported to have said, ‘I’m looking for Commander Bond and not an overgrown stuntman’ and even dismissed Connery as “that fucking truck driver”. Fleming has good reason to rage. His Bond as written in the books was someone like him.

Like Fleming, Bond was an Eton educated Englishman; an officer and a (rogue) gentleman who was a lieutenant-commander in Naval Intelligence. As Connery began to wow and win over Fleming as Bond, Fleming had a change of heart. Fleming in his later Bond books re-wrote a half-Scottish ancestry for Bond as a tribute to Connery’s portrayal. Bond’s Scottish father was a Royal Navy captain and later an arms dealer, Andrew Bond from Glencoe; and his mother, Monique Delacroix, was Swiss from an industrial family. Bond himself was born in Zurich. Bond isn’t English at all but half-Scots and half-Swiss according to literary canon.

So I mention this because the question who can play James Bond is not as straight forward as it might seem.

But clearly we now have a canon of work, both cinematically and in the literature, where we have base line of who Bond is - or what audiences could possibly suspend their disbelief and go with what is presented to them as James Bond.

I do vaguely remember the hullabaloo and hand wringing around Daniel Craig playing Bond because he didn’t conform to the traditional tall, dark, and handsome trope of James Bond super suave spy. People couldn’t get past his blond hair. Some still can’t. But in my humble opinion he has been an outstanding James Bond and has reimagined Bond in a fresh and exciting way. Craig is in fact mining the Fleming books for his characterisation of Bond as a suave, gritty, humourless killer of the books. Dalton got there before him but that’s a moot point. To our current generation Craig has modernised Bond and dusted 007 down from being a relic of the Cold War to being a relevant 21st Century super spy.

Can anyone play James Bond OO7? Yes and no. It’s arguing that two different things are one and the same. They are not. James Bond is separate from OO7.  

Can a woman play Jane Bond or a black woman or non-white man play Black Bond? Respectfully, no. That’s not who James Bond is.

James Bond is a flesh and blood character with a specific genealogical history - whether in the books or on the screen. This Bond has literary back story that is canon and makes him who he is. Bond does transcend time - he can’t be 38 years old for over 75 years in the real world - but at the same time his character only makes sense when rooted in a specific historic context we know existed (and still exists) and not some wishy washy make believe fantasy of British society. He’s an Old Etonian and therefore an upper middle class male product of the British establishment that is identifiable in a very British cultural context.

Jane Bond would have to have gone to Cheltenham Ladies College, Benneden, or Roedean I suppose if we are talking about equivalence - but such girls’ boarding schools were not the breeding ground for future spies (more likely they married them or became trusted secretaries in the intelligence services as well as flower arranging in their Anglican parish church).

I believe they are letting in black pupils on bursaries at Eton these days to be more inclusive but again it’s an an exception not the rule and Eton doesn’t even get public credit for the inclusive work they try to do because it’s not well known.

Moreover we know Bond loses his Scottish-Swiss parents in a skiing accident. I don’t mean to sound racist but I ski a lot in Switzerland and I can say you don’t really find droves of non-white skiers on the slopes of Verbier or Zermatt. Of course there are a few but it’s the exception and not the norm. Again, I’m not trying to be racist but just point out some obvious things when it pertains to the credibility of character that underlines who Bond is. You pull one thread out of the literary biography and the danger is the rest of the tapestry will unravel.

Of course one could try and go for a Black Bond on screen and then hope there is a huge suspension of belief on the part of the audience. But I suspect it’s a bridge too far. It just doesn’t fit. Audiences around the world have an image of who Bond is - British at the very least but also male (damaged and flawed in many ways) and coming from a specific British social class background that serves as an entree to a closed world of English gentleman clubs, Savile Row, English sports cars, and the hushed corridors of Whitehall.

Any woke film maker with an ounce of creative vision and talent and one who is invested in this would be better off creating a new character entirely - with their own specific biography that is both believable and relatable. Can you imagine an American James Bond? What a ghastly thought. Or worse a Canadian one? Canadians are far too nice and far too apologetic to produce a cruel cold eyed killer. But look what clever film makers like Spielberg and Lucas did with Indiana Jones and even later Doug Liman did with Jason Bourne - both fantastic creations that are part of the cultural zeitgeist now.

Or look at Charlize Theron who plays a MI6/CIA/KGB triple agent in Atomic Blonde or Rebecca Ferguson as Ilsa Faust in any of the Mission Impossible movies. I would eagerly watch any movies with these two badass women on the screen. All this talk about making Bond a woman or even coloured is just lazy thinking at best and at worst kow towing to the populist tides of PC brigade.

But I firmly believe one can have a female and a person of colour portraying 007. This is because James Bond and OO7 are two different things entirely. Many mistakenly believe 007 is Bond’s own code name and specific alias to him alone.  

007 is a license to kill for a very specialised kind of intelligence officer. Bond has that privilege for as long as he serves at the service of Her Majesty’s pleasure. His 007 license can be revoked - and it has been in the past Bond films - and he’s back to being a just another desk jockey civil servant in Whitehall. So my point is OO7 is not sacred to Bond’s identity. Bond could continue to be Bond even if M took away his 007 license to kill.

The origins of the Double O title may date to Fleming's wartime service in Naval Intelligence. According to World War Two historian Damien Lewis in his book Churchill's Secret Warriors, agents of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) were given a “0” prefix when they became "zero-rated" upon completion of training in how to kill. As part of his role as assistant to the head of naval intelligence, Rear Admiral John Godfrey (himself the inspiration for M), Fleming acted as liaison to the SOE.

In the novel Moonraker it’s established that the section routinely has three agents concurrently; the film series, beginning with Thunderball, establishes the number of OO agents at a minimum of 9. Fleming himself only mentions five OO agents in all. According to Moonraker, James Bond is the most senior of three OO agents; the two others were OO8 and OO11. The three men share an office and a secretary named Loelia Ponsonby. Later novels feature two more OO agents; OO9 is mentioned in Thunderball and OO6 is mentioned in On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

Other authors have elaborated and expanded upon the OO agents. While they presumably have been sent on dangerous missions as Bond has, little has been revealed about most of them. Several have been named, both by Fleming and other authors, along with passing references to their service records, which suggest that agents are largely recruited (as Bond was) from the British military's special forces.

Interestingly, In the novel You Only Live Twice, Bond was transferred into another branch and given the number 7777, suggesting there was no active agent 007 in that time; he is later reinstated as 007 in the novel The Man with the Golden Gun. As an aside, in Fleming's Moonraker, OO agents face mandatory retirement at 45 years old. However Sebastian Faulks's Devil May Care (an authorised Bond adventure from the Fleming estate and therefore arguably could be considered canon) features M giving Bond a choice of when to retire - which explains why Roger Moore (God bless) went past his sell by date.

In the films the OO section is a discrete area of MI6, whose agents report directly to M, and tend to be sent on special assignments and troubleshooting missions, often involving rogue agents (from Britain or other countries) or situations where an "ordinary" intelligence operation uncovers or reveals terrorist or criminal activity too sensitive to be dealt with using ordinary procedural or legal measures, and where the aforementioned discretionary "licence to kill" is deemed necessary or useful in rectifying the situation.

The World is Not Enough introduces a special insignia for the 00 Section. Bond's fellow OO agents appear receiving briefings in Thunderball and The World Is Not Enough. The latter film shows a woman in one of the 00 chairs. In Thunderball, there are nine chairs for the OO agents; Moneypenny says every 00 agent in Europe has been recalled, not every OO agent in the world. Behind the scenes photos of the film reveal that one of the agents in the chairs is female as well. As with the books, other writers have elaborated and expanded upon the OO agents in the films and in other media.

In GoldenEye, 006 is an alias for Alec Trevelyan; as of 2019, Trevelyan is the only OO agent other than Bond to play a major role in an EON Productions film, with all other appearances either being brief or dialogue references only.

In Casino Royale with Daniel Craig’s first outing as Bond, we see in the introduction the tense exchange between Bond and Dryden, a section chief whom Bond has been sent to kill for selling secrets.  

James Bond: M really doesn't mind you earning a little money on the side, Dryden. She'd just prefer it if it wasn't selling secrets. Dryden: If the theatrics are supposed to scare me, you have the wrong man Bond. If M was so sure I was bent...she'd have sent a Double-O. Benefits of being Section Chief...I would know of anyone being promoted to Double-O status, wouldn't I? Your file shows no kills...and it takes - James Bond: - two. (flashback of Bond fighting Dryden's contact in a bathroom.)

The OO is just a coveted position and nothing to do with who occupies it. Ito use a topical comparative example it’s like a football team in which a new star player would be given an ex-player’s shirt number e.g. Messi wears Number 10 for Argentina which is heavily identified with the late great Maradona. So conceivably there would be no problem having a woman or anyone else play 007. I think it would be an interesting creative choice to have a woman or someone else play OO7 and Bond is out of the service and yet he has to work together with this new OO7 - the creative tension would be a refreshing twist on the canon. 

Your question about James Bond’s Oxford or Cambridge education is more easier to answer.

It really depends again which Bond one is talking about. The literary James Bond or the cinematic Bond.

In the Fleming books, James Bond’s didn’t go to Oxford or Cambridge or any of the other great universities of Britain. In the books Bond’s education is not gone into much detail. We know he was raised overseas until he was orphaned at the age of 11 when his parents died in a mountaineering accident near Chamonix in the Alps. He is home schooled for a time by an aunt, Charmain Bond, in the English village of Pett Bottom before being packed off to boarding school at Eton around 12 years old. Bond doesn’t stay long as he gets expelled for playing around with a maid. He is then sent to his father’s boarding school in Scotland, Fettes College.

Bond is then briefly attends the University of Geneva - as Ian Fleming did - before being taught to ski in Kitzbühel. In 1941 Bond joins a branch of what was to become the Ministry of Defence and becomes a lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, ending the war as a commander. Bond applies to M for a position within the "Secret Service", part of the HM Civil Service, and rises to the rank of principal officer. And that’s it.

In the cinematic Bond universe things get more complicated and even contentious as you alluded to in your question. It’s never made quite clear which of the two - Oxford or Cambridge - Bond attended because it depends on how much weight you attach to the lines being spoken in each of the films where it is raised.

In Tomorrow Never Dies, Bond is up at Oxford (New College to be exact since his Aston Martin DB5 was parked in the courtyard at the entrance). He is seen bedding a sexy Danish professor, Inga Bergstrom, to brush up on his Danish (to which Moneypenny on the phone retorts ‘You always were a cunning linguist’). But it’s definitely doesn’t mean Bond studied there as an undergraduate. 

Casino Royale is the film many think yes, James Bond went to Oxford because it is mentioned by Vesper Lynd (Eva Green) as she sizes up Daniel Craig’s Bond on the train. Here is the full quote as said by Vesper Lynd, “All right... by the cut of your suit, you went to Oxford or wherever. Naturally you think human beings dress like that. But you wear it with such disdain, my guess is you didn't come from money, and your school friends never let you forget it. Which means you were at that school by the grace of someone else's charity - hence that chip on your shoulder. And since your first thought about me ran to "orphan," that's what I'd say you are.”

The thing to note is that it’s Vesper Lynd taunting Bond and even then she takes a wide stab by saying ‘Oxford or wherever’ because she doesn’t really know and Bond doesn’t oblige her with an answer.

That whole scene struck me as strange because she’s guessing by the cut of the suit it must be Oxford (or Cambridge). Bond is wearing an Italian suit (Brioni to be specific) and not and English Savile Row one that presumably someone of Bond’s taste and background would be sporting.

A more plausible answer if we are going by the cinematic Bond universe is Cambridge. Indeed it is stated explicitly by Bond himself. Can you guess?

You Only Live Twice which is has the distinction of being the only Bond film (as far as I can tell) from being set in just one country - Japan.

You remember the scene. Lieutenant commander James Bond has just had a briefing with M on board a submarine and is naturally flirting with Moneypenny on his way out. Moneypenny playfully tosses him a Japanese phrase book, saying he might need it.

“You forget,” Bond responds with an expression just short of a smirk as he tosses it back to her, “I took a first in oriental languages at Cambridge.”

So it seems James Bond is a Cambridge man.

A first means - as any British university student would know - first class honours. It’s the highest classification grade one can get in their undergraduate degree ie a ‘first’. Although at Cambridge, like Oxford, you can also get a double first in the part I and part II of the Tripos. Both universities also award first-class honours with distinction, informally known as a ‘Starred First’ (Cambridge) or a ‘Congratulatory First’ (Oxford).

Another oddity is he says ‘oriental languages’ when one got a degree in ‘oriental studies’ at the Oriental Faculty at Cambridge. That is until 2007 when Cambridge bowed to public and student pressure and chose to drop its Oriental Faculty label and instead adopted the name the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. Oxford still hangs on to its name the Faculty of Oriental Studies.

My only reservation about crowing over an Oxonian is how truthful was Bond being with Moneypenny in this scene?

Is this line meant to be taken seriously or ironically? Most people seem to take it seriously, despite much of Connery's dialogue being obviously ironic and playful. Certainly, Bond is shown to have never been to Japan before and is incapable of saying anything in Japanese other than the odd "sayonara" and "arigato." But then again Bond does know the correct temperature sake is meant to be served at. So there’s that.

Or it could be Bond was speaking a half-truth. I know speaking from experience as someone who very nearly read asian languages instead of my eventual choice of Classics that ‘Oriental languages’ at the ex-Oriental faculty in Cambridge can mean many other languages e.g. Sanskrit, Hindi, Farsi, Hebrew, Arabic as well as Korean, Japanese and Chinese. It opens up so many other delicious possibilities for Bond. If he read Arabic then perhaps he’s being deeply ironic with Moneypenny (after all she would have drooled over read his MI6 personnel file).

If you think I’m losing my mind then ponder on the fact it was Roald Dahl who penned the screenplay of You Only Live Twice. Dahl was not above snark. Indeed pretty sure he would have got a starred first in snark at any university.

Of course the most obvious explanation is that it’s plot armour as a way for Bond to just get on with the story by suspending the audience belief. Why wouldn’t Bond know Japanese? He seems to know everything else imaginable.

However if it ever was it’s now become canon as EON - the production company behind the Bond films - have stated officially for the fandom that Bond’s official bio has it that he went to Eton and Cambridge, where he got a first in oriental languages. So that seems settled then.

In hindsight it makes perfect sense that Bond went to Cambridge since historically Cambridge has provided the bulk of the spies not just for Her Majesty’s service but also for the other side, the Russians - the so-called Cambridge Spies of Philby, Maclean, Burgess, Blunt, and Cairncross, and a host of other traitors. We seem to be an equal opportunities employment service.

I’m sorry to disappoint you and other Oxonians that despite what you might think James Bond didn’t attend Oxford. Believe me as a Cantabrigian it gives me no pleasure to say this…..too much.

Thanks for your question.

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𝔑𝔞𝔪𝔢: Desmond Kelly  𝔇𝔒𝔅 & 𝔇𝔒𝔇:  08/23/1969 - 12/22/2010 (deceased) 𝔒𝔠𝔠𝔲𝔭𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫: CEO of Miller’s Trading Co & International Arms Trafficker

Although considered royalty in his birthplace England, Desmond wasn’t part of The British royal family. With one of the top commodity trading firms under their belts, his mother Saoirse Miller’s family had already established a name for themselves, but unknown to most It was his father Tommy Kelly’s family classified yet lucrative arms business that’s placed the couple on the Forbes’ world’s billionaire list. Since birth, Desmond had been groomed to take over both businesses. By twenty three years old, he was running the arms market with an iron fist. Using Millers Trading Co, Desmond was able to smuggle weapons throughout the world, expanding The Kelly’s empire from Europe and North America to South America and Southeast Asia; making their family one of the most elite arms traffickers. 

𝔑𝔞𝔪𝔢: Ava Kelly 𝔇𝔒𝔅:  10/07/1969 (49) 𝔒𝔠𝔠𝔲𝔭𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫: Shareholder of Miller’s Trading Co & Art Dealer. 

Ava comes from humble beginnings. Raised by a local fisherman and a concierge in West Kingston, Jamaica, she watched as her parents struggled to provide for their ten children. In order to make extra money for her household, she put her skills in art to use, selling self portraits to tourist. Her big break came when she was only fifteen years old. A kind elderly woman visiting the island took a liking to the passionate artist and saw her potential, offering her a full scholarship to Millfield in Somerset, England. After completing high school, Ava moved to London where she attended University of The Arts before working under the famous art dealer, Anthony d'Offay. 

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 Ava always knew that love would come to find her, but never did she think that it would be displayed by a man like Desmond. He caught her off guard that summer’s day in St James's Park. The scenery she started to paint shifted into the captivating man with a defined jawline and porcelain skin who’d stopped to say hello. Desmond was just as taken with Ava and one day at the park turned into weekly meets ups.  Ava was like a breath of fresh air to Desmond. She was everything he couldn’t be; so tender and liberated. She became his best friend, his confidant, and ultimately the love of his life; however, Desmond was promised to another woman. Despite his parents’ arrangements, It was Ava who he vowed to love till death do them part the day of his wedding. Their marriage was passionate, but they faced many obstacles. Not only had Desmond defied his parents’ wishes, but he’d fathered children with Ava, tainting The Kelly’s pure European bloodline. Although at first his parents’ rejected his black wife and children, Desmond was still the heir to The Kelly’s empire, thrusting Ava into a dangerous and fast-paced lifestyle which was one of the reasons she had left Jamaica to get away from. Many arguments erupted between the lovers as their family continued to grow. Ava constantly feared for his along with their children’s safety and sadly her fears would come true. Desmond’s life was cut short in a fatal car accident while protecting their son during an assassination attempt by a rival family. Burying the love of her life sent Ava spiraling. Losing Desmond so suddenly caused Ava to give up on art and herself for awhile. With the only memory of their son being the four children, he’d left behind Tommy and Saoirse set aside their bigotry and requested that the grieving five moved into their home, but Ava learned that would be a big mistake. Something within her four children seemed to change for the worst as soon as the arrived to The Kelly’s estate.  After back to back horrific events unfolded, Ava packed her kids up and moved to California, but that wasn’t enough to break The Kelly’s curse. 

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𝔑𝔞𝔪𝔢: Dessalina Kelly 𝔇𝔒𝔅: 07/9/1993 (25) 𝔒𝔠𝔠𝔲𝔭𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫: Hitwoman & International Arms Trafficker

An undiagnosed sociopath with an unruly taste for blood, Dessalina sparks fear in her younger siblings. Only fifteen at the time of Desmond’s death, she became obsessed with avenging her father along with taking her grief out on her siblings, especially Arnais who she continues to blame till this day. No sooner after turning eighteen, she moved back to England, setting her plan into motion.  One by one, she took out those responsible for her father’s death, including their innocent children. Tommy, impressed by his granddaughter’s cunning mindset and skills with any weapon placed in her hand, took Dessalina under his wing and groomed her to be as deadly as he is, if not worst. Now, as Tommy prepares to retire, Dessalina has been selected as the leader of their empire, although traditionally that role is reserved for the first born son.  

𝔑𝔞𝔪𝔢: Dessaline Kelly 𝔇𝔒𝔅: 7/9/1993 (25) 𝔒𝔠𝔠𝔲𝔭𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫: Unknown

Unlike her twin sister, Dessaline didn’t get wrapped into her own pain from losing her father, but became the backbone of the family. She tried to provide some type of stability for her siblings, but the more she tried, the more they seem to lose control.  Years of sacrificing her sanity for everyone else caused an eighteen year old Dessaline to snapped, leaving her old life behind like a thief in the night. Her whereabouts are still unknown to everyone expect Arnais and Adalia who she sends anonymous postcards to from all over the world. Dessaline often feels guilty for abandoning her younger siblings, but it was the only way to save herself from self destruction. 

𝔑𝔞𝔪𝔢: Arnais Kelly 𝔇𝔒𝔅:   04/03/2001 (17)  𝔒𝔠𝔠𝔲𝔭𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫: Student, Arms Dealer, Freelance Artist. 

Arnais had always shown signs of being emotionally disturbed, but witnessing his father’s gruesome death at the age of nine along with the habitual violence released upon him by his older sister pushed him into a place that it seems nobody can get him out of. Overnight he switched from a quiet yet charming young boy into this dark and impulsive creature who caused destruction wherever he went. His mother suffering from grief, and his sister wishing it was him instead of their father, Arnais became more and more infatuated with fire as a way to cope. His mother was sure this was just a phase until he did the unthinkable on the anniversary of Desmond’s death; burned down the Kelly estate, an unknown assassination attempt on his own grandparents coerced by Dessalina. While he has given up apart of himself in order to get back on his grandparents' good side, they still resent Arnais for what they view as weakness, forcing him to be nothing but a simple arms dealer, although the whole empire is his rightful heir. Despite most of his time being taken up by the career that has been chosen for him, Arnais has a passion for art like his mother once did, finding that it is the only thing that gives him peace. 

𝔑𝔞𝔪𝔢: Adalia Kelly 𝔇𝔒𝔅: 11/20/2003 (15) 𝔒𝔠𝔠𝔲𝔭𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫: Student & Kennel Attendant

Although a selective mute, Adalia is the most functional of the Kelly Clan. While those around her believe that her silence is due to a social disorder, Adalia chooses not to speak as an act of rebellion. As the youngest, Adalia constantly felt like she was seen but not heard; even her grief for the murder of father seemed to be ignored. She reached her breaking point when she tried to tell Ava about her oldest sister’s abuse only to be silenced by Arnais who feared what Dessalina would do to her. From that day forward, she vowed never to speak again. For awhile, she despised her brother, blaming him for Dessalina’s escalating tyranny and for having to leave England behind but as time went by she latched onto him and he became her voice.  Her oath has been going on for six years now, and she plans to continue that way until the many secrets holding up her family’s walls coming crashing down.  

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Cost-Effectiveness: Purchasing a used car in Kingston proves to be a cost-effective choice, allowing buyers to acquire a quality vehicle at a fraction of the price of a new model. This affordability factor extends beyond the initial purchase, encompassing lower insurance rates and decreased depreciation.

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Navigating the process of purchasing a used car in Kingston is a seamless journey. Dealerships prioritize customer satisfaction, offering expert guidance and assistance at every step. From test drives to paperwork completion, the buying experience is designed to be transparent and accommodating, ensuring customers make informed decisions.

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Structural Steel or fabricated steel has changed the construction landscape by bringing novelty and futuristic style to any edifice or structure. The ease with which steel can be fabricated increases its scope and utility. From commercial buildings to bridges to car bodies to airplanes to residential complexes to interior decoration. It has shown its mettle quite literally. The biggest boon of using steel for construction, it has distinguished endurance towards natural calamities, which makes it dearer for manufacturers and architects.

Brings down construction cost: Since, steel comes prefabricated, it brings down both time and overall cost involved in the construction process. Labor cost also gets reduced, this definitely is a big plus point when considering steel for construction.

Construction quality improves: With much of the intricate work required for construction purposes done at the warehouse, quality of construction improves. Before steel goes under hammer and nuts, the 3-D model of the design is evaluated and discussed at several levels, this reduces the chance of errors and gives the desired feel to the project. Even the steel manufacturers maintain the quality and tries to achieve the perfect finish.

Safety: This is probably the greatest feature of steel. It is non-combustible, high on strength, great endurance for natural calamities, termite and rust free; steel becomes the instant favorite. It has all the traits required for construction. Even the construction work is done in a controlled area, which reduces chances of accidents.

Resilience: An interesting feature of buildings made out of steel is it does not vibrate during movements, or machine works and make for peaceful living in buildings. Repair and maintenance works are also not cumbersome or herculean. They can withstand distortion or buckling even under heavy loads.

Sustainable: Steel is sustainable and an eco-friendly material. It can be used as many times as one wants. It will retain its initial qualities and would give the same result everytime. It is not an exhaustible resource like wood, and it gives solid foundation to any project. In all ways, steel is a remarkable material for construction and a lot of work is undertaken and is even possible due to steel. It has been in use since ages but in recent times, its popularity has multiplied, making it the most desired material.

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The International Criminal Police Organization – INTERPOL has issued a red notice for the arrest of controversial Jamaican businessman and a former Director of Carmax Jamaica Limited, Ian Lyn. INTERPOL says Lyn is wanted to face money laundering and fraud charges in Jamaica. Since 2015, police in Jamaica have been urging Lyn to turn himself in for questioning. However, he has reportedly failed to do so. Lyn is 47 years old. He is a former President of the Jamaica Used Car Dealers Association. A few years ago, Lyn was regarded as among the prominent businessmen in Jamaica who frequented the social scene and participated in several public speaking gigs. The businessman fell from grace when news surfaced in 2015 that he was wanted to assist the police in a multi-million dollar fraud probe. He remains at large. The investigation began when scores of Jamaicans reported that they were fleeced by Carmax. In 2015, police in Jamaica reported that Lyn is being sought in connection with a fraud case in which it is alleged Carmax failed to pay over more than $100 million it collected from the sale of motor vehicles. (at Boca Raton, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/CU0N3e3rHGn/?utm_medium=tumblr

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